Dynamic Character- Ponyboy

“This is an essay about why I believe that Ponyboy is a Dynamic Character with my reasons why I think so”

What would you do if you were a person who could do no wrong until you were about to drown and your best friend stabbed the person drowning you? Ponyboy was an innocent person until the murder. Ponyboy is a dynamic character because he loses his innocence but re-gains it, he changes the way that people look at Greasers, and he becomes a hero towards the end. Because of all of the things that Ponyboy has done is why he is a dynamic character.
Ponyboy was always a normal Greaser but, he was nicer than most of the other Greasers, he wouldn’t hurt anything if he didn’t have to. He isn’t a person that would trash talk people to get them mad even if they weren’t a Greaser. Ponyboy is a nice kid, he wouldn’t hurt a fly, but, he is a Greaser because, when his mom and dad died in a car crash he had nothing left besides his two brothers Darry and Sodapop and the Greasers. But when Ponyboy and Jonny were at the park some drunken Soc’s came and started to drown Ponyboy; Jonny stabbed the leader of the Soc’s, Bob. When Bob dropped to the ground dead the other Soc’s fled the park and Ponyboy and Jonny were sick from killing Bob. Afterword they ran away and went to an abandoned church to live in. After a while the church set on fire when there were some children in there, Ponyboy and Jonny went in there and saved the children but Jonny got burned really badly.
Ponyboy is a dynamic character because he becomes a hero in the end. He is a hero because he saved the kids from the burning church instead of letting them burn to death, he risked his life to save them. Although he becomes a hero from this his best friend gets injured very badly from it. When they are in the hospital with Jonny; Jonny tells his mom to leave because he thinks that she doesn’t care one bit about him. The only people that he wants with him when he is in the hospital are the Greasers. The last words that Jonny says before he passes away are, “Stay gold Ponyboy.” By saving the kids from the burning church makes Ponyboy both a hero and he loses somebody that he cares about.
Ponyboy truly does a lot in this book, he also changes the way that people would look at the Greasers. Normally people look at the Greasers like bad people who wouldn’t do anything to help anybody but themselves. “Soc’s will be Soc’s and Greaser’s will be Greaser’s,” thus meaning that not everybody will look at them differently but some will. Some will look at them different because when he saved the kids from the church people heard about it and thought Greasers aren’t people who only care about the Greasers.
This is how Ponyboy is a dynamic character. From losing his innocence to changing the way people look at the Greasers he has done it all. If Ponyboy hadn’t done all of these things he wouldn’t be a dynamic character. Ponyboy is a person that wouldn’t hurt anything without a reason. Ponyboy wouldn’t and couldn’t be a person that wouldn’t have saved the kids from the church or a person to do anything that he did do.