The Outsiders- Completed Reading

After being sucked into The Outsiders I finally finished it. This book was really good, probably my favorite book I have read in a while. The only thing that could have made it better is if the book was longer, so I could have kept reading it. The book was very good since the beginning but after my last blog post it got really intense. The book got sad at some parts but the ending was great. I like how it showed the characters changing through the book. In the beginning the socs were thought to be these snobby rich people by Ponyboy (the narrator) but in the end after he talked to some of them, he realized they were like him in some ways and that they were not as bad. ***SPOILER. The book got sad after Johnny died because he seemed innocent. This reminds me of Catcher in the Rye in the sense that innocence was one of the main themes of this book as well. Also when Dallas (Dally) dies it was sad because it was really unexpected but the reason for it was justified (I don’t want to say he should have died or anything along those lines but since he had nothing to live for after Johnny dies you realize why he did what he did.)***SPOILER ENDS. Anyway, I felt that this book was definitely worth reading and it is too bad that it is a short book because I wanted to read but the ending came up really fast. I also just found out there was a movie made for this book, although it is really old, I am looking forward to watching it to see the similarities between how I pictured it and how the movie shows it. The characters were also described very well so hopefully the movie didn’t ruin that to much (I understand they can’t find the same exact person as the character was described.)