The Outsiders

    The Outsiders by S.E . Hinton was first published in 1967 by puffin books.This story occurs in the 1950's This story is told in first person observer.

The main characters are

Ponyboy Curtis: He is a 14 yr old greaser who is emotional and also very smart
Darry Curtis: He is a 20 yr old greaser who has to take care of his brothers ever since his parents died
Sodapop Curtis: he is a 16 yr old greaser who is a dropout and works at a local gas station
Cherry: A red head that is Bob's girlfriend
Bob:  A soc that was killed because he tried to drown bob
Dally: A grease that is the roughest and has lived in New York for three years
 Johnny: A 16 yr old kid that lives with an abusive and alcoholic

The book starts when Ponyboy is walking home from the movies and a group of socs jumped him and pretended to give a "haircut", when Darry and Sodapop come to the rescue. Later Ponyboy and Johnny go to the movies with Dally. Dally sees a girl named Sherri "Cherry" Valance and starts to mess with her Johnny steps up and tells Dally to leave her alone. Cherry and her friend Marcie invite Ponyboy and Johnny to sit next to them.Two-bit says he'll walk Cherry home and Cherry's boyfriend Bob shows up and tries to start a fight to prevent the fight Cherry goes home with Bob. Ponyboy gets home late and Darry gets mad and slaps Ponyboy. Ponyboy runs away with johnny and they go to the park. They run into Bob and his gang and they try to drown him in a fountain, but johnny stabs Bob. They think that there going to get in trouble so they run to Dally and he gives them a gun, fifty dollars, and tells them to go hide in a church.The church caught on fire and the roof collapsed Ponyboy tries to save the little kids in the church,and johnny got it hit and it broke his back. Dally comes to rescue them and, Johnny  and Ponyboy ends up in the hospital but Ponyboy is okay Darry see's him and cries and Ponyboy realizes that Darry does love him. Dally robs a bank and tries to shoot the police but they shoot him. Johnny dies in the hospital. When Ponyboy gets back to school his grades drop and his English teacher tells him to write a story to make them comeback up. He decides to write about his experiences.

This book seemed to be objective because he seemed to prove no point. This book caused few emotions in me like  felt sad when Ponyboy was being drowned, also when johnny broke his back. I was made aware of human nature because some people could be that terrible enough to kill or even hurt  other people with knive. The characters in this story seem believable because there are people today exactly like that in the world. This book won't be out-dated because it is very interesting

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