Book Summary Of The Novel 'The Outsiders'

After running for a while they stopped in another parking lot with a fountain in the middle. While in the parking lot a blue mustang that belonged to the Socs that beat up Johnny a long time ago pulled up. They stepped out and started to insult Johnny and Ponyboy, Ponyboy snapped back and they grabbed him and shoved his head in the found as stated, “They grabbed my arm and twisted it behind my back, and shoved my face into the fountain. I fought, but the hand at the back of my neck was strong and I had to hold my breath. I’m dying, I thought, and wondered what was happening to Johnny.” This showed that those Socs were even going to kill them just because they talked back, but they were also drunk which also shows how dangerous drunk Socs are. To save Ponyboy Johnny had to kill the Soc and afterwards they both had to run out of town to avoid being arrested. This changed Ponyboys identity into a outlaw.

When Ponyboy returns home at 2 a.m. in the morning, Darry is agitated and begins to yell at Pony and Soda, all in a fit of rage. Darry slaps Ponyboy, causing him to run away with Johnny. Later after Ponyboy calms down, he begins wondering whether running away from all this was a good idea. When these boys wander into a park within the neighborhood, the Socs’ Randy, Bob, and three others confront them, and after they exchange derogatory remarks, the tension intensifies after Ponyboy spits at the rival gang. The Socs grab Ponyboy and attempt to drown him in a fountain. His gang member Johnny, feeling anxious and terrified because Bob had brutally jumped him on a previous occasion, spontaneously stabs Bob, causing his accidental death (Coppola 11.30). Johnny and Ponyboy, now feeling frightened and without a clue of what to do next for they are well aware that those who take life in Oklahoma face execution on the electric chair, decide to seek the counsel of Dally, who gives them some cash and a loaded gun and asks them to hide inside an abandoned church in Windrixville. While staying there, Pony decides to cut and dye his hair to disguise.

Terrified and confused, the two greasers hurry to find Dally, the one person the think can help them. Dally sends them with a gun and some money to an abandoned church near Windrixvill, where they hide out for a week, they cut their hair to disguise their appearances. After a week, dally comes to check on them, and says that since bob died, the Socs and the greasers have become worse then ever, a giant rumble is to be held the next night to settle the matters once and for all. Cherry feels responsible for the whole problem, acted as a spy for the greasers. Johnny surprises Dally by declaring his intention to go back to Tulsa and turn himself in. Dally drives them back, but as they leave, the notice that the church has caught on fire and it had a large group of schoolchildren inside. Ponyboy and Johnny rush inside the church to save the children. Just when they get the last child through the window, the roof caves in and Ponyboy blacks out again.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a novel about two neighborhoods separated because of classes in society. In these two neighborhoods, teenagers are separated into two different gangs, the lower-class Greasers and the upper-class Socs. Ponyboy, a greaser comes from a hard life. His parents died and he is left being raised by his older brother Darry. After both his brothers failed at accomplishing their dreams in life, Pony is left feeling like he will only be a greaser. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy realizes he has many traits making him have an outstanding future, such as his intelligence instincts and heroic skills.

Have you ever wondered how the 1960’s was like? Would you have been fearful, jovial, or melancholy? In the book, The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton the main character Ponyboy Curtis lives with his two brothers, Sodapop and Darry, and is involved in a gang called the “greasers.” Ponyboy realizes what it is to be a kind person instead of being violent, he is always on top of his studies and is very observant of others.

The Outsiders is a story regarding the privation and accomplishments experienced by the Greasers and the Socs, two rival gangs living in the inner city in the early 1960’s. The novel The Outsiders is about two groups of teenagers of bitter rivalry which was due to socio-economic differences.The Outsiders takes us through a journey of violence, struggle and death. It examines the life of a recently orphaned young man born into poverty confronted with the prejudices that he could not change. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his conflicts between the lower and the upper class youths and struggles and with the right and wrong in a society in which he considers himself an outsider. The society is divided in two groups Greasers and Socs, ‘Greasers’ are those who are from East side and belongs to a poor section of the society and ‘Socs’ a short word for society used in the novel, means those who are from West side and belongs to a richer section of a society. The greasers and Socs also have somethings in common like Cherry Valance, a member of Socs, and Ponyboy Curtis, a geaser discuss their love for literature, for popular music, and sunsets. A view of honorable action appears throughout the novel, which works as an important element of the geasers behavioral code.

1.M Ponyboy walks Johnny to his house but, Johnny decides not to go in because his parents were having another argument. Johnny then decides to go to the empty lot where most of the greasers hangout for the night. Ponyboy tags along because it's not time for him to go home yet. The two boys end up falling asleep in the lot, Ponyboy wakes up suddenly two hours later and realizes he is late and is going to be in big trouble with his oldest brother when he gets home. Ponyboy runs home hoping that both of his brothers will be sound asleep but he's in for a rude awakening. Ponyboy walks into his house to find his oldest brother Darry sitting in his chair reading a news paper. Ponyboy tries to seek passed him but he sees him and puts the paper down. Darry gets up from his chair and starts yelling and Ponyboy for coming home so late and having both him and Sodapop( Ponyboy's younger older brother) worried sick. Ponyboy tries to say he's sorry but Darry continues to yell. Ponyboy begins to yell back saying that he is tired of him always yelling at him. Darry reminds Ponyboy if he can't keep control of of Pony and Soda they we both in up in a group home. Ponyboy continues to and

After Dally’s death, Ponyboy reflects on all the events where Dally helped and supported him,“But I remember Dally pulling Johnny the the window of the burning church; Dally giving us his gun, although it could mean jail for him; Dally risking his life for us, trying to keep Johnny out of trouble.” (154). While looking back on his experiences, Ponyboy realizes that Dally cared so much about Johnny and the gang. He just wished that he had cherished Dally’s presence while he was

He is unable to control the fighting between the Socs and Greasers, but he still manages to overcome this major obstacle and conflict through his own means. Ponyboy tries to make sense of the situation by befriending a Soc named Sherry (nicknamed Cherry) Valance, whom he meets by chance in a movie theater. Ironically, Ponyboy’s actions in the movie theater are a perfect example of how Ponyboy yearns to have peace rather than war with others, and to make friends rather than enemies. Ponyboy enters the theater accompanied by Johnny and Dally, the latter of whom immediately realizes that the two girls in front of them are Socs. Because Dally believes all Socs to be enemies and jerks, he begins rapidly trash talking loudly behind them.

So they ran away to an abanded church and stayed there for four days until Dally came to get them they went to dairy queen and passed back by the church to see it on fire and there was five kids trapped in the church. So Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally went to go get the kids out of the church but Johnny got trapped inside so Dally went to go save him. They had to go to the hospital. Johnny died and after Dally robbed a bank and the cops had killed him.

On the first day, Ponyboy is found by the Soc’s and is attacked, only for his family and friends shortly to arrive to rescue him (Chapter 1). On the second day, Ponyboy finds a girl from the Socs, in which they go to the local movie theatre with Two-Bit and Johnny (Chapter 2 and 3). Then, later that night, Johnny murders Bob (from the Socs) as an act of self defense. Because of this, they have to run away from their town (Chapter 4). On the third day, Johnny and Ponyboy arrive at their runaway destination where Ponyboy cuts and bleaches his precious hair. They spend the next 5 days reading Gone with the Wind and smoking packs of cigarettes as time passes on (Chapter 5). On the eighth day, Dally, Johnny, and Ponyboy save children from a burning church. This results in Johnny having a broken back and the rest of them having minor injuries (Chapter 6). On the ninth day, the rumble occurs and the Greasers pull off a victory. Later that night, Johnny dies from the injuries that had happened to him when a piece of the building fell on his back. Because of this, Dally intended to rob a grocery store to die from the police officers by pulling out his heater (Chapter

The world of fiction captivates Ponyboy, a clue that he is not as hard and realistic as those he surrounds himself with. Immersing himself in stories through movies and books appeals to him, but even Johnny doesn’t see the point in the temporary escape from life. Ponyboy longs for life outside being a greaser. Ponyboy wants to have a better life through things like college, marriage, and a steady job. Clearly, Ponyboy is an outsider in the

When they entered the movie theater, they saw that nobody else was there only them and two girls who were sitting down front. Dally tried to annoy them because that’s what he likes to do. Sodapop and Ponyboy were tired of him so Sodapop stands up to him. He defends the them and as a reward, the girls affere them to sit with them. They agreed to that and watched the movie. During the movie, when they were getting snacks Cherry asks Ponyboy about Johnny and if he has been hurt before.

As the story unfolds, they go into hiding in a abandoned church on Jay Mountain. One day Dally comes by too see them and buys them food, but when they get back the church is ablaze. The three of them rush in to save the children trapped inside. Because of this heroic action, the newspaper publishes an article about them that is positive, however the fire badly injured Johnny and Dally. There was a big rumble that was going to happen.

In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy gets introduced by developing shyness and maybe even anxiety, but as the story goes on he becomes more open and talks more about how he his feeling about his family members, in the end he ends up matured. The Outsiders is a story about this boy named Ponyboy and his gang named the Greasers who are rivals with this other gang named the Socs. The story tells about how the Greasers fight against the Socs to gain respect in their world, but things start to change when Ponyboy’s brother Johnny kills one of the Socs best members. Before this text happened Ponyboy was just a normal boy that had nothing to do in life except for get in fights and trouble.