The book was written by S.E Hinton. The book was a good book the boys each have each others backs they don't need anybody but each other especially not the greasers because they are mean boys who think they are better than everybody because they are rich boys who beat up greasers and they like to do that because they are rude bullies but the boys each have echothers back and they can hopefully protect themselves from the greasers.
I think the outsiders was a good book if you wanted to know about true friendship when his ponyboy was drowning and johnny went to go save him and it meant that he had to kill someone for his friend but that shows a lot for who he truly is it doesn't matter