Outsiders Book review
by Kavya Chunduru
The book, “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hilton is about a boy, Ponyboy, and his 6 other friends. In their town, there are two gangs: the Greasers and the Socs. The Greasers are the ones who live on the poor side of town. They get in trouble a lot because of the conditions that they grew up in. The Socs are the rich kids from town. One day they decided to settle their differences in a fight that ended with Jonny, the Greaser killing the Soc, Bob to protect his friend, Ponyboy. The cops start coming after them so they run away from their town to an old abandoned church far away. The only suspects are Johnny and Ponyboy because they were the ones involved in the crime. One day, an old building catches fire with children inside of it. The boys realize that they have to save the kids. Johnny dies in the process of getting the kids out, but all the charges were dropped due to their bravery.
I think this book was a good book. I think this because the author made sure that a lot of the book was filled with suspense, which is a very important thing in making sure the readers stayed interested in the book. I also really liked the character growth in this book. In the beginning of the book, the boys wouldn’t ever think about helping people for free and doing favors for other people and by the end of the book, they were saving little kids’ lives. I think Ponyboy had the most character development because I think Johnny was always willing to do good but in the beginning, Ponyboy wouldn’t have saved the kids if he was in that position. My favorite scene in this book is when Sodapop found out that his girlfriend cheated on him and made him feel like it was his fault. I think this scene showed the pain that he went through. He found out that Sandy was pregnant with a baby that wasn’t his and he still offered to take care of both of them which shows how much he loved Sandy. I would rate this book a 5/5 stars because I wasn’t ever bored of the book while reading it.
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