Final Assessment: The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

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The Outsiders Final Assessment You may know who we are but you don't know what we may be. During the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the main character Ponyboy gets into some trouble with a group of Socs and they almost drown him. Johnny then doesn't know what to do and stabs Bob to make him let go of Ponyboy which ends up killing him. If Johnny was to still be alive and it was his court date I think that everyone would back him up. All of the Socs had told the truth of what really happened that night. Even Cherry was at the hearing case and told them what happened when Johnny and Ponyboy were jumped and it was an act of self defence. At the hearing the judge didn't ask Ponyboy what happened because he didn't want to believe

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