Ponyboy Quotes

Ponyboy is gold. He is helpful and smart, but he’s a greaser and well that’s fine to some people...to others it’s just not acceptable. Even though Ponyboy and Johnny hit the road after Bob was killed he still deserved better. Ponyboy had potential and he is going places, I can tell. Ponyboy has had many losses in his life, Mom, Dad, Johnny, and Dally, but he is strong. That’s all he is going to need to be.

After reading The Outsiders, by S.E. Hilton, I think that Ponyboy is “The Rose That Grew From the Concrete” by Tupac Shakur. The first reason that Ponyboy is the rose is because when he was about twelve years old his parents died in a car crash. His brother was then not be able to go to college and instead had to work two jobs. “Did you hear about the rose that grew / from a crack in the concrete?” This quote from the poem relates to how Ponyboy grew up because like the rose he hard upbringing. “Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave. So Soda and I stay out of trouble as much as we can...”(Hilton 3) Ponyboy had to adapt to his new life, which was not perfect but

Why does Darry care about Ponyboy. Maybe to make sure he doesn’t have the life that Darry had. He shows this by checking Pony’s grades and makes sure he does his homework right, or he protects Pony. Another way is that he works 2 jobs just so that he can go to school.

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.

Ponyboy is in this state because he is devastated that his two friends, Johnny and Dally died. Johnny was a young nice kid who was the guinea pig of the group and Dally is this real tough boy that has been through a lot of hard times including prison. In the book, Ponyboy says “I had it. I stopped him. He was looking at me strangely. I had the knife. I killed Bob” (Hinton 165) and as the readers know, Ponyboy didn’t kill Bob. This shows that Ponyboy is really confused and is trying to think that Johnny isn’t dead. Then in the movie it didn’t show Ponyboy in this terrible mental state at all. Since the book mentioned Ponyboy in this state, the readers got to see that Ponyboy really cared about Johnny. Then with the movie the audience didn’t get to see how much Ponyboy cared about Johnny, so that could change their perspective on Ponyboy. Therefore this was a good thing that the book mentioned because it showed that Johnny was really important to Ponyboy and Ponyboy didn’t want to think that Johnny was

Finally, Johnny is not justified in what he did and is guilty because Johnny killed Bob, who didn’t cause any physical harm in the fight. Johnny stated that “‘I killed that boy.’ Bob, the handsome Soc, was lying there in the moonlight, doubled up and still” (56). This states that Johnny killed Bob instead of David, who was the one harming Ponyboy. This means that Johnny must have wanted to harm Bob for what he has done in the past.

He went through a lot in the time period between running from the law and Dally and Johnny's’ death and the only reason he made it through was because he had people who loved him to help him through it. Things for Ponyboy are finally getting better after everything he and his family have been through, so what right would be anyone have to take that away? All that matters in life is to be happy, not the quality of a house over one’s head or what one sees from another perspective of someone’s life situation. A person can have a prominent house and all the money a person can want and no home, while another could have a dilapidated house with no money whatsoever, but a home where he or she feels unconditionally loved and protected. What’s being disclosed is that someone could have everything anyone wants in life and have absolutely nothing while others have nothing but everything anyone needs in life. It is rough everywhere, but just because it’s rough, doesn’t mean that it’s never going to get better because it will. Afterall, the best things in life never come

I think that pony boy should go into foster care because being around the greasers is messing with his life because they were always getting in fights or jail on the other hand they also look out for him based on my prior knowledge pony boy needs the guidance of adults and not the guidance of the reckless violent group of boys that get into jail every other day .

“Stay golden Ponyboy” This quote is probably one of the most famous quotes from the book The Outsiders. In the book Ponyboy recites a poem about stay gold or true and pure, but nothing stays like that because of the harsh world. Johnny wants Ponyboy to stay golden, but that almost impossible with class. Class can greatly impact one's future, and there are many example of this with famous people, ordinary people, and in the book The Outsiders.

“I really can’t tell what Socs have to sweat about good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs- Man I thought, if I had worries like that I’d consider myself lucky” (Hinton, 1967, P. 36), thinks Ponyboy, a greaser who envies the Socs. In this quote, Ponyboy doesn’t see what problems the Socs face in their everyday lives. In the novel, The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, the author introduces Ponyboy, a resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, who fails to understand the Socs by misinterpreting what they truly are. The affluent Socs get all the glory but the impecunious greasers are just left with all the vain.

Ponyboy said he would be dead if he didn't have the gang members. Johnny is the youngest in the gang. He was jumped by Socs and was seriously injured that he almost died. He had psychology impact on the Socs, he would shiver and be frighten whenever he sees a Soc. On the day he left with Ponyboy, they met a group of Socs. Since the Soc called Bob almost drowned Ponyboy to death, he killed Bob. Johnny admired Dally a lot. He wishes Dally could be proud of him for even just once. He wanted to be as tough and cool as Dally but he never succeeds. Johnny was kicked out of school and that was how Ponyboy thought he wasn't clever. Sometimes Johnny understood things better than Ponyboy in the book which was called Gone with the Wind. Johnny had the interest and talent in reading books but no one in the gang except Ponyboy was good enough to talk about these. He wasn't really close with Ponyboy before they ran away together so they didn't have a talk. Johnny also loved to watch sunsets and sunrises but no one in the gang could have spared time to watch or even talk about this. All Johnny couldn't express mad him alienated from the gang members. The only one he was close to was Dally. Dally cared for his all time and would risk his life for whatever happens on Johnny. Such as lending a gun or killing a Soc. Dally wouldn't hesitate as long as it was for

Ponyboy has no parents and Darry is the eldest brother, therefore, Darry must be responsible for Ponyboy and make sure he is safe. Ponyboy doesn’t always understand the way Darry protect him. One night Jonny and Ponyboy went out and didn’t

Ponyboy does not know where he wants to go with his life. At first he thinks he could never hurt anyone physically. He was once handed a broken bottle to defend himself but did not have too and later he states “I never could have used it anyway”. As the story progresses he losses his close friends. Later after losing them he breaks a bottle and threatens some Socs at a gas station. After they leave he picks up the broken glass so no one gets a flat tire. He does not know whether he should follow Johnny’s advice and stay golden or take Dally’s and toughen up so he wont get hurt anymore. However, he realizes that he needs to follow Johnny’s advice and learn for these mistakes and share with everyone what really happened and let it better him not tear him apart. Ponyboy’s feelings are not strange or rare. Tennagers all over have difficulty figuring out who they are in this world. Everyone has second thoughts on what to do next and how to do it. As kids grow up and realize how they want to live their lives they change. Something they may have done one month ago they would never do

I strongly believe that Ponyboy, a character from The Outsiders, should have to go into foster care for some variety of reasons. Some reasons are: he will have a better life, health, and would be paid more attention to than his brothers. It is important that Ponyboy has a good life ,and he does something special with his life.

Did you know every 10 second child abuse report is placed? Did you know that children who are taken from their families suffer severe emotional distress. This is proof that Ponyboy should not be taken away from Darry. He would be better off with Darry. Darry is a loving guardian because he worries about Ponyboy. Darry is a good Guardian because he keeps Ponyboy saved and should not go into the system. Ponyboy should be with Darry because he is a good Guardian other people might not think that he is a good Guardian because they eat cake for breakfast but that will be proven wrong . Ponyboy is better off with Darry because Ponyboy is most likely to get affection that in the system he would not get and kids are better off with their families.