Tyranny In The Outsiders

This quote is when Ponyboy begins to see things form other people’s pinot of view. He understands that Darry loves him, but has a hard time showing it. He understands that he is controlling because he wants Ponyboy to have a life he could never obtain. Dally understood that being a greaser, was never right for Ponyboy. Ponyboy deserves and needs better, and brighter future.

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

At the end of the book Ponyboy finally comes to terms with the deaths of Johnny and Dally, and he finally realizes that violence is not the answer when he makes up with Darry. Darry and Ponyboy are shouting at each other, and Ponyboy asks Sodapop to take his side. This causes Sodapop to rush out of the house, and Ponyboy and Darry chase after him. When they finally catch up Sodapop tells them he feels sick of being pulled apart by their fights. Ponyboy sympathizes with Sodapop as he says in the text: “Darry and I did play tug of war with him, with never a thought to how much it was hurting him.” Ponyboy suddenly understands what his fighting with Darry has done to Sodapop, and later in their conversation Ponyboy realizes why he never got along with Darry: “I saw that I had expected Darry to do all the understanding without even trying to

At home, Ponyboy is taken care of by essentially both of his big brothers, but, it is mostly his eldest brother Darry who is the authority figure in the house. Ponyboy believes that Darry works him too hard because he gets yelled at regularly. His second oldest brother, Sodapop, says that Darry only works him harder because he is trying to protect Pony. When Sodapop and Ponyboy are trying to fall asleep, but, start talking to each other Sodapop says, “Listen, kiddo, when Darry hollers at you...he don’t mean nothing’. He’s just got more worries than somebody his age ought to. Don’t take him serious...you dig, Pony? Don’t let him bug you. He’s really proud of you ‘cause you’re so brainy. It’s just because you’re the baby-I mean, he loves you a lot. Savvy? The

First, when Darry slapped Pony, he felt so sad and worthless because he felt like Darry didn’t want him at home anymore. Darry and Pony don’t get along to well in the beginning of the book, but throughout their conflicts, they learn that they love each other very much. Another example is when Pony gets a letter from Soda when he was running away. Soda said that they miss Johnny and Pony very much and wish they would come home. Pony gets very emotional and sad because he misses them so much. Pony and Soda realize that they need each other. They love each other and couldn’t imagine life without them. Pony tells Johnny that they need to go home and turn themselves in for killing a Bob. Pony and Johnny did not want to do this, but it was the right thing. On the other hand, when Darry and Soda were protecting Pony from the fight with the Soc’s he knows that they will never hurt or fight with one another again.

Early on, Pony thinks that Darry doesn’t cares very much about him and would do anything to keep them apart from each other. While walking back home after the movie that pony watched with Cherry Valance, she asked how Darry was compared to Soda. Pony answered, “Darry. . . what was Darry like? ‘He’s. . .’ I started to say he was a good ol’ guy but I couldn’t. I burst out bitterly: ‘He’s not like Sodapop at all and he sure ain’t like me. He’s hard as a rock and about as human. He got eyes exactly like frozen ice. He likes Soda -- but he can’t stand me. I bet he wishes he could stick me in a home somewhere, and he’d do it, too, if Soda’d let him.” (Hinton 42). This demonstrates Pony’s opinion because Pony see's Darry getting along with Soda, Pony believes Darry has the capacity for love, but he just doesn’t have it for Pony. Pony forms his initial opinion because he is very naive. When Darry pushes Pony to get very good grades, Pony believes it is because he wants to be controlling. Originally Pony believes that darry is a horrible guardian but later on in the book he sees the other side of Darry.After Darry and Pony finally got to see each other after Pony ran away, he saw Darry crying while giving him a hug,“Suddenly I realized, horrified, that darry was crying...In that second what Soda and Dally and Two-Bit had been trying to tell me came through. Darry did care about me. Darry did care about me, maybe as much as he cared about Soda, and because he cared he was trying too hard to make something of me.” (Hinton 98). While giving Darry that hug, Pony realized something he never thought would come from darry, Pony saw him crying. For the first time, Pony saw that Darry does everything that he possibly can to help Pony get a better future then what he experienced. Darry tries to give Pony what he missed out on and Pony finally realized is it. This change in opinion for Pony

At the beginning of the book, Ponyboy is in intelligent, young teen, but he lacks the perspective to understand the environment around him. He can only see his side of the story and fails to understand why others act the way they do. The first example of this is his oldest brother Darry. He thinks Darry hates him because he is always giving Ponyboy a hard time about his lack of common sense, his grades,...

This is part of his emotional journey. Ponyboy believes Darry only cares about himself. “Darry thinks his life is enough without inspecting other’s” (Hinton 3). This probably hurts Ponyboy.

After the death of his parents, Darry ineptly takes on the responsibility of raising his brothers, yet Ponyboy Curtis does not understand why he is so hard on him. Soda attempts to convince Ponyboy that Darry loves him, but Ponyboy simply thinks “Darry thought I was just another mouth to feed and somebody to holler at. Darry love me? I thought of those hard, pale eyes. Soda was wrong for once, I thought. Darry doesn’t love anyone or anything, except for maybe Soda. I didn’t hardly think of him as being human. I don’t care, I lied to myself, I don’t care about him either”(18). Ponyboy simply sees Darry as a brother who is unhappy with being forced to raise him when in reality, Darry is attempting to take on a responsibility that he’s not ready for yet, but is trying to do his best with it.

I, however, disagree with this because this point of view doesn’t show all that he does for his brothers. He saved his brother and gave them a second chance too. Yes he may be an uneducated greaser but his responsibility to work two jobs and cares for his brothers keeps them together. His bravery helps the whole gang as well. His unselfishness gives Ponyboy and Sodapop a second chance to become the great people they are. Darry is a hero to the gang and deserves to be recognized as one because of his unselfishness and the parent he had to become to Ponyboy and Sodapop.

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

In The Outsiders, Pony gets into trouble, which leads some to...oppose some thoughts. All throughout the book, many have debated weather Pony should stay with Darry or go into “The System.” But the most ideal way to go is just to stay with Darry. Darry is a very protective brother throughout the book.

Ponyboy shouldn't stay with Darry because he isn't very responsible and seems as if he doesn't have enough time for him nor Sodapop. For instance, Darry has to decide if whether Ponyboy should be permitted to also participate in the rumble, “Let me fight, Darry…“Well”-Darry gave in-”I guess you can”(Hinton page 135). With this in mind, Darry imperiled Ponyboy into getting injured. Darry is being careless about his brother and allows him to participate in a perilous rivalry. To make matters even worse, Ponyboy just recovered from the incident where he was trying to save some children in the fire, so he was in an unhealthy situation.

Darry wants Ponyboy to get good grades because he wants him to go to college and be successful.

Ponyboy would be heartbroken if he were to go into a foster care system because Darry