The Outsiders

The main characters are, Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Dallas Winston, Johnny, Randy, Steve. Settings are, hospital, theater, and parking lot. The plot for the beginning is where two gangs (the Greasers and the Socs) hate each other. Johnny and Ponyboy run away because Ponyboy thinks his oldest brother, Darry, is being mean. They end up in a fight against four socs. Johnny tries to save ponypoy's sife, and he does, and ends up killing a Socs. The plot for the middle is Johnny and Ponyboy are scared of getting the electric chair so they go and hide in an old church. Somehow, the church catches on fire, Johnny tries to save the children in the church, he is successful, but in the process a piece of lumber falls on him, and he dies. The end plot, Dallas Winston commits suicide,Ponyboy returns home. Theme, don't lose the enthusiasm for life. Author's purpose is to entertain.