Character Analysis Of Ponyboy 'Character In The Outsiders'

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a novel about a boy called Ponyboy who is involved in a rivalry between two gangs, the Greasers and the Socs. The Socs live in the West side of town; they look clean, have lots of money and drive blue Mustangs. The greasers live in the east side of town; they wear hair oil, t-shirts and jeans, and don’t have much money. Ponyboy is part of the Greasers, along with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop, his closest friend Johnny Cade, Two-Bit, Steve and Dallas Winston, the toughest of the gang... or at least that is what Ponyboy thinks about him in the beginning of the novel in chapter one “He was tougher than the rest of us- tougher, colder, and meaner.”

The most important person in the book would have to be in my opinion Ponyboy Curtis. Because when Johnny and Ponyboy got jumped, Johnny had to defend himself and kill Bob or else Bob would drown Ponyboy, so when Johnny killed Bob it was because of self-defending Ponyboy. Also he is an important character because he is Darry’s and Sodapop’s kid brother and Darry is always yelling at him and not letting him do some things that Pony wants to do and Pony doesn’t use his head sometimes so he gets hurt or into bad situations and Darry one night caught Pony at 2am coming home because he fell asleep in the lot so Darry got mad and hit him and then Pony ran out and then him and Johnny ran away, but then got jumped by the Soc’s, that’s the night when

Sometimes people judge a book by its cover. Ponyboy from “The Outsiders” was a person that was judged by many people. He is in a gang, they call themselves the greasers. They are poorer than the Socs and the middle class. When people see them they immediately think, dirty troublemakers but they are more like a group of friends hanging out. They are like one big family and very few of them from the gang actually start trouble. Being that Ponyboy is a greaser, people think that he is a troublemaker and a bad person but that is not the case. Ponyboy is a unique young man that does not start trouble and does not like fighting. He is also a very good friend. I can say that I am most like him because I find that we have very many things in common when it comes to identity and personality. He is a nice person who's smart in school and that is what sets him apart from the rest of his gang. Although he may not think properly when he's out of school and it leads him to trouble, he still keeps his good grades and respect towards others.

Dally was a hero for his actions and his help. After Johnny killed someone Ponyboy and Johnny went to go see Dally and asked “If he could help them hide so the police wouldn't find us.” Dally told them to “go to the abandoned church up on Jay Mountain.” Before they left he gave Pony a new shirt that was big, a gun to Johnny if he ever needed it, and some cash to buy supplies since they would half to stay there for a while. (Skipping to the part when the church was on fire) Dally also helped Johnny get out of the burning church when the church fell down and heard Johnny's screams. Dally risked his own life for Johnny’s. That's why he’s a

The Bildungsroman novel The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, a group of teenage boys trying to survive in an environment of class division, connects to a lot of the characters' lives. Examples of some characters are Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally. A way that the novel connects to them can be represented with songs. Johnny can be represented by the song Via Chicago, by Wilco. Ponyboy can be represented by Night Run, by Cage The Elephant.

{{In the novel The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, the traditional Greaser haircut is symbolic of their identity that can’t be stated in wealth and material belongings.}} {{This identification is shown when Ponyboy, the main protagonist, exits a movie theater and runs into the Socs. When Ponyboy is cornered by the Socs, the people who rule the city, “They walked around slowly, silently, smiling. ‘Hey, grease,’ one said in an over-friendly voice. ‘We’re gonna do you a favor, greaser. We’re gonna cut all that long greasy hair off.’” (Hinton 5).}} {{The Socs taunt him with the thought of cutting his hair, which would strip Pony of his identity completely, leaving him barren with nothing. Clearly, Ponyboy individualizes himself with his hair, and his

The reason that Ponyboy should stay is before he only lived with his brothers, he lived with his parents and siblings but, their parents unfortunately died in a car accident and his brothers and friends are all he has left and it would not be right to take him away from the people he is close to. A quote to support this are, “What would it be like, i wondered, in a different ceiling? What would it be like in a different bed, in a different room? There was a hard painful lump in my throat that i couldn't swallow.” (Hinton, pg.

In the book the Outsiders, Ponyboy faces many conflicts, some had carried more significance than others. The author of this novel is S.E. Hinton. The main characters of this novel are Ponyboy Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, and Darrel Curtis (Darry). The Outsiders is novel about the wars between the two social classes formally known as Socs (The higher class/richer people) and the Greasers (The lower class/poorer blue collar workers.) This novel however is told from the perspective of the Greasers, more specifically a young boy at the bottom of a small gang or family of greasers. In the novel The Outsiders the character Ponyboy experience multiple conflicts with his family, his friends, and the law.

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S.E. Hinton’s realistic fiction novel The Outsiders is a book about a 14-year-old boy named Ponyboy Curtis. Who lives on the poor side of town and is part of a gang called the Greasers. The greasers have a rival gang called Socs, who they are always violently fighting with. One of the main themes in The Outsiders is that everyone has problems in their life, regardless of their social status. This theme is first developed when Ponyboy tells Cherry about Johnny getting jumped by the Socs.

Ponyboy is a hero to me. In one of the chapters, there is a burning church and kids are stuck inside.“Then pushed open the window and tossed out the nearest kid.”(79)Pony is a hero for obviously saving those kids in the church without any hesitation. He didn’t even think about himself or how he could get hurt, he just ran without even thinking. He helped those kids which were very brave of him. He also cared about his friends after the fire. I let his first remark slide by. "Are Johnny and Dally all right?"(81)

(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

“The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton, is centered around Ponyboy’s path to maturity and the life lessons he learns along the way. The novel follows Ponyboy, a greaser, and his gang’s conflict with the Socials, a rival gang. In it, he learns to not judge people hastily and reject gang mentality. Ponyboy also loses his innocence. The following paragraphs will explore his growth throughout “The Outsiders”.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a novel about two neighborhoods separated because of classes in society. In these two neighborhoods, teenagers are separated into two different gangs, the lower-class Greasers and the upper-class Socs. Ponyboy, a greaser comes from a hard life. His parents died and he is left being raised by his older brother Darry. After both his brothers failed at accomplishing their dreams in life, Pony is left feeling like he will only be a greaser. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy realizes he has many traits making him have an outstanding future, such as his intelligence instincts and heroic skills.

One notable example of this is when it says, “ The smoke filled my eyes and they started watering… We pushed open the door to the back room and found four or five little kids, about eight years old or younger….I picked up a kid and he promptly bit me, but I leaned out the window and dropped him as gently as I could.” This evidence shows that Ponyboy went into a burning building to save kids he doesn't even know, showing that to save others he will do almost anything.