The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton’s book called the Outsiders mainly explains two teenagers Ponyboy and Johnny. They go to Windrixville to hide from the fuzz. They have to go to Windrixville because they killed someone. They are in a church because they have to stay there for a hiding spot. They are being chased for the murder of Bob (Socs). The main lesson from this story is violence is not the answer, it has consequences.

 

In the beginning of the story Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-Bit walk with the Socs girls. And the Socs go by not noticing the first time but the second time they notice and warn them. Later on the Socs come after them and they attack Ponyboy and Johnny. They start to drown Ponyboy and then Johnny stabs bob which is drowning Ponyboy and they have to run away and hide from the fuzz. None of that would have happened.

 

The middle was the part of the story where they are being chased by the fuzz and they have to hide in a abandon church. But before that they had to go to a train to ride to Windrixville. They went to Dallas house and got a gun and 50 bucks to spend and protect themselves while in the church. While in the church they have to cut their hair because then they are disguised and won’t get caught by the fuzz. One day Dallas comes to get them and take them somewhere but when the come back to the church its burning down. There are kids inside of the church so Johnny and Ponyboy run in to save them. They save the kids and Ponyboy gets out but Johnny gets hit in the back by a huge burning log.

 

In the end of the story Johnny is in the hospital but he dies. This part of the story the mood is sad and depressing. And then Dallas goes to rob a gas station with a gun that’s not loaded. Then the fuzz come and shoot him down and then Dallas dies. At this point in the story if they never killed Bob then Johnny and Ponyboy and Dallas would be fine, and Johnny and Dallas would be alive. And Ponyboy would not have to go to court and get blamed.

 

Introduction to The Outsiders

Ponyboy, a 14 year old trouble maker that has a weird name. He’s in a gang called the greasers with Darry, Sodapop, 2-bit, and Johnny. 2 of them being his brothers. His dad died when he was a young boy and his mother took care of him and his brothers. There gang is disliked by the town, they hurt there town and can’t afford to help themselves. They are people that that go around the city taking things from people so they can live fine.

The setting of this story is in the city. There is a bunch of school kids in the area and there two girls that they talk to in the area.

 

Cell Phone Policy

Here at Black Hawk Middle School they have recently came up with a Cell Phone Policy for the students. The rules of this policy is students can’t get on their phone for the entire day, but if a teachers phone goes off they are just fine. Here are some responses from the students at BMS, Moises ” Kind of helps with the rules, I fell it’s kind of hypocritical”. So then we ask the staff, Mr.Hoering said “Well I think it’s important that the teachers have their phones in case of a emergences” We asked a few more staff members and they said

the same thing as Mr.Hoering.

“The Cell Phone Policy is holding students back from playing on their phones in the middle of class” says Mrs. Frowning. Noah says “I think we should have a break in class where we can get on our phones and talk to friends”. 100 of the students were surveyed at BMS today and 95% of them said they disliked the phone policy. Here’s what the other 5% said, “I think that the Phone Policy is fair we don’t need to be on our phones in the middle of class, our classes are for learning”. One student even said, “I don’t think kids should even be allowed to bring their phones to school”.

50 staff members we surveyed and 98% said this, “The Phone Policy is COMPLETELY fair. They go home and do their homework then after their homework they play games and text on their phones all day. Then they go to their friends go outside play games, it is completely fair. The other 2% is Mr. Brown he said this, “These kid work all day so in lunch I think that they should have a little bit of time to get on their phone. That way they don’t get tempted to go play on there phone”. In the end, this school is fine with this Cell Phone Policy.

I am a reader!

The last book I read was The Last Hero. What I liked about The Last Hero is that the story line is constant through out the story. The book I choose from the library is “Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard”. I think the book the will be about Magnus fighting gods (cause it’s by Rick Riordan) and him saving his friends.