The Outsiders

In the novel The Outsiders the character I chose was

Ponyboy. Ponyboy was a good kid but he has just one

problem, he is a greaser. The greasers are a gang that no

one really likes. They are the under privileged poor kids.

They have one major rival gang, the Socs. Socs stands for

socials, they are the complete opposite of the greasers, they

are the rich kids. One day after 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 happened 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