Ponyboy Curtis Book Summary

In this book a boy named Haroon and a boy named Jay get a point of view. Jay is white, kind of a jock, and on the football team. Haroon is brown, smart and on the Reach for the Top team(which is like a team that answers trivia and competes with other schools). It all starts off when the school goes on a lockdown where police are rushing in the school with dogs and bombarding the hallways. Jay and his friends Kevin and Steve go on the rooftop of the school thinking it is just a regular drill, but then they look down and see a bunch of police cars and they see police that look like swat teams. They see down that the police has taken 2 brown kids with handcuffs. When they go back down the principal makes an announcement telling all students to leave the building immediately.

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.”

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a novel about two neighborhoods separated because of classes in society. In these two neighborhoods, teenagers are separated into two different gangs, the lower-class Greasers and the upper-class Socs. Ponyboy, a greaser comes from a hard life. His parents died and he is left being raised by his older brother Darry. After both his brothers failed at accomplishing their dreams in life, Pony is left feeling like he will only be a greaser. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy realizes he has many traits making him have an outstanding future, such as his intelligence instincts and heroic skills.

“The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton, is centered around Ponyboy’s path to maturity and the life lessons he learns along the way. The novel follows Ponyboy, a greaser, and his gang’s conflict with the Socials, a rival gang. In it, he learns to not judge people hastily and reject gang mentality. Ponyboy also loses his innocence. The following paragraphs will explore his growth throughout “The Outsiders”.

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.

Thesis: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, a novel which tells the story of conflict between the "greasers" and the "Socs," captures the voice of ponyboy and his friends in a realistic way that relates to boys and their gangs even today.

Jerry Wood - The teacher who accompanies Ponyboy to the hospital after Ponyboy saves the children from the fire. Though an adult and a member of mainstream society, Jerry judges the greasers on their merits instead of automatically branding them juvenile delinquents.

Ponyboy Curtis has lived a very rough life. Both his parents died, leaving him, Sodapop and Darry to take care of each other. Darry had to get a job and stop going to school; he looked out for his brothers the same as their father figure which they had lost. Sodapop stopped going to school because he felt that he was too stupid, as for Ponyboy he had to stay in school and always bring home good grades. The three brothers still have to look out for each other and stay out of trouble as much as possible. In the church, he starts talking about a poem and doesn’t know exactly what it means. Each line can be compared to his life, past, and current experiences, along with his

It was only two gangs, three deaths, and many injuries, but the bloody, death defying, life changing brawl is what ended all of the chaos.In book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton Ponyboy learns a lot about being caring. In this novel two groups called the Socs and the Greasers fight each other continuously. This leads them to unexpected fights and deaths, causing things to not go as planned.Ponyboy is caring because he is thoughtful, trustworthy, and brave.

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It is about a 14 year old boy named Ponyboy Curtis, who is in a gang called the Greasers. The Greaser have an awful reputation in their city, and members of the public believe that they are hoodlums and they deserve to be in jail. Some of the Greasers have embraced their role, and they act like real hoodlums and fight Socs, another gang that hates Greasers. Ponyboy is proud of his gang, but sometimes he wonders about doing the right thing and has an inner conflict. The book expresses his thoughts very clearly,

Ponyboy, Johnny, Sodapop, Darry are all a part of the unruly gang, the Greasers. S.E Hinton is writing these characters as rebellious young men, with a harsh background, who takes their anger and hardship out on gang fighting. These roles play an important part in this book because it shows that even though they nothing physically, they have a heart stronger than gold for each other and others mentally. Hinton use these characters to show prejudice leads to wrong conclusions, violence and oppression because these “poor” young men are getting beat up by the rich Socs who have never felt the feeling of being in poverty. “ You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you’re in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don’t stick up for them, stick together, make

The novel, The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Johnny and Ponyboy made an important decision to rescue the children from a fire in the church they had been hiding in. This was an important decision as it affected their lives, it cost them their lives and to take responsibility for what they did. As a result of the fire, Ponyboy and Johnny get concussed dies but their heroes. They made the reputation of a greasers change as they were known as caring and kind people even though they are seen as trouble-makers. Dally and Johnny loss the most, he loses hope in the world and ends up being shot by the police. This is a suitable novel for teenagers as it show as is effectively told by the author of how the lives of people who are struggling in all aspect

Hinton's The Outsiders. Throughout this book Ponyboy struggles with decisions on how to live his life and his choices. He doesn't want to be a drop out like his older brother, Sodapop, so he strives in his school work. When Johnny kills the Soc, Bob, he struggles with turning themselves in to the police. But, he is not the only person who struggles in this novel. In fact almost every person in this novel struggles with themselves, but Dallas hurts the most. He doesn' really show that he hurts but he drops lines in the book that leads the audience to believe that he is in pain. He struggles with the law throughout his life and turns “hard” from jail. He doesn't show his true feelings so they get bottled up inside. When Johnny dies at the end, he basically commits suicide because he loved him so

[Pony boy the paragraph] Ponyboy boy is like a cool bad boy he like to get in trouble but at the same time he don’t.He is in a gang called the greasers and he was walking to the store and he saw the other gang they did not like and they are called the socs so the socs jumped him because he was by himself so they grabbed him with a knife to his head and he was trying to get away when he had a knife to his head and he got a good cut on his head and his gang members came to get his back when he started to cry they came to see if he was ok which he was but he still had a bad ut on his head.Ponyboy is a nice guy he like to play he likes girls he’s fun to be around and he’s not that mean so what im trying to say is that ponyboy is not a bad kid