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Personality type: “The Mediator” (INFP-T)

Individual traits: Introverted – 78%, Intuitive – 84%, Feeling – 78%, Prospecting – 71%, Turbulent – 68%

Evidences: Ponyboy is the mediator because he helped the Socs (specifically Randy) and the Greasers get closer by having a calm talk with Randy. For example, "I'd help you if I could," (99) Ponyboy said so to Randy. After that, Randy replied back "Thanks, grease," and "I didn't mean that. I meant, thanks, kid," (99). Ponyboy also showed his empathy by the thought of “Socs were just guys after all” (100).

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Ponyboy’s flaws are thinking about things way too much and it’s really hard for him to adopt the cruel reality. The part when he’s overthinking was when he talked about his brother, Darry Curtis at the beginning of the book. One example is “Darry thought I was just another mouth to feed and somebody to holler at. Darry love me? I thought of those hard, pale eyes. Soda was wrong for once, I thought. Darry doesn't love anyone or anything, except maybe Soda,” (17). His second flaw, which is hard to adapt the reality was shown when Johnny’s dead and Ponyboy kept lying to himself and others that Johnny is still alive. “Johnny was dead. But he wasn't. That still body back in the hospital wasn't Johnny. Johnny was somewhere else--- maybe asleep in the lot, or playing the pinball machine in the bowling alley, or sitting on the back steps of the church in Windrixville,” (128); “Don't think of Dally breaking up in the hospital, crumbling under the street light. Try to think that Johnny is better off now, try to remember that Dally would have ended up like that sooner or later,” (135); he even said that he’s the one who’s guilty for Bob’s death and Johnny is innocent, “I had it" I stopped him. He was looking at me strangely. "I had the knife. I killed Bob,” (141); and he kept repeating “Johnny is not dead,” (141). Ponyboy’s mind also wandering a lot more often after Johnny’s death and his grade went downward as well.

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Ponyboy’s motivation throughout the whole book is to let people know that everybody is the same after all and that there should not be any discrimination against others just because you think they’re different than you. One piece of evidence that can help proves this statement is, “Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset,” (35).

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Ponyboy is a nice and empathy young man. He’s the one who even though it was too late, understand the real personality of Dally; he helped Johnny to run away despite the fact that what he did was wrong because Johnny was his friend; etc. Ponyboy’s empathy can be shown when he talked about Dally, with a lot of respect for him at the last few chapters, “But Johnny was right. He [Dally] died gallant,” (131). Ponyboy said so about Dally because he finally understood that Dally is actually a gentleman inside.

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Ponyboy: The Reluctant Hero

Evidence: At first, Ponyboy didn’t want to save the kids when the church was burning down, but because of the action of Johnny trying to save the kids, Ponyboy decided to follow along to help Johnny save the kids. After that, he got praised on the newspaper as a hero even though he wasn’t planning on doing it at first.

Darry: The Know-It-All

Evidence: Even though we all know that Darry’s just trying to protect Ponyboy, he sometimes does act like a know-it-all. It can be shown at the beginning of the book when Darry keep saying that Ponyboy doesn’t use his mind a lot often and acting like he knows everything about Ponyboy but he actually doesn’t.

Dally: The Hotshot

Evidence: Dally is the hotshot because he’s the one who gave Johnny money and gun despite the fact that he can be in jail (again) to help him run away. Dally’s also the one used Two-Bits’ blade to make the nurse let him go to the rumble.

Johnny: The Victim

From the beginning of the book, Johnny already had a bad family. The fact that Johnny’s mother doesn’t care about him and his father drinks all day and usually beaten Johnny up has already proved that Johnny is the victim. He’s also a victim because he doesn’t just get beaten by his parents, he gets beaten up once by the Socs as well and gets traumatized by that.  Overall, because of the action of him get beaten up by his parents and the Socs, Johnny had lived a painful life and he is the victim.

Cherry: The Damsel in Distress

It can be proves that Cherry is the damsel in distress because if Johnny and Ponyboy didn’t “rescue” (show her that there are still good things in the world) her, she wouldn’t get them in the “trap” (get them being outnumbered by the Socs and leads Johnny to murder Bob).

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#Everybody_is_the_same_no_matter_what
Throughout the whole book, we can learn that no matter if you are rich or poor, no matter of the way you look or who you are friend with, there should not be any discrimination against you and other people because, like what Ponyboy thought, we all saw the same sunset. We all live in the same world, saw the same sunset, then why would we have discriminate and hate each other? Why can’t we just live in peace and spread love to the world? Maybe because of those thoughts, Ponyboy had chosen to write the essay and tried to let people know that they should stop hating each other.

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The conflict in the whole book is the discrimination against Greasers. Throughout the whole book, the Greasers kept getting jump by the Socs and it seems like the Socs don’t just dislike the Greasers but they actually contempt them. The action of the Socs usually jump their opponents and tried to drown Ponyboy prove that Socs don’t care about Greasers’ feeling and only do that just because they wanted to. Also, there are stereotypes about Greasers that makes them become the “villain” in people’s eyes and Socs become the “hero”. Maybe it’s because how they look, maybe that’s because how they act, who they play with, and their living condition. Or maybe that’s because of all of the above. In any way, the stereotype made people think that Greasers are bad and Socs are good, which eventually leads to the idea that Socs can do whatever they want and wouldn’t get into trouble. In the opposite way, no matter what Greasers do, no matter how good or bad it is, it wouldn’t change the way how the society look at them. They would remain the model that the society thought they are, the bad kids. Well, like what the book said, Greaser will still be Greasers and Socs will still be Socs.

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The moment of when Ponyboy finally made it up with Darry is probably one of the best part in Ponyboy’s not-so-good year. After all of the mental break down, thanks to the action of Ponyboy making up with Darry can at least shows that Ponyboy is not alone after all and that he, at last, realized that everything his brother did was to protect him.