Summary Of The Book 'The Outsiders' By S. E. Hinton

Appreciate the people you have because you won't have them long. In the book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton a boy that was born on the wrong side of town wishes he was not considered a “Greaser” and less than his brothers. So when he gets a chance to be to feel like a “Soc” he likes it. In the middle of the story he gets close to Dally that he didn't like that much in the beginning. Ponyboy gets close to people that he thought he'd have for a long time.
The whole conflict that lead to Bob dying started when Bob was beating up Ponyboy and Johnny disliked that. Also Johnny and Ponyboy are like friends so they stick up for each other, and help each other. They are in the same “gang” and that's what gangs do. After Johnny had enough of Bob beating up Ponyboy he came up behind Bob and stabbed him. Johnny really didn't have a choice on harming Bob because it looked like Bob was going to kill Ponyboy if Johnny didn't do anything. Ponyboy kept telling everyone that it was him who killed Bob because he couldn't face that Johnny
In the beginning of the story Dally and Ponyboy didn't get along the best. But throughout the story they became closer. Dally’s death happened right after he stole from the store. The cops showed up and circled around Dally under a street light. Dally soon pulled out a gun and acted like it was loaded but it really wasn't. How would the cops know that? They did not know that. After the cops told Dally to put the gun down multiple times and Dally still wouldn't do it so they shot him. Ponyboy took this really hard because him and Dally had gotten very close. Also dally had helped Ponyboy and Johnny out whenever they needed something. So I think that Ponyboy was really mad because he didn't stop it from happening. Also now Ponyboy is dealing with two deaths of his very good friends. “I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted” said Ponyboy (Hinton