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Whats the first thing that comes in your head of when you think of Ponyboy? You might think of a kind and sensitive person or of a smart and intelligent person. Would you prefer him as a good friend or as a bad influence? Hopefully you would know by the end of this. I personalty think that he is a good influence because he gets good grades and he seems like a nice person. The only downside is that he has friends that are bad influences and he smokes.

Throughout the book Ponyboy is described as a more well behaved and relaxed person. He is also a sensitive person. He likes to watch sunsets and he talks about his feelings to Cherry Valance. Many times in the book they talk about the sunsets and how they are feeling. Ponyboy also talks a lot to Johnny. He shares his secrets with him and he says things to him he cant say to anyone else in his gang. Ponyboy is different than everyone else he isn't as hard and "tuff" as the rest of his gang even though in the story the characters say that he has "tuff" hair.

Do you get good grades? Ponyboy does, in the Outsiders many people tell him that he is smart and intelligent and he gets strait A's. The only problem is that he doesn't use his head when it comes to making decisions. Ponyboy is the only one in his family that hasn't dropped out. His brother Darry pushes him to get good grades and pushes him to act like a better person. His brother Darry to get a job and not go to college because their parents died. His brother Sodapop is a high school dropout and he works at a gas station. Sodapop always defends Ponyboy when Darry is screaming at him. Soda said that he dropped out because he's dumb. He also said that he gets bad grades.But on the other hand Ponyboy has a high IQ and he is on the track team and still menages to get good grades.

There is a part in the Outsiders where too-bit gave Ponyboy a broken bottle because when Ponyboy, Too-bit, and Johnny were walking Marcia and Cherry then their boyfriends found them. Then Too-bit gave Ponyboy the broken bottle and they threatened them. After the whole indecent Ponyboy said to Cherry that he wouldn't use the bottle. Then he said I wouldn't cut anyone. Then Too-bit said "I don't know why I gave you the bottle because I know you wouldn't use it". I personally think that Ponyboy wouldn't actually be a threat. Because in the book when they were in the movies Cherry and Marcia Told Ponyboy that he looks sweet and not as hard as Darry.

I hope now you got a good idea of how Ponyboy acts and how he treats people. I hope that Ponyboy's traits helps you figure out more on how he behaves. Honestly I think he would be a good friend and a sweet person. But I don't like how he smokes all the time. Because he might try to tempt me to smoke and I don't want to die lung cancer.