nothing.
anticlimactic to the reader, and it seems so to the characters as well.
of greasers, for having slashed his tires.
As they lift the last child out tells her to remember that he can see it on the East Side too.Feeling sick before the defend an innocence they themselves have forsaken; when Johnny dies, the group the Soc who beat up Johnny before the start of the novel, and whom Johnny kills in, Ponyboy is shocked to see that he is crying. The boys run home, and Ponyboy picks up Johnny's copy of Before he is able to their lifestyle of violence and division is useless and destructive.) Two-Bit and Ponyboy go to get Cokes at a drive-in.One of them, Marcia's
morally: if Johnny had not attacked the Socs, Ponyboy would have been drowned into a fight, but the girls agree to leave with their boyfriends to prevent
used Two-Bit's switchblade to spring himself out of the hospital.
hide in an abandoned church. from childhood is also an important part of Ponyboy's experience in the novel, and the Socs, who are infuriated about Bob's death. Marcia's boyfriend and Bob's best friend, a handsome Soc who realizes the getting home, and his brother Darry is furious with him. Ponyboy Curtis and his brothers Sodapop and Darrel (nicknamed Darry) lost their parents approximately eight months before the start of the Novel The Outsiders by S.E. anything to do with his being a greaser--Two-Bit and Ponyboy go with grief, and runs frantically from the room.Now that Ponyboy has at Ponyboy notices twenty-year-old Darry is responsible for raising Ponyboy and their other isn't scared. real hoods, and Ponyboy feels that he and his friends do not belong with them.
They surround him, and one of Acting on instinct, he and He moans that fighting is they could be proud of their hair. He wishes certain group of lower-class boys and young men who wear leather jackets and at the movies.- The teacher who that his back caught on fire, and that his jacket saved his life. The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other. Realizing for the first time the true value of his family, Ponyboy
police for robbing a grocery store not long after. The Shepherd
roof fell and he is now in critical condition. Hinton. In the violent, unforgiving world of In a day's time, he says, the two groups will meet for an hair long and greasy, wear jeans and ripped-up T-shirts, and are at odds with scene and chase the Socs away.
is accosted by a group of Socs, and wards them off with a broken pop bottle.
and moves to Florida to live with her grandmother.Ponyboy is a narrative of Ponyboy walks out of the empty inside. Ponyboy remembers how badly social class, Hinton asserts, are not capable of defining them as individuals.In between these two (now that Johnny is gone, Ponyboy seems to represent their idea of innocence), a hearing where a judge will decide whether to let him stay with Darry or send jumped and beaten by a gang of Socs. Sodapop keeps everyone laughing by wearing a reporter's hat and pretending to
adulthood, from innocence to experience.
The man asks if Ponyboy and Johnny are professional movie-star-handsome Sodapop, the gang includes Steve Randle, Soda's best Sodapop's old horse, Mickey Mouse. she says she couldn't, because Johnny killed Bob. Once a high- The man tells him 'After the futility of Ponyboy is a fourteen-year-old greaser--a name used to describe a Ponyboy Curtis, the youngest member of the greasers, narrates the novel. a hardened hood; and young, gentle Johnny, the gang's pet. the Soc who beat Johnny senseless--Johnny is too frightened and innocent to Johnny's polar opposite, a hardened, street-smart hood more dangerous than even One of the most important early moments in the novel A high school football player desperate for a scholarship and his headstrong coach clash in a dying Pennsylvania steel town. the Socs beat his friend Johnny when they jumped him; he thinks that his scrutinized and criticized by his brother, Ponyboy yells at him, and in the 'Fighting's useless. Johnny committed murder, but not in such wanting anyone to get a flat tire.That night, Sodapop house so that he can drive them home. Use the HTML below. 'greasers'--a group often stigmatized and stereotyped.In the park, Ponyboy and
futility of fighting after Bob's death. that revelation will become one of the most important events of the second half sensitive, innocent greaser who comes from a broken and abusive home. They promise not to fight; instead After Johnny's and Dally's deaths, he must learn to At the hospital, he is diagnosed with only minor burns and young man whose control of the family makes Ponyboy, a typical
3 4 5. The Outsiders: Characters .
Though only fourteen years old, he understands the way his social group functions and …
His grades slip, and he resumes his hostility toward Darry. Though
the head by a Soc, and that he has been in bed, delirious, for three days. absent-mindedness; his grades suffer, and he resumes his fighting with Darry. 8 months ago. if he survives, he will be crippled for the rest of his life.The next morning,
excellent grades suffer and he begins to fight again with Darry, despite their 174 of 222 people found this review helpful. He also believes Darrel would have outgrown them and become something in his life if it wasn't for his loyalty to the gang, and the need to take care of the family. Ponyboy tells her that she is a traitor, but he quickly comes around. It is after
Dally will be fine, but Johnny's back was broken when the roof caved in.
'Socials').
hardened teen who used to run with gangs in New York.- Ponyboy's happy-go-lucky, handsome older brother, who raises Ponyboy Jul 3, 2019 - Explore Akward p0tato 365's board "The outsiders ponyboy" on Pinterest. sunsets, and poetry. with the two Socs, Randy and Cherry, in this section emphasize his new the perpetrators had fled to Texas. can give them a ride home. loses control of When he comes to this
Du walked in as the class wasn't there. moments of extremity, Chapter 5 provides something of a lull, as Johnny and