Character Changes In The Outsiders

The Outsiders is a realistic fiction novel written by S.E. Hinton. In order for every book to have a good plot, it needs one or more conflict. In The Outsiders, there are several hostilities. The conflict doesn’t just happen to Ponyboy, but everyone in the book is affected by opposition. While there are many different kinds of disputes in this novels, the main ones are character versus character, character versus nature, and character versus society.

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.

Ponyboy is the main character in The Outsiders. Hinton uses Ponyboy to prove her point that people can be different from the other people in their so-called group. For example Ponyboy’s category is greaser. They are the people who are poor, hard, cold, mean, hoods, have long greasy hair, and like fights. Even though Ponyboy is poor and has long greasy hair, he is actually also loyal, compassionate, and heroic. For instance in the story there is a

In the book, The Outsiders a character, Johnny Cade starts off by his character traits being afraid, but throughout the novel, Johnny turns into an upstander person who had the courage to conquer a person from the Socs gang because they were threatening him with drowning his good friend, Ponyboy. Johnny’s friendship with Ponyboy was close but in the end, Johnny didn’t necessarily change that much despite his actions but, Ponyboy’s understandings of him improved in a good way.

At the beginning of the novel, Ponyboy was a young and impulsive teen, he lacked the perspective to understand the environment around him.The example of this was his oldest brother Darry."I turned and ran out the door and down the street as......He wasn't ever going to hit me again."(Hinton 50), because Ponyboy came back home late,Darry worried about his younger brother and got angry.Then he shouted at Ponyboy and hit him. Ponyboy was very upset, he thought Darry hate him.Darry cared about Ponyboy, however, Ponyboy didn't understand it.In a word, Ponyboy was too young and impulsive at

Pony first thinks that Dally is troublesome and somewhat frightening, but throughout the story, Pony realizes that there is more to Dally than what meets the eye. Pony’s brother Darry may seem like he could care less about what happens to him, but he recognizes that it is because Darry cares enough about him to do what’s best for Pony. His enemy, Bob, demonstrates how opinions can change even when it is most unlikely or surprising. A single story is not always the best story, and to be able to know all of the details, it is essential to consider others perspectives and opinions, making people more open minded. Only knowing one side of a person is not enough to be able to form an opinion or judgment of who they are. One must learn what they can about a person to really know who a person is. The world could be far more harmonious and work together as one if less people made immediate assumptions of

The Outsiders is a wonderful novel to read in the classroom because of its conflicts with one another. During this novel, the Curtis brothers realize that they are the only family they have left, and they make the best out of that. Throughout this novel, Darry, Soda, and Pony have changed dramatically throughout this

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.

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

In the 1960’s, many people were placed into categories. The main protagonist in The Outsiders is a young boy named Ponyboy, who has had a rough life and gone through traumatic events. In the book, The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton uses the actions and attitude of Ponyboy to reflect the turmoil of the 1960’s.

In the book, The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the biggest influences in shaping Ponyboy’s identity are creativity, how he’s different from the rest of the gang, and his hair. The first example of how creativity and his difference with the rest of the gang is, when Ponyboy walks home alone home from the movie in the first chapter because he “likes to watch movies undisturbed so I can get into them and live them with actors. … I’m different that way” (Hinton 2). Ponyboy wanted to go to the movie alone so he can “get into them and live with actors.” This shows creativity because being able to get into books and dream is being creative. He wants to live and be with the actors and watching movies and reading books which is a good way to be able to get into another

Ponyboy changed a lot throughout this novel but he changed more emotionally than physically. His biggest physical change was after he left to the church on jay mountain, he had to cut and dye his hair blonde. This quote shows’’Johnny flipped out the razor-edge of his switch, took hold of my hair and started sawing on it’’ Pg 69. In the beginning of The Outsiders Ponyboy feels scared and has mixed emotions about life but after Johnny and Dally’s death he didn't have emotions about anything. He didn't care about anything and all he wanted was Johnny and Dally back, and that he could have never done the things he did leading up to the death. Ponyboy has

Ponyboy is outsider from the other gang members he has lot of different and special things that make him outsider than the others. First, Ponyboy is willing to put his life in dangerous to help the others and he understand the rule of this life and how it’s unfair for the people like him, when Ponyboy saw the boys on the church he just ran to help them,” I’II get them don’t worry!” (91) and then he blames himself for the fair, “we started

In the novel, The Outsiders, Ponyboy expresses his feelings in a very poetic way. By doing this, Ponyboy is able to show the reader his true identity: an identity that completely contradicts the stereotype of what society deems to be a greaser.

The feature of The Outsiders that most struck me was Hinton’s ability to develop a realistic and growing main character. While Ponyboy Curtis deals with more violent events than many young adults will have to go through themselves he is still extremely relatable and Hinton was able to capture the essence of teenage life superbly. When Cherry Valance informs Ponyboy that she will probably ignore him if she sees him in public, Ponyboy has a response all teenagers can relate to when his internal monologue becomes “wishing [he] was dead and buried somewhere. Or at least that [he] had on a decent shirt” (46). Teenagers are dramatic and, like the rest of us, are always trying to impress their peers. Ponyboy is not an exception to the teenage angst