Response To The Outsiders
The Outsiders Response to Literature Change can occur in a variety of ways and forms. However, it doesn’t occur overnight. It requires patience, dedication, and most importantly, a cause. An aspect of this progress can give you a new point of view and make you see things in a new light; either for the better, or worse. In “The Outsiders,” a novel by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy Curtis goes through this evolution of change towards many people; one of them being a member of the gang he’s in, Dallas Winston. Throughout the novel and the time these two unique boys spend together, Ponyboy develops feelings towards Dally, starting off with anxiousness, fear, intimidation, and even discontent. Dally was a whirlwind of emotions. He could be mean, dangerous,
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Hinton, Ponyboy transforms his feelings towards Dally beginning with fear and dislike to caring for him as a good friend. Imagine Dally as a hallway, with millions of different doors each representing his emotions, some that open with the lightest touch, and other that seem to be locked forever. And the only key to opening them are the things that are most important to him or much above anything else he cares about in the life that he lived through; Johnny, Ponyboy, and the rest of the gang. Ponyboy learned much from his experiences with Dally. He saw that maybe even the menacing, hatred-for-the-world, dangerous people, may have something inside them that opposes to all the appearances on the outside. At the conclusion of the book, Ponyboy realizes all this and knows that Dally wasn’t the only one out there with this type of personality. “I could see boys going down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn’t believe you even if you did… It was too vast of a problem to be just a personal thing.” (179) Kids, teens, and, even adults have their own appearance on the outside with a completely different personality on the inside. It's what makes them who they are. Yet, people judge them because of their appearance, not how they are as a
Hinton, Ponyboy transforms his feelings towards Dally beginning with fear and dislike to caring for him as a good friend. Imagine Dally as a hallway, with millions of different doors each representing his emotions, some that open with the lightest touch, and other that seem to be locked forever. And the only key to opening them are the things that are most important to him or much above anything else he cares about in the life that he lived through; Johnny, Ponyboy, and the rest of the gang. Ponyboy learned much from his experiences with Dally. He saw that maybe even the menacing, hatred-for-the-world, dangerous people, may have something inside them that opposes to all the appearances on the outside. At the conclusion of the book, Ponyboy realizes all this and knows that Dally wasn’t the only one out there with this type of personality. “I could see boys going down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn’t believe you even if you did… It was too vast of a problem to be just a personal thing.” (179) Kids, teens, and, even adults have their own appearance on the outside with a completely different personality on the inside. It's what makes them who they are. Yet, people judge them because of their appearance, not how they are as a