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Hardships In The Outsiders

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According to Harry Emerson Fosdick, “He who knows no hardships will face no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in soil with a strong mixture of troubles” Everyone goes through hardships, no matter how hard things get or no matter how many challenging things you face, overcoming them is what teaches you and makes you stronger. Ponyboy, The protagonist in The Outsiders, faces some very tough things, but they end up greatly impacting him later on. Throughout the novel, S.E Hinton suggests that everyone has their own problems, but they are what make you more powerful and smarter.
As Ponyboy mindlessly runs away, “I turned and ran out the door as fast as I could.(50)” because he’s completely outraged that Darry slapped him, he rushes to Johnny. They arrive at the park at around 2:30 am. The boys start talking when suddenly 5 Socs jump out of a …show more content…

Two big consequences of this were Johnny killing the Soc and The two boys even ending up in church in the first place, which caused them to feel miserable and weak. Ponyboy running into the burning church to save the kids was also an important choice, mostly because Johnny follows Ponyboy and then eventually dies. When Johnny dies, Ponyboy’s whole life falls apart. But in the end, because of how these consequences impacted Ponyboy, he learns to become more hardy and strong-minded. Overcoming strenuous challenges, makes you more dynamic and better in time. Ponyboy immensely changes throughout the novel. Towards the resolution, he’s definitely more confident in himself and what part of society he’s in. And after going through such stressful events, he’s more understanding and realizing when judging other people. Although Ponyboy faces many challenges throughout the two-week span of the book, ultimately, it develops him and makes him much more mature as a

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Then he went to talk with Cherry and he ask her If she already went to see Johnny but she said that “she couldn’t never see the person who killed her boyfriend”. Ponyboy got mad and told her “you’re a traitor to your own kind and not loyal to fus. Do you think your spying for us makes up the fact that you are sitting there in a Corvette while your brother drops out of school to get a job”.

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Throughout this experience I see him evolve as a character that becomes more brave and confident and less of a person who worries about the risks he takes.. In the situation where he even had to save the children from the burning church he seemed confident in what he was doing. Ponyboy looked over at him and thought ``he wasn't scared either. That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that defeated suspicious look in his eyes. `` By the end of the novel as he layed in his deathbed he told Ponyboy,``I don't want to die now.

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Many people underestimate the struggle and change of maturing and growing up. It can feel different and be almost like an out-of-body experience. S.E. Hinton does an exceptional job at capturing what growing up and developing is like in The Outsiders. Ponyboy Curtis, a 14 year-old that is part of the Greaser gang, is undergoing a time of development in the story, and one can really see the difficulty that Ponyboy has to endure during that process. Although Ponyboy has to go through this process, he changes significantly, and becomes different in the way he acts and lives.

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