Ponyboy: A static character

“He should never yell at Soda. No one should ever holler at my brother. I exploded. You don’t yell at him! I shouted. Darry wheeled around and slapped me so hard that it knocked me against the door” How does it feel to not have any parents growing up? In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the main character Ponyboy doesn’t have any parents, only his college age brother Darry, and his other older brother Soda pop. He has to make very big decisions in the book. Pony is also in a gang called greasers, and they get into fights with people called soc’s. Although the two gangs hate each other, Pony seems to get a different feeling about the Soc’s throughout the book.
Although Pony hates the soc’s at first, he changes a little bit. In the book, Ponyboy seems to be a static character at first, but he also seems like a dynamic character at one point. The reason he seems to be a static character, is because his hatred of the soc’s doesn’t seem to change much throughout the book. The one time he seems like a dynamic character is when he finishes talking to the soc Randy. Ponyboy realizes that both of them are human and can relate to each other. Greasers will still be greasers and soc’s will be soc’s. I think that Pony still hates the soc’s but now that he understands that even though the soc’s are the ritzy ones, they don’t have it easy either. Overall he pretty much stays a static character.
While Ponyboy seems to partially change his feelings towards the soc’s in the book, his actions don’t agree with this. For example, in the book when the greasers and soc’s have a fight called a rumble, Ponyboy goes and tries to beat up as many soc’s as possible. Randy on the other hand does not go. His actions affect the book quite a bit. One example of that is when Johnny and Ponyboy were on the run. Johnny would never have survived on his own while the police are looking for him. Another example of how Ponyboys actions affected the book would be when he decides not o run away after Darry hit him. If Pony would have run away then the whole family would have fallen apart, and the gang would have to. I think that this was probably the most important decision that he made.
In The Outsiders, the main character Ponyboy makes a lot of good decisions, and some not so good decisions. His hatred for the soc’s stays pretty much the same throughout the book, except for the talk with Randy. The decisions that Pony has to make in this book affect everything that happens.