the outsiders by S.E. Hinton
this book is about a 14-year-old boy named Ponyboy Curtis. He and his gang are “greasers” growing up around the 60s. They have to deal with grudges between them and the “Socs” . The socs seem to have more than they could ever want but they still find the need to start wars with the greasers. One night Ponyboy and his friend Johnny are in a park and they get humped by a group of socs. the socs attack them and in an act of self-defence Johnny kills one of the socs. Scared both him and Ponyboy run away to the country and spend about a week living in an empty church. Johnny decides that he would rather be just in prison then stay in hiding for the rest of his life. When Ponyboy and Johnny go for a walk one day a group of kids on a school trip get caught in the church when it caches on fire. Johnny and Ponyboy risk their lifes and get the trapped kids out. On the way to the hospital every one tells Ponyboy that he and Johnny are heroes. Ponyboy is fine but Johnny broke his back in the fire and doctors say if he recovers he won’t ever walk again. Johnny dies and it destorys Ponyboy to lose his friend. The night Johnny died Ponyboy and a gang of greasers battle it out with a group of socs. The greasers are clearbrating their victory over the socs when Ponyboy watches his friend die in the hospital. Later that night another one of his friends holds up a grocery store and is shot down by the police. The boy did all this on purpose because after Johnny had died he felt that he had nothing left. Ponyboy and the rest of his friends eventually get over their friends deaths but never forget them.
I really liked the book it was really depressing how most of the kids didn’t have family that wanted them. i think that why the messed up their lifes and joined ganges. I think Johnny was right when he told Ponyboy to “stay golden”
