The Outsiders Blog 2 - Quarter 4 Blog 6

Ponyboy and Johnny get into some deep water with Cherry's boyfriend and a couple of others for the Greasers trying to get with their girls. Ponyboy gets shoved into some water and starts drowning so Johnny reacts and kills Bob, Cherry's boyfriend. Ponyboy and Johnny turn to Dally to help them because Pony's brother, Darry, would take Pony's head off for getting into that mess. Dally tells them to flee to Windrixville for a couple of days so things can die down. After two weeks, Dally finds the boys and takes them back home but there was a fire that Ponyboy and Johnny quickly reacted to help with. There was 5 eight year old boys in the burning church that the boys and Dally managed to save. But they didn't protect themselves as Ponyboy and Dally suffered burns, and unfortunately, Johnny had a timber fall on his back and was paralyzed. As Ponyboy awoke, he found himself in the hostpital and a hero. Darry and his other brother Soda were more worried than disappointed and informed Pony that there was going to be a rumble to avenge Johnny's injuries and for what the Socs had did to Pony. At the rumble, the Greasers managed to make a statement towards the Socs and end the rivalry for good. Johnny and Dally go to tell Johnny the good news but Johnny was quickly dying. Before Johnny passes away he tells Ponyboy, "Stay Gold Ponyboy" which he is referring to from the poem in Windrixville. Dally takes the death of Johnny hard and soon gets killed in front of the rest of the Greasers by the police. Ponyboy wants everything to end so he goes to court and the judge closes the case and is official that the rivalry is over between the Socs and the Greasers. At the end of the book, Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy had a disagreement which caused Sodapop to flee. But the boys had soon came to an agreement to never leave each other and that they would always stay as brothers forever.

The Outsiders was a fairly good book that I've been wanting to read for a while. I just wish that S.E. Hinton would've touched more on Cherry Valance an d her pint of view in the fighting after that one time she came out and talked to Dally about Bob's death. But overall this book has a meaning that really stands out. And that is brotherhood and friendship that the Greasers have that can never be broken. I'd defiantly recommend this book to a friend!