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Greasers
Morning, Ponyboy was walking home from a movie, he is attacked by a group of Socs, the greasers’ rivals, who are upper-class youths from the West Side of town. The Socs, short for Socials, gang up on Ponyboy and threaten to slit his throat. A group of greasers comes and chases the bullies away, saving Ponyboy. I think the theme of this book are discrimination because of the gap between rich and poor and greasers'friendship, and I think the novel is also an account of Ponyboy’s development. -
At night, Ponyboy and Johnny went to see a movie with Dally.
They sit behind a pair of attractive Soc girls. Dally flirts with the girls obnoxiously. After Johnny tells Dally to stop harassing the Soc girls, Dally walks away. Johnny and Ponyboy sit with the girls, who are named Cherry and Marcia, and Ponyboy and Cherry discover that they have a lot in common. Two-Bit arrives, and the three greasers begin to walk the Soc girls to Two-Bit’s house. On the way to Two-Bit’s house, they run into Bob and Randy, the girls left with her boyfriend. -
After an hour
When the movie finished, Pony and Johhny chatted about thire life, dream and family. Then they slept in a park.Pony mentioned that greasers and Socs watch same sunset.Ponyboy points out that the sunset closes the gap between the greasers and Socs. He realizes that, even though the two groups have unequal lifestyles, attitudes, and financial situations, they nevertheless live in the same world, beneath the same sun. -
After two hours, when they wake up,it was midnight,
Ponyboy is late getting home, and his brother Darry is furious with him. The brothers begin to fight, and Darry slaps Ponyboy across the face. Ponyboy determined to run away. He finds Johnny, and the two boys heads for the park. They encounter Bob and Randy with a group of Soc boys. The Socs attack Johnny and Ponyboy.Johnny killed Bob because the Socs were going to drown Ponyboy.Dally gives them a gun and money and sends them to an abandoned church near the town of Windrixville. -
Johnny and Pony cut their hair
The greasers cannot afford physical trappings of power that the Socs enjoy.They resort to more affordable markers of identity. By wearing their hair in a style, greasers distinguish themselves from other social groups. Conservative cultural values of the 1960s called for men to keep their hair short, and the greaser style is a clear transgression of this social convention. It is not only distinctive, but, as a physical characteristic, this hair is an organic part of the greaser personal. -
They talked about the old days (part 1)
Ponyboy speaks 'Dally was so real he scared me' during his stay with Johnny in the abandoned church . Pony’s realization stems from a comment Johnny makes after reading a passage from Gone with the Wind, in which he says that Dally reminds him of one of the gallant Southern gentlemen from the Civil War. The fact that Dally is too “real” for Ponyboy reveals something about his narrative perspective. He says earlier that the other greasers—Soda, Darry, and Two-Bit—remind him more of the heroes in -
Nothing gold can stay(part 2)
his books than Dally does. Ponyboy feels more comfortable with Soda, and Two-Bit because as a narrator, and later a writer, he is more comfortable with fictional heroes than with real people like Dally who have lost their innocence. When they see the sunrise,Pony says “Nothing gold can stay,” meaning that good things come to an end. It refers to boys' friendship.During this blissful time, the two boys talk, and smoke, escaping the responsibility. Like the gold of the poem, however,it will end. -
Johhny wanted to turn himself in
After several days, Dally comes to check on Ponyboy and Johnny. He tells the boys that, since Bob’s death, tensions between the greasers and the Socs have escalated. A rumble is to take place the next night to settle matters. He says that Cherry, who feels partially responsible for Bob’s death, has been acting as a spy for the greasers. Johnny shocks Dally by declaring his intention to go back and turn himself in.Dally says Johnny gets mean in jail amd he does not want to see it happen. -
20 minutes later
As the boys leave, they notice that the abandoned church where Ponyboy and Johnny have been staying has caught fire. They discover that a group of schoolchildren has wandered inside. Ponyboy and Johnny rush into the inferno to save the children. Just as they get the last child through the window, the roof caves in, and Ponyboy blacks out. He regains consciousness in an ambulance. At the hospital, he is diagnosed with minor burns and brurns and bruises. Johnny’s back was broken by a falling roof. -
At night, Darry and Soda took Pony home Darry .
Darry and Sodapop come to get Ponyboy, and Darry and Ponyboy make up.When Darry comes to the hospital to see Pony, he is crying, and then Pony ralizes Darry does care about him, maybe as much as he cares about Soda, and because he cares, he was trying too hard to make something of Pony.They warmly embrace.This emotin is a key ingredient of their lives.Pony provides Darry power, and so does Darry. -
Heroes
The following morning, the newspapers proclaim Ponyboy and Johnny heroes. They also report that, because of Bob’s death, Johnny will be charged with manslaughter. Finally, the papers also state that both Ponyboy and Johnny will have to go to juvenile court so that a judge can decide if they should be sent to a boys’ home.This plot is a turning point because the hoods that people look down on become heroes unexpectedly. People have a prejudice against greasers is wrrong. -
The fighting does not do any good
Ponyboy and Two-Bit go to get a Coke and run into Randy. Randy tells Ponyboy that he is sick of all the fighting and does not plan to go to the rumble that night. His words speak to an important idea—the futility of the recurring Soc-greaser violence. The idea Randy presents here has another side to it, however. By stating that the members of both groups will always remain in their respective groups, he suggests that it would be impossible for a greaser or a Soc to rise above his current status. -
Ponyboy and Two-Bit visit Johnny in the hospital
In the hospital, Johnny seems weak. He asks Ponyboy for a new copy of Gone with the Wind. During their visit with Dally, Ponyboy and Two-Bit notice that Dally is stronger than Johnny. Dally asks to borrow Two-Bit’s black-handled switchblade. On the way home, Two-Bit and Ponyboy see Cherry. She refuses to visit Johnny because he has killed Bob. When she explains herself, he relents.We think Two-Bit’s switchblade means the disregard for authority for which greasers traditionally pride themselves. -
The rumble
At night, the greasers defeat the Socs at the rumble,Dally shows up just in time for the fight; he has escaped from the hospital. In my opinion,the author wanted to record the mindless violence that took place between the greasers and their deadly enemies the Socs, which she probably was going on around her.The rumble does not prove a thing. -
Johnny and Dally's death
As Johnny lies dying , he speaks to Ponyboy, “Stay gold”.Johnny urges Ponyboy to remain innocent. Johnny now senses the uselessness of fighting; he knows that Ponyboy is better than the average hoodlum, and he wants Ponyboy to hold onto the golden qualities that set him apart from his companions.When Johnny dies, Dally runs away.Dally raises a gun to the police and they gun him down. Johnny is the only thing Dally cares about.It is no meaningful for him to live without Johnny. He wants to die. -
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Pony passes out
Johnny kills a Soc; Johnny and Ponyboy flee; Johnny and Dally ’s death, all of these things make Ponyboy struggle to mature. -
The hearing
Ponyboy wakes up in bed at home. He has suffered a concussion from a kick to the head at the rumble and has been delirious in bed for several days. When he is well, he attends his hearing, where the judge treats him kindly and acquits him of responsibility for Bob’s death because of Cherry's evidence.The court rules Ponyboy will be allowed to remain at home with Darry.For a time, Ponyboy feels listless and empty.His grades slip, he feels hostile to Darry, and he loses his appetite. -
The brothers
Tonight,Pony has a row with Darry,again. Soda runs away from the house. At last, Sodapop tells Ponyboy that he (Sodapop) is angry and frustrated because of the tension at home. He tearfully asks that Ponyboy and Darry stop fighting. Finally understanding the value of his family, Ponyboy agrees not to fight with Darry anymore. He finds that for the first time he can remember Dally’s and Johnny’s deaths without pain or denial. -
End and start
Midnight, Ponyboy decides to tell their story and begins writing a term paper for his English class.He wants to record their story and friendship.He thinks there should be some help,someone should tell people like Dally before it was too late, tell them there is still lots of good in the world.Someone should tell their side of the story, so maybe people would not be so quick to judge a boy the amount to hair oil he wore. I think the novel is also an account of Ponyboy’s development.
