In the book “The Outsiders” by S.E.
Hinton the story is not fair because Ponyboy who is a greaser and one of the
main characters in the book gets jumped in a park with his friend Johnny by a
couple of Socs. After almost being drowned in the park fountain, Ponyboy
stabbed and killed one of the Socs. Then Ponyboy and Johnny run away afraid
that they will be put in the electric chair for killing the Soc. After days of
hiding in an abandoned church, they leave and come back after figuring out what
they should do next. When they get to the church they find it in flames with
kids from a school trip inside. Ponyboy
and Johnny run into the falling building to save the kids. Right as they are
leaving a part of the church falls on Ponyboy giving him severe burns that
ended up killing him. This story is not fair because two kids who would give
their lives to save others get tangled up in a murder that they didn’t want to
commit. But they did it in self defense
since they had no other choice.
This text makes me think that justice
in the world is a little unfair. For instance, when Ponyboy and Johnny were
getting jumped in the park, they killed the Soc because the Soc was going to
kill them. It was a kill or be killed moment that could have gotten Ponyboy in
an electric chair charged with murder for killing the Soc. I think that was
unfair because it was self defense since he would not have killed the guy if he
didn’t feel threatened by him. I think if you kill in self defense you should
pay less of a price then killing a person in cold blood. The book “The
Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton makes me think that justice in the world is a little
unfair.
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