Thursday, September 11, 2014

Blog Post September 11 2014
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The Outsiders by S.E HINTON
 Rate: 4/5

         Over the summer I reread the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton to understand its complete meaning. It is a book about the life of a gang of teenage boys called "The Greasers". The Greasers are made up of seven teenagers.The Greasers never want to get in trouble until the HOT-SHOT gang called "The Socs" who get the Greasers in loads of trouble.

        In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton Ponyboy is a 14 year old boy who is having trouble in life with no mother or father and all he has is his gang. Ponyboy and Johnny-the second youngest member of the gang has a family but they don't give a crap about Johnny- are walking around in their neighborhood until the Socs come and start bugging Ponyboy and Johnny, trying to drown them and getting in to a fight.Worst comes to worst when Johnny pulls out his pockeknife and stabs Bob(one of the members of Socs). Ponyboy and Johnny are out late at night trying to find Dallas- one of the toughest members of the Greasers- so they can create an escape plan to run away and not get caught for manslaughter. Ponyboy and Johnny are out of the country for a couple days until the place they were staying in burns down. Ponyboy and Johnny realize how kids were in the burning building and save them. They become heroes and their manslaughter thing is almost covered................but Johnny is in the hospital and is crippled really badly with 3rd degree b urns and a broken back. Ponyboy sees he's brothers for the first time in a couple of weeks. Ponyboy and Dallas are constantly checking up on Johnny until Johnny passes away. The last thing Johnny told Ponyboy was to "STAY GOLD" and telling Ponyboy to never quit being himself and to always be the way he is.

        My thought on this book is it is very detailed with many great descrptions. I would rate this book a 4 out of 5 because of the adventure in this book and how the author adds many metaphors in the book. I know how to relate to Ponyboy in some ways.Overall my experience with The Outsiders by S.E Hinton was really good from the exciting parts to the descriptive quotes S.E Hinton really made a great book.

The Greasers