2-3 examples of Ponyboy's thoughts in the outsiders

Two examples of Ponnyboy's thoughts can be seen in the excerpts:

Explanation:

"The Outsiders" is a book that portrays the lives of young people involved in street gangs, showing the violent and inhospitable environment in which they live, as well as portraying the problems of social inequality.

Ponnyboy is the protagonist and narrator of the book and for this reason, we have access to many of his thoughts, about the situations in which he is living and about the doubts he has about this kind of life. Ponnyboy can't recognize himself within the environment he lives in, he finds himself out of place in this world and without personality, we can see this through the excerpt "I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me," where he is confused about yourself.

In another moment, we can see Ponnyboy reflecting on the death of two of his friends, Dally and Jhonny. For Ponnyboy, Dally's death was insignificant, reckless and without reason, but Jhonny's death made him great, since he died to save children, he died a hero. These thoughts can be seen in the excerpt: "Dally didn't die a hero. He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday…But Johnny was right. He died gallant."

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.

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