The author of the outsiders is S.E Hinton. Have you ever been in to an old abandoned church thats on fire? Well ill tell you someone who did ponyboy curtis and his friend johnny. Why you ask? Because they ran away to the church becuase johnny killed someone , then they went to eat later and left a lit cigarette on the ground. And there were kids who went in there before the fire they were there when the fire started , so ponyboy and johnny went in to save them they both got severely burnt and injured jonny later on died ponyboy is ok.before johnny died there was as rumble greasers vs socs. Ponyboy went downhill because he got beat up at the rumble. Ponyboy acted sicklike, for example he smoked in his bed. He stayed in bed and didn’t go