Character Description Ponyboy Curtis is the main character of the outsiders. Though he is very close to his friends and thinks of them as a family, he stands apart from them in some of his traits. While others in the gang are tough and not intelligent he greatly lacks street smarts and is very intelligent in school. Ponyboy makes great good grades and is very smart while the other boys are either dropouts or failing their classes. Ponyboy also has lots of emotion, unlike the other Greasers. He can understand people like Sheri and befriend someone as broken as Johnny. With all of these talents, life is still rough for Ponyboy because of his parents death and being taken care of by his brothers. Pony continue to fight against his stereotype
The most important person in the book would have to be in my opinion Ponyboy Curtis. Because when Johnny and Ponyboy got jumped, Johnny had to defend himself and kill Bob or else Bob would drown Ponyboy, so when Johnny killed Bob it was because of self-defending Ponyboy. Also he is an important character because he is Darry’s and Sodapop’s kid brother and Darry is always yelling at him and not letting him do some things that Pony wants to do and Pony doesn’t use his head sometimes so he gets hurt or into bad situations and Darry one night caught Pony at 2am coming home because he fell asleep in the lot so Darry got mad and hit him and then Pony ran out and then him and Johnny ran away, but then got jumped by the Soc’s, that’s the night when
Why doesn't Johnny and Ponyboy come clean and confess to the police about murdering Bob in self-defense? The reason that Ponyboy and Johnny didn't come clean is because they were scared and didn't want to go to jail. Also because Ponyboy didn't know if the soc was gonna kill him or just trying to give him a scare or if the soc was actually trying to kill him. Another reason is because if Ponyboy confessed to it then the cops would most likely believe the socs then the greasers.
In the book the outsiders Ponyboy is the main character. He is mainly distinctive from the rest of the characters by his physical traits and by his actions. Ponyboy was harassed several times by the Socs just because he was a greaser. Overall Ponyboy didn't use his head before he his actions. It caused him to get into many accidents such as when he was jumped in the beginning of the story because he walking home from the movie theaters by himself. Not only did Ponyboy not use his head he also was altruistic. An example of this is when he ran into the burning church to save kids even though it could have killed him.
Hinton created unique characters to display her overall theme of the book. Ponyboy Curtis is the protagonist in The Outsiders. Hinton shows Pony as a young greaser who doesn’t use his head much, unless it is for books or movies. Although not much has happened in his life as a greaser, a lot has happened to his fellow greasers. For example, Johnny Cade; the boy who had a horrible home life, came searching for a gang to fill the hole where his family
In The Outsiders, Ponyboy values his hair because it shapes his identity. Ponyboy thinks “It was my pride. It was long and silky . . .”(71) Ponyboy cares a lot about his hair and is very upset to have it cut by Johnny. Ponyboy goes on “Maybe we couldn’t have Corvairs or madras shirts, but we could have hair.
Ponyboy Curtis in the fourteen-year-old boy that explains the story in both the book and the movie, and also the youngest of the greasers. Ponyboy is very intelligent compared to the rest of the gang he is most defenatly the smartest to them all. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop in both the book and movie. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense in the book more so then in the movie, but Ponyboy is a much brighter then his brother takes him for. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love but in the movie they dont focus on his school as much. He matures over the course of the book and the movie both.
In the book the Outsiders, Ponyboy faces many conflicts, some had carried more significance than others. The author of this novel is S.E. Hinton. The main characters of this novel are Ponyboy Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, and Darrel Curtis (Darry). The Outsiders is novel about the wars between the two social classes formally known as Socs (The higher class/richer people) and the Greasers (The lower class/poorer blue collar workers.) This novel however is told from the perspective of the Greasers, more specifically a young boy at the bottom of a small gang or family of greasers. In the novel The Outsiders the character Ponyboy experience multiple conflicts with his family, his friends, and the law.
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In my opinion, Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and Dallas (Dally) Winston are the most important characters in the ‘The Outsiders’. Ponyboy is the protagonist and narrator of the movie. The movie is portrayed through Ponyboy’s perspective throughout the movie. Even if the movie had the same plot, a different point of view would change the movie drastically. Ponyboy’s decisions heavily influences the plot. For example, Ponyboy stayed in the lot with Johnny after the movie then got into trouble for staying out late. This led to Darry hitting Ponyboy in anger, then Ponyboy running away with Johnny to the park, where Johnny stabbed Bob. The plot continued to develop due to Ponyboy’s choices, such as going into the burning church to save the kids.
(AGG) As author Jodee Blanco states, “The hardest thing about being an outcast isn't the love you don't receive, it's the love you long to give that nobody wants.” (BS-1) Initially, in The Outsiders, Ponyboy feels different from everyone around him, making him feel like an outsider. (BS-2) After he runs away, Ponyboy starts to adapt to his conditions as a fugitive, maturing, changing his personality, and feeling less like an outsider. (BS-3) This maturity and change of personality makes Ponyboy a hero, and he returns home, understanding things he didn't before, and not feeling like an
Ponyboy Curtis is the famous character in S.E Hinton's novel “The Outsiders”. Ponyboy Curtis is academically smart, enjoys reading books watching movies, daydreaming and watching sunsets. Since both his parents have passed away, Ponyboy is under the authority of his older brother Darry who is twenty years of age along with his other brother Sodapop who is seventeen. There are other people in Ponyboy's life that he cares about too.
In the beginning of “The Outsiders”, Ponyboy only likes a few people but in the end, he realizes that he judged people unfairly. In the beginning, he only appreciated Johnny (the second youngest gang member), Soda (the middle child in his family) and Two-Bit (a wisecracking member of the gang). He dislikes Dallas (the most criminal of the gang) and Steve and thinks that his oldest brother, Darry, dislikes him. He also believes that all Socs are bad. His judgments are first brought into question when he meets Cherry Valence, a female Soc. Ponyboy, referring to her and her friend wrote, “It seemed funny to me that Socs -if these girls were any example - were just like us.” (37) Pony’s views on the Socs evolve again when he talks to Randy. After talking to Randy, Pony thinks, “Socs are just guys after all. Things are rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too." (118) By the end of the novel, Pony does not think all Socs are good because there are Socs like Bob, who jumped Johnny and Pony, but he realizes that people should be
One characteristic Ponyboy shares most in The Outsiders is his intelligence. In the beginning of the book, S.E. Hinton states, ¨I'm supposed to be smart; I make good grades and have a high IQ and everything, but I don't use my head. Besides, I like walking.¨ The author explains in this quote how Ponyboy is both smart and has common sense. After Johnny killed Bob, Ponyboy and Johnny use their intelligence to decide to go to Dally for help getting the items they need while on the run.
Ponyboy Curtis - The novel's fourteen-year-old narrator and protagonist, and the youngest of the greasers. Ponyboy's literary interests and academic accomplishments set him apart from the rest of his gang. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense, but Ponyboy is a reliable and observant narrator. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love. He matures over the course of the novel, eventually realizing the importance of strength in the face of class bias.
Ponyboy Curtis probably changes more throughout the course of The Outsiders than any other character. His loss of innocence is a major theme of the novel. Pony is a good student at the start of the story, and he is a member of the track team. Aside from the death of his parents, Pony has suffered less than most of the characters. His older brother, Darry, tries to protect him from the gang violence that