The Outsiders Character Analysis Essay

Ponyboy is a major character in the Outsider. He is the narrator and he is also one of the main characters in the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Ponyboy is smart, caring, and loyal because of the loss of his parents and the tight relationship between him and his brothers. Ponyboy has a major role in the book and makes all of the events start.

Ponyboy is one of the smartest guys in the gang. Ponyboy is the only person in the gang to ever pick up a book and read it, or go to the movies and watch one. As Ponyboy said in the book “I make good grades and have a high IQ but I don’t use my head” Pony didn’t use his head when he went to the Nightly Double and accidentally fell asleep in the park for a few hours. The Socs could have easily beat up Ponyboy and Johnny while they were sleeping in the park. Everyone in the gang thinks of Pony as a smart person and his teachers know it too. Overall Ponyboy is a smart person who just doesn’t show it sometimes. …show more content…
The whole gang of Greasers are all truly soft on the inside, but they never show it, except for Ponyboy sometimes. One example of Ponyboy being a caring person is when he and Johnny went into the burning building and saved the young school children from dying. Ponyboy new that he was a caring person by saying to himself “I haven’t felt like I had done anything good in the world, until now.” After the rescue of the children, Ponyboy was taken to the hospital. While there Ponyboy was talking to the teacher and asked why he and his friend saved the kids and he told the teacher that the kids lives were “more valuable” than his. Ponyboy is truly a caring person but he thinks that he isn’t caring, just