In addition, Ponyboy Curtis is another hero in the book because he stood up to the Socs to defend himself after Johnny’s death. Also, Pony wanted to take the blame for Johnny because he killed Bob instead of the charges being on Johnny. This is shown in the text “‘Listen to me, Pony. You didn’t do anything. It was your friend Johnny that had the knife.’ ‘I had it’. I stopped him. He looked at me strangely. I had the knife. I killed Bob’” (Hinton 165). This proves that Pony is a hero because of what he has done for Johnny. As well as when Pony tried to take the blame for Bob's death, risking his reputation so that Johnny wouldn’t be remembered as a murderer, which is a very selfless thing to do. The most heroic thing he’s done is when he helped