AC: We all start off the same; from the moment we are born, we are innocent pieces of flesh and bone. Once we do something bad or reckless, our innocence is affected. It can be gone when you are 5 or 20. But once it’s gone, it’s gone. And there is one person who knows that best. Please welcome Dallas Winston.
DW: Hey.
AC: Dallas-
DW: You can call me Dally.
AC: Okay then, Dally. When was the first time you lost your innocence?
DW: 10 years of age! Count ‘em.
AC: Wow! And what did you do exactly and what was the consequence?
DW: Well I’ve done so many ‘bad deeds’ as you would call it, I forgot what I did. But I do remember that I went to jail for my crime.
AC: And, did you stay that way, or did jail change you and you never did anything bad ever again?
DW: Are you kidding me? I stayed just the way I am now; a ruthless guy who disobeys the law.
AC: Interesting; and you aren’t worried or scared about going back?
DW: Nope! Not at all.
AC: Well thank you Dally for coming today. Now most might think that innocence is only lost when one does something bad or judged as such. But there is one person who lost his innocence, not by law breaking, but by taking on the responsibility of raising his two younger brothers; Darrel Curtis.
DC: Hi.
AC: Hello Darrel- or is there something else you like to be called?
DC: Darry, thanks.
AC: Well Darry, how did you lose your innocence?
DC: Well when I was about 19-20 years old, my parents died in an automobile accident. It was hard on me and my brothers. I gave up everything to take care of them.
AC: And what was your life before this tragedy happened?
DC: I was a Soc. Popular, and a star football player.
AC: Wow! I bet it was hard to give that up.
DC: No, I have the responsibility of my brothers. That is much more important than being a Soc.
AC: Well thank you Darry. Now please welcome Ponyboy Curtis.
PC: Hi.
AC: Hello Ponyboy. Can I call you Pony?
PC: Sure.
AC: So Pony, it that really your name?
PC: Yeah; it even says so on my birth certificate. Same with my brother, Sodapop.
AC: Well Pony; how did you lose your innocence?
PC: When my best friend Johnny did something bad.
AC: And what was that?
PC: Can’t tell.
AC: Well, how did it make you feel when this happened to you?
PC: Lousy. I felt like nothing really. I didn’t know what to do or how to think for that matter.
AC: That must have been hard for you, running away from your family.
PC: Well we came back after the fire.
AC: Fire?
PC: Yeah there was a fire down in the country side. Me and Johnny saved about 15 kids from it.
AC: Wow! You must have been very brave to do something like that.
PC: I guess so.
AC: Well thank you Ponyboy. Now welcome our last guest for this evening, Johnny Cade.
JC: Hey.
AC: Johnny, you look like a good kid who ‘wouldn’t hurt a fly’. How did you lose your innocence?
JC: Well when me and Pony were at the park, we were jumped by some drunk Socs. Pony was getting drown by them in the fountain. I remembered my blade in my pocket, so to protect Ponyboy from gettin’ killed, I stabbed this one kid; Bob Sheldon was his name.
AC: Wow, it must have been difficult for you to do such a thing. What happened to the rest of Bob’s gang?
JC: They ran silly, and then pulled charges for man-slaughter. Yet they did say it was of self defense.
AC: And what did your parents think of this?
JC: Ah they don’t care ‘bout me. Mom ignores me and Dad beats and yells at me.
AC: Oh, I’m sorry Johnny. Well I hope all is well now; seeing that you are, you know……dead.
JC: Yeah, I’m okay.
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