Walking home from a movie, Ponyboy is attacked by a group of Socs, the greasers’ rivals, who are upper-class youths from the West Side of town. The greasers' rivals are the Socs, short for Socials, who are the "West-side rich kids. Summary. She has also testified that Bob was drunk the night of his death and that she was sure that the killing had been in self-defense.Johnny decides that he has a chance now, and announces that he wants to turn himself in. Dally also brings them the news that Cherry Valance is now being a spy for the greasers, and helping them out against the Socs. Some of the boys realize the rumble will accomplish nothing, with the questions being if they can convince their colleagues of the same, and if not what the consequences will be.Based on the book by S.E. The boys offer to walk the girls home after the movie, but along the way, the girls' boyfriends reappear and threaten to fight the greasers. Other than being financially and socially disadvantaged, the Greasers' main problem is getting jumped by the Socs, the rich kids from the West Side. As they are handing the kids outside to Dally, the burning roof collapses. and any corresponding bookmarks? The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. This sets off a chain of events.The tension between two groups: The Greasers and The Socs puts Ponyboy Curtis and his best friend Johnny Cade in a bad spot. A connection between the two gangs happens in the form of Ponyboy and Cherry Valance, which doesn't sit well with Cherry's Soc boyfriend, Bob Sheldon. from your Reading List will also remove any
Then they realize they must hide from everybody else before things get arwy almost immediately.It is 1965, and Tulsa, Oklahoma is divided in two along social lines. Cherry stops the fight from happening, and the girls leave with their boyfriends.Pony and Johnny go to a vacant lot to hang out before heading home. They both cut their hair, and Pony colors his for a disguise. Overview S.E. One night, after Pony and Johnny are ambushed, they decide to hide out of town when Bob gets killed. The rest of the world sees the Greasers as all the same, the face being Dallas Winston, the most volatile one who has just been released from prison, despite each boy having his own specific view of life. Pony and Soda are allowed to stay under Darry's guardianship as long as they all behave themselves. … A school group is there, apparently on some kind of outing, and little kids are trapped inside. They are all members of a Greaser gang, meaning they are considered hoods or juvenile delinquents by society.
"The story opens with Pony walking home alone from a movie; he is stopped by a gang of Socs who proceed to beat him up. Hiding in an abandoned, rural church, they feel like real outsiders, with their greased, long hair and general hoody appearance. bookmarked pages associated with this title. This incident sets the tone for the rest of the story, because the event tells the reader that a fight between these two groups needs no provocation.The next night Pony and two other gang members, Dallas Winston (Dally) and Johnny Cade, go to a drive-in movie. Fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis is the youngest of three orphaned brothers who live on the north side of town, the "wrong side" of the tracks. The seven have had a longtime rivalry with another clan in the west known as the "Socs", that consist of Randy, Bob, Cherry, and Marcia. Removing #book# One night at the movies, Ponyboy and Johnny fall in love with Sherri "Cherry" Valance and Marcia, once they get Dally Winston, the toughest and meanest of the Greasers to stop attempting to "score" with the girls. Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1965. They all belong to The Greasers, a gang of boys from the north side also from working class families, often broken. The boys are greasers, a class term that refers to the young men on the East Side, the poor side of town.
Dally is overcome with grief, and he robs a grocery store. Sensitive Ponyboy used to have a good relationship with his oldest brother Darrel, but since Darrel became the household caregiver, he is always on Ponyboy's case. The gangs are divided by socioeconomic status. Beyond Ponyboy and Johnny's lives being threatened by that incident, the Greasers and the Socs agree to a rumble to settle things once and for all. Darry is furious with Pony and, in the heat of the moment, he hits him. Summaries The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other. He lives with his two older brothers, Sodapop and Darry, jokester Two-Bit, Soda's friend, Steve, the toughest, Dally, and weakling, Johnny. Pony wants to run away, but instead they go to the park to cool off before heading back home.At the park, Cherry's and Marcia's boyfriends reappear.
Test Prep Caught in the middle is third brother Sodapop, who dropped out of school to work full time. He also believes Darrel would have outgrown them and become something in his life if it wasn't for his loyalty to the gang, and the need to take care of the family.
The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. © 2020 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Hinton’s The Outsiders was published in 1967 when she was just 18 years old. Pony and Johnny are outnumbered, and the Socs grab Ponyboy and shove him face first into the fountain, holding his head under the water. The two sides use any opportunity to niggle each other and whenever they meet, there is friction. Dally leaves after giving the girls a hard time, but another greaser, Two-Bit Mathews, joins Pony and Johnny. Book Summary. All rights reserved.