It all started when I was 11, my sister was visiting and we were eating dinner and my dad pulled out a movie called The Outsiders. He said that he watched this movie when he was a kid and he loved it.

I'm the type of kid that loves watching movies and has watched over 250 movies in his life. I love 3 different movie genres, comedy, horror and action. So I have seen a lot of movies that I like, but none of them touched me the same as The Outsiders. I would watch that movie everyday if I could, it is definitely my favorite movie of all time and probably always will be.

When the movie started I thought that I wasn't going to like it and I didn't really have an interest in watching it.  About 10 minutes into the movie I starting liking it. It was making me laugh and I was really starting to like Ponyboy and Dally. I started to realize that Ponyboy was one of those characters who had the potential to be something in life and all the others weren't going to be anything. Ponyboy was young, a little older than me. He had liver chestnut hair and it was slicked back with a ton of grease. He was a small kid, about 5´6” and pretty skinny. Dally was the character that loved getting into trouble and picking fights, he is the type of character that cares about his friends and doesn't let anything happen to them. A short while into the movie I was loving it. I couldn't take my eyes off the screen, afraid I would miss something.

The other characters started to come into the movie, like Johnny and Darry. Johnny was the kid that wasn't cared about by his parents and the only people that cared about him were his friends. Darry was Ponyboy’s older brother and he took care of him because their parents died. Darry cared about Ponyboy a lot and didn't want him doing anything that could get him hurt or in trouble, I can relate to that because I am the same way with my brother.

Two-Bit was the character that made all the jokes and was the clown of the group. Everybody loves his sense of humor, he was probably my second favorite character in the movie because I have a pretty good sense of humor and so does he. He cared about his friends a lot, but he protected the younger ones the most, with a butterfly knife he carried around.

After a couple characters died I was so sad I started to cry. The theme song to the movie was, ¨Stay Gold¨ by Stevie Wonder.  Everytime I hear the song I cry because the movie was so emotional and the song reminds me of my favorite character, Dally. Johnny Cade says, “Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold”.

I learned from the movie that life can be long or short and you never know which one it is going to be. It could be 15 years long or 90. You never know. So it taught me that I need to cherish what I have and spend as much times as possible with my friends and make every memory a good one because once they are gone,  there is no getting them back.