Summary Of The Book Ponyboys Book Report

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.

The film opens with the infamous scene portrayed in the novel where the main character, Ponyboy Curtis (C. Thomas Howell), is walking home alone from the movies in which he is followed by a group of wealthy teens who live in the South Side of Tulsa, also known as Socs. It soon escalates when the rival social group starts to attack, or “jump,” Ponyboy. The rest of the movie continues to display the tension between the Socs and greasers, until Ponyboy and another one of his greaser friends, Johnny Cade (Ralph Macchio), get into a fight with some Socs after they befriended their girlfriends Cherry Valance (Diane Lane) and Marcia (Michelle Meyrink) unknowingly at a drive-in. The drunk Socs, which include Bob Sheldon (Leif Garrett) and Randy Adderson (Darren Dalton), begin to drown Ponyboy, causing Johnny to panic and stab Bob. As these events unravel and lead to the two boys running away with the help of their hoodlum friend, Dally (Matt Dillon), it becomes more and more clear that even some of the most

Realizing Pony and Johnny are outnumbered one of the Socs grabs Ponyboy and shove him face first into the fountain and drowns him. Apprehending that Ponyboy is drowning, Johnny panics, pulls his switchblade, and kills the Soc. Not knowing what to do they go to seek help from Dally. He gives them $50 and directions to a church outside of town. The boys get on a freight train and find the hideout where they are to wait until Dally comes for them.

Lying in bed, staring at the ceiling. I was so bored that I was going to meet up with the gang when i heard yelling from the other room. “ Johnny get in here and clean this room! It’s a mess and I ain’t gonna raise messy children.”, said Dad. I knew i hadn’t made that mess. They got drunk and threw a lot of things everywhere. But, my parents just don’t like me much and I’m used to that. After I finished cleaning the room. I immediately went into the kitchen. They don’t care about me at all. They wouldn’t even care if I died. It was a late afternoon and I was starting to get hungry. I looked in the fridge for something to eat. There wasn’t much. Just baked beans, a loaf of bread and ham. I decided I would have a ham sandwich.

They all started at the movies. They tell someone they killed one the the person from the gang called the Soshes. Ponyboy ran away. Ponyboy and Johnny cut and bleached their hair so they don't look noticeable for their crimes. They got kids out a burning school. They went to the hospital and Ponyboy

Ponyboy (who was being drowned by another Soc) and Johnny started running and worrying about the cops and decided to go to Dally and see what he would say. Dally said that there was an abandon church that they could hide at and gave them some money and a gun. Dally told them that they had to get on a train to get to the church. So they hide out at the church for some time until Dally decided to check on then.

Kaia DiMarco                                                         12/7/17 English essay                                        period 3 In the novel the outsiders by S.E. Hinton Johnny, Dally and Ponyboy have each others backs and would do anything to save one another and other people, even if it meant their lives were at risk. They are not the only heroes of this story but they stick out among the rest. “I swear you three are the bravest kids i've seen in a long time”

Dally knew where the safest places were to go if anything happened. He instructed Ponyboy and Johnny to go to Jay mountain, there would be a church there on top of the mountain and that's where he told them to stay. Dally was very tough he once lived and New York and got into a lot of fights there. This quote proves‘’Dally had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age of ten’’ Pg 12. Dally also changed mentally he didn't care about anything anymore and he was always there if any of the Greasers needed help. Dally also died, He got and to a fight with the cops after Johnny died he robbed a store and then got shot by the police in a park. Dally was a giving person he gave Johnny and Ponyboy a big shirt, a gun, and 50 dollars so that they can buy food in the town that they were heading

Ponyboy: How's Sodapop? Are the fuzz after us? Is Darry all right? Do the boys know where we are? What…

Ponyboy, Johnny, Sodapop, Darry are all a part of the unruly gang, the Greasers. S.E Hinton is writing these characters as rebellious young men, with a harsh background, who takes their anger and hardship out on gang fighting. These roles play an important part in this book because it shows that even though they nothing physically, they have a heart stronger than gold for each other and others mentally. Hinton use these characters to show prejudice leads to wrong conclusions, violence and oppression because these “poor” young men are getting beat up by the rich Socs who have never felt the feeling of being in poverty. “ You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you’re in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don’t stick up for them, stick together, make

Johnny and Dally’s deaths rip through the Greasers. Ponyboy takes it so hard that for a long time he denies that his friends are gone. He says that Johnny is not dead and neither is Dally. He stops trying in school and overall loses motivation, finding simple tasks to be too much work. Coping is not easy for him, but eventually Ponyboy comes to terms with his friends’ deaths.

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.

Not to mention, protection is also an important and fundamental, and Sodapop and Darrel effectively take care of the young Ponyboy. In any situation they will protect the minor, even if there are gang conflicts outside of their neighborhood, the minor will be protected by his oldest brothers, and as a matter of fact, Ponyboy is in good hands with his brothers. As said in their neighborhood, "they have each others back"

The oldest brother of Ponyboy is Darry, a twenty-year-old roofer who Ponyboy describes as someone who is “hard and firm and rarely grins at all,” in comparison to Soda (page 2). Then there is Johnny, who is the second-youngest greaser in their gang, besides Ponyboy. Johnny is “smaller than the rest, with a slight build. He had big black eyes in a dark tanned face; his hair was jet-black and heavily greased and combed to the side, but it was so long that it fell in shaggy bangs across his forehead. He had a nervous, suspicious look in his eyes… He was the gang’s pet, everyone’s kid brother.” (Pages 11-12)

Ponyboy Curtis - The novel's fourteen-year-old narrator and protagonist, and the youngest of the greasers. Ponyboy's literary interests and academic accomplishments set him apart from the rest of his gang. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense, but Ponyboy is a reliable and observant narrator. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love. He matures over the course of the novel, eventually realizing the importance of strength in the face of class bias.