Protagonist: The main protagonist is Ponyboy a 14 year old old, who is a good student with very good grades in school. He is a “greaser”. “Greaser” is a name that the rich kids in the west side called the poor kids in the east side. Everyone in the east side are greasers. Other protagonists are Ponyboy’s brothers Darry and Sodapop. Darry is very strict to Ponyboy. If Ponyboy gets Bs Darry wants him to get As, and when he gets As Darry wants them to stay As. Also, if Ponyboy does something wrong he will hit…
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When Ponyboy awoke in the church, he felt confused. At first, he didn’t know where he was. Then he hoped he was at home, and he hope everything bad just be a dream. He had homesick, he saw Darry’s cooking breakfast and what soda would do. The evidence showed that Johnny really cared for Ponyboy was since Ponyboy was sleeping, he took up his jean jacket and put it over to Ponyboy because he might think Ponyboy would be cold. Also, Johnny wrote a message to Ponyboy, it said he was going to supplies…
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who you are what makes you. ‘A Child called it’ was about David who was mentally and physically abused. He was starved and was abused by his instable, alcoholic mother. His mother played torturous games that almost left David nearly dead. He learned how to survive during the games she play. She does not call him a son, but a ‘it’. David’s bed was an old army cot in the basemen and his cloths were torn and uncleanness. In the heroic story ‘The outsiders’ Ponyboy can count on his brothers and hid friends…
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save the universe. Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are heroes and neither one of them can shoot webs. We can say that Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are all heroes because they risked their lives to save others: they saved a school of kids from dying in a fire. Heroes do not have to save someone physically, but they can they can save someone or themselves emotionally as well. Ponyboy helped Johnny get through tough times at home. Johnny was thinking about ending his own life, but Ponyboy saved him emotionally…
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runner’ are Ponyboy and Thomas.They are both portrayed as two individuals who detach and distance themselves from those around them. This is shown in both novels by their collusion with pain, struggle and loss. Inconsistently as these two main characters seek friendship, they soon find out that as the process goes on they isolate themselves from society more and more everyday, but at the same time they gain something important from all of their experiences. In Hinton’s outsiders ponyboy is recognised…
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Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the main group is called the Greasers. These Greaser are misinterpreted as criminals and childish, but some are good and heros. One of the Greasers who many of the characteristics of a hero. He is Darry, Ponyboy’s brother and guardian. Darry was sacrificial, skilled, and one of the most important, destined for something. Over the course of the story, Darry has sacrificed or risk many things he loved and cared for. It shows when Ponyboy talked about Darry, ” But we just didn‘t…
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each other? In the novel,The Outsiders, there are issues and conflicts between two groups they are called, the Socs and the Greasers. “We’re poorer than the Socs and the middle class. I reckon we’re wilder, too. Not like the Socs, who jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kick, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next. Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations and…
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textual evidence to support your claims. Ponyboy Ponyboy Is a kid who lives in tulsa oklahoma With his 2 brothers, sodapop and darry, his parents died in a car accident. Smart, Aloof Sodapop Ponyboy’s Brother, High-school Dropout, wild, and reckless, funny, caring,”Gosh, but sodapop was crazy about that horse..”(Outsiders, Hinton) Darry Mature, Semi-selfless, Because at a young age his parents died and had to care for his brother in order…
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In a book called the Outsiders written by S.E Hinton, there is a guy named Ponyboy, also know as Pony. Pony is the main character in the book and during Pony's whole life his community was divided into two groups, the greasers which Pony was and the socs. The socs are rich and people who get away with things while the greasers get blamed for everything and have very little money. In Ponyboy's life he faces war between the socs and greasers. So here are some of Ponyboys traits that make him different…
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life is to kill the offender. The Outsiders is a book told from the perspective of a 14 year old boy named Ponyboy who lives with his two brothers, Sodapop and Darry, in a town in Oklahoma. They are part of a gang called the greasers who are known for their long, greased hair. Walking home alone is dangerous for a greaser because the rival gang, the Socs, could easily attack, or jump, someone. When a greaser gets jumped, the memory sticks with them and is hard to forget because of how petrifying it can…
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