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Friendship In The Outsiders

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Imagine if your on your own in the lonely world and your parents do not do anything. Outsiders is about a group of kids who are alone in the world. Johnny and Ponyboy killed a socs named bob.The church sets of fire, and Johnny almost is close to die. In the story outsider Some kids like to hang with their friends because they might be down and their friends will try to cheer them up, they have a hard relationship with a person and their friends will be their, and it might help them because they might try to get thought of the person out of their mind. In the story, “ The Outsider” S.E. Hinton writes to show the reader that Some kids like to hang with their friends because they might be there for them. Some kids like to hang with their friends because they might be down and their friends will try to cheer them up. I used like to draw his picture when he was in a dangerous mood, for then I could get his personality down in few lines. under these circumstances Pony want to help him when he was mad. You should be glad you have friends that are their for you no matter what.When johnny got jumped by the socs. Under these …show more content…

When Johnny's parents beat him up. Under these circumstances that his parents do not care about him so his friends allow him in their house.Imagine your parent hitting you it feels like you can not get out in any way.it is like jail.it holding you back. When ponyboy got hit by older brother Darry under these circumstances Johnny was their to help pony get over it when darry hit him. Imagine if you are very close to the person then allof a sudden they were acting rude and hits you. Soda had sandy on his mind his brothers were there to make him forget about sandy under these circumstances ponyboy ask him what happen.imagine if you love someone so much and they have to

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