The Outsiders

The quote, “Sixteen years on the street and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn.” refers to Ponyboy. Ponyboy is a brave young man who learns his lesson plenty of times in this book. He is the leader for the Greasers and one of the best fighters. Ponyboy will never give up and will always fight. If he gets injured he will keep fighting till he can’t walk on throw punches. In the beginning of the book Ponyboy is walking down the street and all of a sudden the Socs stop and beat him up. He had gotten beat up pretty bad and wishes someone was there to save him. He was fighting for his life but he did not win. About 5 Socs all against Ponyboy and it wasn’t a pretty sight. The one guy on the Socs pulled out a knife on him and was threatening to slit his throat. The hit him a few more times, then Johnny and Dally came running to try to save him. The Socs saw Johnny and Dally so they took of running to their car. Ponyboy was all beat up, bloody, and bruised. I think Ponyboy could learn from this mistake, by not walking by him self on the streets because the Socs might come and beat him up. I believe if Ponyboy gets in trouble again he should go run away and hide somewhere only if he is by himself.


By: Justin Bellis