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Quotes In The Outsiders

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“Put yourself in their shoes” Sometimes it’s easier for a reader to have empathy for others when they know what other people are feeling, thinking, and what’s been going on in their lives. It makes “putting yourself in their shoes” simpler. First Person POV is an example of when this can occur. The reader is seeing events how the main character is seeing it. When Cherry asks Ponyboy what Darry is like while walking home from the movies one night, Ponyboy lets out all of his feelings for his older brother. My face got hot as I bit my lip. “He’s….” I started to say he was a good ol’ guy, but I couldn’t. I burst out bitterly: “He’s not like Sodapop and he sure ain’t like me. He’s as hard as rock and about as human. He thinks I’m a pain in the neck. He likes Soda- everybody likes Soda- but he can’t stand me. I bet he wishes he could stick me in a home somewhere, and he’d do it, too, if Soda’d let him.” This, and Ponyboy’s view of Darry’s actions, sway the reader to believe what he is saying, that Darry cannot stand Ponyboy. 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

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