Response To The Outsiders

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Outsiders Response In the story, The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, You meet the main character, Ponyboy, who is the youngest of the gang who is friends with 2nd youngest, Johnny. It takes place in Tulsa Oklahoma. At the beginning it talks about Ponyboys brothers, Soda and a Darry, and how their in a gang with him called the Greasers who are in a rival with another gang on the other side of town called the Soc’s. The main conflict in the book is when Johnny kills the soc Bob because he was drowning Ponyboy and almost killed him. Later in the book, they end up having a rumble to settle differences because of the death of Bob and the Greasers end up on top. At the end, Ponyboy moves on after the death of Johnny and Dally and writes and writes a story that has been on his mind the whole time. …show more content…

Dally was very frustrated when Ponyboy came home late and I think hitting him was the best thing to do to straighten him out. Dally is really hard on ponyboy because both of their parents died in a car accident and he feels to be the more mature one and needs to make him learn from his mistakes. Ponyboy shouldn’t of ran away because that was irresponsible of him and it might of even almost got himself killed. If Ponyboy never ran away he wouldn’t of started or been in the fire which led to Johnny's death. What I’m trying to say is that you should think before you respond because you don’t know the dangers that lie

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