How is Ponyboy’s life different after he is acquitted of all charges in Bob’s death? He has to go to live in a boys’ home. He becomes obsessed with doing well in school. He refuses to disobey any rules.
Q. How is ponyboy sensitive in the outsiders?
Just because Ponyboy is a greaser doesn’t mean that he’s loud and brash. Ponyboy also might be quiet and sensitive because of the pressures of his home and school environments. He’s under pressure at school, where he learns and studies in advanced classes alongside the Greasers’ enemies, the Socs.
Table of Contents
- Q. How is ponyboy sensitive in the outsiders?
- Q. Why did pony feel like he needed to clean his house?
- Q. Why does ponyboy think about running away?
- Q. What does ponyboy look at when he gets home from running around with his brothers?
- Q. Who does Atticus think killed Bob at first?
- Q. Why does Heck Tate insist that the official story will be that Bob Ewell fell on his knife even though he knows Boo killed him while trying to protect the children?
Q. Why did pony feel like he needed to clean his house?
Pony admits that it bugs him that his house isn’t nicer. it bothered me because we live in kind of a lousy neighborhood and our house isn’t real great. It’s run-down looking and everything, and the inside’s kind of poor-looking, too…
Q. Why does ponyboy think about running away?
In Chapter 4 of “The Outsiders”, Ponyboy and Johnny “run away” from home and go to the park because Ponyboy got into an argument with his brother Darry. So, Johnny takes out his knife and stabs Bob, the Soc who is trying to drown Ponyboy, killing him.
Q. What does ponyboy look at when he gets home from running around with his brothers?
They promise to try. Ponyboy thinks that Sodapop will hold them together. The boys run back home. Ponyboy looks at Johnny’s copy of Gone with the Wind.
Q. Who does Atticus think killed Bob at first?
Jem
Q. Why does Heck Tate insist that the official story will be that Bob Ewell fell on his knife even though he knows Boo killed him while trying to protect the children?
He feels that Ewell caused Tom Robinson’s death and he is probably pretty unhappy about Ewell attacking Scout and Jem. So between those two things, Tate feels that there is more justice in calling it an accident than in going after Boo Radley.
