Exemplification Essay: Should Ponyboy Go Into The System

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Why Should Ponyboy go into the system? Ponyboy should go to the system because he gets physically abused and he could get neglected, Emotionally abused,or even Medical neglected.Ponyboy should go to the system because he gets beat up by the socs.He got kicked in the head and got a concussion because of darry.He is less likely to go to jail if he was in the system because he could run away again or even worse and Darry could get mad get mad and hit Ponyboy again.I believe that Ponyboy should go into the system because because he smokes alot.My opponent’s might believe that he should stay with Darry because Darry and Sodapop are the last people alive in his family.Ponyboy is better off in the system because darry lets him smoke and that can lead to cancer and Darry feeds them chocolate cake in the morning that can also lead up to cavitys and its bad nitruitions.

Ponyboy should got to the system because he would get in less trouble.On page 56 Johnny says “I killed him,” “I killed that boy”.If Darry would have never hit Ponyboy then he would have never ran away.If Darry was a good guardian than he would have hit Ponyboy and he would’ve also know where Ponyboy was at.On page 49 it says “Where the heck have you been ?Do you know what time it

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