Ponyboy Character Description

Every story I’ve ever read has had characters. When there’s characters, there are ones that are stronger and more memorable than others. This quarter, the three characters I’ve found strongest and memorable are Ponyboy Curtis, Dallas “Dally” Winston, and Johnny Cade.

My first character I chose is Ponyboy Curtis from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. I consider him strong and memorable for many reasons, the first being his direct character description. He directly describes himself as having “light-brown, almost red hair and greenish-grey eyes.” His actions make him memorable as well, such as the way he never uses his head and how that’s sometimes a bad thing and sometimes a good thing. The lesson he learns helps him be strong as well. By the end of the book he eliminates labels from his life and realizes not everything was like his “books and clouds and sunsets.”

My second character that I considered strong and memorable was Dallas Winston also from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. Just like Ponyboy, his direct description is memorable. “He had an elfish face, with high cheekbones and a pointed chin… His hair was almost

Similar to my other two choices, his direct description, “If you can picture a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers, you’ll have Johnny… He had big black eyes in a dark tanned face; his hair was jet-black and heavily greased,” made me remember him. The way Pony describes his past and home life with his father always abusing him and his mother harassing him, helped me truly sympathize and not forget him. The last item that made him strong and memorable was his actions. He killed Bob because he thought he was saving Pony and when he realized that was something terrible he decided to save those kids in the church and even though that killed him in the process, he believed giving his life for them was worth