Ponyboy Curtis has felt grief and pain from losing his love ones. He lost his parents in an auto wreck accident. He lost his close friend, Johnny in a church fire. Ponyboy also lost Dallas, a member in his gang in police chase. He had lost everyone close to him except his brothers and part of his gang. He tries different strategies to cope with their deaths. After Johnny’s and Dallas’ death Pony was in denial. He convinced himself that they were not dead. He thought to himself “That still body back in the hospital wasn't Johnny. Johnny was somewhere else-maybe asleep in the lot, or playing the pinball machine in the bowling alley, or sitting on the back steps of the church in Windriville. I’d go home and walk by the lot, and Johnny would be sitting on the curb smoking a cigarette, and maybe we’d lie on our backs and watch the stars. He isn’t dead.”-The Outsiders Ponyboy was in such disbelief. He was in shock, because he never thought Johnny would die so soon. He not believing that Johnny was dead made him feel better. When Dally die he just thought …show more content…
He lost two people dear to him. He was mostly in denial. Later, he was angry that they died. He thought Johnny and Dallas did not deserve to die. He then was thinking it was his fault that they were dead. He kept on saying “If only we never talked to those girls at the Nightly Double. If we did not talk to those girls Bob wouldn’t have attacked us. If we weren’t attacked by Bob, Johnny wouldn’t have killed Bob. If Johnny did not kill Bob, they wouldn’t have been hiding out in the church. If they weren’t hiding out in the church, the fire wouldn’t have started and harm Johnny. If Johnny was alive, so would have Dallas.” He was also experiencing depression. He was quite most of the time and fight, yell with others. Finally, he accepted their death. He understood there was nothing he could do about it, but he wanted people to know their story. Pony wrote a term paper about all of their