Ponyboy and Greg

Similarities That Ponyboy and Greg Share

Ponyboy and Greg are 2 very different people.  Ponyboy comes from a place where poverty and crime are common. Greg comes from an ideal family with 2 parents that love him dearly.   Even though there 2 different people, they do share some similarities.

         

 A similarity that Greg and Ponyboy share is that they try to fit in with everybody. Greg tries to fit in with the kid’s at middle school that he just started. His friend in middle school was Rowley, they were pretty good friends. But then Greg started lying to Rowley and then Greg had no friends because everyone at middle school went on Rowley’s side. Ponyboy was trying to fit in with his gang that his brothers Soda and Darry were in. Everyone in the gang thought that he was just a tag along.

         

 Another similarity that Ponyboy and Greg share is that they both are bullied by family members. Ponyboy is bullied by his older brother Darry, Darry Is always yelling at Ponyboy. Ponyboy doesn’t really like Darry because he is always yelling at him. But Ponyboy really likes Sodapop because he is always caring about Ponyboy. Ponyboy also get bullied by the Socs, which is another gang (the richer gang). Greg is also bullied by a family member; he is bullied by his older brother too. His Older brother is always teasing him and telling him to do things that he shouldn’t do. Greg also gets bullied by this girl named Patty at his school. She bullies him because he doesn’t tell the whole truth.

         

 Another similarity that Ponyboy and Greg share is that they both don’t use their heads. Ponyboy doesn’t use his head because he walked home from the movies alone, and since he didn’t get someone to walk with him or at least give him a ride, he got jumped by the Socs.  Greg doesn’t use his head because when Rowley and Greg were on the duty of taking the kids from his school home, and one day when it was raining Greg had to take them home by himself and he left the kids in a hole. He had to take the kids home alone because Rowley broke his arm and he couldn’t get his cast wet.

         

Even though Greg and Ponyboy are 2 very different people, they do share some similarities; I think that Greg is a little bit spoiled, and Ponyboy has a little more concerns.

Victim Impact Statement

You’re Honor,


           My daughter, Dawn-Marie was 14 years old when I saw her last alive. In was November 10/2000 when she committed suicide because she was being bullied by a group of girls at her school. She loved being with her friends, she liked going shopping with them and a bunch of other fun things. I loved her with all my heart, I never thought this would happen; I never wanted this to happen.

            Since November 10th of 2000 I have not seen my wonderful daughter. She was only 14; she lived such a short life. She didn’t live long enough so that I could do fun things that mothers like us would love to do, like I really wanted to see her graduate from grade 12 but now I can’t even see her do that. If Dawn-Marie would have told me what was going on, I would have done whatever I possibly could do to help her so that she knew that when she went to school she wouldn’t think that she would get bullied even more, and then she could still living and be in her own family at home where she was safe, and that she knew that it was a safe place to be. Before we moved here we lived in the other place, and she had lots of friends, she had sleepovers quite a bit and she knew who her friends were and she had nice friends. Here she had lots of friends to, in fact one of her best friends is here right now they had lots to do, they never got bored but then, she started saying things and bullying her. Her best friend and her other friends bullied her so much that my daughter has committed suicide.
          

 I think that this group of girls deserve a lot of punishments. They bullied a beautiful young girl so much that she killed herself, and I don’t think that she deserved that she had an amazing life. She was a part of my life, and now she is not, I will never see her again. My daughter and I had a good relationship, she would come home and we talk about how her day went, and she never once said that these girls were bullying her.