He helps Johnny and Ponyboy slip away to the rural town of Windrixville after Bob's stabbing, and he plays a key role in the church fire rescue. Dally's death is the ultimate tribute to Johnny, without whom life seemed meaningless.
Ponyboy's essay is a different and perhaps more powerful response to Johnny's death. He honors both of his deceased friends by telling their story, an act of generosity intended to benefit the greater community.
Both the Socs and the greasers sacrifice their individuality to the styles and sentiments of their groups. Greasers, for example, wear their hair long and oiled, and share a common hostility toward the Socs.
At the start of the novel, Ponyboy is a dedicated greaser even though he knows that certain aspects of his personality make him different from the rest of the gang. The gang provides him with too great of a sense of safety and strength to even consider life outside of it.
But the events surrounding Bob's death cause Ponyboy to think more deeply about who he wants to be, and his conversations with Johnny, Cherry, and Randy lead him to reflect on the path his life is taking. He begins to question the reasons for conflict between Socs and greasers, and he thinks hard about the decision to participate in the rumble.
Ponyboy's willingness to enter friendships with Socs signals the development of a distinct personal identity, one that includes association with the greasers but excludes total devotion to the greaser way of life. Darry encourages Ponyboy to pursue a life beyond gang membership, and the deaths of Johnny and Dally inspire the expression of his individual point of view in the English essay he writes.
Although this is certainly not on the scale of the U. Civil War, this gang battle is loosely based on the same principles, and includes casualties, weapons, battles, and other hallmarks of war. We find it interesting that Pony doesn't finish reading the novel. The book will, for him, be a symbol of Johnny and Johnny's "unfinished" life, a life he gave up in order to do something he considered meaningful and important — saving the little kids from the fire.
Johnny is, for Pony, gone with the wind. Still, he's left something behind for Pony, tucked into his copy of the book.
The letter discussed in Johnny's "Character Analysis" inspires Pony to take up a different kind of weapon to fight his battle —his pen, which Pony uses to nonviolently transform his world and to positively shape the worlds of other boys like him.
The frequent references to newspapers contribute to this feel. Before the reporters come to the hospital to interview Pony and his brothers after the fire, Pony seems to think that the papers are somewhat biased toward the Socials and against the Greasers. But, after the fire, Pony observes that the papers actually tell the truth.
Like the novel itself, the papers offer a deeper perspective on Greasers by portraying them as heroes, and telling the story of their struggles against the bullying and violence committed by the Socs.
In The Outsiders , the papers become a symbol of the media's power to show hidden things and to make a difference in the lives of those whose stories might otherwise remain hidden.
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