The Outsiders Essay

During the book “The Outsiders” Ponyboy and Johnny are best friends. In the book their relationship with each other changes a lot. With their relationship changing so doesn’t how they act because of events that happen in the story. The two boys also bring out characteristics in each other that others don’t. Those are just some of the ways that Ponyboy and Johnny’s friendship change during the story. Ponyboy and Johnny have always been friends throughout the whole story, but their relationship with each other hasn’t always been the same. In the beginning of the story Ponyboy and Johnny are just normal friends and hang out and do stuff around. But then the accident happens and Johnny kills a Sock. That’s when how they act around each other and what they do together changes because they are fighting for survival. In this example from the story it shows how Ponyboy and Johnny's lives have changed and they are fighting for survival. “Then for the first time, really, I realized what we were in for. Johnny had killed someone. Quiet, soft-spoken little Johnny, who

Over the course of the book the two friends get closer. The main thing that Johnny tells Ponyboy is to stay gold and be a good person. In the end of the book Johnny leaves a note for Ponyboy when he dies. This note helps show what Johnny brings out in Ponyboy. It says “I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day.” That quote is about how once you start to realize what life is really about, that's when people start to change and become different. Johnny in the quote is trying to tell Ponyboy that he should stay “gold” just the way he is. There are many other ways they bring out the better in each other but that is just one of the