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Character Analysis Of Ponyboy Curtis In 'The Outsiders'

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“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the main character Ponyboy Curtis encounters life changes. Pony’s attitude towards his older brother Darry adjusted to a more lovable family due to a memorial event.

In the beginning of The Outsiders, Pony felt confused and despised around his brother. According to Ponyboy, he states, “I never could please him. He would have hollered at me for carrying a blade if I had carried one. If I brought home B’s, he wanted A’s. If I was playing football, I should be studying, and if I was reading, I should be out playing football” (13). Pony feels that no matter what, he’d never amuse Darry. He also felt despised. A little later in the novel, it claims, “My face got hot as I but my lip. Darry…what was Darry like?…I burst out bitterly: …‘He likes Soda–everybody likes Soda–but he can't stand me. I bet he wishes he could stick me in a home somewhere, and he’d do it, too, if Soda’d let him’ ” (42). Pony’s negative opinion resembles a feeling of being unloved. In the story, he complains his brother just couldn’t stand him. Soon, events happen that turn around Pony’s opinion and attitude. …show more content…

According to the story, it states, “Suddenly I realized, horrified, that Darry was crying…Darry did care about me, maybe as much as he cared about Soda, and because he cared he was trying too hard to make something of me” (98). As it said, Darry was in tears, which is a sign of anxiety and despair. All along, Pony thought his strict brother wasn’t pleased with Pony as his brother. Now that Ponyboy sees Darry looking worried, he knows it’s not true. This affected the

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