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Brief Summary Of The Book 'The Outsider'

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The outsiders is an outstanding book It’s probably one of my favorites. There are Greasers and Socs and they are different groups but their is only one thing that makes them different. The one thing that makes the Greasers and Socs different is money. The Socs have a lot but the Greaser don’t so they have to learn how to survive without a lot of money. Johnny is Ponyboy’s best friend they do everything together. Everyone in this book learns something and at the end of the book Ponyboy learns lesson. Johnny encourages Ponyboy with everything that he does. I think Ponyboy learned the biggest lesson in the last couple pages of the story. Ponyboy thought that the Socs lives were perfect but they weren’t they had problems just like the Greasers did. When Ponyboy reads the final letter that Johnny wrote to him that has part that …show more content…

If you don’t have loyalty in a group or a gang it’s not a gang because you have to trust each other. That was a hard thing for Ponyboy to learn after his parents died because he didn’t want to lose anyone he trusts in again. Sometimes you have to be loyal to yourself before you can be loyal to other people. Ponyboy thought that with the stuff he was dealing with was unfair and loss he was feeling so he could trust many people. Johnny, Sodapop and Dally were the three people he trust and could talk to like about the books he was reading or about the sunsets. He likes looking at the sunset but the other Greasers wouldn’t get that they would think that he was soft. There was a lot of lessons learned throughout the book. There wasn’t anyone that didn’t learn something from the outsiders. The things they went through was really hard and wasn’t right to them. The loyalty and trust the Greasers and Socs had were real friend groups. Everyone should have at least a five friend like that or more like Ponyboy had the Greasers. Ponyboy definitely had a lesson learned in the Outsiders

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