Who does Ponyboy love and care about?

He loves his friends and his brothers with everything he has, and he would do anything for them.
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What is Ponyboy interested in?

Pony's interested in everything from books and movies to the intricacies of nature. In the right situation, he can even recite you a poem from memory. Pony's interests isolate him from his friends and family.
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Who does Ponyboy love most?

Who does Ponyboy love the most out of anyone? Soda.
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What are Ponyboys relationships?

Ponyboy's relationship with Darry is different than his relationship with Soda. Darry is always hard on Pony and is always wants more from him. He is also rough with him and yells at him, sometimes not intentionally. This shows that Ponyboy and Darry do not really get along with each other.
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Who is taking care of Ponyboy?

Ponyboy realizes that Darry does care about him; Darry is strict because he loves Ponyboy and wants him to succeed. Ponyboy runs across the room and embraces his brother, thinking that everything will be fine once he gets home.
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Does ponyboy die?



What does Darry Love in The Outsiders?

Despite his hard-working nature and ability to differentiate right from wrong, Darry also loves fighting, and is proud to use his strong body to defend the other greasers.
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Is Ponyboy his real name?

Author S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders in her teens, inspired by the gang violence at her high school in Oklahoma. As her narrator, Ponyboy becomes the most familiar character to the reader—and remains emblematic of the book and its themes. His real name is Ponyboy, making him even more distinctive and memorable.
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How is Ponyboy and Johnny relationship?

Plot Summary: Johnny And Ponyboy, Two-Bit

Johnny then describes that him and the three brothers always get along well.
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Who is Johnny to Ponyboy?

Johnny Cade: Ponyboy's best friend. 16 years old, who is extremely quiet and lives with his alcoholic, neglectful and abusive parents.
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How does Ponyboy feel about Steve and why?

How does Ponyboy feel about Steve? Why? Ponyboy doesnt really like Steve because he thinks of Ponyboy as a tag-a-long and only part of the group because he was a brother of the original group members. Why is Dally different from the rest of the gang?
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Who does Ponyboy like least?

Ponyboy feels like Darry is always disappointed/irritated by him. Darry, the oldest, is under a lot of stress and snaps at Ponyboy often, making Ponyboy feel like Darry doesn't love or even like him. This isn't true, of course. 3.
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Who was Ponyboy's favorite brother?

Sodapop Curtis

Ponyboy's happy-go-lucky, handsome brother.
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How does Ponyboy feel about his brothers?

From talking with both Dally and Johnny, Ponyboy realizes how lucky he is to have two brothers — not just gang-member brothers, but two real brothers. Pony internally admits that he loves them both even if they aren't always the way he wants them to be.
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Is Ponyboy caring in The Outsiders?

Ponyboy is caring and gentle, and a different type of greaser. Fitting in is everything, and sometimes people try to change for their friends, or groups. Like Ponyboy, he is even an outsider in his own gang because he is immensely different.
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What does Ponyboy think about?

At the beginning of the novel, Ponyboy, like all of the greasers, hates and fears the Socs. He thinks of them as dangerous enemies. After he meets Cherry at the movie theater, however, Ponyboy begins to realize that Socs are human just like greasers.
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What does Ponyboy want in The Outsiders?

Ponyboy prefers to do things, like going to movies and reading books, that he can do alone, but being alone can be dangerous for a Greaser.
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Who does Johnny Cade love and care about?

Ponyboy tells the readers, "If it hadn't been for the gang, Johnny would never have known what love and affection are." Johnny idolizes gang member Dallas Winston. Dally is living proof that one can survive without parents or family.
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Why does Dally care about Johnny?

Dally probably cared about Johnny because he saw a little bit of him in Johnny... Both of them come from bad family lives... The only Greasers that had decent family lives were Darry, Sodapop, & Ponyboy, but their parents were deceased... Loved the book and the movie...
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What is the relationship between Dally and Johnny?

It is almost unheard of, but in SE Hinton's novel The Outsiders this is quite common between two of the characters. Johnny and Dally are very good friends but enjoy very unrelated things. Johnny is very law abiding but Dally loves to break the rules.
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Who died in Outsiders?

During The Film

Bob Sheldon - Stabbed by Johnny Cade in self defense. Johnny Cade - Spine broken by a flaming piece of wood falling on top of him. Dally Winston - Shot six times by several police officers.
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Is The Outsiders a true story?

Though the real setting may cause you to wonder if Outsiders is based on a true story (like History's similarly located Hatfields & McCoys), this series is totally fictional. However, the cast and creators reveal that they still did a lot of research to make the story as authentic as possible.
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What is ponyboy's relationship with Sodapop?

In contrast to his distant and tense relationship with Darry, Ponyboy's relationship with Sodapop is one of admiration and trust. Both boys share a bed, and Sodapop serves as a symbolic security blanket for Ponyboy, especially since their parents' deaths.
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How old is Ponyboy now?

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.
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How old is 2bit?

Keith (Two-Bit) Mathews The oldest of the gang, except for Darry, and still a junior in high school at age 18. He is the wisecracking comedian of the gang.
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What is Sodapop's full name?

Sodapop Patrick Curtis is the middle Curtis boy, and one of three deuteragonists of The Outsiders.
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