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Why Ponyboy Should Go to the System

The Curtis boys eat chocolate cake every morning, page 105 says this “The first one up has to make breakfast, I started to find the eggs we need for our chocolate cake we eat every morning for breakfast, along with our chocolate milk.” This is some proof that Ponyboy should go to the system. He would be better off with the system because, the cake has a lot of sugar and it’s he’s eating a block of sugar everyday.So if Ponyboy stays with Darry he could get bad stomach problems involving diabetes and stomach and health issues. So the opponents that are on Darry’s side might argue that “ He’s a kid let him eat what he wants.” Then back to the system side, “ What’s good with letting him eat what he wants, when it could lead him to health issues, body problems, and possibly dying. So now that the system has a step up, Ponyboy will be better off with the system because they will make sure he gets a good breakfast EVERY MORNING! Now moving on to the situation with the Socs beating up Ponyboy, which also wouldn’t have happened if he was in the system! On pages 5 and 6 it says that Ponyboy was on his way home from school, and while he was walking a couple Soc’s pulled up in their Tybird and walked up to him and pinned him down and asking him a question …show more content…
On page 79 of the book Outsiders it says that he owes Johnny a pack of smokes “camels”. Now what can smoking a pack a day lead to? Well it says here at www.lung.org that the diseases it can cause is; lung cancer, COPD, heart dieases, strokes, asthma,and diabetes. Now if he was in the system they wouldn’t let him smoke at all. Now say he was addicted, they still wouldn’t let him smoke they would find a substitute for it. Some substitutes may be gum, or maybe he doesn’t have to find a substitute for smoking he could find a hobby or something to get his mind off of smoking at least until he is
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