Should Pony Boy Go Into Foster Care

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.

Ponyboy Curtis in the fourteen-year-old boy that explains the story in both the book and the movie, and also the youngest of the greasers. Ponyboy is very intelligent compared to the rest of the gang he is most defenatly the smartest to them all. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop in both the book and movie. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense in the book more so then in the movie, but Ponyboy is a much brighter then his brother takes him for. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love but in the movie they dont focus on his school as much. He matures over the course of the book and the movie both.

Due to his gang’s influences, Ponyboy becomes a loyal, emotional and unruly greaser. He stays with his friends when they are in trouble, gets scared by Socs and smokes and drinks. Throughout the book, Pony witnessed many tragedies like his friends dieing. Because he survived many traumas, Pony became the kid he is

In the beginning of “The Outsiders”, Ponyboy only likes a few people but in the end, he realizes that he judged people unfairly. In the beginning, he only appreciated Johnny (the second youngest gang member), Soda (the middle child in his family) and Two-Bit (a wisecracking member of the gang). He dislikes Dallas (the most criminal of the gang) and Steve and thinks that his oldest brother, Darry, dislikes him. He also believes that all Socs are bad. His judgments are first brought into question when he meets Cherry Valence, a female Soc. Ponyboy, referring to her and her friend wrote, “It seemed funny to me that Socs -if these girls were any example - were just like us.” (37) Pony’s views on the Socs evolve again when he talks to Randy. After talking to Randy, Pony thinks, “Socs are just guys after all. Things are rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too." (118) By the end of the novel, Pony does not think all Socs are good because there are Socs like Bob, who jumped Johnny and Pony, but he realizes that people should be

Ponyboy Curtis - The novel's fourteen-year-old narrator and protagonist, and the youngest of the greasers. Ponyboy's literary interests and academic accomplishments set him apart from the rest of his gang. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense, but Ponyboy is a reliable and observant narrator. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love. He matures over the course of the novel, eventually realizing the importance of strength in the face of class bias.

It is understood why some people would disagree and think that Ponyboy would be better off in a more stable environment where no gangs or violence occurred. “Greasers can't walk alone too much or they'll get jumped, or someone will come by and

Order in the court,It seems like we have some decisions to make If ponyboy should stay with his brothers or in foster care. I have decided that ponyboy should stay with his brothers he has no parents his brothers are taking care of him.Ponyboy should stay with his brothers they do things they need to do together their want to stay together they parents would be disappointed if they were alive and they were separated from each other although they were killed in a car crash.

In this class, there is an argument about if Pony boy should go to foster care or if he still could stay under his oldest brother's care. In my opinion, I think Pony boy should go to foster care. The reason why I think he should, is because he is hanging with the wrong people. If he goes to foster care he would do better, because he would be away from bad influences. Hanging with the wrong people could get Pony boy in trouble with the law. He could go to juvenile, because one of his friends could have shot somebody and Pony boy could have been blamed for it. That is why I think he should go

Pony boy should stay with his family so he could be happier, and not leave his family. It would not be the same for any of them. I really think that pony boy should leave because he did not get into that much trouble, and really he was the good kid out of them all. There is a reason why he should go for foster care because. They do not have a stabled home, his brothers get into trouble, and I think that is a bad influence for him.

Ponyboy and Johnny did make the right decision by running away after killing Bob with a switchblade. I am on this side because many bad things could have happened if they would have stayed. If they did stay they would have gotten more hurt, they would have gone to jail, and the authority favors the Socs over the greasers. Even though they could get in more trouble when they get back because they hid, it is more likely that they won’t. I think that both ways will turn out bad for both of them, but I think that running away will be best.

In The Outsiders, one of Ponyboys conflicts is misunderstanding. Fourteen year old Ponyboy does not know how he feels nor understand his brother Darry. He feels like Darry has very little love for him. Darry is always getting at Ponyboy about being his best because their parents passed away and he has to take responsibility of him. Ponyboy feels like Darry is just being mean to him though

Ponyboy was always the odd one out, he’s not like the other Greasers. In the novel, after losing several of his dearest friends, Ponyboy’s whole life turned upside down. In the story, many events of violence of loss happened, everything around Ponyboy is just so violent, even he started to be affected by it. “You're the guy that killed Bob Sheldon. […] And he was a friend of ours. We don't like nobody killing our friends, especially greasers."(Hinton 171) Ponyboy’s response to such violent behavior was to face it with more violence. Indignantly, busting off a bottle, Ponyboy threatened the Soc to beat him up, which was not like what he used to do, when he still retained his sanity. Now, Ponyboy is starting to accept violence and is slowly becoming conformity as the others, a cruel and delirious “Greaser”. The transformation is deadly and can ruin his whole life because of this chaotic behavior. Besides Ponyboy’s chaotic behavior, he is starting to fail at daily

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

Even Though he goes through these things, the novel shows how problems can make you stronger.S.E. Hinton states that the hearing or trial wasn’t so bad for Pony. Even though it was not bad he still had to go to court.“ The hearing wasn’t anything like I thought it would be. Besides Darry and Soda and me, Nobody was there except Randy and his parents and Cherry Valance and her parents.” (Hinton 67) This proves that the law is very much a conflict for Pony and the greasers. In the story he does have to deal with the police a lot more often than any other person.The greasers really have problems with the police but in the novel Pony has problems with

Ponyboy will not go to foster care. He stays with his family, he need his family to support him,protect him from other gangs, and have better lives with people that knows him and loves him. Foster Homes is not a safe place . There are 45% white kids in foster homes . Foster home is not a fun place to be. Ponyboy needs Sodapop and Darry . Ponyboy doesn't need foster care. Pony Boy needs a stable environment . Even Though ponyboy brother Sodapop and Darry are young . Soda is 17 years old, he holds down a job. Pony boy loves soda a lot. Because he is like a dad to Pony . Darry on the other hand is more strict on Pony about grades,fights,and being home on time. For example Darry doesn't like pony boy skipping school, not doing homework, and begin late home.