Ponyboy Quotes From The Outsiders

In The Outsiders, the story is told by a first person point-of-view, influencing the theme of the book to be more about what is important to the narrator, in this case, Ponyboy Curtis. Since Pony and Johnny killed someone and fled to the country, he might tell this tale with more detail than a Soc would, along with more emotion and greater remorse. Since Johnny was important to him, and he wanted peace and equality of the Greasers and Socs, he supposedly

After reading The Outsiders, by S.E. Hilton, I think that Ponyboy is “The Rose That Grew From the Concrete” by Tupac Shakur. The first reason that Ponyboy is the rose is because when he was about twelve years old his parents died in a car crash. His brother was then not be able to go to college and instead had to work two jobs. “Did you hear about the rose that grew / from a crack in the concrete?” This quote from the poem relates to how Ponyboy grew up because like the rose he hard upbringing. “Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave. So Soda and I stay out of trouble as much as we can...”(Hilton 3) Ponyboy had to adapt to his new life, which was not perfect but

I hadn’t realized Johnny had been right behind me all the way.”(91) Ponyboy realizes when they are running into the church to save the schoolchildren that Johnny is right behind him. I think what motivated Johnny to come in inside the church was not only because he felt guilty, just like Ponyboy, but he felt something inside of him that said he had to clean up the mess he made by just going into the church and try to save as many lives as possible. Also, Johnny didn’t want Ponyboy to go in alone, because Johnny was responsible for the fire as well. Adding on to this, Johnny doesn’t run into the church to get a title of a “hero,” he does it because he doesn’t want to get into a bigger mess, so he feels like he should risk his own life and save the children because he started this in the first

He had never done that before, he learnt to resist and fight. Meanwhile, he also became very negative.“I used to make A's in English, mostly because my teacher made us do compositions all the time. I mean, I know I don't talk good English ……Now I was lucky to get a D on a composition.”(Hinton Chapter 12)，his grades began to drop.He could get A’s in English before，whereas, after Johnny's death, he was grateful that he got a D on his composition. Therefore, the Ponyboy after Johnny's death had a huge contrast to his previous personality and

Ponyboy Curtis probably changes more throughout the course of The Outsiders than any other character. His loss of innocence is a major theme of the novel. Pony is a good student at the start of the story, and he is a member of the track team. Aside from the death of his parents, Pony has suffered less than most of the characters. His older brother, Darry, tries to protect him from the gang violence that

The Outsiders is a novel written by Susan Eloise Hinton, also known as S.E Hinton. The setting of the story takes place in the 1960s. The Outsiders is written in first person view, by Ponyboy Curtis. The story revolves around the greasers and Socs. The Socs are the west side rich kids, they wrecked houses and “threw beer blasts for kicks”. While the Greasers were the east side kids, they “drove old souped-up cars, held up gas stations and had gang fights once in a while.” One of the conflicts the characters face is man vs man, which is because the greasers and Socs don’t get along, this is because they feel superior to each other. They both had different ways of lives, they did different things for fun, and they did not understand each other. This conflict was later resolved towards the end of the story when Ponyboy speaks to Randy about no longer fighting after Bob’s death.

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton follows the lives of two groups of young adult’s set in 1950’s America. The groups are the “Greasers” and the “Socs”. Greasers is a term used to class all the boys living on the East side, which was the poor side of the town they were mainly known for their long and greased hair. The rival gang, the Socs short for Socials, are "the jet set, the West-side rich kids," who are from upper-middle-class families. Ponyboy explains that the gangs are "just small bunches of friends who stick together, and the warfare is between the social classes" (pg 10). Ponyboy is a Greaser, a 14-year-old boy whose world has been turned upside down. His parents were killed in an automobile accident just eight months before The Outsiders story takes place. He lives with his oldest brother, Darry, who is 20 years old and has legal custody of him and his other brother, Sodapop. Society views greasers as dull but views soc's more hardworking as they get better grades. They are more favoured as they are better looking and are rich. Greasers aren’t respected by society, many of them have heroic qualities. This novel The Outsiders shows that all people have heroic qualities all it takes is a dramatic event. A hero is someone who helps those in need and does not expect people to applaud or reward them for it. Dally, Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade are the three main Greasers and three unlikely heroes in the novel. They achieved this state by saving people's lives, help those in need, showing care and standing up for each other. These three greasers put their lives in front of others to save people.

Ponyboy can be described as smart. This shows when he gets all A’s in school. On page 115 it says” I get put into A classes because I’m supposed to be smart.” It shows that he was very smart in school and got good grades. Another example of him being smart is when he has to write a five-page essay and he writes about something very important to him. On page 180 it says “I finally started writing about something important to me.” This means he wanted to write about his experiences to show about the conflict with the greasers and the Socs. As you can see Ponyboy is very smart.

In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there are many important themes, including recognizing the importance of family, understanding how social class can mold who you are as a person, and facing challenges. The main characters in the novel faced challenges due to their circumstances and social class. Through these challenges, they learned the importance of family and friends and had to make mature decisions. By the end of the novel, Ponyboy especially, had grown up staggeringly. Although Ponyboy has dealt with problems in his family and because of his low social class he matured throughout the novel.

The Outsiders is a great book that is filled with some drama and action. A town in Oklahoma is split apart, there are the greasers and socs. These are two gangs that don’t like each other at all, and one of them is Ponyboy. Ponyboy is a greaser, him and the rest of his gang are being jumped and hurt by the socs. Finally they get sick of it. He will be the one that tells you the story.

Same with The Outsiders. Everything Ponyboy does is for a reason; his motive. Running into a flaming church is unique situation, but Ponyboy did for various reasons. There are several explanations for Ponyboy to run into what could have easily been his death. There is one clear reason why he ran into the fire. Ponyboy believed he started the fire, as he says when the event took place. "We were having a school picnic up here and the first thing we knew, the place is burning up. Thank goodness this is a wet season and the old thing is worthless anyway." Then, to the kids, he shouted, "Stand back, children. The firemen will be coming soon." "I bet we started it," I said to Johnny. "We must have dropped a lighted cigarette or something." When Ponyboy figured out he may have caused a fire he was not concerned. However, when he learned that children were missing, he immediately ran into a blaze of around 1100 degrees Fahrenheit (according to the National Institute of Fire Safety and Training), forgetting the fact that he had always smoked outside the church. After Robert Sheldon (known as Bob) was killed by Johnny, Ponyboy couldn’t bear to see another life lost because of him. Immediately he charged into the fire, fearing only one thing. Others losing their life because of something he may have created.

The protagonist of a story is the main character who traditionally undergoes some sort of change. Pony Curtis is the teenage narrator and protagonist of the novel. When his parents were killed in a car accident, Darry, his twenty-year-old brother, began to provide for him. He resents Darry’s bullying manner, not realizing that he does so because he loves him and wants him to make something of himself. Pony belongs to an eastside gang of poor teenagers, called the Greasers; their rivals are the Socs, the rich kids living on the west side of town.

The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton is a book about a boy named Ponyboy and his friends, the Greasers. The Greasers are always in a battle with the Socs. The Socs are the richest kids in town that look down at the Greasers. The Greasers always stick together through thick and thin because they are all that they have. The Greasers have it worse than the Socs because they have broken families, everyone thinks very low of them, and they’re always getting jumped by the Socs.

Ponyboy is a 14 year old boy who lives with his brother Darry. In the beginning of the movie, “The Outsiders”, Ponyboy was a brave kid who had lots of friends and always seemed to find trouble. The three events that happened in the story are Ponyboy stopped Dally from harassing the girls Cherry and Marcia, Ponyboy was brave to save the kids in the fire, and Ponyboy watched Johnny die.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a thrilling story about a fourteen year old boy named Ponyboy and the rest of his gang of friends, and the troubles they face throughout their lives. Living on the streets, abuse, stereotypes, and their rivaling group, the Socs, all are challenges that each of them learns to overcome. A very famous director, Francis Ford Coppola, made this book seem like his own in the movie, The Outsiders, and it is definitely a movie that is worth seeing.