Unit #3 Blog #2

Unit #3 Blog#2
Aaron Pilgrim
LSTD 1233 Interdisciplinary Composition
Dr. Rhonda Kyncl     

        Though some people might find it kind of weird, my favorite book of all time is "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton. The story takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. On the surface it is the story of a gang of poor kids vs. the rich kids. Actually, it is a story about a 14 year old who winds up finding out who he really is and what he wants to be in his life. When the story opens we meet Ponyboy Curtis who is a 14 year old greaser who lives on the wrong side of the tracks with his older brothers Darryl "Darry" and Soda Pop. Their parents were killed a year ago in a car accident and since then Darry has been taking car of his two younger brothers. Ponyboy and his friend Jonny meet up with two girls at the movies who are rich kids or socs as they are called in the book. After the movie they have a runin with the girls boyfriends who are some of the most popular socs in town. After the girls leave with their boyfriends Pony and Johnny go to a vacant lot where their gang hangs out and start talking, but wind up falling asleep. Long story short, Johnny winds up killing one of the socs and he and Pony run away to hide in an old church in Windrixville. When they go to town one day they come back to the church a school had been up there on a field trip and the kids caught the church on fire. In the process of saving the kids Johnny is paralyzed when a board falls on him. In the end he dies and Pony learns that his family is the most important thing and that people are just people not greasers and socs.