The Outsiders

S.E. Hintons book called The Outsiders mainly explains the life of these two teenage boys who are in a gang with each other. Their gang name is the Greasers and there rivals are the Socs. The two boys names are Ponyboy and Johnny. Ponyboy only has his two brothers as family their names are Dally and Sodapop. But he considers the rest of his gang family. So does Johnny but he has no real brothers or sisters only his mom and dad who could care less about him. Johnny’s dad is always beating him and his mom doesn’t care at all, she barley even talks to him. Johnny can take beating from his father but one day he was jumped by some Socs and ever since then he’s been so jumpy around people in pubic. The conflict is when Johnny had to kill a Soc so he could save Ponyboy. When this happened then they had to run from police. Reading though the book the lesson of the story that I chose was that anything even good can give consequences.

In the beginning of the story then it Is building up everything that is going to happen. Like when Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-bit where walking with the two Soc girls. The two girls boyfriends drove by in a red mustang not noticing them the first time but they turned back around then saw the three greasers. They got out and this was starting the chained reaction of the story. The girl Socs made the ones with the car to not go after Ponyboy and them. But they still tried to fight. Two-bit didn’t do anything except make them mad by talking. The Socs left but the author made sure you could tell that the Socs would fight with them if they ever saw each other again.

towards the middle of this book it tells about how Johnny and Ponyboys time has been living in an abandoned church on top of a mountain in Windrixville by themselves for about a week stuck in the same clothes and stuck eating baloney sandwiches. Darry had come to visit them like he said he would when he sent them to the church to hide. They went and got some actually food from a Dairy Queen. Darry had talked with them and they decided to go back to their home with their friends. They first got back at the church to pick up the things they left there but when they got back it was completely covered in flames. There was kids inside of it who were playing when the fire started. So first Ponyboy jumped in and Johnny followed so they could help the kids get out. In the end Ponyboy was fine because of the jacket he was wearing. But Johnny was severely burned and he had broken his back.

In the end of the story Johnny was still in the hospital and all of the greasers decided they wanted to go and see him. When they got there though the doctors had told them that Johnny had died. This made Darry go crazy because he felt it was his fault for letting them go to the mountain he said that he should have just helped them stay away from the cops for a while so they didn’t have to leave. Darry had ended up trying to stick up a gas station put the police got there fast so he left and they chased him. But Darry was also drunk and while he was driving that didn’t help him. He ended up running into a wall in his car and had died. Further into the end of the book all of the greasers and Socs had a big fight against each other.

The Outsiders, Ponyboy, Noah Widmeyer

The Outsiders, Ponyboy, Noah Widmeyer

Friday, September 29, 2017

10:12 AM

Ponyboy is his actual name and he likes it that way to. He is in a gang called the greasers with his 2 brothers, Darry and Sodapop. His father died when he was little and the same for his mother. So him and his brothers grew up taking care of each other. There gang is known by people well and if anyone saw them they wouldn’t be particularly happy. There is 2 other gangs who don’t like greasers either. They end up fighting a lot and a member of the greasers was jumped and left in a parking lot for a while. His name in Jonny and he is now very skittish around new people. Ponyboys gang is not liked much by people. They are poor and do a lot of stuff to their town. While Socs are rich and always alright with people, until they decide they don’t like you then they probably jump you. Like they jumped Jonny but that was because he’s a greaser not just a random person that made them mad.                                   Ponyboys brothers are very helpful and he really looks up to Sodapop. He’s more scared of Dally than proud of him. He says a lot that Dally can sometimes be scary and annoying. They went to see a movie, him, Dally and Jonny. There were 2 girls there watching to who Dally took an awful big interest in. They were Socs though so they don’t exactly get along well with greasers. Dally went to talk and they didn’t like him at all, but they took an interest in Ponyboy and Jonny.

Cedar Point

Cedar point was booming with many people. The gates inside have just opened and there was a line waiting to get in. Kids happy and excited to go on their first roller coaster. The gate keeper roller coaster staying in the front watching over the great lake. The raptor was one of the first line that we noticed. The line is starting to build up with many exited people. kids, teenagers, and even adults look very happy. There’s people running around everywhere trying to find which roller coaster they want to ride first. There’s even tiny games like basketball.

There was a tiny train that goes around the place giving a view of some of the bigger roller coasters in the park. Walking around gave the view of seeing the oldest roller coaster at the park. There was even a giant water park with many rides. A boy was riding a giant drop that goes straight into a small man made pond. There was a bridge directly above the path of the water slide where you can get soaked just by standing on from the splash of the slide.

Eventually it started to storm above the park. Not everyone stopped and even some kids kept on going on the rides. It seemed like the rain would come down harder to them since there on a roller coaster but that’s their choice I guess. The park started to close down the rides so that the rain could stop. It was a very fast and sudden cloudburst but it was the last of the rain. It was about time for the rides to start back up so taking advantage some people got into the lines so they could get close to first in line. Others went and got themselves lunch so that they didn’t need to later on in the day. The water rides opened back up and people were so far into the line it was surprising, most of the lines filed up in a few minutes of exited people some going on their first roller coaster and others just exited from experience.

Some schools have field trips to cedar point towards the end of the year like Black hawk middle school from Fort Wayne Indiana. The students have to pay the school to go to Cedar point. There’s even a school there today. Only 8th graders are able to go to the field trips in middle schools. Groups of kids ran around trying to find a cool looking ride for themselves.

it was starting to get darker and most people left for home. Some others though stayed at the park ridding the rides or going to the big hotel that was to the right of walking into the main gate. The hotel sat on the shore of lake Erie.