Outsiders Life Lessons

All great books and literature are filled with a new understanding for the reader. Books are the not only for pleasure, but for learning. It makes people experience perspectives that they couldn't on our own. In the books read in 7th grade there were the life lessons in the themes of courage, death, and friendship.
Many novels have some sort of death that changes a character. In The Outsiders many people die: Johnny gets killed in tragedy by a burning fire trying to save kids in a burning church. It's not surprising that Johnny would save the kids because he is kind in general, but he ends up dying. Johnny was the type of guy that everyone liked, so him dying changes Pony in a positive way. The book To Kill a Mockingbird starts with Scout and Jem’s mom already dead. Scout and Jem were were good friends with Dill and were inspired by their father’s words since he was their only parent left. Their …show more content…
Dill and Scout were likely to become friends because they are both adventurous. Dill is an adventurous young boy and Scout is also playful, just a little more serious, so they were likely friends. Scout and Dill’s friendship teaches even if you are likely friends, a friend is a friend. Cherry and Ponyboy were unlikely to become friends because they lived in different places. Cherry was a Soc that ended up being friends with a greaser, Ponyboy, but taught him they could still be alike. Ponyboy was a Greaser that liked to be friendly unless he has to be mean, and his friendship to Cherry teaches it doesn't matter how you look or where you live, it matters if you have similarities. Rudy and Liesel were bound to be friends by the way they both were going through bad things together. Liesel was a sassy girl that liked to be in charge and Rudy was someone that liked to be romantic, and going through bad made them stronger and closer as friends. This teaches that when worse comes to worse, friends can help make it