Making Connections Blog! (Poem - Novel)

I read the poem On Revenge by Sir Francis Bacon. The poem connected to the novel because first of all the title is called “On Revenge”. For some reason it made me think about how the socs  always wanted revenge or how they always wanted to start fights with the greasers. The poem also talked about in one line that “we are commanded to forgive our friends”. It was kind of like Ponyboy knew that he had to forgive Johnny for what he did, even if  he did it on accident. Ponyboy didn’t really forgive him but he told him it was ok since it was an accident. Another thing the poem talked about was where in one line it said “a man is but even with his enemy”. This made me think of  all the greasers in the movie vs the socs which they thought of as “enemies”.