Ponyboy, the main character in the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, changes his identity throughout the book.
In the beginning of the book he was known as a Greaser. He thought his future was gonna be planned out, and he is gonna work at a gas station or a car repair shop. He was always different than everyone else, and he doesn’t do what everyone else does. It seems like he is an outsider to his own group. One example is at the beginning of the book it says, “I mean, my second oldest brother, Soda, who is sixteen-going-on-seventeen, never cracks a book at all, and my oldest brother, Darrel, who we call Darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story or drawing a picture, so I'm not like them. And nobody in our gang digs movies or books the way Ido” (Hinton 2). In the beginning of the text you can tell he is an outsider to his own group because he doesn’t like everything else that everyone else likes and he is innocent unlike Two-Bit, Steve and Dally that have been to jail multiple times.…show more content… After being jumped, Ponyboy and Johnny end up killing a Soc, named Bob. After this they have to run away, so they go ask Dally to go get some money. While running away they hop on a train, all the way to Windrixville. The text that I selected was on Page 62, “We were really running away, with the police after us for murder and a loaded gun by our side. I wished we'd asked Dally for a pack of cigarettes… ” I picked this text evidence because it is showing his change from the beginning of the text, in the beginning he is very different from all the Greasers but now he is starting to fit in because he is starting to have more independence and he is now on the run for
