Ponyboy And Dary's Relationship

Darrel Curtis Ponyboy’s oldest brother. Darrel, known as “Darry,” both in the book and in the movie. He is a twenty-year-old greaser who is raising Ponyboy because their parents have died in a car crash. Strong, athletic, and intelligent, Darry has quit school in the book and in the movie. He works two jobs to hold the family together. One of the leader of the greasers, he becomes an parent role model for Ponyboy. He also makes good chocolate cake, which he and his brothers eat every day for breakfast in the book but the movie really does not mention it. The other greasers call him “Superman.”

At the end of the book Ponyboy finally comes to terms with the deaths of Johnny and Dally, and he finally realizes that violence is not the answer when he makes up with Darry. Darry and Ponyboy are shouting at each other, and Ponyboy asks Sodapop to take his side. This causes Sodapop to rush out of the house, and Ponyboy and Darry chase after him. When they finally catch up Sodapop tells them he feels sick of being pulled apart by their fights. Ponyboy sympathizes with Sodapop as he says in the text: “Darry and I did play tug of war with him, with never a thought to how much it was hurting him.” Ponyboy suddenly understands what his fighting with Darry has done to Sodapop, and later in their conversation Ponyboy realizes why he never got along with Darry: “I saw that I had expected Darry to do all the understanding without even trying to

At the beginning of the novel, Ponyboy was a young and impulsive teen, he lacked the perspective to understand the environment around him.The example of this was his oldest brother Darry."I turned and ran out the door and down the street as......He wasn't ever going to hit me again."(Hinton 50), because Ponyboy came back home late,Darry worried about his younger brother and got angry.Then he shouted at Ponyboy and hit him. Ponyboy was very upset, he thought Darry hate him.Darry cared about Ponyboy, however, Ponyboy didn't understand it.In a word, Ponyboy was too young and impulsive at

Darry, the oldest brother have had many conflicts with Soda and Pony, which made him change during this novel. First, one event that made Darry change was when he slapped his little brother, Pony when he came home late. Pony ran away for a few days because he thought that Darry didn’t want him as a brother anymore. Darry was so sorry, sad, and mad at himself for slapping Pony.

Correspondingly, Darry wants the most suiting life for his brothers even though Ponyboy viewed it as Darry nagging at him. In the book, Ponyboy says, “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.” ( Hinton 98) The Curtis brothers were all together again following Pony and Johnny running away. Soda and Darry go to the hospital to see Pony and Darry actually cries. Ponyboy realizes that Darry does not hate him. Darry says, “Listen, with your brains and grades you could get a scholarship, and we could put you through

At the beginning of the book, Ponyboy is in intelligent, young teen, but he lacks the perspective to understand the environment around him. He can only see his side of the story and fails to understand why others act the way they do. The first example of this is his oldest brother Darry. He thinks Darry hates him because he is always giving Ponyboy a hard time about his lack of common sense, his grades,...

Ponyboy had “Turned around and ran out the door down the street as fast as he could...” (pg. 50). Another negative action that had been caused by Darry hurting Ponyboy, was that Ponyboy was POSITIVE that Darry absolutely HATED him, even though the truth was quite the

Ponyboy is fourteen years of age and most likely not going to be adopted, and if he ages out i’m almost certain he will go back to Darry. These statistics are stellar to my case because the fact that Ponyboy is that older means less time in the foster care unit, and the more time he’ll have to spend with Darry and Sodapop. On page 133, Ponyboy says, "Darry, do

By the end of chapter 6, I realized Darry truly cares about Ponyboy. Ponyboy said,“Suddenly I realized, horrified,

Ponyboy says, “Darry didn’t deserve to work like an old man when he was only twenty.” (Pg. 16). This tells us that ever since the parents died in an automobile crash, Darry feel like he has to take charge. Darry has

“Gee,’ Johnny said softly, ‘I thought you and Darry and Soda got along real well…’” (Hinton,p.42).Darry is a role model for Ponyboy even though they didn’t get along very well in the beginning. Ponyboy still looks up to Darry because of how he is able to have two jobs to support him and his brothers, and how he is able to keep up with the things that go on in their lives even though he is busy. Even though Ponyboy and Darry don’t get along very well they still love each other and truly care about on

Finally, Darry breaks. Darry hadn’t seen Ponyboy after Johnny killed Bob so, Darry got emotional because he didn’t know what happened to Ponyboy. After all that, a result of this choice was that it shocked Ponyboy and Soda because Darry never cried in front of them before. An impact on Ponyboy was that it made Ponyboy know that Darry actually cares about him.“Suddenly, I realized, horrified, that Darry was crying.”(pg.98). So, Darry crying gave readers an idea of who Darry’s character is. The novel also states that Darry tries to shape Ponyboy into a good person (pg.98). Throughout the book, Darry falls into the misunderstood mind of Ponyboy’s until he gets pulled out when he shows emotions.

Like he’s never hollering at me all the time the way Darry is, or threatening me as if I was six instead of fourteen”, Darry still loves and protects Ponboy in all situations. Darry is honourable because even though Ponyboy runs away from home he still forgave him and was very worried. When Ponyboy and Johnny had ran away because of the murder Johnny had committed, Darry didn’t have the slightest bit of anger and didn’t turn them in which is unlikely for Darry because he usually likes to obey the law and stays out of trouble. The lack of anger from Darry is evident through the letter that Soda pop had written to Pony boy, addressing how Darry was worried sick. “Darry hasn’t got the slightest notation where you are and it’s nearly killing him” page 70.

Ponyboy would be heartbroken if he were to go into a foster care system because Darry

In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton the book and movie differs by Darry and Ponyboys relationship and Sodas leadership to ponyboy. Darry and ponyboy had a tough relationship in the book, but not so much in the movie. In “The Outsiders” Darry and Ponyboy would always fight in the book. They had a huge conflict, but then in the movie all darry would do is yell at ponyboy. In the text it states, “Okay, I said. And I meant it. Darry and I would probably still have misunderstandings. We were too different not to but no more fights.”(110) This quote shows that the relationship with Darry and Ponyboy is a struggle. They put it as not ok and they're always having bad times. The movie they had no struggle just a boss and a worker one telling the