Ponyboy remains humble even though he excels academically. While hiding in the church, he reads to Johnny and has to “explain a lot of it to him. It amaze[s] [him] how Johnny could get more meaning out of some of the stuff in there than [he] could - [he] was supposed to be the deep one” (Hinton, 75). Ponyboy didn’t judge
Ponyboy remains humble even though he excels academically. While hiding in the church, he reads to Johnny and has to “explain a lot of it to him. It amaze[s] [him] how Johnny could get more meaning out of some of the stuff in there than [he] could - [he] was supposed to be the deep one” (Hinton, 75). Ponyboy didn’t judge