Life Lessons In The Outsiders

Please be careful, because I couldn't stand it if anything happened to you” (98). Pony realizes that his assumption was wrong and that Darry just wants the best for him. Since Ponyboy knows that Darry loves him, he stops telling himself that he hates Darry and starts opening up to him. He also stops making rude comments about Darry because he now knows none of it is true. Darry's love helps Pony grow as an individual, but so does the last thing Johnny says before he dies.

After the demise of Bob, Ponyboy realizes that everyone has their problems to deal with. It’s part of being human. Everybody's life looks better from the outside than it actually is. Just like how everybody's Social Media life seems a thousand times better than their actual life. Everybody struggles

He always wants to give him the life he wanted but couldn’t have one way to make sure of that is that Darry always makes sure Pony gets good grades by checking his homework. This way pony can succeed in school and not be a dropout like soda. He wants him to be the one that can make a difference in the world, and Darry realizes that, that person is pony. A quote from Ponyboy from the book is “I didn’t do to bad in math, because Darry checked my homework and made me study.”(Hinton

The Outsiders display how adversity can help people find the real meaning of actions. Ponyboy thinks that Darry doesn’t care about him and believes he’s too strict as said in this passage “Me and Darry just don't dig each other. I could never please him… He never hollered at Sodapop, even when Soda dropped out of school or got tickets for speeding.

In chapter 3, Darry and Ponyboy got into a fight, in which Darry hit Ponyboy. This fight resulted in Ponyboy and Johnny killing a Soc, runnning away, going missing for five days, and getting Ponyboy injured and Johnny dead. The boys returned home when they were rushed to the hospital after being wounded from a fire. Once Ponyboy came to in the hospital, he saw Darry, crying. "Darry didn't like me... he had driven me away that night... he had hit me...he didn't give a hang about me... Suddenly I realized, horrified, that Darry was crying... Darry did care about me..." (98). Ponyboy ran to Darry, hugged him, and started sobbing. The two brothers stood in the waiting room, hugging and crying together. Daarry never scolded Ponyboy about him running away, because he was focused on Pony's health. He stayed at the hospital that night. Darry loves Pony, and now Pony knew.

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

He thought to himself “How many times had Soda started to tell me something... He would always listen to me, no matter what he was doing.” (Page 124) This is the point where Ponyboy realized that he took Soda for granted, and never really listened to him, even though Soda would drop everything for him. We learn that Soda is a very gentle and thoughtful individual, who listens to people’s problems and would do anything to fix them. If it weren't for this trait, Soda would be a rude, hated person that no one can care for, and vice versa for Soda.

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.

After Johnny’s death, Ponyboy finds a letter written by Johnny that reads, “When you’re a kid everything’s new, dawn. It’s just when you get used to everything that it’s day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s gold. Keep it that way, it’s a good way to be,” (178). Johnny urges Ponyboy to embrace his youth and innocence by not yielding to the greaser lifestyle. He insists on Ponyboy seeking his full potential. Ponyboy acknowledges that there are different stories beyond one’s appearance like himself because although the society previously consider him a nuisance to the community, they are proved wrong after he transforms into a hero after saving children from a church fire, which contributes to his dynamic change. Even the close-minded public are subject to their own change of mind. Johnny’s letter also leaves a lifelong impact on Ponyboy’s perspective on the importance of family because the absence of family in Johnny’s life makes Ponyboy treasure the atypical family he has, whether it may the greasers as a whole. In all, a number of people influence Pony to change his views on people and his

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

On page 93, chapter 6, the author says, “Dally was standing there, and when he saw me he screamed. ‘For Pete's sake, get out of there that roof’s gonna cave in any minute. Forget those blasted kids!’ I didn’t pay attention, although pieces of the old roof were crashing down way to close for comfort. I snatched up another kid, hoping he didn't bite him, and dropped him without waiting to see if he landed okay or not.” This shows that Ponyboy is caring because even though he could’ve left, not saving any of those kids dying in the fire, and would´ve not be injured, he didn’t leave and he saved the poor children from dying in the

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

He just wanted to talk.” ( Hinton 118) This quote shows after Ponyboy ran off, when he came back he came back not only himself, but he came back more understanding and more thankful. Ponyboy has been through a lot lately and even though he ran off and all that, but he did come back himself and maybe even he came back a better person. He is more understanding and is seeing how hard Darry and Soda work for them to stick together and have a good home and

I understand that darry sometimes doesn’t have time to stay with ponyboy that much, and that he doesn’t interact with him a whole lot, but it is not because darry wants it to be that way. As an example, “Darry sighed, just like I knew he would. Darry never had time to do anything anymore.’I’m working tomorrow night”(Hinton pg.14). In this quote darry shows his responsibility, and how he hates to not do anything with ponyboy because he just can’t lose his job. Adding to that, Darry is tired, and ponyboy doesn’t notice that he is doing this for him and his brothers,because he doesn’t want them to end up in a home where they will get no love like his, no attention like his brothers. They might treat them well in a home and everything , but nothing in the world compares to the fact of being with the people you grew up and you know well, and joke around with. Another point is , “Darry do you think they’ll split us up? Put me in a home or something? “ ( Hinton PG.157). This also proves that ponyboy is scared and curious to see if there is a possibility for them to actually be split up, and to never see him again. As can be seen, Darry does care about ponyboy and what he feels, and isn’t as stern and hard as everyone describes him

Family connections tend to be difficult, but in the Ponyboy`s family, the right to stay together is a nonstop conflict. Since their parents death, Darry has taken the responsibility of guardianship for Pony and Soda, and under that pressure he seems way older than he really is. He no longer views the two boys as siblings, but more as a responsibility. Darry sees Ponyboy's potential and has high expectations for him, but Ponyboy complains that Darry is a stricter than his father. Although by the end of the book he understands Darry.