Unchanged

(authors note: This piece is analyzing if Ponyboy Curtis from the Outsiders is a static character or a dynamic character. I could not find out how to double space, that is why it is not double spaced.)

Ponyboy Curtis from “The Outsiders” is a static character. A static character is a character that doesn’t change from the beginning of a book to the end.


In the beginning of the story Ponyboy didn’t exactly have the same mind set as the rest of the greasers. Greasers were known to be cold, mean, and careless. Ponyboy was the exact opposite of that. He didn’t like to participate in stealing or fights with the other greasers. That didn’t change the fact that the greasers were his family.. Towards the end of the book Johnny told Ponyboy to stay gold, which meant to remain the same and to not change. Ponyboy did not change from the beginning of the book to the end.


Some may mistake Ponyboy for a dynamic character. Their reasoning would most likely be that he saved those kids from the burning house and was considered a hero. This was only a change in the way he and the greasers were looked at. It wasn’t a change in Ponyboy because he was always this way.


He started the book as a non stereotypical greaser and ended the book as a non stereotypical greaser which makes him a static character.