Peter Vasquez

Mrs. Rokamp

LA, 8A

19 October 2015

The book that I am writing about is, The Outsiders. The author is S.E Hinton. I think that the book the outsiders shows the meaning of true friendship. It all started when Ponyboy was walking home from the movies. He needed a ride but he didn’t have one so he was just going to walk home. While he was walking, a blue mustang was slowly driving next to Pony. He thought about running but they were around him and beating him up. The rest of the greasers came and saved him. Johnny had gotten beat up earlier before. The gang went to the drive in movie and met two girls that were Socs named Martia and Cherry. The girls were without their boyfriends because they were drunk and the girls didn’t want to go out with them. Cherry and Marcia’s boyfriends were mad at them so they tried to pick a fight with the greasers and Cherry didn’t let them. After that Pony and Johnny went to an empty lot to lay down and watch the sky. They both fall asleep and Pony wakes up to go home because he is late. Darry is mad and he hits Pony and pony runs away back to the empty lot where Johnny s sleeping and they run away a couple blocks down the street. Pony decides that it would be stupid to run away and starts walking home. The blue mustang is right behind them and the Socs get out and our going to drown Pony so Johnny stabs one of the guys. Pony wakes up from being unconscious for being underwater too long and they go to Dally’s house for help, he tells them where to go and they go to an abandon church for 3 days and they Dally goes to meet them and they go out to eat and when they get back the church is burning up with kids from a field trip inside. Johnny goes in to save them and So does Pony. Johnny doesn’t get out so he is hurt very badly and dies. The rest of the gang is very sad.

A place in the book where it shows the theme(friends our forever) is when Pony is about to go back to his house after waking up and realizing he is late, he tells Johnny that he could go to Pony’s house if he got to cold sleeping outside. That shows that Pony doesn’t care if anybody comes in his house for a place to sleep and that he welcomes anyone in whenever they want.

Another place in the book that it shows this theme is after Pony gets beat up. The rest of his gang comes and chases the Socs away. This shows that if anyone of the members in the gang is in trouble or hurt or whatever. His friends will always be there to help.

Another place where the book shows that friends our forever is when Dally “blew up” after he heard the news that Johnny was dead. He was so angry that he went and robbed a grocery store and stole the money and ran off. He called his friends (the gang) to help him get away from the cops and they came to the rescue. Except that they were too late, Dally had already been surrounded by the cops and he was pulling his gun out that he knew that wasn’t loaded and aimed it at the cops and they unloaded their guns out on him. The gang was so shocked after that, they never knew that Dally would kill himself and that Johnny would die at such a young age.

I think that the book the outsiders shows the meaning of true friendship. My opinion about the book is that it was kind of a sad ending. But overall it was a great book. I usualy dont like reading but I really enjoyed this book. It was cool how it talked about that we all our the same nomader what gand we our in or what friends we have.