Book Summary: The Outsiders

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The Outsiders

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The Outsiders is a book about a 14 year old in a gang called the greasers. They are always being attacked by the socs or the westsiders. He has a friend named johnny who has to kill a soc to help ponyboy not being drowned by a soc. Ponyboy is the main character he has 2 brothers and no parents. Johnny's parents are mean to him they abuse him and yell at him. Soon they have to go on the run because they killed a soc. And they are sure in for a big surprise.

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Years after Johnny died Ponyboy and SodaPop had both been married and every year all the Greasers went to Johnny and Dally’s grave to remember him. The church had also been renovated and been made a Remembrance Grave.

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