To tell the truth, this book could probably been the most touching story I have ever read! Although I was not used to the tales at the beginning of the story, in fact, most of the characters in this book were juveniles who were too used to cause crimes. However, there were people among them who were having true feelings and loves. Amazing as it was, the author, S.E Hinton, was only in her age of seventeen as she wrote this book. This book was very well-organized. In the mid-1960s when it was first published, the book was being received with immediate appeal. Although it was a teenage rebel story, it was not like most of the other novels telling about teenagers breaking away from restrictive parents. The fact was that the story hardly discussed
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That referred to the adolescent in the East Side. They were never rich, and their biggest enemy was the Socs. Socs were a gang living in the West Side, and they were all consisted in rich families. The two gangs were constantly having fights, and people were often being sent to jail. Ponyboy’s parents were evidently killed in an automobile accident, and there were only three brothers in the family left: Darry, Soda, and Ponyboy. Their relationships were fine, rarely having any argues, “until the night someone takes things too far.” One night, as Ponyboy and Johnny, the gang’s pet, were lying in the fields watching stars, Ponyboy went to sleep with thoughts. It was not until in the midnight when Johnny reminded him to go back to his brothers did he realize that they had not been home in the right time- far from it, though. Johnny’s parents never cared about him, they were kind of disgusted at Johnny, but Johnny was a kind of people that would be kind to people and was willing to listen to people when they talked. When Ponyboy got home, he found out that Darry got really mad at him—he did the thing that anybody would not have expected. He slapped real hard in Ponyboy’s face. Ponyboy was desperate, and he ran away alone with Johnny. That was where the story
That referred to the adolescent in the East Side. They were never rich, and their biggest enemy was the Socs. Socs were a gang living in the West Side, and they were all consisted in rich families. The two gangs were constantly having fights, and people were often being sent to jail. Ponyboy’s parents were evidently killed in an automobile accident, and there were only three brothers in the family left: Darry, Soda, and Ponyboy. Their relationships were fine, rarely having any argues, “until the night someone takes things too far.” One night, as Ponyboy and Johnny, the gang’s pet, were lying in the fields watching stars, Ponyboy went to sleep with thoughts. It was not until in the midnight when Johnny reminded him to go back to his brothers did he realize that they had not been home in the right time- far from it, though. Johnny’s parents never cared about him, they were kind of disgusted at Johnny, but Johnny was a kind of people that would be kind to people and was willing to listen to people when they talked. When Ponyboy got home, he found out that Darry got really mad at him—he did the thing that anybody would not have expected. He slapped real hard in Ponyboy’s face. Ponyboy was desperate, and he ran away alone with Johnny. That was where the story