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Ponyboy Curtis In The Outsider

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Running away from home, being an accomplice to murder, and almost dying, you probably can’t even imagine that happening to you, but little, fourteen year old PonyBoy suffered through all of those awful things in only a week, most people can go their entire life without even one of those things occurring. PonyBoy Curtis, from the book, The Outsiders, is a complex character that expresses himself through his words, actions, and even his relationships with the people who surround him. PonyBoy’s a Greaser, he lives on the southside, he loves going to the movie theater, reading books, and running. But that isn’t all he is, he’s also smart, observant, kind, thoughtful, and content. He doesn’t let how he lives his life affect who he is. Even though …show more content…

As a Greaser he didn’t have his life handed to him like the majority of the Socs did, and that made him value what he had even more. He had his two brothers, and a whole group of friends who had his back, and loved him no matter what. That’s something special that many people aren’t lucky to find until much later in life, and he found it at only fourteen years old. While he was loved by lots of people, their relationships weren’t all the same. Him and his brother, Darry, had a different relationship compared to his friends and other brothers. Oftentimes Darry was hard on Pony and didn’t always show his love in the best way. At first PonyBoy truly believed that Darry didn’t love him, or even like him, "Darry doesn't love anyone or anything, except maybe Soda. I didn't hardly thought of him as being human." (Chapter 1) This is what Pony thought of his brother, and it led to a lot of bad events occurring in the book. What Pony hadn’t known at the time was that Darry really did love, and just didn’t show it well. Even though their relationship didn’t start well in the book, it ended with Pony finally realizing how large Darry’s love for him was. This was such an important relationship for Pony because without it he wouldn’t have truly known how much he was loved and mattered to those around

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