Cause and Effect

Authors Note: This is a cause and effect piece on the book The outsiders. Warning if you want to read this book this piece contains spoilers.

For Ponyboy life has always be rough. To start things off his parents were kill in a car crash leaving him and his three brothers to live and flight on there on. To add on to that he runs with a gang called the greaser that are considered low class and are at war with their opposing gang the Socs, the rich city kids that have their life on a silver platter. The event that I will be explain is when Jonny shot Bob a popular Soc in self defense.

The effects it had on the story were. Johnny looks like a murderer, it also brings the Soc greaser conflict to a boiling point. After the police get wind of Johnny killing someone Ponyboy and Dallas are trying to hide him they stumble across a church that’s on fire, Johnny  and Ponyboy rush in to save whoever is inside. After saving the people inside the church starts to fall and Johnny throw pony out a window to save him, but a piece of timber catches Johnny, tares open his back and brakes his spine. He later dies in a hospital. The effects on the story if this never happened would have been Johnny would go to jail and would be died but on the flip side it helps the Greaser and Socs realize that they need to stop fight or more people could get killed.