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The Outsiders
Main Characters
Ponyboy, he is the main character of The Outsiders book, he is fourteen and is the youngest out of his other two brothers, Darry and Sodapop. He likes reading books and going to the movies and he does good in school.
Sodapop, he is sixteen and is the middle child between Dally and Ponyboy. Ponyboy says his looks are like the movie-star kind of handsome, he is thoughtful yet reckless at the same time. Sodapop is a dropout, he works at a gas station to help support the family, he works with a friend named Steve at the gas station. He is also very close to Ponyboy.
Darry, he is twenty and the oldest of his brothers. he works 2 jobs to support the family, their parents died in a car crash so it's up to Darry to support the family finacially. Darry is tall broad shouldered and handsome, his looks very much resemble his dad's looks. He is hard on Ponyboy about his grades and getting into trouble but he cares about Pony very much.
Steve Randle, he is seventeen tall and lean with thick greasy hair. He is cocky smart and Soda's best buddy since grade school. His speciality was cars, he knew them upside-down and backwards, he could just about drive anything with wheels. Their station always got more customers than any other station in town it was either Soda's looks or Steve's expertise. Ponyboy only like Steve because he was Soda's best buddy.
Two-Bit Mathews, he was the oldest of the. gang and the wisecrackerof the bunch, he is around the same height as Darry, stocky in build and has rusty-coloured side-burns that he is very proud of. Two-Bit wouldn't be able to stop making funny remarks to save his life. You wouldn't be able to shut that guy up; he always had to get his two-bits worth in. Hence his name. Life was a big joke to him. He was famous for shoplifting and his black-handled switchblade.
Dallas Winston (Dally), he was the real character of the gang. He spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested by the age of ten. He was tougher than the rest of the gang, tougher, colder and meaner than the rest of the gang. In New York he would blow off steam in gang fights but in their town organized gang fight are rare. He had quite a reputation. He did just about anything and the police have a file on him, Pony didn't like him but you had to respect him.
Johnny Cade, last and least he is like a dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers. He was the second youngest just two years older than Ponyboy. He had a nervous, suspicious look in his eyes. He was the gang's pet everyone's kid brother. His father was always beating him up and his mother ignored him. If it wasn't for the gang being there for him he would've ran off by now.
Settings
Most of the story in The Outsiders takes place at a town in Oklahoma, but around the middle of the book a little bit of it takes place at an old abandoned church up at a place called Jay mountain. After they go up there they rest of the book is in the town.
Conflicts
Most of the conflicts are with Greasers and Socs. At the start of the story it's the Socs that jump Ponyboy, in the midle of the story it's also Socs who almost drowned Ponyboy and Johnny had to stab the Soc. But Ponyboy also has internal problems with his understanding of how Greasers and Socs are different but also alike and the with his family. the Socs caused Johnny to go to the hospital since they were the ones that tried to drown Pony which led to the events after but, if it wasn't for them going and staying at the Church the kids might have died from the fire.
Climax
The climax was either around the church fire or later when he fully realized that the Socs were like the Greasers and they had their own kinds of problems.
Events
At the start of the story Ponyboy gets jumped by some Socs but some of the gang members were there to help him. Here Pony introduces them in the book.
Pony, Dally and Johnny are going to a movie theatre, Dally leaves to go get something and they make friends with these 17 and 16 year old girl Socs. They find out that the girls go to the same school as Ponyboy and they talk a bit. After a while Two-Bit comes to check up on Ponyboy and Johnny.
They start walking the girls home since the girls don't have car and their boyfriends left with the car. They talked and Ponyboy says Socs have it good since they are basically rich, smart and get to do about whatever they want, but Cherry says that Socs also have their own problems even if it doesn't seem like it. Their boyfriends reach them and pick up the girls Two-bit was prepared to fight but Cherry said she didn't like fighting so they just went.
After that Two-Bit left and Johnny and Pony deicide to sleep on the grass. After Ponyboy wakes up he says he is going to go home but johnny said he would stay, when Pony got home Darry and Sodapop worried where he was since is was really late. Darry yelled at Pony and slapped him but he didn't mean to. Ponyboy decided to run away and tells Johnny to go with him after a while of running he wonders if running away was a good idea, so they start heading home.
As they reach a fountain the Socs from probably earlier see them there Pony notices that they are obviously drunk, they talk trash about them, the person who did this was Bob, Cherry's boyfriend. Bob tried drowning Ponyboy but Johnny stabbed him and the other Socs run off. They just realized they killed someone so they started heading off to find Dally while they make a plan to go and hide somewhere.
As they reach where Dally is partying at they make plans to hide in a church on Jay mountain. Dally gives them a gun and money for supplies and they start heading there. They get on a train cart and arrive at the country. Where they start heading for the church.
They go to the church and take a rest johnny goes out to buy supplies for him and Ponyboy. They stay there for about four to five more days until Dally came to check up on them, after that they went to a DQ that was nearby and told them that they got Soc spy on their side and that was Cherry Valance. He said that she would defend Ponyboy in court once they got back to town.
After that they started heading back to the church and found out that the church was on fire, they heard that children were stuck in the church so Pony and Johnny ran in to save them. When they got all the kids out Dally also came to help. When Ponyboy got out of the church hey passed out but before he did he remembered seeing that Johnny got hit on the back by a falling wood piece. They were rushed to the hospital.
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