Ultimately drove the plot.
On warm but windy day in 1967, Ponyboy walked out of the movie movie theater with two things on his mind Paul newman and a ride home. But he didn’t ask anyone to come with him since he was the only one in the gang who digs movies and books. Ponyboy could have asked some of his good friends in the gang but as the narrator states, “or Two-Bit Matthews-one of our gang- to get me in his car if i had asked, but sometimes i don’t use my head. Besides i like walking” (Hinton 4).
His reaction was like any other 14 year old kid who was being trailed by a red corvair. He walked fast and was sweating buckets. As the narrator states in the text pony decides