Ponyboy Curtis, the protagonist and narrator of The Outsiders. Because Ponyboy is the first-person narrator readers might expect him to present a positive and even boastful self-portrait.
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He is afraid of making a public issue of witchcraft, believing that he will be implicated in it. ... Along with Goody Putnam and Abigail, he is able to convince Parris that he must address the people gathered downstairs and denounce the devil and witchcraft.
Explanation:
Putnam confesses that she sent her Ruth to Tituba to conjure the spirits of her dead babies, Putnam says to Parris, "Let your enemies make of it what they will, you cannot blink it more." He means that Parris is going to have to address this; it must be out in the open.
I read this last year. Good book.
I believe it is the last one with the colon. Headquarters:
