His older brohers Darry and Sodapop their parents died in a car crash
1960s
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Oklahoma
While ponyboy and johnny were in the church, they lived off bologna sanwiches.
Ponyboy, the protagonist in "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton, lives in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Tulsa, Oklahoma with his brothers Sodapop and Darry.
New York City
The chruch Ponyboy and Johnny live in catches on fire.
Dally doesn't live in a specific place. He was at a part at "Buck Merril's." He had just come out of the bedroom when Ponyboy and Johnny asked for him.
Ponyboy as a narrator and Ponyboy as a characterreally has no distiguistion. The story is narrated or told through the first person~as ponyboy. Ponyboy as a narrator is telling the story, more specifically, the life of Ponyboy as a character and his backdrop.
Darry did it so Ponyboy, if he stayed in school and didn't get in trouble, would have a bright future and not end up like Dally does later in the book, and would live a productive life because he knew that Ponyboy had a gift.
After the fire Darry tells Ponyboy that he was scared of death because Ponyboy ran away. Darry tells Ponyboy that he is sorry for what he did to Ponyboy.