When you're in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering pack like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.” Pony proves his own point at home. When he and Darry start to lose loyalty to one another, their home becomes a place of argument, anger and mistrust. In the beginning of Chapter 1 Pony says, “the three of us only get to stay together only as long as we behave. So Soda and I stay out of trouble as much as we can.” This shows that if they weren’t behaving well enough they would’ve been in a foster home already. So, Ponyboy and his family are loyal to one another so that they can be together. During the fountain scene in Chapter 4, Johnny says, “I had to. They were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you. And they had a blade. they were gonna beat me up..” They were outnumbered, Johnny could’ve just run away and left Ponyboy but instead, he did a very brave thing, he saved Ponyboy by killing Bob with a switchblade. When the abandoned church on top of Jay Mountain caught on
When you're in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering pack like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.” Pony proves his own point at home. When he and Darry start to lose loyalty to one another, their home becomes a place of argument, anger and mistrust. In the beginning of Chapter 1 Pony says, “the three of us only get to stay together only as long as we behave. So Soda and I stay out of trouble as much as we can.” This shows that if they weren’t behaving well enough they would’ve been in a foster home already. So, Ponyboy and his family are loyal to one another so that they can be together. During the fountain scene in Chapter 4, Johnny says, “I had to. They were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you. And they had a blade. they were gonna beat me up..” They were outnumbered, Johnny could’ve just run away and left Ponyboy but instead, he did a very brave thing, he saved Ponyboy by killing Bob with a switchblade. When the abandoned church on top of Jay Mountain caught on