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The Outsiders By Jordanan Harris

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Jordan Harris The Summary I have read the book The Outsiders and it was amazing. The Author is S.E Hilton and the genre is realistic fiction. There are 2 main characters Ponyboy and Johnny. Ponyboy is apart of a group called the greasers where he is the youngest, him, Johnny and his brothers are all in the gang as well. Johnny is 1 year older than Ponyboy unlike Pony,Johnny has problems at home. The setting is on the east side of a town where all the greasers live. Let's get to the book. In the book The Outsiders there are 2 rival gangs: The greasers and the socs(socials). The greasers hate the socs because they are more privileged than them and they are rich kids who boast about what they have. The socs hate the greasers …show more content…

Dally finally gets bored of teasing them and go gets food for himself. Ponyboy, Johnny and the girls start having conversations about their gangs. So now the girls need a ride and their boyfriends(which are socs) sees them walking with greasers and they get out and fuss a little and the girls get in the car and drive off. Johnny and Ponyboy stay out a little longer and the socs return. Johnny and Ponyboy where getting jumped and one of the greasers were drowning Ponyboy to death. Johnny took action by stabbing the soc and killing him. So johnny and ponyboy started panicking and they went to visit dally. Dally gave them a safehouse money and a gun to keep them safe. The boys migrate to that safe house and stayed there untill dally

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Thesis: In the book The Outsiders, Ponyboy Curtis tells the whole story, however, if the novel was told by several characters such as, Soda, Dally, or Johnny, the book would have been told in a much more desirable manner. Lastly, Johnny was with Ponyboy throughout various parts of the book, which would allow us to hear the complete adventure from a whole nother standpoint. The first example of this was seen when Pony and Johnny had just ran away to the local park.

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In self defense and trying to stop the Socs from drowning Ponyboy, Johnny pulled out his switchblade and killed Bob. The boys quickly decided to get out of town in an effort to avoid the “fuzz.” The boys say they hid away in the abandoned church for about five days when their friend and member of their gang, Dally Winston, came to help them. As they decided to turn themselves in, and walked past the church which had been their hiding place, they saw it was set afire. Johnny, acting quickly, ran into the church with Ponyboy following.

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A song that connects to the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is I How to Save a Life by the Fray. This song shows the theme of losing a friend and not being the same. When the song says “I lost a friend” it is relating to the Greaser’s and mainly Ponyboy when Johnny died in the hospital. In the beginning of the book when Pony was describing all the Greasers he said that Johnny was like the gang’s pet, everyone’s kid brother. Another thing Ponyboy said that Johnny would never have known what love and affection were without the gang.

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In chapter 5 they are worried about killing bob it was wrong,but at the same time it was good because he did it was self defense because pony was getting drowned and now they have to have a big fight with the Socs and now since johnny killed bob they are fugitives that the police are looking for so they cut their hair and everything so they wouldn't recognize. Also when Pony,Johnny,Dally went to the Gas station to hang out so they could eat there lunch but when they were going to walk in they stopped and they saw a blue mustang and then they new it was the “Socs” then randy told ponyboy that they didn't want to fight. After when there talking they went to the church and then they saw that the church was on fire then Dally,Johnny and Ponyboy went

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The Outsiders is a book by S.E. Hinton. A group of people called the Greasers are the main characters. There names are Dally, Sodapop, Ponyboy, Darry, Steve, Two-Bit, and Johnny. In the book they all have rough lives, some don’t even have parents. Ponyboy and Johnny get it trouble in the middle of the book and they have to go away to a church were later is the cause of Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dallas’s injuries.

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During the drive-in movies, Dally attempted to speak to Marcia and Cherry, who were two Socs. He started harassing them to make an impression of a “bad boy”. This drove Johnny into defending the girls. Dally was surprised as “you just didn’t tell Dally Winston what to do”, but it caught Marcia and Cherry’s attention. Soon after, their boyfriends found out that the two Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy “picked up their girls”, even though they were just friends.

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He is reunited with his gang and learns that he and Johnny will be put on trial. While Johnny is recovering, the Greasers and Socs have a rumble over their territory and the Greasers win. Sadly, Johnny does not make it and dies from the injuries. Ponyboy is in denial, and what makes it even worse is that Dally has been gunned down by the police from robbing a grocery store—he is now dead, too. In shock, Ponyboy passes out, and when he is well, attends his hearing.

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Johnny killed Bob. They found Dally after checking everywhere at Buck Meril house, once they got ahold of Dally told him everything Dally told them a hiding spot in a Church above Jay Mountain in

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The Outsiders was about the greasers and the Socs. The Socs always jump the greasers, one day Johnny fights back, he ends up killing Bob. Johnny and Ponyboy run away to a church and hide until Dally comes and gets them. They then see the church was burning, Ponyboy and Johnny run into it to save the kids inside. Johnny and Dally get injured, Ponyboy is okay.

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Ponyboy lived with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop after his parents were killed in a car accident. Ponyboy had some friends in the gang: Steve, Two-Bit, Dally but his best friend was a boy named Johnny who was considered the gang`s mascot. Ponyboy was a boy who always wanted to be tough but an accident that happened in the story might make him change of mind on what he wanted to be. He also finds a way of how to finish the gang that was taking place from many tima.

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The Soc's kept harassing the boys and they knew a fight was about to happen. So, Jonny reached into back pocket to make sure he still had the switchblade they were lucky he had. Ponyboy clearly said something that the Soc's didn't like and they went after them. As a couple of the Soc's were kicking and beating Jonny, the remaining Soc's were trying to drown Ponyboy. He was struggling but managed to get loose.

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Pony and Johnny are jumped and Bob is killed This is the most important event of the novel as had this event not happened, most of the conflict in the book would not have happened. Because of this event, Pony and Johnny end up on the run, leading to Johnny’s and later Dally’s death. Pony is almost killed, helping him to eventually understand that there are both good and bad Socs and that they can’t be lumped together just because they are rich and generally the enemy. Though this event only emphasizes the cruelty of the Socs, the aftermath of it helps him realize the humanity of the Socs.

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With Ponyboy and Johnny being the nice kids they are the tell Dallas to leave them along making get upset and leaving. After that the girls hang around with them for awhile until their boyfriends show up drunk and angry that two other guys are talking to their girls. The girls go home with them and Ponyboy and Johnny leave. Later that night they run into them again and they remember them starting a fight. Bob one of the Socs gets killed in the fight by Johnny in fear that he was going to kill Ponyboy.

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