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Summary: Best Book Ever!
Review: I love this book. The first time I read it we read it in English. I loved it so I got my own copy. I finished it in two days. This book is good, but sad during some parts. I was really bummed when Johnny died. He was my favorite character. Anyways....the rest of the book was the best. BUY IT!!!! Also I recommend the movie to you if you liked the book.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: When I first began this novel I was expecting very much not to like it. I was completely wrong. The book was one that I was not able to put down. The endless twists and turns kept the book interesting, and the conflict between the "Socs" and the "Greasers" was well developed.
The book gave a good background on how gang life could be, as well as showing life from the eyes of a child who has lost his mother and father. Life at home was tough for Ponyboy having to deal his overprotective brother Darry. When it got real bad he ran away, or at least tried to before those "Socs" almost killed him. Ponyboy learned a lot about life and seemed to grow wiser as the novel went on.
The two gangs were completely opposite in the novel. This is what caused the endless conflict between them. Every little disagreement ended in violence and at some points, death. In many scenes I had the urge to step into the book and stop everything because it was getting out of hand. It was ridiculous what these groups would do to each other, and they never held back. Although I disagreed greatly as to how they handled these conflicts, the outcomes were well written and believable.
The book taught me a lot about how life might have been for kids my age at an earlier time period. I have heard a lot about how gangs were very preeminent in the past. The book showed a lot about friendship and how to stick up for each other. These kids did whatever it took to protect their fellow gang member, even if it meant getting in a whole lot of trouble. The book also made me think about what it would be like if there were gangs like this at my school. How tough life would be on everybody. Sure my school is very cliquey but it never really results in a rivalry between groups.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is in for excitement and anyone wanting to learn about true friendship. The book keeps you guessing till the end, but amdist the rivalry there is one boy learning about life on his own the tough way.
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Summary: the bomb
Review: After you read the book The Outsiders you will find out that there is a lot more to life than being rich like the socials. Money don't run the world like the socials think. How would you like it if sum one shot your best friend over a stupid reason. There is a lot of lesson's to learn in this book.
Bob and his gang beat up the greaser's because they are less fortunate and they get in a big fight over it the rumble. These guys where not playing .
Later in the story two of the Greasers runaway because of what they did to one of the socials they return a week or to later.
Poney and daily can't push what they did away. So just like with it you can try to fix it but you can't fix everything know mater how hard you try.
Poney loved to go to the moves by himself of course every time he went walking home he had to watch his back. he let the life he had effect what he did. But should he have.
Both of the gangs should had left each other alone and no one would had got hurt.
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Summary: A Review
Review: My story is about The Outsiders. It is a very good book that has knives, guns, and fast cars in it. They are called The Outsiders because they are not really poor, but they are not rich either. They do not have the best cars in the world, but they are theirs. They like them. So, that is all that matters. Every time that there is a fight or a rumble the cops take them to jail, and not the soc's. They carry around knives, well all except for one. He is named Pony Boy. All of them do not like the sunset, but Pony does. He met a girl that liked him and liked sunsets. She had class. Well she was not like what he and the guys were used to.
Johnny and Pony were walking the girls home from the movie. They saw the girls boyfriends and their friends. They said to get in the car to the girls and she started saying that he was drunk and she didn't want to. The girls got in the car to not get Johnny and Pony guys in trouble. They drove away. Johnny was still shaking because he saw those heavy rings that were Bob's prized possessions. They saw them later in the park that night. They started to fight and Johnny saw that Pony was getting drowned by Bob. So he stabbed Bob in the back. They ran over to Bucks to get Dally to help them. Buck's house always had a party going on. Buck said that Dally was in the bedroom. So Pony and Johnny thought that they knew what was going on, but Dally got punched in the ribs and broke some of them. Once they got on the train they both went to sleep. They got off of the train and then they saw that there was a farmer walking down the road. Johnny said to Pony to go and ask where the hill was. They had to go to that hill because it had a water spicate around the back of the abandoned church. I believe that they should have just said that it was just self defense instead of running away. I believe that they should not have gone in the burning building to save those children just because they started that fire. I believe that they should have just stayed in town and wait for the people to find them instead of panic and run away to that old church. They should not have went there because there will not always be an abandoned church to run to. I believe that in heart Pony does not like to be in all of the rumbles. I believe that when Pony thought that Darry did not love him I thought that it would have burned his heart out if he did not better. I believe that Soda likes to be in the gang just so he can have something to do. I believe that Darry would have told Pony if he would have known that he felt that way. I believe that they would quit the gang if they thought that they would die.
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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: The book was about three brothers with without a Father or a mother, there names are Ponyboy, Soda, and Darry. Ponyboy is an "A" student in his high school. There all in a gang called the greasers. Almost every week they will get into a rumble (a gang fighting a gang) with the Socs. One day one of the Greasers kills a Soc with a knife. Everybody thought that Ponyboy did it but it wasn't. The person that did it was a hero and a murderer. He was a here because he saved all the children in a burning Church. But, then he get hospitalized because a big burning stick jabbed right into his back and made him paralyzed from his back to his legs. He dies a few days later of internal bleeding. I liked the book because it was very realistic. It was also scary, too, in some places. But most of all I liked it because it was a suspense book. It was realistic because it showed how the character acts and thinks. And another thing was when I read the book I couldn't stop reading it. I just kept on reading it. I chose the book because I found it on the shelf and I heard that it is a good book. Plus my teacher told me that it is good. I usually look at the back of the book before I read it and check if it is well written or whether it is not. Since the book was suspense, I knew that I would like it.
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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: The book was about three brothers with without a Father or a mother, there names are Ponyboy, Soda, and Darry. Ponyboy is an 'A' student in his high school. There all in a gang called the greasers. Almost every week they will get into a rumble (a gang fighting a gang) with the Socs. One day one of the Greasers kills a Soc with a knife. Everybody thought that Ponyboy did it but it wasn't. The person that did it was a hero and a murderer. He was a here because he saved all the children in a burning Church. But, then he get hospitalized because a big burning stick jabbed right into his back and made him paralyzed from his back to his legs. He dies a few days later of internal bleeding. I liked the book because it was very realistic. It was also scary, too, in some places. But most of all I liked it because it was a suspense book. It was realistic because it showed how the character acts and thinks. And another thing was when I read the book I couldn't stop reading it. I just kept on reading it. I chose the book because I found it on the shelf and I heard that it is a good book. Plus my teacher told me that it is good. I usually look at the back of the book before I read it and check if it is well written or whether it is not. Since the book was suspense, I knew that I would like it.
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Summary: Friends Matter the Most
Review: "Help, help, help us please, someone!" The children cry as the hot, red burning flames tempt the children to scream as the flames lick ferociously at the frightened children's feet. Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dallas are just driving up as they see the old church (where Ponyboy and Johnny have been staying) burning. Ponyboy and Johnny run in because they can tell that there are children trapped in the burning church. The Outsiders is a book of courage and friendships and how friends stick by you when it matters the most.
Just because people have more money or better, and more stylish clothes than someone else, doesn't mean that they should treat people any different or with less respect. You should try and make them feel better about themselves instead. The Socs looked down on the Greasers because the Socs are richer than them and the Greasers don't have the fancy cars or the Madras shirts like the Socs.
I think that friends should stick together through good, bad, and sad times When Johnny killed a Soc, he did it out of friendship to Ponyboy. If it wasn't for him, Ponyboy would've drowned. When Ponyboy woke up and saw the Soc just lying there in a puddle of blood, he didn't try and run away from Johnny.
Just because someone else does drugs or drinks and fights at a young age, doesn't mean that they are a bad person. Ponyboy and Johnny smoked, drank, and also fought, but they had to protect themselves from the Socs because they would go around town trying to find Greasers like Ponyboy and Johnny to jump (beat u.) They ran into the burning, old church when the school had taken the children on a field trip, the children had gone in there and gotten scared and trapped. They put their own lives in danger in order to save someone else. He and Ponyboy still managed to get all of the kids out of the old, burning, church.
When two people are different, for example Greasers and Socs, that doesn't mean that you can't be that person's friend. Cherry Valance, a Soc, and Ponyboy, a Greaser, were friends and they could both talk to each other, and they understood one another about sunsets.
In conclusion, The Outsiders was a very good book. It teaches you that just because people have more money or better clothes, doesn't mean that they should treat people any different; friends should stick together through good times and bad; just because someone does drugs or drinks and fights at a young age, doesn't mean that they are a bad person; and when two people are different that doesn't mean that you can't be friends with that person. Therefore, I believe that The Outsiders is a great book. I hope that in times of need my friends and family will be there for me and can give me the strength to carry on and be brave. I think that middle and high school students should read this book. You can hope to get out of the book lessons to use in life like not to smoke, drink, and do drugs; to have family and friends that care for you and will help you through anything.
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Summary: outsiders is da coolest book ever!
Review: i just finished this book. i loved it. it is about two groups of gangs one is called the greesers and the other is called the socs. this book rocks if you are a a teen this really relates to your world. my class is reading it and i couldnt help but read ahead. i think both my teacher, ms.parrish and s.e.hilton are gieuses because this book has a really big effect on me and it turned my version of the 60s around. so do you smart thing. GET THE BOOK, YOU WILL LOVE IT!!!!
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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: I think that The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton was one of the best books that i have read recently. The reason that I chose this book was that not one person said that it was a bad book, and i agree with them. The book is about two rival neighborhood gangs, the greasers and socials, who always get into fights. The greasers are low class kids with long greasy hair, are dirty and walk everywhere. The socs, which is short for socials, are higher class kids that wear kahki pants, white tee shirts, and drive around in expensive cars like corvettes. They always get into fights after johnny killed a social when he and ponyboy were attacked at the play ground. Read on to find out what happens in the rest of the novel. I would recommend this book to anyone over 12 because of tobacco usage, alcohol, and violence.
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Summary: A great book
Review: I read this a few months ago. I loved it right from the moment I had it described to me. It just sounded like it'd be full of conflict and emotion, the two things that--in my eyes--make a book good. And it was. Every part of it just draws you in, and it makes you think. It also teaches a good life lesson, which is something rare in books today. The only thing that sort of got on my nerves was that each conflict kept right on coming after another. It should've been spread out more, easier to take in. The book can be really intense, but I really recommend it.
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