The Outsiders

Welcome to my blog this week! Today, I will be talking about one of my favorite book's that I recently read, The Outsiders. The Outsiders is a book written by S.E Hinton. There is a also a movie version on the book, which I really enjoyed watching. The main character's are Ponyboy Curtis, Darry Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, Johnny Cade, Dallas Winston, and Steve Randle. In the book, there are two groups of people named, the Greasers and Soc's. The Greasers are a group of lower class teens. They all smoked a lot of cigarettes and had greasy long hair. They also got into a lot of fights with the Soc's, which were a group of rich higher class teens. Both, the Soc's and the Greasers were against each other, which led to a lot of conflict.

Ponyboy is a fourteen year old boy, who is one of the youngest greasers. He has two brothers, named Sodapop and Darry. Sodapop is the middle child who works on cars with his best friend, Steve. Darry is the intelligent older brother, who is twenty years old. In the book, Ponyboy runs away from his home with his friend, Johnny. Johnny is sixteen and is very fearless. Johnny believes the greasers are his family, because his parents did not care for him. Johnny has always been there for Ponyboy, during bad and good times. Like the time when a couple of Soc’s started bullying Ponyboy and Johnny, even trying to drown Ponyboy. So, Johnny stabbed the soc that is trying to drown Ponyboy. Dallas, one of the greasers, helped them on there journey. Dallas was one of the toughest greasers of them all. Although he gets into a lot of trouble, he is still very protective of Johnny and Ponyboy. 

        During the middle of the story, Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dallas go away to the country and hide in an old church. One day, Dallas took them out to eat and when they return, they saw that the church was on fire. Ponyboy and Johnny ran into the church, and tried to rescue some kids that were trapped in it. After they save the kids in the church, Johnny ends up getting stuck and the church collapsed on his back. Ponyboy and Dallas took Johnny to the hospital very quickly and took care of him. Later in the book, the Soc and Greasers end up having a rumble, which is a fight between large groups of people. The Greasers ended up wining the rumble. So, Ponyboy and Dallas ran to the hospital to tell Johnny that they won the battle. When they got to the hospital, they saw that Johnny was about to reach the end of his life, which was really hard for Ponyboy and Dallas. 

Even though the ending was sad, I learned a lot from the story. I think the moral of The Outsiders is that, you shouldn't judge someone by there wealth or their background. If the Soc's and the Greasers were all nice to each other and didn't fight all the time, then Johnny didn't need to kill one of the Soc's.

Thank you for reading my blog this week! Next time you need an adventures book to read, I hope you choose The Outsiders.