Ponyboy Conflicts

They were on their way to turn themselves in when they reached the top of Jay Mountain and realized the church that they were staying in was in flames. There were kids surrounding the church and they noticed screams coming from inside, Ponyboy and Johnny had a feeling it was their

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.

There are a lot of events leading up to Bob’s death, including almost drowning Ponyboy, going to the drive-in, and Johnny killing Bob, just to name a few. To start in chronological order, some of the boys go to see a drive-in movie, and they meet some sweet and attractive Soc girls. After the movie is over they decide to walk them back to Steve’s place so they can drive them home, because their house is far away from them. The next important event that happens is that Socs see the boys walking their girlfriends home, get mad at them, and demand the girls get in their blue mustang so they may take them home. The next day rolls around, and Bob and his crew roll up in their blue mustang and start to attack Johnny and Ponyboy. Ponyboy and Johnny

Then Ponyboy runs out the door, finds Johnny, and goes to the park. There, however, the two young greasers run into randy and bob, with a huge group of their Socs friends. One of the Socs friends hold pony boy’s head under a cold water fountain, and Ponyboy blacks out. When he comes to, he is lying on the ground next to Johnny. The bloody corps of bob is next to them. To save Ponyboy, Johnny had to kill bob.

To begin, Johnny is innocent for the murder of Bob concidering that Bob was killing Johnny’s third party Ponyboy, leaving Johnny to use self defence. “ ‘I had

One of the ways Darry shows his heroism is when he takes over as Ponyboy and Sodapop's parents. Darry is the oldest of the three brothers, so he felt that is was his duty to raise his brothers since his parents were killed in a car accident. "...Darry's gone through

At the end of the book Ponyboy finally comes to terms with the deaths of Johnny and Dally, and he finally realizes that violence is not the answer when he makes up with Darry. Darry and Ponyboy are shouting at each other, and Ponyboy asks Sodapop to take his side. This causes Sodapop to rush out of the house, and Ponyboy and Darry chase after him. When they finally catch up Sodapop tells them he feels sick of being pulled apart by their fights. Ponyboy sympathizes with Sodapop as he says in the text: “Darry and I did play tug of war with him, with never a thought to how much it was hurting him.” Ponyboy suddenly understands what his fighting with Darry has done to Sodapop, and later in their conversation Ponyboy realizes why he never got along with Darry: “I saw that I had expected Darry to do all the understanding without even trying to

The Greasers and the Socs' Are two rival gangs who try to claim there place in a small town. Throughout the book and movie an interesting twist occurs, Ponyboy runs away and meets with Johnny Cade, they walk throughout a vacant lot and didn't expect to see the Socs' and their blue Mustang . This is when the interesting twist occurs one of the greasers called Bob had tried to drown Ponyboy and Johnny having no choice, killed him with a switch blade. The movie had quite a turn as it included different details.

Towards the middle of the story, a boy named Johnny had killed a Soc that was drowning Ponyboy. He and Ponyboy fled the city to another town, and hid in an abandon church there for a week. When they were going to leave, they realized the church was on fire and there was kids trapped inside. Johnny and Pony were good friends and they decided to go help the children. After they rescued the children, they had to escape the burning, ravaged building. A flaming, steaming hot beam from the ceiling fell on Johnny. After this happened, Pony passed out, “ I leaped out the window and heard timber crashing and the flames roaring right behind me. I staggered, almost

To begin with, Johnny stabs Bob, the Soc, with his switchblade because Bob was about to brutally beat Johnny up with his rings on his bare hands and his hurtful words from his crude, deceptive mouth. Johnny also stabs Bob because Bob’s gang was trying to drown Ponyboy, so if he was able to stab Bob then his nasty and cruel gang would leave Ponyboy alone. When Johnny stabs Bob, his plan ends up working and the other socs runaway because they got frightened at the sight of Johnny stabbing and killing their what used to be alive friend. “ I killed him, he said slowly. I killed that boy. (56)” Johnny says this to Ponyboy as he awakens; coughing up water from nearly being drowned by Bob’s gang. When the socs runaway they go and try to find police. Because of this, Johnny and Ponyboy now have to run away in order for them not to be caught and punished by

It did not sit right with them. The men got out of the car and started taunting the two boys. Johnny did not feel good about this because one of the men that were standing in front of him had recently jumped him. He was scared for life. Johnny promised if anyone tried to jump him again he would kill them. This was not a lie. Pony was grabbed by Bob and he attempted to drown Pony in the nearby fountain. Johnny was angry at the fact that his friend could possibly die in front of his eyes. Johnny pulled out his 6 inch switchblade and stabbed Bob to death in hopes of saving Pony, that's exactly what he did.

On page ____, it states that when the church fire was happening Ponyboy and Dally told Johnny to get out of the fire. A piece of the roof was about to fall on him, then they had to go to the hospital because Johnny almost burned in the fire so they went to the hospital to visit Johnny. Johnny told Ponyboy to stay gold. When Ponyboy and Dally tried to save him from getting burned they had to rush to the hospital because he got hurt.

But for johnny he had no other option it was either save ponyboy or let the socs drown him. Bob had no idea his life would end so fast in the blink of an eye it was either him or pony he had to choose one risking someone else's life to save another ,and ending up turning into a fatal accident johnny would never imagine of hurting anyone.

Firstly, in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton multiple characters must learn how to make critical decisions to help them mature. In a town in Oklahoma, Ponyboy and his friends stick together like family- as Greasers. The label “Greasers” is mostly used to distinguish the rich from the poor in the town, while “Socs” is used for the snobby, rich people in the town. There is a rivalry between the two groups; Socs and Greasers are always fighting and harassing each other. Johnny had killed the Soc, Bob, in defense of Ponyboy that was being drowned in a fountain.

Ponyboy and Johnny risk their lives in order to save someone else. While saving the children from the fire, Johnny is last to leave the church and so while exiting the roof collapsed on johnny. Johnny receives severe third degree burns on much of his body. His back is broken and the doctors inform Darry and Ponyboy that Johnny will most likely be paralyzed if he survives his injuries. While Ponyboy and Dallas soon recover from their injuries, Johnny seems to get worse as the days pass.