Summary Of S. E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders'

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

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.

Ponyboy and Johnny run away to a train, which took them to a old church. The two boys try to get rid of their identity by bleaching and cutting there hair. Ponyboy didn't wanna cut his hair but Johnny told him it will grow back. So later the two boys smoked which caught the church on fire.

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.

Ponyboy and Johnny had spent the night with two Soc girls, Cherry and Marcia, until their boyfriends, Bob and Randy, came and picked them up in the blue Mustang. Ponyboy goes home and Darry, Pony’s older brother who is like a parent figure to him ever since their parents died, gets mad about Pony being out late at night and hits him. Pony runs back to the park and finds Johnny. Soon after, the blue Mustang showed up with Bob and his group inside. In the text, Ponyboy states “When a sudden blast from a car horn made us both jump.

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

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.

Ponyboy gets jumped by the Socs so Johnny kills Bob. Ponyboy says , On page 56 Johnny kills Bob while his Soc friends were trying to drown Ponyboy. This causes Johnny and Pony to be on the run from the authorities. When the Socs jumped Johnny in the beginning of the book they turned him into a person he was not

The Outsiders is a book about a boy named Ponyboy who gets mixed up in a murder case while living the rivalry between the Socs and the Greasers. The two gangs have hated each other for the majority of their lives. When Johnny, Pony’s friend, kills the Soc named Bob, they turn to Dallas Winston, or Dally for short. In the end of the story Johnny passes away after saving children from the burning church.

This book showed the struggle between rich and poor. The two main groups of the story were the Socs and the greasers. The Socs are in the upper class while the greasers are the poor ones that dislike the Socs because they have more money, better cars, and act like they are better than the greasers. The Outsiders is a good story by S.E. Hinton that shows the struggles of growing up Hinton did a fine job with the character development, the plot, and the theme with a few flaws.

They kicked Johnny off to the side and started drowning Ponyboy in the fountain. Johnny

Dally tells Johnny and Pony that he will meet them at an old church. Johnny and Pony take a train and ask for help when they arrive close to the destination. Pony and Johnny stay in the church longer than they do in the movie. When Dally comes everyone goes to dairy queen to eat. After saving kids from the burning church Johnny and Dally are sent to the ER.

Johnny had stabbed Bob to make him stop. That is when Bob had died. Ponyboy ran away with Johnny even though it meant he could get in a bunch of trouble. He cared deeply for Johnny and stayed with him through it all.

Bob and his friends were drunk and they were driving around and found Ponyboy and Johnny. The socs pulled up and got out of there car and started fighting with Ponyboy and Johnny. Then the socs got Ponyboy and tried to drown him in a fountain. So Johnny thought that they were going to kill him so he pulled his switchblade out and killed Bob. When he killed Bob all the other socs ran away.

Johnny and Ponyboy then suddenly think that they started the fire because of their cigarette butt. The boys jump out of the car to figure out what's going on and they ran towards the church. Johnny ran into the burning church trying to save the kids that were stuck in there and he was burned and injured severely. He and Dally were able to save all the children, but Johnny died later in the