Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Blog #4


In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the story is not fair because a greaser named Ponyboy gets attacked in a park with his friend Johnny. Ponyboy ends up killing one of the socs that were drowning them and Ponyboy and Johnny run away thinking that they will be executed if they are caught. They hide out in an abandoned church for a couple of days, then leave for a couple of hours. When they come back, the church is on fire and there are kids from a school trip stuck inside. Ponyboy and Johnny run in and get the kids out, but when they are leaving a part of the church collapses on Ponyboy giving him burns that eventually kill him. This story is not fair because two kids who would give their lives to save others get tangled up in a murder they didn't want to commit.
This text deals with money because it puts people into two gangs. The rich kids are part of the socs gang which is in the rich part of town. Almost everyone else is a greaser gang which is in the ghetto part of town. If you lived in the rich part of town you would probably be a soc and if you lived in the ghetto you would most likely be a greaser. In this book who you hang out with depends on where you live and how much money you have. The groups didn't work together. Instead, they fought against each other. In this book, money puts people into different categories and gangs based upon how much money they have and where they live.        

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