Main Characters

Main characters
Authors Note: In this book I am writing to compare and contrast two characters in two different books.

In the last three weeks I have read two interesting books “The Outsiders” and “My Brother Sam Is Dead”. I realized that the two main characters in the book are very much alike. Tim and Ponyboy are there names Tim is from “My Brother Sam Is Dead” and Ponyboy is from “The Outsiders”. The characters are very much alike in how they progress throughout the book.

Tim and Ponyboy change throughout the book in how they act and the role they play in the family. Like for the both of them for Tim his dad died and for Pony boy his best friends had died. So they had lost someone that was close to them, they also were treated very much alike other people said that they were too young to do certain things because they were too young. Also the scene changes throughout the book for both Tim and Ponyboy emotionally, because it gets sadder as the book goes on because people that they loved are dying.

They are different because the stories take place in different time periods, they lost a different member in their family Tim lost his dad and brother and Pony boy lost two of his friends but in the book his friends are his family. Also they lived differently Pony boy lived on the street and Tim lived in a nice house Tim had nice things and Pony boy didn’t have much at all besides a rundown house with little money and no parents they had died also when he was at a young age the only reason he has a house to live in is because his two brothers got jobs to let them have the house.

The biggest thing Tim and Pony boy have in common is how they experience death symbolism for Tim he experiences death symbolism by his dad being arrested and dying and seeing his brother get shot, and for Pony boy he experiences death symbolism by two of his friends dying and to him his friends and brothers are his family.

In this book the two characters Tim and Pony boy are very much alike but they are different at the same time just most of their traits are the same also the stories around them and how they experience death symbolism.