Freddie's Short Story: What The Hell?

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 reporters and police interview Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry in the hospital waiting room. Sodapop jokes with the reporters and hospital staff. The doctors finally come and say that Dally will be fine but that Johnny’s back was broken when the roof caved in. Even if Johnny survives, they add, he will be permanently disabled. The next morning, Ponyboy is making breakfast when Steve Randle (Sodapop’s best friend) and Two-Bit come in with the morning newspaper. The papers draw Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally as heroes for rescuing the schoolchildren. They also mention Ponyboy’s excellent performance on the track team, in school. The papers mention that the state will charge Johnny with manslaughter and send both Ponyboy and Johnny to juvenile court.

When the three of them get back to the church they realize there’s a fire and a group of kids are trapped in the inside. Without a hesitation Johnny and Ponyboy enter to the church to save the trapped kids and are able to save them but the church collapses, Dally runs to save Ponyboy and Johnny but can’t really help Johnny so he breaks his back and is taken to the hospital, but after some days he dies. With Johnny’s death everyone in the gang gets really sad but no one ever expected Dallas Winston, the toughest of them all to be so affected by it. At the end Dallas cannot handle the loss so he makes a plan to kill himself without him really doing it; he robs a shop so the police would chase him, calls the greasers to go to the parking lot so they could help him but at the parking lot he gets out of his car and takes out his unloaded gun, since the police didn’t know the gun was unloaded they shot him and he dies, in front of the gang.

Melanie sees them in the sky and her eyes follow the birds to the playground where one hundred or more birds look back at her. Frightened, Melanie slowly walks back into the classroom to warn the class about the crazy number of birds outside. They decide to run down to the hotel for safety. On their way there, the birds fly towards the children with one motive: to kill. The children scream as they are being attacked by the deadly birds.

Jose's story was truly inspiring to me, he came to this country not realizing he wasnt exactly called an American. He found out at the DMV and then ran back to his grandparents asking them what the DMV meant, after that he begin to stand up for himself. He faced some problems growing up not exactly being called an "American" like possibly not being able to attend a field trip out of the country. But Jose's teacher did something amazing, she turned the whole trip around and made sure they would stay in the United States so Jose would be able to go. I think this teacher is a wonderful lady and I would love to become half the teacher she is.

In doing so Johnny stabs and kills one of the soc’s and the others flee. With help from a friend, Ponyboy and Johnny are able to leave town, they end up on the top of a hill where there's an abandoned church. At the church Ponyboy debates with himself, dealing with whether or not he should turn himself in, and how this will affect Johnny and his family. Johnny and Ponyboy decide to leave the church with the friend who helped them escape to get lunch. When they get back, the church is on fire, there was a class on a field trip that had stopped on top of the hill to have a picnic, when it erupted into flames. The teachers did not realize that there were still about five kids left in the church, but when they got the news both Ponyboy and Johnny ran towards the church to help them. Throwing kid after kid out of the window, all of them got out safely, besides Ponyboy and Johnny who were left unconscious. In the ambulance all Ponyboy could think about was Johnny where he was, how he was doing and what happens next, then he goes unconscious again. When Ponyboy wakes up, he is at the hospital looking into the eyes of Sodapop and

“I need to get back to the station and sort out the evidence for the detective,” Jimeleta said.

When the HJ kids are standing amidst the party, Peter notices that one of the members is a former swing kid named Emil. He and his colleagues could not comprehend as to why Emil would join the Hitler Youth. The next day arrived, and one of his friends, Thomas, was accompanying Peter down the street. In the window of a shop, Peter notices the radio that the Nazi officer had taken just days before; Peter and Thomas decide to steal it. However, Peter was taken into custody, and he was told to join the Hitler Youth if he did not want to face any worse consequences. On the first day he was enrolled, he noticed a familiar face had joined also: Thomas. Thomas believed that they could be “HJ by day and swing kids by night.” Days after, other members of the Hitler Youth find Arvid, Peter’s crippled friend, trying to dance while he walks. Arvid was carrying a new swing record in his hand, and the HJ boys break it, and then beat him in the street. Due to this encounter, Arvid stays on edge around anyone in a Nazi uniform, therefore creating tension between Thomas, Arvid, and

No parents. Two brothers. Friends that stick together. With thoughts swirling in his mind, fourteen year old, Ponyboy Curtis steps out the movie house. Ponyboy, a greaser, with Johnny Cade kill Bob Sheldon, a Soc, in self defense.

While hiding at the church, johhny suprises ponyboy and dally that he wants to go back to their town and turn himself in to the police. Dally, who is very supriesed about his descion, tells johnny absolutly not because he does not want to see pony harden as a person in prison like he himself did. However, johnny inists this is what he has to do and the boys decide to leave. When the trio were leaving they saw that the church was on fire. Darry said to leave the church but ponyboy and johnny rush to help. They here that their are kids stuck in the burning building and they rush to get inside and help. While inside the building, flames are everywhere and the building is collapsing. Ponyboy and johhny get the children out but johnny and ponyboy

Two boys, Johnny Cade and Ponyboy Curtis were sitting by a fountain in the park near their homes after a heated argument went physical. Angry and upset, Ponyboy ran off, taking Johnny with him. After a seven block run, the pair stopped in the park. At around 2:30am, a blue mustang circled the area, until five drunken teens stumbled out heading towards Johnny and Ponyboy. They closed in on them, leaving them unable to run.

Ponyboy Curtis, an innocent young adult, that has nothing to prove to anybody, is in the gang called the Greasers, and gets caught up in a lot of trouble because him and his friend Johnny Cake, take a walk after Darry Curtis, (Ponyboy’s oldest brother ) hits him after an argument. During that walk, the opposing gang, the Socs, gang up on Ponyboy and start beating him up. In reaction, Johnny approaches the Socs from behind and stabs one of them to save Ponyboy from drowning to death. After the Soc was stabbed to death the others ran off in fear, and Johnny and Ponyboy take off away from the scene and go to Johnny’s best friend, Dallas Winston for advice. Dallas tells them to go off to an abandoned church on a hill, but to get there, they would have to take a train. When they got there, they would need to spend the money he gave them on food, and items to change their appearance. So the two boys took Dally’s advice, and took off.

Within this novella, the boys had differing opinions that conflicted with each other, such as Chris and Gordie with their issues in family life or with Teddy and Vern about comics and their own likes. The boys tended to argue about life-saving actions such as Gordie saving Teddy from the train just to “... do the right thing” (344). Their arguments stepped further after the boys’ conflict with the older gang where Chris called Teddy a chicken for running away due to the hail, and Vern, due to him running away first, was called a “‘... mind reader’” (431). Eventually, the boys ended up arguing with each other about the fate of the body if they should report it or not. The reasons for the boys breaking apart were copious, yet in the end, there was no contempt amongst them even when they were in need of each other, still “skinning” each other and waiting to see each other at

The greasers and the socs do not get along very well and every once and awhile, have fights or rumbles to temporarily settle their feud. One day, Ponyboy and his best friend Johnny decide not to go home but to hang out in the empty parking lot and before they know it, they both fall asleep watching the stars. Ponyboy then wakes up and realizes that he has a curfew and runs to get home, arriving two hours late. Darry gets very upset with Ponyboy and accidentally hits him which causes Pony to run out of the house, and back to the lot to find Johnny and “run away” to the park with him. At the park they realize that they are being watched and find some of the socs beating them up. One of the boys is trying to drown Ponyboy in the fountain at the park when Johnny decides to take matters into his own hands and stabs and kills Bob; the soc trying to kill Ponyboy. Pony and Johnny then decide to ask their friend Dally for help. Dally tells them to hop on a train and go to an abandoned church to stay safe. He then gives them a gun, money, and sends them on their way. Once they get to the church, Ponyboy and Johnny decide to stay out of sight and stay in the church for a couple of days before Dally finds them and tells them that they are all safe to come back

At the park, Cherry and Marcia’s soc boyfriends reappear with a group and fight the greaser boys. At one point in the fight, The greasers are holding Ponyboy’s head under the fountain, attempting to drown him. Johnny is helplessly trying to free Ponyboy, and in the spur of the moment, Stabs a soc named Bob with his switchblade, killing him.