Ponyboy: A Boy in the Works In S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders, Ponyboy matures from a sensitive adolescent to a young adult. Ponyboy, being poor and living with his brothers, joins a gang named the greasers. His brothers, Darry and Sodapop, join the greasers too. because the gang protects each other from the rich and spoiled children called the Socs. First, Ponyboy is different from the other greasers because he is sensitive on the inside. For instance, to look tough, he smokes at the age of fourteen. He smoked in the church, to calm himself down. But, he keeps telling himself“I gotta cut smoking or “I'll never make track next year.” His thinking about quitting smoking makes him different because none of the other greasers want to stop or
