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THE OUTSIDERS

One day after school Ponyboy and his friend Johnny took two Soc girls out to the movies,
they were walking home when five Socs jumped them. The Socs were mad at them for taking
their girls on dates. Bob (one of the Socs) was about to drown Ponyboy in a fountain when
Johnny lost it and stabbed him. The Socs ran and so did Johnny and Ponyboy. After this
incident they ran to a church outside of town. 
One day the church catches on fire. Johnny and Ponyboy save the kids that were playing in
the abandoned church. Johnny pushed Ponyboy out of the church right as the roof caved in
killing Johnny. Ponyboy and Johnny were heroes. They ruled that Ponyboy was just fighting
back in self-defense. Ponyboy eventually writes a book about what has happened to him,
the book that Ponyboy starts to write, starts the same way the novel starts. 
Ponyboy is a nice kid that's parents were killed in a car crash when he was young.
Ponyboy has light brown almost red hair, and greenish-gray eyes. He has long hair that is
squared off in the back. Ponyboy is a skittish kid; he was always worried about getting
jumped by the Socs. But when you are a greaser walking on the streets alone, you have the
right to worry about being jumped by the Socs. Ponyboy does a lot of growing up in the
book that makes him a dynamic character. He has to cope with a lot of frustration with
his two older brothers and with the Socs. He handles it pretty well until one day when he
was being jumped by the Socs he spit on one of them that started a brawl that escalated
into a murder. Ponyboy has a good relationship with Johnny. Johnny saved Ponyboy's life
by killing a Soc when the Soc was drowning Ponyboy. Ponyboy and Johnny have to hide out
in an old abandoned church together. They were best friends. Johnny's last words to
Ponyboy were Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold_ This says that Johnny thought that Ponyboy
was a great person, and that he wanted him to stay a wonderful and great person. The
conflict in this story is man vs. man. Ponyboy was born a greaser, he did not choose to
be a greaser. He had no control of this but the Socs did not care. They were still going
to beat him up no matter what he will say or do. They do not care that he dreams of not
being a greaser, but even being a Soc. They just see someone that is smaller and younger
that they could easily beat up. Ponyboy and his friend Johnny were just trying to defend
themselves and someone got killed. It was not their fault that the girls of two Socs
decided to go out on a date with them. They did not want to die, so they did what they
had to do to defeat the man that was always trying to bring them down. The conflict is
resolved when Ponyboy and Johnny save kids from the burning church and face society
again. When they finally realize that they are heroes they go home and Ponyboy finds out
that he was not in trouble. They said he did nothing wrong, he was just trying to defend
himself. When he hears this he goes back to school and writes a book about what happened.
Coincidentally the book starts out the same way the novel starts out. In conclusion,
Ponyboy was just a good kid that did not want to get in any trouble or start any fights.
He just wanted to live his life. So he wanted to go out with pretty Soc girls, not tough
greaser girls, big deal. He was even told by the girls that even though he was a greaser
he was still a nice guy, and that there are not to many nice guys around.