(Authors Note The purpose for writing this is to make people understand that characters change throughout storeys and if they didn’t who would ever want to read.)
Like lots of characters in The Outsiders, Ponyboy, dally, Johnny and randy change from the beginning to the end of the story but this is focused on Ponyboy. Ponyboy falls under the dynamic character category.
There are many reasons why Ponyboy is a dynamic character, and here are just a few examples, in the beginning of the book Ponyboy hated the Socs. They had fights and where killing each outer. Ponyboy made it seem like Socs weren’t people. Although in the last few chapters Ponyboy was talking to Randy and they seemed like they could even have became friends.
Furthermore, Ponyboy ran into a fire, in an attempt to save a few kids. The kids where successfully saved. Although would Ponyboy have saved them before he went on the run. I actually don’t think he would have saved the kids if he didn’t know how hard it was when sombodys life changes for the worse
On another note when Johnny killed Bob, Ponyboy was trying to take the blame, he didn’t believe that an innocent greaser would murder somebody in self-defense. Ponyboy was denying the truth up until the end when he discovered Johnny’s last note. It seemed like he came to a conclusion that Johnny did what he did for the best of Ponyboy.
In conclusion Poneyboy is a major dynamic character. If Poneyboy didn’t change from the beginning to the end of the storey, I wouldn’t be writing this and Poneyboy just wouldn’t be interesting. There are many more reasons why Poneyboy is a dynamic character but you will have to read the book to find out.
This writing piece would fall under preficent on our reading rubric because I read through it and there was little errors but was not perfect so it shouldn't get an advanced.
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