How Is Ponyboy A Hero

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The novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is a story that connects with teenagers everywhere. When I started reading the book for class, I thought it was going to be just another boring school book; it turned out to be so much more. Over the course of the story, Ponyboy, the main character, learns the true meaning of being a hero and that a hero can come from anywhere. Ponyboy’s realization doesn’t happen overnight, but after tragic, unexpected events that take place in his life. Like in the story, it took a tragic, unexpected event in my life for me to realize the true meaning of a hero. Cradling my new baby brother, I watched my mom out in the garden as she gingerly placed the new little rosebush into the ground right next to the rosebush

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