Ponyboy The Outsiders

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.

The more kind-hearted someone is the more special they are. The character, Ponyboy, from the outsiders, is kind-hearted because of actions. The outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is about a group known as the greasers who always stick together through anything. They get into some tough times, but work it out as a group. One thing they get involved with a lot is the disagreement between the SOCS (popular and rich kids) and themselves. In the end, they realize that friends are family, and are always there for each other. Ponyboy shows kindheartedness because he is willing the risk his life for others, demand to see his friends, and always be there for his buddies even in a difficult time. The most important thing is that Ponyboy is always thinking about others.

However, they all see Ponyboy as an outsider: Being the youngest and the smartest, they have hopes that he will not turn out like them. Quiet and sensitive, Ponyboy is not as tough as the others, and his friends hope that

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

The two different social groups fight, but they only end up with the death of their friends. In the beginning of the book, Pony is just another greaser who is thoughtless and oblivious; however he learns that life should be cherished to the very best when he experiences the death of his friends and soon becomes knowledgeable. As the story begins, Ponyboy Michael Curtis is a

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

One good example of this stereotype being wrong when it comes to Ponyboy is when he sees his brother in the hospital after the fire. “Darry”, I screamed, and the next thing I knew I had him around the waist and was squeezing the daylights out of him” (98). Another example is “I didn’t want to feel anything” (171). Notice the word want in that quote. That means that he does feel.

It is apparent throughout the movie that Ponyboy struggles with his identity. After his parents had passed away, his older brother, Darrel, became the parental figure for Ponyboy and his other brother, Sodapop. Ponyboy had felt that Darrel didn’t like him anymore and feels that Darrel blames

Pony boy likes to read books, and watch movies and sunsets. In chapter 3 he meets Marcia and cherry at the drive-in, which of course they snuck into. Dally was hitting on them so Johnny stood up for them and told dally to stop, after dally went away pony boy and cherry started talking. Cherry and Marcia are Socs so it’s kind of weird that they are talking, but after they got to know each other they found out that the have a lot of things in common unlike what they thought. Pony boy is a greaser so it isn’t expected for him to like reading books and watching sunsets but he does. Another character that is stereotyped in the book is Darry Curtis, pony boy’s oldest

Both Ponyboy and Johnny show selflessness throughout the story. An example of a similar situation is where an inmate saved a prison guard who was being attacked. The inmate was awarded and seen as a hero to the prison guard and by news outlets. This connects because one inmate’s actions had stopped a stereotype regarding delinquents, past and present. One of the ways S.E. Hinton foughts stereotypes in her book was by creating the characters Ponyboy and Johnny who fight the roles they are “meant” to

(Hinton 4). This proves Pony is a smart character because he makes good grades in school. Ponyboy is more optimistic than most of the characters. His clever thinking lets him digest the things Cherry says. He thinks about things in a different way than most of the Greasers do.

His conversation with Cherry made him think about the group that he lived in compared to hers. He is a lot like Jem from the passage in To Kill a Mockingbird. Jem states “There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down in the dump, and the Negroes.” Just like Ponyboy, he thinks that the world is divided into groups of people.

He continued to stay like that throughout the book. He changed his way on how he saw the world and how the two different societies could maybe just be almost similar “It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.” (41) Pony is a greaser and thats all he will ever be known as, but that doesn't stop him from doing whatever makes him feel

Isn't he consummately akin to a mundane little teenage boy? No, Pony Boy is doting, caring, and keenly intellective. He dotes to read books, and just like Johnny verbalized, Pony Boy is gold. Withal, he has deplorable dreams at night, and his brother's ken the reason why and how to pacify him.

After the death, Darry became more protective of Pony, by making sure he’s safe and sound. However, Darry comes off as angry and mean, when the reason of his actions is the complete opposite. Nevertheless, Pony sees it differently. He feels as Darry is,”...hard as a rock and about as human... He thinks (Pony) is a pain in the neck.