Friday, September 23, 2011

What sport does Ponyboy excel in?

In this book, Ponyboy is a pretty good track athlete at
his high school.  I do not know that he is a star, but he is quite good at it.  He
mentions this a number of times in the book.


One place we
see this is in the part where the newspaper has an article about Pony and Johnny
rescuing the kids.  It talks about their home lives and, in Pony's case, it talks about
how he is a good student and a possible future track star.  Pony says at this point that
he is the youngest kid on the varsity track team.

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