Ponyboys Personal Realizations What is your most important personal realization? In the fiction novel, The Outsiders, author S.E. Hinton creates a story in 1st person, about a boy that has a hard life. Ponyboy has some personal realization in his life like how Darry loves and cares about him, Nothing Gold can Stay, and that it is okay to be a greaser. The first personal realization Ponyboy had was that Darry loves and cares about him. When Ponyboy found out that Darry loves him and cares about him. Ponyboy saw that he cares about him at the hospital. "Pony, where have you been all this time?" He meant "Pony, you've scared me to death. Please be careful, because I couldn't stand it if anything happened to you." ( Hinton 98) Darry was worried for Ponyboy when he came home late from the lot with Johnny Cade. Then, Ponyboy found out that Darry was telling him that he thought he was going to loose him like he lost his parents again. "Darry," i said " I'm sorry..." i could hear him sob racking him as he fought to keep back the tears. "Oh, Pon, thought we'd lost you.. like we did Mom and Dad..." (Hinton 98) Ponyboy have never seen Darry cry and that how Pony knew that he cared about him. …show more content…
. Ponyboy had told this to Johnny when they were watching the clouds. " You know," Johnny said slowly "I never noticed colors and clouds and stuff until you kept reminding me about them." (Hinton 78) When Ponyboy told the poem Johnny never really knew that Pony liked looking at the clouds and watching sunsets. When Johnny looked at the clouds he thought it was gold, and how he has never saw the colors like that. " Golly"- Johnny's voice besides me made me jump- "that sure was pretty." (Hinton 77) Johnny had never seen the clouds like that before and he thought that it was pretty and that the clouds were