camron redding writes the following about The Outsiders :
well this is a story telling about a bunch of kids living together and helping each other out in order to survive. but they kill a soc andrun away then the church in which they were hiding burns with children so pony and jhonny run in to save the kids but jhonny gets hurt and starts to die. once he dies dally robs a store and the cops shoot him then dies causing pony to start to getting tougher but then he starts failing school but his teacher asks him to right an essay to help his grade then rights about jhonny.