All because of a fight- (the outsiders cause/ effect)

Authors note: every book has cause and effect, and in this book there just happened to be a lot. so I pointed out what I thought was the main cause/ effect.

“The Outsiders” a book about what life is like for Ponyboy, his brothers and his gang, so called greasers. It shows what they have to go through, having not a lot of money and other daily things. But one of the bigger things they have to worry about are the socs a rivalry gang of rich kids. And one event in the story changes the lives of everyone. This event starts when Ponyboy awakes in the open lot with Johnny in the middle of the night and runs home. As he walks through the door, Darryl  Ponyboy’s older brother is waiting for him. Darryl was so worried he got made at Ponyboy and hit him so Ponyboy left.

In the event of Darryl hitting Ponyboy, the effect would be Ponyboy leaving which leads up to lots of other events/ effects. After Ponyboy leaves the house he gets Johnny and they start to run away. In the event of running away they get caught by some Socs, who were looking to fight. Since the Socs wanted to fight they ended up almost killing Ponyboy. And the climax of all these events is Johnny stabbing one of the Socs, named Bob because of self defense. This climax event would later on have Johnny and Ponyboy flee to the country.