The Outsiders Today

The church catches fire, and while the boys heroically rescue trapped schoolchildren, Johnny is critically injured.

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 ". The Outsiders

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. The church catches fire, and while the boys

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 church catches fire