Letter to Ponyboy

Author's note: This is a letter from Dally to Ponyboy to tell him the anger he feels towards him to listen to his brothers.


Dear Ponyboy,


The anger I feel for you and Johnny is intense. It burns within like the fire we saved the children from. Johnny and Dally, and Sodapop Curtis- saving children’s lives… The fire inside subsides when I think of them, those children, children with a chance to grow old, whether they are greasers or socs, whether they made the same mistakes we did or the socs mistakes. I guess Johnny was right when he said “we were just ‘people’”. The anger that blares up is when I think of Johnny, he’s got no one. Just us. A lot of good that would do him now. A part of me wishes we never drove by that church. Never saw a thing. Never heard children cry. I think we would all be alive! He will probably die, you know. Ponyboy, you have a chance- listen to your brothers. You have always had a good heart, just please, listen to your brothers.

From, Dally.