Ponyboy Quotes And Analysis

Ponyboy made good and not to good choices throughout this book that made him be who he is. The text says….. “ The man said with a good-natured grin. “We were having a school picnic up here and the first thing we knew, the place is burning up. “ I bet we started it,” I said to Johnny. “ We must have dropped a lighted cigarette or something.” I started for a dead run for the church. I slammed a big rock through the window and pulled myself in” ( Hinton, 91). That Pony believed he started the fire so he went into the church and save the kids without even thinking about it. This was a good choice because he didn't want the kids to die and they were young kids while Pony was a little older and was willing to risk his life. But this was a bad choice

A dark pool was growing from him, spreading slowly over the blue-white cement. I looked at Johnny's hand. He was clutching his switchblade and it was dark to the hilt. My stomach gave a violent jump and my blood turned icy” (Hinton, 56). This shows …. That pony decided to run away because if they didn't they would get caught and be in the police station. But if they didn't run away i still don't believe nothing would happen because when they ended up in the hospital they told the whole story and they eventually went to court but it was acquitted and nothing happened so this was a semi good choice because there was other things to do than run away. For example they could have just changed their appearance and stayed at their houses without needing to run.The choice he made of running away made him sound like he was a scaredy cat and couldn't handle his problems. “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink in a little, and Johnny died. This shows …. That pony made a good choice to go and see johnny and when he died pony decided to move on and the letter johny wrote encouraged pony to do his homework and this showed that pny has been through alot and he has to be very strong to get thru this at a young age like