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Loyalty In The Outsiders

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The novel Outsiders is written by S.E. Hinton. The novel is written about a young boy named ‘Ponyboy’ and in the area that he grew up in there was a gang called the ‘greasers’. In the novel ‘Ponyboy’ demonstrates loyalty in the way that the author constructs his actions towards his friends and the ‘greasers’. As a result of this, readers understand that loyalty is not only found in family members but also the people you treat as family, the sort of people that deserve loyalty.
Hinton shows Ponyboy’s actions through the use of imagery to describe ‘Ponyboys’ attitude towards all the group members and the ‘Socs’.Ponyboy demonstrates as he has an extreme loyalty towards all the group members and this is seen when Jonny and pony find themselves in trouble with the Socs, Ponyboy was still loyal to Jonny even after the attack although he had no involvement in killing Bob. In the book it quotes Jonny saying that “I had to they were downing you, they might have killed you to” (p57) it depicts that Jonny would have also risked his life for Ponyboy. Ponyboy is willing to cut off all his hair and dye it blonde even though it’s “his pride and joy”. In the book it states the Ponyboy has compassion and loyality to do anything to help …show more content…

At times it is different as he describes all the characters in his own words in his essay descriptions from Ponyboys side which convey this softer image of the greasers and the rest of the characters in the book, while the intelligent and loyal behaviour is revealed in the absurdly unrealistic as most of the greasers show no sign of intelligence apart from Darry ‘Ponyboys older brother’. All of this description allows the theme to emerge as the reader comes to realise that Ponyboy and Jonny both need someone to be there for them to help them realise their full

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