The Outsiders Book Report Essay

The plot of The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is quite interesting because it gives the reader a sense of what it was like to be a fourteen year old boy that belongs to a group that is known as the outsiders of society. I chose this book because I am a teenager, and this book is about a real life teenager struggling with what is right and wrong in society. This story takes in the Southwest United States sometime during the 1960’s. Ponyboy Curtis is the main character in the story. He is a fourteen year old greaser. His parents were killed in a recent car wreck. Darry and Sodapop Curtis are Ponyboy’s older brothers. They are also greasers. Soda is 16 and Darry is 20. Soda works at the local gas station and Darry roofs houses to support the family. Johnny Cade is 16 years old. He is the gang’s pet. The book says he looks like a lost puppy. Dallas Winston is the meanest of the gang. He was involved in gangs in New York. Cherry Valance is a Soc cheerleader at Ponyboy’s school. Pony and her become friends, and as a result, she becomes a spy for the greasers. Cherry just wants the violence to end between …show more content…
The Socs jump out and beat up and threaten to kill him. Pony’s gang arrives and runs off the Socs. The next night, Ponyboy and fellow gang members Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade, go to a drive-in movie at the Nightly Double. They meet Cherry Valance and her friend Marcia. They left their Soc boyfriends because they were drunk. Pony and Johnny become friends with the two of them. Dally talks dirty to the girls and later leaves. Then later Two-Bit Matthews, another greaser, joins them. After the movie, the boys offer to walk them home. While they are walking, Bob and Randy, the girls’ boyfriends, show up and threaten to fight them. Cherry stops the fight from occurring, and the girls leave with their boyfriends. Ponyboy and Johnny walk to the vacant lot before going