Darry And Ponyboy Character Analysis

The hearing occurs, and surprisingly, Ponyboy isn’t questioned about Bob’s death; Ponyboy is acquitted and the case closes. Darry and Ponyboy had gotten into another argument, and after they had tried to involve Soda in it by making him choose sides, Soda ran out; he was tired of Darry and Ponyboy’s bickering and felt like they were playing tug-of-war with him; after Soda tells Darry and Ponyboy how he feels, Ponyboy realizes that Soda had problems too and that although Darry didn’t always understand him, he hadn’t put in effort to understand Darry; the boys resolve their conflict and agree to be understanding of one another’s situations. Unfortunately, Ponyboy’s grades had dropped, and he was failing English; however, his English teacher
had given him the option to write a composition on a theme, and if he did well on it, he’d pass the class with a C. After Ponyboy had read the note that Johnny had left in his copy of Gone With the Wind, he decided to tell the story about the events that occurred the week of Johnny, Dally, and Bob’s deaths; he wanted to tell a story about the Greasers and the Socs and how one week had taken two greasers and one soc, all of them having different lives.