The book I chose for my report was The Outsiders. Also, when survey the book; the main character's name was Ponyboy, which is a very interesting name. This book was very interesting to me. Ponyboy is a young fourteen-year-old boy, who is not sure about a lot of things in his life. He is a greaser, and it isn't very easy being one. You have to watch out for your tail a lot, there are socs, the fuzz, and family problems to watch for.
             He has two brothers, Sodapop, and Darry. He also has an extended family, Two-bit, Johnny, & Dallas. They help him a lot throughout the book. Everything seems fine until a couple of Soc's start hassling Ponyboy and Johnny, even trying to drown Ponyboy. So, Johnny does the first thing that comes to mind, he stabs the soc that is trying to drown Ponyboy. After that, Dallas helps them to keep hidden from "the fuzz". They go away to the country and hide in an old church. Dallas returns about a week later to take them out to eat and when they return they Church is on fire. Ponyboy and Johnny go into the burning Church to rescue some kids trapped in it. Johnny ends up getting hurt. They go to the hospital back home and everyone is calling Johnny and Ponyboy heroes when they know that they murdered that soc. There ends up being a big rumble between the Soc's and the Greasers. The Greasers win the rumble and Ponyboy and Dallas go to the hospital to tell Johnny that they won the battle. When they get there Johnny is near death, the last thing he hears in his life is that they won the rumble, then, he dies. Dallas runs out of the hospital distraught. He robs a grocery store and is killed by the police.
             Ponyboy is lost, wandering the streets when he is found by a man. He missed so much school that he had to write a story to be able to pass English, this book is supposed to be the story he wrote, to pass English and to commemorate Johnny, his hero.
             The things I liked most about this b...