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Ponyboy's Innocence
Life, a complex term to many, but it is really just a long chain of events that are ever changing. If you talk to a 8 year old and then and 20 year old you would see a difference, the fine line that every person has to cross, childhood to adulthood, once you cross you can never go back, and there is no neverland, you will cross at some point, their is no eternal childhood although many wish the fairy tale was true.
At some point in life everyone comes to a realisation that the world is not the way they pictured it. Ponyboy was living life in a haze. Nothing was real to him, he did not have a care in the world. He had no idea that he was putting himself in danger. He was to caught up in the movie he had just seen “I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.” Ponyboy was starting to wake up to the world when he nearly dies, and then has to run, from the cops and the socs. “I couldn't use this I said dropping the pop bottle, I couldn’t ever cut anyone.” Ponyboy loses his innocence when his life takes a turn for the worst. His best friend Johnny gets fatally injured, and Pony watched as his friend slipped away from the world. That was when he saw the world for what it really was. A struggle of every living
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The world is disfigured, bad things happen but nothing ever stays the same, the world is always changing. Tyed by the chains of events that cause the everyday life of humanity to be ever changing. It’s the same for Ponyboy, Mylop, the girls they came to the point where they have reached the end of childhood, they see the real world. There was no little white lies covering the truth, just the brutal truth, and nothing

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