Literary Analysis Essay On The Outsiders

“Life is about choices some we will regret, some we are proud of. Some will haunt us forever. The message: we are what we choose to be”-Graham Brown. We can't always remain proud of what we do but it will make us stay a superior person. For example, in the novel “The Outsiders” Johnny had the choice to either save his friend (Ponyboy) and kill the Soc(Bob) or to let his friend die and endure the memory that would haunt his soul forever until nonexistence. In the novel Ponyboy learns that life stays tough, and that everyone can't be perfect because life isn't perfect, also that as people in this world we are going to have tough choices to make. The choices that we have to make are as though we had to pick our mother over our father they are

Because of this, action of Johnny, Ponyboy and Johnny chose run away from Ponyboy’s loving, encouraging home, and Johnny's home. Where he would never have a kind mother or father where he'd been mistreated and abused, however, they didn't want to run away. They felt the unruly feeling of sadness and regret as they realized in that moment all they life had been crushed and that they might not ever see their families again. They were in the deepest despair of all knowing and they felt as though they were in a bottomless, powerful, bitter hole that they were never to get out of. It was as though they had been forgotten as a hole and no one, not anyone that they loved or cared about knew them. “Then for the first time I realized... Johnny had killed someone. Quiet, soft-spoken Johnny,who wouldn't hurt a living thing...had taken a human life.(62)’’ In the text provided it states that Johnny, “Quiet, soft spoken Johnny, who wouldn't hurt any living thing”had killed a person, a person who woke up that morning and thought that today’s going to be a normal