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Listen To Me Ponyboy Character Analysis

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“Listen to me Pony. You didn’t do anything.”Ponyboy was trying to get Randy to think he was the one that did it. This quote relates to The Outsiders because Ponyboy is trying to convince Randy that he stabbed Bob when Johny did. He was trying to take his place. Even though Ponyboy is a young greaser that lives in a time of stereotyping he learns that people might not be what other people describe them as. Ponyboy talks to Cherry and Marcia. Ponyboy chooses to talk to them and get to see what Socs are really like. They turned around and told Dallas to stop. Ponyboy and Johny then got to sit with the girls because they stood up for them. Ponyboy realizes that all Socs are not just rich kids that think they are better than everyone and likes there personality. ¨He started talking, loud enough for the two girls to hear. He started out bad and got worse ¨...¨ You´d better leave us alone… or I will call the cops¨Cherry yelled. ¨Leave her alone, Dally¨ Johny said while he had a puzzled look as he got up and stalked off. ¨Yall come sit up here with us¨ Cherry said. Ponyboy thought to himself and uttered, ¨ Would we ever have something to tell the boys.(22-24)¨ Ponyboy talks to Randy and wants to clear up what happened with Bob. Ponyboy is then able to realize that Randy is just like Cherry and he is going to tell the judge the truth, that Ponyboy wasn’t …show more content…

Even though Ponyboy lives in a time of stereotyping he learns that all people may not be as others describe them. “I really didn’t see what Socs would have to sweat about, good grades, good cars, good girls… I know better now. “It was the black haired guy that did it I saw it. No, I had the switchblade”, Ponyboy said. Randy didn’t believe him because they both knew what happened. Whenever you are faced with deciding what someone is like, don’t ever let stereotypes be the resolving way to go up to

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When Ponyboy meets Cherry he started to see that the Socs maybe were human and different and not all the same since he and cherry had a good relationship. When she told him “were not all like that Ponyboy”, shows how ponyboy started seeing a soc as a human and he even got quite comfortable with her as well to where he had a little bit of trust for her when she stood up for him and defended him. while some people may argue that Ponyboy never softened his hatred of the socs, his interactions with Cherry and Randy and the death of Bob taught ponyboy that the socs are also human, and how

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Randy pulled Ponyboy aside to just have a talk about why he chose to save the children, Cherry talks to Ponyboy about visiting Johnny in the hospital. “‘I’m sick of it because it doesn’t do any good. You can’t win, you know that, don’t you?’”(117). That alone shows that Randy doesn’t think that fighting will do any good, he seems like the person who hates Greasers, but he actually just wants to be a normal person. “‘I wasn’t trying to give you charity, Ponyboy.

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However, he is negatively affected by it. An example of Ponyboy accepting his stereotype is when he fights in the rumble against the Socs, with the other greasers. He is not ashamed to be fighting with his friends, even though he states that he has no reason for fighting. Additionally, Ponyboy is upset when he is forced to cut and bleach his hair, because he wanted to look “tuff” like his friends.

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In this line, the audience realized how Pony usually gets bullied because his name is Ponyboy. It doesn't say it directly, but you can catch it. Another example is on page 33, Ponyboy thinks about when Johnny got attacked, “They had caught him and one of them had a lot of rings on his hand --- that's what had cut Johnny up so badly. It wasn't just that they had beaten him half to death -- he could take that. They scared him.

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Cherry’s recognition of Ponyboy being “more than just a greaser” leaves Ponyboy thinking about how the two gangs aren 't so different, “We aren 't in the same class. Just don’t forget that some of us watch the sunset too” (pg 46 S.E. Hinton). Ponyboy’s conversation with Cherry fulfills him briefly until he realizes they are in different gangs and cannot stay

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