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The Book Outsiders is a novel written by S.E HINTON she wrote this novel when she was 15, she was inspired to write this novel when she was at school and she was with her friends and started planning her characters in the book and how the novel will be set up. The book outsiders is basically about a group of gang who are sometimes called the Greasers who are Pony boy Soda pop, Darry, Johnny, Dally, Two Bit, Steve Pony boy is a simple boy who likes to be alone he smokes he loves his brother Soda pop because he is always there for him but he is afraid of Darry because he beats him up and doesn’t listen to him. Soda pop is sixteen he dropped out of school he likes to stay out …show more content…

HINTON, 3. According to the text in chapter 4 it says that Johnny and Pony are walking in the Socs territory and they end up seeing the Socs Pony boy and Johnny got into an argument and pony ended up spitting on one of the Socs they get into a fight and they try to drown pony and Johnny sees his friend getting beaten up and grabs a switchblade and stabs on the Socs named Bob and when pony wakes up he is shocked to find Johnny holding a knife with blood and bob lying- in pool of blood. HINTON 24.From the reading I can predict that Pony Boy will be in the denial stage and not accept that his innocent johny killed a person, so Pony boy will do anything to help himself and Johnny, So they go looking for Dally for help because dally is cold and tough he can help people who might need help with dirty work so dally sends them out of the city to go hide in a church, Pony boy and Johnny will be hiding because if they are seen again they are afraid they will be jailed for the rest of their lives and they learn to survive as friends

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