Character's Are very Important to the Story

Author’s note: This piece is about how characters change throughout the book. In this piece I am specifically talking about how Ponyboy changes throughout the novel.

You may not think that characters change from the beginning to the end of the novel. This is true for some characters in a novel, but there is always one character that will stand out and makes a difference. In the novel The Outsiders by SE Hinton, the main character's name is Ponyboy, in this story Ponyboy is a dynamic character in many ways.

First off, Ponyboy in the beginning of the novel was getting good grades and had no bad reports from the police like almost all of the other greasers. Ponyboy and his friend Johnny were the only greasers who still had their innocences. Ponyboy would get made fun of if the greasers were in a fight with the socs no one expected Ponyboy to fight back. The socs and the greasers did not get along very well together. Ponyboy's innocence almost disappeared until one of Ponyboy's fellow greasers said that he should stay innocent.

Although Ponyboy’s innocence was important for him to keep his innocence, this contributes to Ponyboy being a dynamic character. Towards the end of the novel Ponyboy’s best friend Johnny dies. Through Johnny’s death the socs and the greasers had a fight; whoever won the fight was better than the other group of people. The greasers won the fight. At the end of the fight Ponyboy discovered at the scos will always be socs and greasers will always be greasers. One will not be better than the other.