The church catches fire, and while the boys heroically rescue trapped schoolchildren, Johnny is critically injured.
The novel ends where it began, revealing that the entire story is actually an English assignment Ponyboy wrote to process his trauma and share the reality of his world. Major Themes The Outsiders
" The Outsiders " by S.E. Hinton is a classic coming-of-age story that explores the bitter rivalry between two teenage groups in 1960s Tulsa, Oklahoma: the , working-class kids from the East Side, and the Socs (short for "Socials"), wealthy kids from the West Side . Plot Summary The church catches fire, and while the boys
Fearing the police, the two boys flee to an abandoned church in Windrixville. While hiding, they bond over literature and the poem " Nothing Gold Can Stay ". Hinton is a classic coming-of-age story that explores
After a late-night confrontation at a park, Ponyboy's friend Johnny Cade kills a Soc named Bob in self-defense to stop him from drowning Ponyboy.