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The author, S.E. Hinton foreshadows that the church will catch on fire earlier in the novel, the Outsiders. She does this by first of all telling how old and creeky the church was and also by explaining that Johnny and Pony were careful to put out their cigarettes to prevent a fire.
The book The Outsiders never says how the fire definitely started but Johnny does state that one of their cigarettes must have started it. As for where it happened, the fire started in an abandoned church on a hill in Windrixville.
in chapter 6 the
Dally helps them when the church is on fire.
He said he would have left the kids inside the building
The author, S.E. Hinton foreshadows that the church will catch on fire earlier in the novel, the Outsiders. She does this by first of all telling how old and creeky the church was and also by explaining that Johnny and Pony were careful to put out their cigarettes to prevent a fire.
The book The Outsiders never says how the fire definitely started but Johnny does state that one of their cigarettes must have started it. As for where it happened, the fire started in an abandoned church on a hill in Windrixville.
The fire in "The Outsiders" occurs near the end of the book, during the rumble between the greasers and the Socs. Johnny and Ponyboy end up saving children from a burning church that was set ablaze during the fight.
Jerry Wood showed up in the Outsiders when all three boys got back from Dairy Queen and noticed the church was on fire.
when johnny and ponyboy were in Windrixville living in the old church
in the book, johnny was burned saving children from a fire in the abandoned church that he and pony boy were hiding out in
In May
in chapter 6 the
Dally helps them when the church is on fire.
Johnny, And Ponyboy. Dallas Winston got out saftley.
He said he would have left the kids inside the building
Ponyboy and Johnny thought that they accicently set the church on fire by smokeing and dropping it when they were hideing out from the killing of the Soc (Bob). They then went in to save the kids thinking the whole reason was because of them.