Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The Outsiders
A story of rich vs poor set in the early 60's is a dramatic mixing of various elemits of various novels. A talented kid, poneyboy, who parents died when there car was hit by a train is rasied by his older and very tough older brother Darrel and his younger more fun bro sodapop. His brothers have an aspec of there parents while he has none. After being involved in a fatal stabing of a rich boy who was drowning him and feering being taken away from the only family he got, ponyboy and a friend run away with the help of another friend. Hiding in a chruch after changing there looks they stay there awhile until another friend who gave them a gun and some cash to hid out with tells them when the heat is off. After a car ride they find that a group of kids have accidently lite the chruch on fire. Ponyboys friends save them although they are greatly injured in the process. Reunited with his brothers at the hospital Ponyboyd his friends and brothers then have a climatic fight with the rich kids using info from a rich girl whos a friend of ponyboys. After the fight both of the boys involved with the fire are killed, when passes away the other can't deal with it, robs a store, and commits suicide by cop. The story ends with ponyboy writting the story.

A coming of age story  with love, loss, fear, ect.

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