He is followed and jumped by a group of Socs, the rich gang from the other side of town, who threaten to cut him up.
DALLY WINSTON MOVIE
Ponyboy Curtis walks from the movie theatre one day. He is also willing to help others, as shown when he runs into the burning church to save the schoolchildren, or when he picks up broken glass bottle pieces off the ground so that a car doesn't get a flat tire. He is more compassionate than some of the other greasers, pitying and even empathizing with the Socs several times in the novel and questioning the purpose of fighting between the two social classes. Cherry Valance describes Ponyboy as sweet and dreamy, much to Ponyboy's delight. He is fairly quiet (though not as much as Johnny), and only opens up to a few people, those being the other greasers and Cherry Valance. This aspect of his character evolves throughout the story into maturity. These occasions get Ponyboy into trouble that he could avoid. He is smart at school, but sometimes he just doesn't think properly. At the beginning of the story, he hates Socs because they hate him, but his perspective on them changes by the conclusion of the story.ĭarry characterizes Ponyboy as lacking common sense. He gets good grades in school and is a superb athlete but pals around with the local hoods, his gang of greasers consisting of him, his brothers Soda and Darry, Steve Randle, Johnny Cade, Dally Winston, and Two-Bit Mathews. Ponyboy, like Sodapop, is under Darry's legal custody and must stay out of trouble in order to remain with him.
His parents were killed in an automobile accident just eight months before The Outsiders takes place. Ponyboy is a fourteen-year old greaser who lives with his two older brothers, Sodapop and Darry on the lower-class east side of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the film, Ponyboy's appearance is faithful to his novel appearance, with the minor exception of his hair, which is darker than it is described as being in the book. He is described as good-looking and resemblant of Sodapop by several characters, though he disagrees. At the beginning of the novel, Ponyboy's hair is long and dark, but is cut short and bleached blond while he and Johnny are on the run. He has a good build for his size and is a fast runner. In the novel, Ponyboy has light-brown hair and greenish-gray eyes. Ponyboy is the youngest of the greaser gang. Ponyboy Michael Curtis is the narrator and protagonist of the 1967 novel The Outsiders, and its 1983 film adaptation.
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