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"coming of age"? I have to turn in a report with questions that I have to answer by the seventh day of school. I was wondering what it meant by how the book related to my theme "Coming of age". They game me a list of teenage books to read. I chose to read "The Outsiders". The book is about gang members called greasers who are having trouble with their life. Most of them are teenagers with parents who don't really care about them. So the greasers like to steal things, get into fights with their enemy the socs, and at the same time they have moments when they learn new things. The main character is Ponyboy who is a 14 year old boy that doesn't like to fight, gets good grades in school, and lives with his only two brothers. He haves a friend named Johnny who got beat up by the socs pretty badly. Eventually there was a point when innocent Johnny killed Bob one of the socs, so they ran away to a church in a mountain, and then when they decided to return to turn themselves in, they learned that the church caught on fire and there were little kids trapped inside. Both of them with Dally a troublemaker, decided to rescue the kids. In the end all three of them suffered severe wounds, with Johnny being the worst. The greasers decided to fight against the socs so they can stay even for what happened to Johnny and Bob. In the end Johnny died with his last words saying "stay gold Ponyboy". Then Ponyboy became depressed ,got over it, and then at the end of the book he decided to do his theme, so he can get a good grade.