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Metaphors In The Outsiders

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The Outsiders “Things are rough all over” (Hinton 35). Is what Cherry Valance said to describe both situations of the Greasers and the Socs. The book The Outsiders was a story of a boy named Ponyboy Curtis who had been going through a rough time because his parents had just died in accident. Ponyboy had been living with his two brothers Darrel Curtis, Sodapop. Pony and his brothers were in gang with Dallas Winston, Two-bit Mathews, Steve Randle ,and finally Johnny Cade who was 16 year old boy that was beaten by his father and his mother and weeks before he had been jumped by a group of Socs and had beaten so bad he was almost dead. Ponyboy had just left the movies and he had been jumped by group of Socs and he then ran home told Darry and Soda. …show more content…

They then introduced themselves and said that their names were Cherry Valance and Marcia. After that had happened Two-Bit decided to scare Pony and Johnny so after that they had all agreed that the Johnny Pony and Two-Bit were going to walk Cherry and Marcia to their houses they then are stopped by their boyfriends and so then they go with them and the Socs leave. Two-Bit had then said good-bye and Johnny and Pony went to Johnny’s house and heard their parents fighting so they then run off to the lot and fall asleep It is now two in the morning and Darry was furious and so they got in a fight and then Darry hits Pony and then after that Johnny and Pony run away then get jumped by the gang of Socs and all of the sudden Johnny kills one of them and they run to Dally and Dally tells them to go to the abandoned church until the cops stop searching. After that Dally visits them and takes them to DQ and when they get back there is a fire at the church and there were kids in their so Johnny and Pony decide to go in to save them and Johnny sudden gets hit by a piece of flaming wood and he ends up in the hospital and then it starts a rumble with the Socs and Greasers and then moments later Johnny is dead and Dally couldn’t take it and so he robbed a store and was

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