Character Analysis From 'The Outsiders'

Randy tells Ponyboy that his dad is "...kind of upset about all this. I mean, my dad's a good guy... and I kind of let him down..." (164). When Randy says this, he means that his father is mad at him for getting himself into the whole mess with Bob's death. Pony thinks "[Randy] was just like all the rest of the Socs.

“ We get jumped by the Socs. I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids” (Hinton 4). Even I could feel their hatred. They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other... I don't hate the Socs any more... they shouldn't hate…(Hinton 120). Ponyboy and the gang get judged throughout the story because of their social class, yet the Socs are given breaks because they have

Because of this, Ponyboy and Jeanette don’t let their feelings of pain or sadness show and rather tuck them away and settle for the scripted response. Jeanette feels upset, as any child would when they leave their favorite toy behind and cannot retrieve it. However, when her dad tells her that

For instance, at the beginning of the book, when Ponyboy was walking home alone from the movie house and he saw the Socs coming towards him. He said, “I was sweating something fierce, although I was cold. I could feel my palms getting clammy and the perspiration running down my back.” (pg. 5 paragraph 3). In other words, when he saw the Socs coming, it reminded him of Johnny getting jumped by the Socs. This made him really scared of the Socs and he didn’t have the confidence to stand up for himself. When he sees the Socs he feels helpless, because he always relies on his gang to protect him. However, when Ponyboy was outside the grocery store and Randy came with the other three Socs. Ponyboy said, “I busted the end off my bottle and held on to the neck and tossed away my cigarette ‘You get back into your car or you'll get split." (pg.145 paragraph 5). Clearly, this shows after Johnny’s dead Ponyboy’s attitude towards life has changed because his reaction on the Socs was different than his normal behavior. He is usually calm and doesn’t like to fight and act violently. Johnny’s death has changed Ponyboy because losing a person that he loved made him a stronger and tougher person. Ponyboy learned that he should stand up for himself and his

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

In the beginning, PonyBoy is a lousy, lazy, and judgemental guy with only one thing on his mind at a time, by the end of the story PonyBoy knows the true meaning of loyalty, and friendships. In the novel, Ponyboy starts off walking, to the

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”.

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First, Ponyboy lost his parents he was 14 at the time they passed, they died from a car accident. Ever since they passes he has lived with his two older brothers Sodapop Curtis and Darry. Darrys always hard on Ponyboy when it comes to school or anything like that. Growing up with your older brothers and instead of parents at the age fourteen is pretty tough. Sometimes it tells us about how Ponyboy misses or thinks about his parents, they played a big roll in his life. Ever since they have been gone it's changed Pony to try to be his best and not do anything they wouldn't want him to, it's also changed Darry he's more proactive and is harder on Pony more than their parents were

”Pg. 169 Ponyboy doesn't have and feelings, he can't comprehend the recent tragedies he has endured, he

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

Unfortunately, Ponyboy’s parents died in a car crash and he thinks about it frequently.I think Ponyboy thinks about people who are dead more than people who are alive which may be understandable because he has experienced a lot of loss in his life. After the death of Ponyboys parents, Darry was incharge

Everyone thinks Cherry is just like all the other Socs, but she is not. “I shook my head. 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” (Hinton 40-41). This quote explains that Cherry and Ponyboy are like each other in so many ways, but no one notices because of their different social classes. Same with the Greasers and the Socs they are so similar, but their social classes tell them differently.

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To clarify, Ponyboy seems as though he is scared to say how he feels as if he might disappoint his older brother Darry or his Greaser friends. For example, on page 7, “ ...I wanted to start bawling, but you just don’t say that to Darry.” Ponyboy says this right after he is beat up by Socs and Darry asks him if he’s okay. He could have told Darry how scared he was, but instead he kept to himself because he thought it would dissatisfy Darry. Ponyboy also shows a more nervous side when he fell asleep in the lot with Johnny and had to go home. On page 49, “I ran home, trembling at the thought of facing Darry.” When Ponyboy says this, it clearly shows how nervous he gets around his older, tougher brother. At this point, he still doesn’t realize that Darry only yells at him because he cares. Ponyboy may appear as nervous and shy around his peers and family, but near the end of the book he becomes more bold and less afraid of his surroundings. For example, on page 115, “I glanced at Two-Bit. He shrugged. I followed Randy over to his car, out of earshot of the rest. We sat there in his car for a second, silent. Golly, that was the tuffest car I’ve ever been in.” Now, any day before this one, Ponyboy would have been scared out of his mind to get in the same car that followed them to the park, and caused Johnny to kill Bob. These guys were Socs, therefore, Ponyboy was quite brave to get into the car with Randy, Bob’s best friend. But, Ponyboy has gotten more bold and less afraid of the Socs. After going through all of these events, Ponyboy went from nervous and shy, to bold. He showed a more tough side by the end of the