Literary Essay
In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton the author describes Pony’s adventures and his struggles. The events that happen during his adventure lead him to make many realizations. One of them is that all people are having troubles and hardships, it’s what makes them human. Throughout the story, there are many instances where Pony thinks about the difficulties he has faced and what problems everyone around him has.
When Pony is talking to Randy, he finally realizes that everyone had problems and hardships, not just Greasers. After Randy said he wanted to run away Ponyboy thought, “I remembered Cherry’s voice: Things are rough all over. I knew what she meant” (Hinton 117). When Pony says that he knew what she meant, he understood how all people have troubles. …show more content…
In the end, he realizes that “It was too vast of a problem,”(Hinton 179). He becomes aware of the fact that he isn’t the only boy that lives in a bad neighborhood, he’s not the only one who is in a gang, and he’s certainly not the only one who has problems. In the past Pony believed that Socs had no problems, but now he knows better. Dallas stated that he was “‘Crazy for wantin’ Johnny to stay outa trouble, for not wanting him to to get hard’”(Hinton 147). Dally thinks that by hating and not feeling you can stay out of trouble, and that you won’t get hurt. However, by the end Pony knows that troubles come out of hate. In the beginning, he asked himself “Why did the Socs hate us so much?”(Hinton 17). Problems between the Socs and the Greasers come out of hate. The Socs don’t feel, they’re cold, and the Greasers feel too violently. Pony has to think and go through a lot to come to these realizations, but in the end, he finally realizes that he is not alone in his hardships. Everyone has problems and difficulties. As Cherry once told Pony, “‘Things are rough all over’” (Hinton
In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton the author describes Pony’s adventures and his struggles. The events that happen during his adventure lead him to make many realizations. One of them is that all people are having troubles and hardships, it’s what makes them human. Throughout the story, there are many instances where Pony thinks about the difficulties he has faced and what problems everyone around him has.
When Pony is talking to Randy, he finally realizes that everyone had problems and hardships, not just Greasers. After Randy said he wanted to run away Ponyboy thought, “I remembered Cherry’s voice: Things are rough all over. I knew what she meant” (Hinton 117). When Pony says that he knew what she meant, he understood how all people have troubles. …show more content…
In the end, he realizes that “It was too vast of a problem,”(Hinton 179). He becomes aware of the fact that he isn’t the only boy that lives in a bad neighborhood, he’s not the only one who is in a gang, and he’s certainly not the only one who has problems. In the past Pony believed that Socs had no problems, but now he knows better. Dallas stated that he was “‘Crazy for wantin’ Johnny to stay outa trouble, for not wanting him to to get hard’”(Hinton 147). Dally thinks that by hating and not feeling you can stay out of trouble, and that you won’t get hurt. However, by the end Pony knows that troubles come out of hate. In the beginning, he asked himself “Why did the Socs hate us so much?”(Hinton 17). Problems between the Socs and the Greasers come out of hate. The Socs don’t feel, they’re cold, and the Greasers feel too violently. Pony has to think and go through a lot to come to these realizations, but in the end, he finally realizes that he is not alone in his hardships. Everyone has problems and difficulties. As Cherry once told Pony, “‘Things are rough all over’” (Hinton