The Outsiders Book Report

Lastly, when Johnny is in the last moments of his life, he reminisces on his time in a letter to Ponyboy. He overcomes his adversity and reflects on his life. He reflects: "Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s a lot of gold. Keep that way, it’s a good way to be...

Ponyboy gets jumped by the Socs so Johnny kills Bob. Ponyboy says , On page 56 Johnny kills Bob while his Soc friends were trying to drown Ponyboy. This causes Johnny and Pony to be on the run from the authorities. When the Socs jumped Johnny in the beginning of the book they turned him into a person he was not

In contrast to the removed Johnny shown early on, after the realization that he endangered several children, he boldly rushed to assist. After killing Bob in self-defense, Johnny bolts with Ponyboy to an abandoned church in the countryside. However, after presumably dropping a lighted cigarette, the church ignites in a blaze of fumes. Realizing there are children in the flaming church, Johnny and Ponyboy dart to aid. During the calamity, Ponyboy realizes that, “Johnny had been right behind me all the way” as he slips through a broken window and into the fiery church and notes that, “Johnny wasn’t behaving at all like his old self...That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that defeated, suspicious look in his eyes” (92).

Johnny stabs and kills Bob so that he can save Ponyboy from one of the Socs who tried to drown Ponyboy in the fountain. Chapter Five: Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade hide in the abandoned church located on top of Jay Mountain. After Darry Curtis hitting Ponyboy, Ponyboy decides to run away with Johnny Cade out of anger. Johnny also brings supplies for their survival inside the church.

The Outsiders is a novel by S.E. Hilton that is about the immature street kids in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There are 2 groups called the Greaser and Soch’s and they’re divided by their socioeconomic status. The outsiders are on the poor side of town and the Soch’s are the rich side and drive around with the corvettes. They have a huge feud with each other including brawls and killing. There are too younger boys name Johnny and Ponyboy. Ponyboy didn’t like home so he decided to run away with Johnny, they ended up getting jumped and Johnny killed a kid which made them run away to eventually needing to help children in a fire. When helping the kids Johnny, Ponyboy, and there friend Dally all got injured. Johnny ends up dying making Dally go crazy and getting gunned down by police. Sometimes being a hero isn't always the decision.

Outsiders Connection In the book, The Outsiders, the author, S.E Hinton ingrains that social class causes chaos. Ponyboy leaves home enraged and stunned after his brother Darry slaps him across the face. Ponyboy meets up with his friend Johnny with a plan to "run away." The plan falls through and the two end up at the park face to face with the Socs-- the same Socs that jumped Johnny.

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 Outsiders is a thrilling, filled with drama book, that will make your jaw drop when you read it. At the start of the book, Ponyboy is at a movie theatre in Oklahoma, walking home. Through the course of the book, the setting changes drastically. The setting could also be at the Curtis’ house.

After running for a while they stopped in another parking lot with a fountain in the middle. While in the parking lot a blue mustang that belonged to the Socs that beat up Johnny a long time ago pulled up. They stepped out and started to insult Johnny and Ponyboy, Ponyboy snapped back and they grabbed him and shoved his head in the found as stated, “They grabbed my arm and twisted it behind my back, and shoved my face into the fountain. I fought, but the hand at the back of my neck was strong and I had to hold my breath. I’m dying, I thought, and wondered what was happening to Johnny.” This showed that those Socs were even going to kill them just because they talked back, but they were also drunk which also shows how dangerous drunk Socs are. To save Ponyboy Johnny had to kill the Soc and afterwards they both had to run out of town to avoid being arrested. This changed Ponyboys identity into a outlaw.

This causes an uncontrollable conflict, as Ponyboy begins to debate over two contradicting ideas in his mind. Furthermore, this is heightened later in the book when Ponyboy gets an opportunity to speak with Randy, another Soc and the friend of Bob, the Soc that Johnny murdered. Randy comes to visit Ponyboy after the murder and after Ponyboy returned from Windrixville, where he and Johnny

First, when Darry slapped Pony, he felt so sad and worthless because he felt like Darry didn’t want him at home anymore. Darry and Pony don’t get along to well in the beginning of the book, but throughout their conflicts, they learn that they love each other very much. Another example is when Pony gets a letter from Soda when he was running away. Soda said that they miss Johnny and Pony very much and wish they would come home. Pony gets very emotional and sad because he misses them so much. Pony and Soda realize that they need each other. They love each other and couldn’t imagine life without them. Pony tells Johnny that they need to go home and turn themselves in for killing a Bob. Pony and Johnny did not want to do this, but it was the right thing. On the other hand, when Darry and Soda were protecting Pony from the fight with the Soc’s he knows that they will never hurt or fight with one another again.

Early in the book Johnny shows that he is shy. But also brave and not scared to stick up for his friends. The Socs jumped Johnny and Ponyboy. They started to drown Ponyboy. Johnny defended him by stabbing Bob. Later, Pony discussed with Johnny, “You really killed him, huh Johnny?’ ‘Yeah.’ his voice quavered slightly. ‘I had to they were drowning

Then Ponyboy runs out the door, finds Johnny, and goes to the park. There, however, the two young greasers run into randy and bob, with a huge group of their Socs friends. One of the Socs friends hold pony boy’s head under a cold water fountain, and Ponyboy blacks out. When he comes to, he is lying on the ground next to Johnny. The bloody corps of bob is next to them. To save Ponyboy, Johnny had to kill bob.

One group was named the greasers the lower income kids and the Socs short for socials the kids who had it all and were privileged from the lower income kids. Mainly the novel goes over the conflicts and tragedies that the protagonist Ponyboy had gotten into over the course of two weeks. While experiencing these events over the two weeks, Ponyboy's actions were shaped by his friends habits. “You take up for you buddies, no matter what they do. When you‘re a gang, you stick up for the members.

In the story The Outsiders, there is many life lessons that could help many people. Ranging from the people you hang out with, to people who need your help. You should always treat people how you want to be treated,even if that means giving something up. The main character, Ponyboy, experiences certain events in the story that makes you realize that these kind of conflicts are a reality. Ponyboy lives with his two brothers, Darry and Soda. Their parents died in a car crash. Ponyboy never realized how much his parents did for him. There is a “Gang” that Ponyboy is involved in called the Greasers. Their rival “Gang” is called the Socs. The Socs are kids that have a better upbringing and are more of rich kids. The Greasers are basically the opposite. The theme of this story is don’t take the things you have for granted.