Significant Events In The Outsiders

Violence is the main thesis in “The Outsiders”, it connects and helps the plot developments. However, violence isn’t a positive action but still happened frequently incur daily life. Above all, violence influenced person’s personality, looking and behavior. For all the characters exist in the book, the person impacted by violence most is Johnny. The difference between he and other is he had got a miserable family background.

The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is a book that is full of excitement, adventure, and real-life situations. The book starts out in the daily life of a 16-year-old boy named Ponyboy. He is a part of a group called “greasers” that battle with “socs” daily. The greasers are usually poor and the socs are usually rich. One night, Ponyboy and his friend, Johnny, are walking when they get jumped by a group of socs. One of them is attempting to drown Ponyboy in a fountain, but Johnny saves his friend and kills the soc with a switchblade. They quickly run to Dally to explain what happened. He gives the boys a gun, $50, and a place to hide. They jump on a train and hide out in an abandoned church. They stay in that church for a couple weeks, then Dally

Two of the socs grabbed me and put my head in the fountain. I nearly drowned then i felt them let go and Johnny was standing still with the knife in his hand… i looked down and saw a dead person, I thought to myself Johnny just killed him "I had to. They were drowning you Pony. They might have killed you. And they had a blade… They were gonna beat me up" (Hinton ch. 4).he said. After about 5 min I said to Johnny he just killed someone,"Johnny! I nearly screamed. "What are we gonna do? They put you in the electric chair for killing people!" (Hinton ch. 4) At this point in the story Johnny is in big trouble. All because of gangs and rivalries.

To begin with, Johnny stabs Bob, the Soc, with his switchblade because Bob was about to brutally beat Johnny up with his rings on his bare hands and his hurtful words from his crude, deceptive mouth. Johnny also stabs Bob because Bob’s gang was trying to drown Ponyboy, so if he was able to stab Bob then his nasty and cruel gang would leave Ponyboy alone. When Johnny stabs Bob, his plan ends up working and the other socs runaway because they got frightened at the sight of Johnny stabbing and killing their what used to be alive friend. “ I killed him, he said slowly. I killed that boy. (56)” Johnny says this to Ponyboy as he awakens; coughing up water from nearly being drowned by Bob’s gang. When the socs runaway they go and try to find police. Because of this, Johnny and Ponyboy now have to run away in order for them not to be caught and punished by

If you had a chance to go to college with an scholarship would you go even if it means leaving your only family behind? Darry is the oldest of the Curtis brothers. At twenty, Darry is the “old man” in The Outsiders a novel written by S.E. Hinton. He has two little brothers named Sodapop and Ponyboy. The brothers are greasers, a class term that refers to the people on the East Side, the poor side of town. They are known for their long, greased hair. Darry is devoted to try and be a parent figure for his brothers. He sacrifices everything and does everything he can for his little brothers, the only family he has left.

Johnny and Ponyboy got stuck in a fight with some of the Socs. Johnny ended up killing a Soc in order to protect his brother. Or in other words, he was loyal to his brother. Ponyboy showed many ways in which him and his family/friends grew up.

The five Socs could have been armed with guns or each have a blade. All the Socs, especially these five were always known for being tough and always trying to get the last word in. They are also known for starting fights which is basically what they did with Johnny and Ponyboy. Johnny risked his life very much to save a friend that was more of a brother to him, as well as one of the only people that cared for him. “....they were going to beat me up…”

Johnny got severely injured and rushed to the hospital where, “ The pillow seemed to sink a little and Johnny died¨ (148). This choice impacted Ponyboy because he loses his very close friend. He now feels as though he can't move on in his life, but later learns to appreciate what is most important to him while it is still in his

“I killed that boy,” Johnny said. This is a quote that a character Johnny says in S.E Hinton’s book, The Outsiders. This book takes place in Hinton’s hometown of Oklahoma. Johnny, Ponyboy, Dally, Darry, Two-Bit, and Sodapop are main Greaser characters. Bob, Cherry, and Randy are the main characters for the Socs.

Johnny had an abusive relationship with his parents. According to Ponyboy he says: “He would have run away…” (12). Johnny hasn’t had an easy life, his parents do not pay much attention to him and are verbally and physically abusive to him. Also, because of him being a Greaser he got beaten very badly by the Socs. In Johnny’s case he was used to being abused by his parents but after the Socs got a hold of him he saw that abuse is bad, and after almost being beaten to death he lived in fear every day. Johnny never hurts other people but when he sees others being mistreated he steps in. “I killed him”, he said slowly, “I killed that boy” (49). In this quote, Ponyboy is telling what Johnny told him after he killed Bob. Because of the Socs drowning Ponyboy, Johnny feels angry for what they were doing so he lets anger take over and he kills Bob. Later in the book, Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally help save the kids from the church fire. Johnny gets hurt and has to go to the hospital. In this hospital Johnny mentions “It was worth saving those kids. Their lives are worth more than mine, they have more to live for” ( ). Johnny realizes that the best thing he could have done was save those children, even if it meant losing his life. Because of the violence that he faced at home and with the Socs he was ok with dying because he saved the children’s

The first event that causes a significant change in Johnny and Ponyboy’s life is when Johnny kills Bob. Before Johnny killed Bob he and Ponyboy were not violent. One way Ponyboy describes Johnny before and after he killed Bob is, “Johnny had killed someone. Quiet, soft-spoken little Johnny, who wouldn’t hurt a living thing on purpose, had taken a human life.” Ponyboy is saying that Johnny would never try to hurt anything, and he had ended up murdering someone. Ponyboy was still not violent, but he became a little violent at the rumble because he was fighting for something. Ponyboy before, was only worried about the Socs, but

Johnny Cade was a 16 year old greaser. In the beginning, he was like a kicked puppy, because of his dark and empty eyes and shyness, and being beat and neglected by his parents his whole life.. In the middle of the story, he saved Ponyboy when Bob came. He got hurt when he was saving kids from a burning church. Then at the end before he died, he spoke valuable words to Ponyboy.

Ponyboy is a very good friend. He has a friend named Johnny who is also a greaser. Johnny is going through so much throughout the story. He runs away from his home because he heard his mother and father fighting like they always do. He goes to the park and he says, “I can’t take much more. I’ll kill myself or something.” Johnny hated that his parents fought so much and he didn’t want to be around it. His parents were neglectful and abusive, both

The most in important event pard in the book the outsiders is when Jonny kills the soc bob. How this happens is that Jonny and Ponyboy get jumped and some of the soc’s Try to Drown ponyboy. to save him Jonny pulls out his switchblade and stab bob inadvertently killing him. The reason the is pivotal to the story is the is is a major catalyst to many of the later important events one main one is when they are forced to Jay mountain.

Firstly, the relationship of Ponyboy and Johnny becomes stronger when Johnny protected Ponyboy. When Socs beat Ponyboy and Johnny again, Jonny killed the Socs without thinking, which made Ponyboy very scared and surprised. “This can’t be happening. This can’t be happening. This can’t be…… ‘you really killed him, huh, Johnny’?”