Ponyboys In The Outsiders

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

Besides Johnny and Ponyboy ‘s point of view of what happened, I also interviewed one of the Socs that was at the event of the crime scene. The Soc confessed to me on what happened at the scene from their point of view. The only reason why the Soc confessed to me was because they did not want to get a longer jail sentence. The Soc explained to me on what they were going to do to Johnny and Ponyboy. The Soc said that they were planning to beat up Ponyboy and Johnny but then Bob took it too far that he started to drown Ponyboy. While that was happening the rest of the Socs were going to beat up Johnny. Also, the Socs had a weapon (knife) that they were going to use to hurt Johnny. That gives you evidence that the Socs were not innocent at the

(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

In the novel The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton never says what the term The Outsiders really means and who it applies to. The Outsiders mean some who doesn't quite fit in with everyone else and is different from everyone else. The character I think is The Outsider is Ponyboy. Ponyboy is the only one in his group that likes to go to movies. “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie, I only had two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.”

“When I stepped out the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home”. Is what Ponyboy Curtis had said in the beginning of his new chapter in life. Ponyboy has to make to a lot of decisions including running away, saving small children, and standing up for two Soc girls.

Ponyboy Curtis is very very smart, Ponyboy gets good grades in school, and his teachers recognize his natural talents in writing. It‘s why Mr. Smye encourages Pony to write. He recognizes Ponyboy‘s talent, and he understands that writing might be a form of catharsis for Pony as well. Ponyboy has long hair along with all the greasers.

Ponyboy was kinder, smaller, and weaker. Because of that, he took on less people and showed mercy towards Cherry and Marcia. He was definitely different than most of the gang;

Character Analysis on Ponyboy: Academic Essay The Outsiders written by S.E.Hinton continuous to be a literary influence on lives of many teens. This novel has been translated in thirty languages, and many find personal connections with either the plot or the characters themselves. I connected to the novel by How the different “classes”. The were the socs where like the poplar kids. The greasers where like the bulled kids who didn’t really fit in any ones “group”.

In the book, The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, there is a character named Ponyboy Curtis. Some characteristics of Ponyboy are that he is confused most of the time, he is caring, and he is definitely brave. These characteristics are shown clearly throughout the book. Even though he may not portray these characteristics in every single part of the book, but they definitely make him who he is when they are shown. Ponyboy was one of the main characters that definitely played a big role in the story.

A lot of people know that when an adolescent learns to manage financial situations or learns to make decisions on their own, there are more closer to being an adult, but a lot of people don't think about how culture and diversity between people also play a role in growing up. Ponyboy in The Outsiders, the first-person character of the story, by H.E Hinton had to quickly grow into the adult making life-changing decisions to avoid conviction of murder due to cultural conflicts. His life-changing decisions such as running away from his brothers shows readers his increase in maturity into adulthood but also shows the reader his huge strife (struggle) in the divided cultural world. What allowed him to stay grounded to the world was his hope and

In chapter two, when Ponyboy met Cherry Valance, his view of the socs began to change. At first, Ponyboy had only seen and experienced the bad side of the socs, but didn’t know them personally. As an example, Ponyboy had been jumped by socs, after that, he didn’t think

I think that ponyboy is trying to say that everyone is different just because of what people wear other clothes, and hang out with different people, and don’t have as nice of things as others does not mean that they don't have anything in common. Here is what Cherry and Ponyboy can do to stop all this they can talk about what they both do and like and see if they have anything in common and just like Ponyboy said “we all look at the same stars”. But just like Cherry said “no itś not just money thatś part of it though” what i think Cherry is trying to say is that itś not just because the money but its is also because of how they live. They have to make the Socs boys like the Greasers boy which is going to be hard because they have a history

In the novel The Outsider, Ponyboy goes through this identity challenge, and in the being he thinks one way of himself and in the middle his thinks he a little more of himself, and at the end he think a whole other way. In the beginning he think of himself as a gang member, or aka greaser, and he thought he was one of them because he was born into it, because he was poor and he roded in old car and he had his hair long. I know that he thinks that was part of this gang because in the text, it says”Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations and have a gang fight once in awhile.” This shows that he was part of it because he was poor, didn’t have much money or have a lot of things that

5 socs jumped out of the Mustang. They surrounded Johnny and Ponyboy at the fountain in the middle of the park. One soc named Bob said “Let’s give the kid a bath”. Bob held Ponyboy’s arm behind his back and dunked his head into the fountain. He tried to break free, but Bob was too strong. Bob was trying to drown Ponyboy. He couldn’t hold his breath any longer, but right before he could drown, Johnny took out his switchblade and killed Bob. Ponyboy woke up lying against the fountain. He

We talked to Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy said “it was a no brainer”. He said he wanted to save the kids. Ponyboy said Johnny would have said the same thing.