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In the Outsiders Hinton shows how the greasers are very loyal to each other they always have each other’s back when things go wrong. Ponyboy and Johnny encounter the drunken Socs in the park, the Socs started trying to fight Ponyboy and Johnny so Ponyboy decides to spit on one of the Socs members and shoves him because they wouldn’t leave them alone, during that time Johnny blackout and forget what happened, when he comes back to his senses he realizes he killed a member from the Socs (Hinton 51).
Johnny and Ponyboy runs quickly to their gang and tells them that they have done a very bad thing, they had murdered one of the Socs members in the park by accident, Johnny explained to the gang that it was an accident he had blackedout and when he woke up his hands and his knife was covered in blood from Bob who he had killed, he tried to explain that it was self-defense the reason he had murdered Bob, he was trying to protect Ponyboy (Hinton 51).
Dallas comes running in the house when he heard that they had killed Bob, he tells them to run to the abandoned church in the country until everything calms down around here because Dallas don’t want them to get caught by the police or even worse getting killed by the other Socs because of one mistake they made trying to protect each other, so he gives them money and a gun incase they may have to use it for anything (Hinton 51).
Johnny and Ponyboy leaves that next morning while it was early so that they would not attract any attention or nobody would see them leaving and they would make it there without anybody chasing after them for committing a horrific murder. Johnny and Ponyboy make it to the church without being seen, they clean the church up a little bit so that they could have a plac...

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...ee him wave an unloaded gun at the police. When the police start shooting their guns in the air Ponyboy realizes that Dallas wants to die he can’t make it without Johnny so he feels like he has to die and this is an honorable way to die. When he hit his knees he was shot and killed by the police for having a stolen car(Malone) and fell to the ground the squad says he died violent and young and desperate just like he knew he would die someday but he didn’t think it would be this soon but one thing is for sure he died gallant. (Hinton pg. 133)

Works Cited

Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders. New York: Puffin Books, 1997.
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Malone, Michael. "Tough Puppies." The Nation 242.9 (8 Mar. 1986): 276-278. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter and Deborah A. Schmitt. Vol. 111. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999. Literature Resource Center. Web. 9 May 2014.

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