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The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton is a novel based in the 1960’s during a very turbulent time in American history. It tells the story of a 14 year old boy named Ponyboy and his friends, who all belong to a gang named Greasers from the East Side. They’re oppressed by the wealthy group named the Socials (Socs) from the West Side. The two groups wreck havoc across their territories by getting into fights and rumbles. At the beginning of the novel, Ponyboy states “I...have a high IQ and everything, but I don’t use my head”. Throughout the novel Ponyboy demonstrates his claim of not using his head by getting into a car with a stranger, overdosing on aspirins without telling Sodapop or Dally and running into a burning church. These decisions put Ponyboy in many dangerous situations throughout his journey. …show more content…

After winning the fight, Dally and Ponyboy go to see their friend Johnny; who’s in critical condition at the hospital, only for Johnny to die right when they come. Heartbroken, Dally leaves without telling Ponyboy where he’s going, leaving Ponyboy to try and walk home all by himself. Ponyboy explains: “I walked down the hall in a daze. Dally had taken the car and I started the long walk home in a stupor. Johnny was dead.” Later on, an unknown person asks Ponyboy if he’d like to be dropped off. “I might have stumbled around all night except for a man who asked me if I wanted a ride. “Huh? Oh, Yeah, I guess so,” I said, getting in.” As the quote suggests, Ponyboy gets inside the car with no suspicion of getting kidnapped or anything worse. This is one of the many ways that Ponyboy doesn't use his head throughout the

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With Dally’s body dead but still warm and the rest of the gang furious, Ponyboy “felt [himself] swaying on [his] feet” and “the ground rushed up to meet [him] very suddenly” (154). Ponyboy had to try to stay “tuff” around

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They run away to an abandoned church which burns down and Johnny is hurt when saving the kids inside. When Johnny is taken to the hospital, Pony reunites with his brothers, the greasers and the Socs have a huge rumble, he gets to know Randy, and Johnny and Dally die. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy’s views and

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No longer then a few minutes later Ponyboy went running to Jonny and telling him that they were running away. After Jonny finally calmed Ponyboy down, he got it out of him that Darry had hit him. Ponyboy told Jonny that he could go home after he cooled down. As they were walking to the park nearby, they noticed the same car they had seen previously that night when they got caught by a couple of Soc's trying to walk their girls home after they had ditched their boyfriends after they were drinking. As the guys pulled up and got out of their car, Ponyboy noticed that they were drunk.

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Pony was walking home alone one night, he was stopped by a gang who proceed to beat him. However, this incident sets the tone for the rest of the story, because the event tells the reader that a fight between these two groups needs no provocation. One other night pony, dally and Johnny go a drive in a movie. There, They met cherry, who was nothing like a Social, because she was nice and felt equal to the greasers.

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Ponyboy arrived at the hospital after he and Johnny had saved the kids in the church to find Darry crying, thinking that Ponyboy had been hurt. Ponyboy became aware that Darry cared about him when he states, “Darry did care about me, maybe as much as he cared about Soda, and because he cared he was trying too hard to make something of me” (Hinton 98).What appeared to be a bad situation resulted in Ponyboy realizing how much Darry cared for him and how much he did not want him to get hurt. He cared about Ponyboy just as much as he had ever cared about anyone else. Ponyboy and Darry were fighting but Soda couldn't cope with it so he ran away. When they found Soda, they all agreed that they would have to stick together to make things work.

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But he is too desperate to die; he pulls out an unloaded gun, and the police shoot him. The reality of both Dally's and Johnny’s deaths affects Ponyboy greatly, causing him to lose interest in school and his grades, which he loved. This scene highlights the emotions of depression, sacrifice, identity, violence, and gang ideology. Some film techniques used are long shots, music, and lighting, which create the atmosphere where Dally is killed by the

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