Lessons Learned In The Outsiders

Life is about change and learning. In the book The Outsiders Ponyboy Curtis learns many lessons about his friends, family and, life itself. So in this essay we’re going to closer examine three lessoned Ponyboy learned and what had happened to have him learn these lessons.
One lesson Ponyboy Curtis learned was that not everything is how it seems. Ponyboy learns this lesson when Johnny kills Bob. What happened was after Johnny kills Bob and once they get home after running away Cherry and Ponyboy have a talk where Cherry tells Ponyboy is a big surprise. What she told him was that “Truly Bob was a good guy but when he got drunk another side of him showed and that was the side that tried to drown Ponyboy.” She also said that Bob was a kid whose …show more content…
In this book this poem is implemented in a strange way. But as Johnny dies he tries to tell Ponyboy “Stay gold Ponyboy stay gold…” So what I believe he's trying to say is for Ponyboy to stay doing what he's doing and to not fall in with bad things and to stay in school and stay innocent. I believe this lesson will stay with Ponyboy the rest of his life due to how important Johnny was to him and how he saw how everything went with Bob and how he ended up (Dead). The third lesson Ponyboy learned in this book was that not all Socs like violence. When Ponyboy talks to Rand and Cherry he learns that they don't like the violence between the two groups and that they all have stuff in common. Like when Ponyboy had that conversation with Randy before the rumble and Randy had told him that he himself was not going to participate in the rumble because he didn't think it would change anything. Then when Ponyboy, Two-bit and Johnny try to walk Cherry and Marcia home the drunk boyfriends show up and Cherry tells them to not fight and she and Marcia will just go with them because she hates fights. When Ponyboy sees this he is surprised to see that not all Socs like the