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From a child's first step to an old man's last breath, there is so much that happens between these two life altering times. There is love and hate, hope and sorrow, happiness and grief, and there also is innocence. Somewhere hidden far behind, lost in storms of thoughts and feelings, is a little ray of innocence. So, bright it once was but now only a shard of light is left. What happen to all of this love? Where is the feeling of perfection? Whatever happened to all of that innocence? Much, so much did. Everyone once had innocence. But one day, it was all lost or hidden away -- forever. This fact is demonstrated so many times in the story The Outsiders. The characters from The Outsiders were innocent once upon a time too. But, as we all can see, no longer are they.
Every character in The Outsiders once was innocent. They had no worries, nobody did. From the story, you can pick up two social groups: The Greasers and The Socialites (Socs.) The poor, fighting, and lowly Greasers have such an odd reputation that it is almost impossible to realize that they once were innocent. And then there are the Socs. Those Mustang owning, Madras wearing, well groomed Socs, they really don't have any worries. All they need to do is drive along and around town looking pretty. But, don't let their looks deceive you. Underneath their beauty and shine- there is a hard-hating, rusty core, rotting from all the pain they cause and have felt. And then too, you would wonder if they once were innocent. How did every one's innocence slowly disappear? Through hate, pain, and revenge. Revenge made the main character, Ponyboy, lose his innocence.
Revenge, in this case, would be more than just a jumping. This time the revenge would go out, far enough and wild enough, to reach death. And when Bob died the only thing to do was run. And all they did was run. Pony had finally slowly started understanding reality and was slowly letting go of his childhood and innocence. The harder he tried to grip on, the more it flowed out; his innocence was like sand. Pony without knowing it was gold in the beginning of the story. But there were things that changed him.
A main event that changed him and the people around him, was the church incident. When the church was burning, Pony and Johnny realize that it must have been their faults. They really wouldn't have cared but when they heard that there were kids trapped inside they must have realized something. It could have been guilt, or maybe a natural reaction, or maybe it could have even been just the plain realization that it was the right thing to do. This is probably what we could apply to Pony, but for Johnny it was a whole other story. This child was never brave, according to Pony "he jumped at his own shadow." What overcame him may have been the hardening coming into play after the course of few days. But, most likely, it was bravery. When Pony saw this, he to may have become more confident. And even after Dally's yelling and opposing the two boys ran to help. Every child survived, but not every child lived.
Johnny died. Pony realized that nothing was forever. He even begged to the lifeless body to come to be Johnny. This moment emotionally changed Pony, forever. Another time that Pony emotionally changed was with the talk with the Soc, Randall. Randall had wanted to talk about Bob. During this talk, Pony came to realize that maybe Socs didn't have it so easy. He realized that maybe that everyone was a person, and all they were trying to do was find their in life.
What Pony did by the end, was understand the way of life. It's true he lost his innocence. He changed when he saw death, he changed when he saw love, he changed when he saw "humans," and most importantly he changed into an everlasting gold.
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