Would you want your city to be separated into two cliques, and if you associate with the other clique, you could be killed? The main character, Ponyboy, has to deal with this every day, and events in the book make his life harder, but with the help of the author, S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy’s family and friends helps him overcome these tough times and settings. Many stories have interesting characters and a enticing setting, not unlike this one. Ponyboy is a 14 year old Greaser which means his family is poor, unlike his rivals, the Socs, who are very wealthy. He is smart and loves to read, although his favorite book, Gone With The Wind reminds him of Johnny, his best friend. Ponyboy has two brothers, Sodapop and Darry; he has a good relationship with …show more content…
Johnny is scared and uses a switchblade to protect himself, killing a Soc. Afraid to go home, Johnny turns to their friend Dally for help. Dally gives them $50 and a loaded gun and tells them to hide out at the abandoned church in Windrixville. They spend the night there and in the morning, Ponyboy and Johnny give each other haircuts, cutting off their long hair to hide their identities. After several days, Dally comes and takes them to Dairy Queen to tell them that the Socs and Greasers are having a war. As they are driving back to their hometown, they see that the church is on fire. Ponyboy and Johnny go in to save the kids, but Johnny is injured by a falling beam, breaking his back. Both boys are taken to the hospital and Ponyboy is released while Johnny must stay. After several days of worry for Johnny, the Socs and Greasers have their rumble with the Greasers victorious. Ponyboy and his friends go to the hospital to bring the news to Johnny but after only a few moments of visiting, Johnny dies. After a few days, Ponyboy goes to a court hearing for the Soc’s death, but nothing happens to him. Then Ponyboy goes back to school and has to write a report on something important to him. When he gets home that day he picks up the book he had been reading to Johnny, Gone With The Wind, and finds a note inside that says what Ponyboy’s favorite poem means. Johnny’s note says that the poem means when you
First, the beginnings are quite different. In the book, the story begins with Ponyboy leaving the theater, thinking to himself while walking home. He chose to walk alone, which in this story, is beyond being a bad idea! This results in Ponyboy getting jumped by the wealthier kids, known as the “Soc's”.
Ponyboy was a bad kid, he fought against Socs and he even smoked a weed, which is a cigarette. Later on he got into worse trouble and had to hide. He wanted to change and be a different person. While he hid he was scared and frightened and was beginning to think of how he was doing in life, and his thoughts were not very well. After the church incident, he began to change a little.
In chapter one we are introduced to our narrator, Ponyboy. Ponyboy is raised by his two older brothers Darry and Soda. They’re all apart of a gang called the “greasers” which is joined by Dally, Johnny, Two-bit, and Steve. There is another group called “ socs” which stands for socials, and everyone in that group is very wealthy. One day Ponyboy got jumped by a socs group, but luckily Darry was there to help before anything too serious happened. The first element of literature is characterization. Ponyboy is a keen observer, trying to make sense of the complexities of those around him. At the beginning of the story, he stops and spends several pages giving us brief character description on Steve, Two-Bit, Dally, and Johnny. This is also known as direct characterization. He tells us that Steve is "cocky and smart" ( Hinton 9). Two-Bit can 't stop joking around and goes to school for "kicks" (Hinton 10) rather than to learn. Dallas, he says, is "tougher, colder, meaner" ( Hinton 10) than the rest of them.
The main character of this book is Ponyboy. Ponyboy was a Greaser he was different from all the others he liked books and movies. Nobody in the Greasers digged books and movies the way Ponyboy did. Ponyboy was fourteen years old and he had two brothers that he lived with his older brother Darrel who they call Darry and his second older brother Sodapop who was sixteen going on seventeen. Ponyboy only live with his brothers because they mother and father was killed in a car accident. Ponyboy wanted to be like a movie star Paul Newman he wished he looked like him. Ponyboy always thought his brother Darry never cared about him or anything else. Ponyboy had a friend Jonny. Johnny was a Greaser too but he was the softest one but after he got jumped that changed he always carried a switchblade on him.
Showing that Ponyboy was very inexperienced and thought Mickey Mouse Sodas horse was just like Soda and they were brothers.Thirdly, we see how some actions Ponyboy’s gang does help show the need for childhood innocence like when pony says,” Darrel, who we call Darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story or drawing a picture,” (Hinton 3). Darry is only 20 and he has a job working on roofs he works so hard so he can care for his brothers Soda and Ponyboy he has no time to be a kid himself he is working like a man when he is only a child.While some believe the main theme is brotherly love I argue its preserving childhood innocence. While this is a good point, because Ponyboy’s group definitely sticks up for one another in a brotherly fashion, it lays a strong foundation for preserving childhood innocence. Jonny had never been a coward he was a good man in a rumble, (Hinton 34) this shows how has Johnny loses his innocence, he becomes fearful of the Soc’s and begins to carry a switchblade to keep his gang safe, you might think this shows brotherly love, but it also shows preserving childhood innocence because when Johnny got used to being targeted by the Soc’s he lost his innocence, that’s why he would carry stuff like switch blades to keep him and others safe from the Soc’s. While the Greasers grew up they lost more and more of their innocence to rumbles and hatred of the Soc’s.
the beginning of the book chapter 1 Ponyboy went to the movies alone on the way home some greasers jump him and in the right moment his group members save him from getting beat.
The book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, follows a horrific part of the life of a boy named Ponyboy Curtis. He is what you might call a Greaser, and has had a rough go at it in his life compared to others. It is difficult, but Ponyboy somehow manages to be himself and has the tenacity to stick through it all. He is in a gang with his friends and family and they are loyal to one another no matter what. A rival gang from the Socs crowd, a richer, more refined group, send him and his pals into a whirlwind of trouble and hurt. This book shows on multiple occasions that perseverance is necessary to get through life .
...utside world, where you must learn to hate and neglect. Johnny enjoys reading, as he really enjoys reading “Gone with the wind.” Dally meanwhile, is described as not having the “shade of difference that separates a Greaser from a hood” on page fourteen. Dally is rough while Johnny is soft. Dally reflects hatred while Johnny reflects sensitivity. Therefore, when Dally and Johnny both die, Ponyboy feels like he has lost himself, because two major people who had such a big influence on him has left him.
His parents died when he was young. He was nurtured by his older brothers. Pony has to struggle at the bottom of the social ladder. Like the people around him, he has to fight, steal and scare little kids. However, Pony remained a pure heart, a golden heart. He only fights when he has to defend himself. He kept his heart of sympathy, understanding of others and think for the others. Like in when the church was burned, he understands the situation of the teacher and children. So he risked his life to safe the kids. The most straight forward example and conclusion of Pony’s good heart is the word of Johnny, “Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold…” Moreover, Ponyboy is a thinker. He can think for the opposite side of his gang, the Socs. Although the Socs almost drowned him, he can still understand the Socs and didn’t be blinded by the hate. He in the chaos and impulsive world can see through the surface of the conflict and see the core of the world that people are the same. That is really amazing and Ponyboy does have the board mind of a hero.
The main characters are Ponyboy Michael Curtis Johnny Cade, Steve Randle, Dallas Winston, Darrel "Darry" Shaynne Curtis, Jr., Keith "Two-Bit" Mathews, and Sodapop Patrick Curtis, a gang of Greasers in Tulsa. Ponyboy whose two older brothers are Darry and Sodapop narrates the story. The three boys are orphaned after a car accident kills their parents and Darry is left to provide for them.
They were enjoying a pleasant discussion until the Socs surrounded them, barricading every potential escape route. They started towards Ponyboy and submerged his head under the fountain, suffocating him. Johnny was frightened and jabbed the Soc in the abdomen, killing him. The boys were both aghast by what had just occurred and proceeded to ask Dally for help. Dally aided them with an escape route, some cash, and a jacket, hoping that it was enough. The boys journeyed to the small town of Winndrixvill as fugitives. There, they resided at an abandoned church for 5 days. On the sixth day, the boys went to the supermarket to buy some necessities, however when they returned a problem awaited. The church had been set on fire and there were children trapped inside. Ponyboy and Johnny dashed inside, and began to rescue the children one by one, until they were all out of the building. However, one boy remained, Johnny. Before he could even blink, the roof collapsed and he was trapped under the
First, Johnny and Dally both die tragically after making unwise decisions in their lives. Johnny died while rescuing children from a burning church and in the eyes of the rescued children’s parents was a hero. But reluctantly this was not the case. In fact, Johnny had just killed a rival member from the Soc’s in self-defense. After which Johnny tells Ponyboy “‘I killed him,’ he said slowly. ‘I killed that boy.’ As Bob, the handsome Soc was lying there in the moonlight a dark pool growing
This story is mostly about Ponyboy, Johnny, Sodapop, Dally, Cherry, Darry and Two-bit. Ponyboy is the youngest one out of the group. He's only 14 years old. Everyone, except Cherry,Dally and Two-Bit live together and Darry is the oldest of the boys. Ponyboy and his brother Sodapop have been living with their brother Darry since their parents were killed in a car accident.
Ponyboy Curtis struggles growing up as a poor youth with his two brothers. One night while he is out with Johnny, Ponyboy is attacked by the Socs. Johnny ends up killing one of the Socs. They both flee from the scene before the news gets out. They are caught in a fire and Johnny and Ponyboy become heroes for saving some children. The story has a tragic end for Johnny but Ponyboy realises that he is fortunate, having family and friends that love him
The story opens with Ponyboy walking home alone from a movie; he is stopped by a gang of Socs who proceed to stop there car and beat him up. The Socs badly injure and threaten to kill Ponyboy; however, some of ponyboy’s gang happen upon the scene and scare off the Socs.