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The outsiders the climax

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a'la Shmoop... What happens during the climax And why is

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it so important So before we even get to the

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rumble something pretty terrible happens Ponyboys with his friend

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johnny and they get jumped by a bunch of social [Johnny and Ponyboy jumped]

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is that's the rival social is johnny gets really seriously

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hurt by a guy named Bob and in self defence

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he kills bob right So now the two gangs more

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than ever are at each other's throats and there's going [Gangmembers appear]

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to be a rumble there's going to be a really

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big showdown Basically what happens during the rumble is you

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have a bunch of kids going at it They really [Two gangs preparing to fight]

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want to hurt each other Yeah and in the end

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thie greasers do win But it's not really a victory

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because they're just as beat up as the social is

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they are tauron apart bleeding all over the place What

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does winning really mean to the characters They just have

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more people standing there They're the last ones to run [Greasers with bruised faces]

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away or they don't run away So yeah exactly That's

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a question you might ask of the whole book What

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does it actually mean tto win if everyone is suffering [Boy screaming as johnny on the floor bleeding]

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there and so the greasers are beat up Tourney up

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And they all run to the hospital to go see

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their friend johnny to see if he is going to

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make it What happens to johnny cade So johnny dies

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just before he dies Pony boy and the others make [Johnny dies in hospital]

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it to the hospital And johnny tells pony boy to

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stay gold which is a reference to a robert frost

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poem The line Nothing gold can stay is one that

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pony boy had recited when he and johnny were watching

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the sun rise from a mountain Are we supposed to [Johnny and Ponyboy watching sunrise]

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be surprised by the fact that they're reading robert frost

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Yeah ponyboy and johnny are really smart Ponyboy especially And

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the whole point of this book is that ponyboy is

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incredibly thoughtful and smart He's not necessarily Like the other

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gang members He gets pulled into all of this because [Ponyboy pulled into gang by giant hand]

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he cares about them so much but because he knows

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better he has pretty serious reservations all along About whether

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or not he should be doing this, So he

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really is He really is gold Is there a moral

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to this story This book is more or less moralistic

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S.E Hinton was not at all like any of

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the greasers was a very good student and a responsible [S.E Hinton in classroom]

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kid and wrote this book pretty much from her imagination

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So it makes sense that it's a writer who is

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a little bit of a goody two shoes trying to

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extract moral lessons from the life have some grungy gang

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members What happens during the climax And why is it [Questions appear]

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so important What does winning really mean to the character

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