A central conflict for Ponyboy in The Outsiders is his worry for his family and friends. For instance, Ponyboy really worries about Johnny and Dally when they are in the hospital. This interprets that Ponyboy can’t stand to live without them or see them badly hurt. In other words, Pony loves his family and friends and if one dies everyone will be depressed and uncomfortable. Another example is that Ponyboy also gets to know Bob and Randy, and how they were good guys to hang around with.
Darry and Ponyboy have a substantially complex relationship, with many fluctuations in their feelings towards each other, or their perception of those feeling throughout the book. In the beginning of the book, it is thought by Ponyboy that Darry is hard and apathetic towards him. As Ponyboy says in the book, “My face got hot as I bit my lip. Darry… what was Darry like? “He’s…” I started to say he was a good ol’ guy
In the Outsiders, Ponyboy Curtis Learned 3 lessons over the course of the story. He learned about friendship,keeping family,and living life as life is short. He learned all these throughout the story the hard way when bad things happened to him. Ponyboy Curtis learned about friendship throughout the story starting with when johnny told him about dally. "They was gettin' him for breakin' out the windows in the school building, and it was Two-Bit who did that.
In the dramatic story “The Outsiders” Ponyboy is always in a dangerous situation, ever since his parents passed away his older brother Darry has been taking care of him and his second older brother Sodapop who is also under Darry’s custody, which proves that he’s not only dealing with one teenager, but with two, and being a young man himself, he has his own problems. Reading the story “The Outsiders,” Ponyboy has always been worried if he would be taken away to a boys home but he doesn't understand that it might be better for him even if he is taken away from Darry, some readers are wondering what is best for him should he stay or should go into a boys home. Ponyboy is better off in a boys home because he will be better taken care of.
Darry questions ”Are you alright Ponyboy” because he cares so much about him. Darry does not want his loved ones to get hurt or get into any trouble with the police. Thats why he gives up his time to work and be the grown-up of the family. ” Nobody in my family had ever hit me. Darry screamed, Pony, I didn’t mean to! ”
so Darry slaps Ponyboy across the face. At that moment, Ponyboys feels unwanted and disliked by Darry so he runs aways and says “ If Darry doesn't want me it’s cool, but I will never let him slap me ever again.’’ (50). Ponyboy also expresses how he feels about Darry when he says “It was my house as much as Darry’s, and if he wanted to pretend I wasn’t alive that is fine with me.’’ (52).
Ponyboy has been gone from Darry, his older brother for about 6 days because they were hiding from the police after Johnny murdered a Soc. They ended up running into a burning church to save children from burning to death and after that they ended up in the hospital from their injuries. Ponyboy thinks that Darry doesn't like him and just wants him to be gone. When Darry sees ponyboy in the hospital, he starts to cry. Ponyboy has never seen Darry cry, not even at his parent’s funeral.
Other’s think Ponyboy should stay with Darry because their close so they think Ponyboy would be sad in a home but, I disagree because Ponyboy haves less chances going to jail or, even getting lung cancer. Ponyboy is better off in the system because he hangs out with bad influences and because his guardian Darry doesn't really care about what Ponyboy does which is not good .
The largest choice in The Outsiders was slapping ponyboy; Darry slapped him, because he was mad at Pony for falling asleep in the lot Because of this, Ponyboy ran away, and got jumped by some socs who were Cherry and Marcia’s friends. This led to bob being killed by Johnny, hiding in the church, the church burning down, and eventually Johnny and Dally’s death. Almost the entire plot was set in motion by this very act. Because of this, Ponyboy became angry, and was very (emotionally and physically) hurt: near the end, and almost hardened like Dally.
What makes someone an outsider? In Tulsa, S.E. Hinton went to a large high school and in all large high schools they would have different groups. Everyone would stay in their own groups as they grew up S.E. thought it was idiotic. She made the book The Outsiders which had the socs and the greasers S.E. would get letters from kids who told her they also had the two groups in there school but they had different names for them.
Ponyboy becomes less afraid of Darry when he realizes that Darry actually does love him. After Ponyboy gets to see Darry when he is taken to the hospital because of the church fire, Darry is standing outside waiting for him. On page 96 Ponyboy writes, Suddenly I realized, horrified, that Darry was crying... Darry did care about me, maybe as much as he cared about Soda. Ponyboy also becomes less afraid of Darry when he starts fighting back when Darry yells at him.
“Running away won 't help.” Johnny was right. Ponyboy had people that loved and cared for him... they just didn 't know how to show it!” In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, proves that no matter what type of Social class you are; Greaser or Socs, family is most important and will help you get through the difficult parts in life.
The narrator of the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy Curtis, is a complicated and emotional character. He goes through numerous changes in the book and you get a good idea of his feelings through actions towards others. He proves to be empathetic, caring, and a dreamer. He shows this during situations with his brothers and even with the other Greasers. During the story, Darry is always telling Ponyboy, although he is a intelligent kid, that he needs to use his head.
“The Outsiders” has many themes; however, the main theme is to be thankful for what you have, and not to take anything for granted. In the book, Ponyboy took his brothers for granted and didn’t realize how blessed he was until Johnny died. Ponyboy thought his life was awful because he was raised by his brothers instead of his parents, and because of his title. However, what Ponyboy didn’t reconcile was that Johnny,( and many other people in the world) had a much worse life than he did. The reader can see this on page 42 when it says, “‘Gee,’ Johnny said softly, ‘I thought you and Darry and Soda got along real well…’
In the book, Outsiders, I noticed the most character development in Ponyboy Curtis. Although he didn’t realize many things until the end of the book, I think once everything registered within himself, he took everything that had happened to him in the past couple weeks as a lesson. One thing that Ponyboy finally grasped was that his oldest brother Darry actually cared for him. At first Ponyboy had always thought that Darry didn’t like him and that Darry would rather him be gone. However, after his friends repeatedly reassured Ponyboy that his older brother had been hard on him because he really loved and cared about him, Ponyboy slowly started to realize that, even though the two still fought a bit.
