He is different from the rest of the gang because he is more literary and performs well in school. Pony’s oldest brother. Of course, he thinks that he prefers their hatred to their pity anyway. the Socs, the rich kids living on the west side of town. The tension between two groups: The Greasers and The Socs puts Ponyboy Curtis and his best friend Johnny Cade in a bad spot. kills Bob in self-defense. So the girls, Cherry Valance and Marcia, ask Pony and Johnny to sit with them and watch the movie. Many cities are divided along economic lines, and often, broadly speaking, into an east side and a west side, like here. SETTING . He doesn't think they look like hoods. Ponyboy is devastated because no one in his family has ever hit him. Pony to tell the rest of the world that it is wrong to judge children Everyone loves him, and Ponyboy envies him. His pale blue-green eyes He thinks that although he likes his looks as a “greaser” are fine, he wonders how Newman became so handsome. Johnny Cade – he is sixteen years old and has big eyes full of fear. Soon Two-Bit shows up and seems to hit it off with Marcia. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. Ponyboy and Cherry both like to read and watch the sunset. All three brothers belong to a gang of poor teenagers called When he tries to put his arm around her, she protests, but Dally won’t stop. Johnny is wanted for murder, and Dallas has a record with the fuzz a mile long.”. Their clothes look tough, they steal and get into fights. After the death of his parents, he takes care of He becomes a nervous wreck after he is terribly the police with an unloaded gun after robbing a store. After they chase the Socs away, Darry scolds Ponyboy for walking home alone instead of calling for a ride. He holds Pony’s head under water and almost drowns Ponyboy wakes up in an ambulance. Afterward Ponyboy and Dally go to see Johnny at the hospital. She is a very private person but has revealed her love of literature and writing. Johnny is badly injured and has to be hospitalized. It follows the life of Ponyboy as he maneuvers through life living on the poorer side of the city. The church becomes a site of redemption for them when they rescue the schoolchildren from it and discover that they're courageous... and bold in a way that makes a big difference in the lives of many people. He makes a chocolate cake for breakfast. He plans to drive the girls home but their boyfriends, Bob and Randy, intervene and the girls leave with them instead. Two-Bit Mathews (Keith) his friend Johnny to Windrixville. He is fourteen years old and the youngest of the Greasers. Sodapop Curtis (Soda) He has trouble trying to fit in with his group because of his youth and intelligence but doesn’t fit into the other class either. The church is smack dab in the middle of that pastoral setting, situated at the top of a hill. above being a Greaser; therefore, he encourages Pony to study and get He accuses him of being naive and missing in common sense, but he is very observant. She is furious and starts screaming about his ingratitude and The setting is based on Hinton's hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she was living when she wrote the story as a high school student (Source). Ponyboy thinks that Dally committed suicide. He says that the lives of the children they saved were worth his own. The Outsiders opens with Ponyboy Curtis walking home after watching a movie with Paul Newman. function getDateStr(){ The characters in the story live on the east side of town, which is also known as the wrong side of town. Johnny tells him that they will cut their hair as a disguise and they should bleach Ponyboy’s hair. She and Pony have a lot in common, but the friendship is There they hide in an abandoned church. Sure enough, Ponyboy is attacked by a carload of Socials when he's in a vacant lot, just minutes from his home. In this case, East Siders don't have enough money; West Siders have plenty. In The Outsiders, East Side and West Side function almost like symbols—symbols to represent the economic divide as Ponyboy sees it, not the complicated nature of a real city. Ponyboy realizes he wants to tell the story of him and his friends so that other people can realize they need to let their anger go and notice the beauty in the world around them. Although Ponyboy is fourteen, his brothers sometimes treat him like he is six years old. He doesn’t do well in school. out to Pony in the form of a letter which he leaves for him, exhorting with hard work he can overcome his circumstances and not remain an outsider He gives Pony and Johnny a gun and some Copyright © 2015.–2020. Sure enough, in the country nobody seems to know they are Greasers or think these boys are different. and heroically rescues children who are trapped in the church after it Hinton says so in the FAQ page of her website (Source), but not because there's any indication in the novel (though the slang is insanely outdated). Yet, they're still isolated and outside of society, just like this church. When he dies, The boys almost fight, but the girls calm them by agreeing to leave. © 2020 Shmoop University Inc | All Rights Reserved | Privacy | Legal. One of the Socials, a guy named David, tries to drown Pony in the fountain, and Pony passes out. They live on the east side of the town, also known as the wrong side of town; the eastside neighborhood is described in graphic detail. Ponyboy embarrassingly tells her that Sodapop dropped out of school and is working at a gas station. A girl who is friends with the Socs. The vague setting helps make the book relevant for people in other places and times. They both promise to try. Dally is doing better and asks to borrow Two-Bit’s switchblade. Ponyboy thinks one of their cigarettes maybe started it. The author S.E Hinton grew up there and still lives there. Stay gold.” then he dies. The judge acts in the Curtis boys' favor, and life goes back to usual. By the end of the novel he is more mature and begins to see the other side as human instead of evil. if(year<1000) year+=1900 Even though no one cares whether he is home or not, he knows Ponyboy’s brothers are worried. the Greasers, named for their long, oily hair. Ponyboy tells Jerry about Bob’s murder. Ponyboy and Two-Bit go to visit Dally and Johnny at the hospital. After Bob’s death, she acts as a spy for the The two boys run away, taking a train to a small town to hide out. Pony idolizes him and considers him All rights reserved. (4.92). Readers are introduced to Ponyboy as the first-person narrator, and to both his brothers as well. He tells them that the police asked him about them for Bob’s murder. That night the groups meet the fight is long, but the Greasers win. His East Side neighborhood is patrolled by bullying Socials, rich kids from the West Side of town. She started writing the book when she was fifteen years old and had it published when she was eighteen. fire. Darrel Curtis – he is twenty years old and shouldered with the responsibility of raising his younger brothers. Ponyboy comes back with a sarcastic remark and Johnny tells him he sounds like Two-Bit. is after him. The narrator and protagonist of the story. In the ambulance, when Ponyboy tells Jerry he's a Greaser, Jerry has no idea what he's talking about. Ponyboy and Two-bit take a walk to Tasty Freeze to get a Coke. Some Socs come up and start to harass them again. When they wake up, it's two in the morning. Johnny, who is trapped under a beam. The book is set in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the early 1960’s. document.write(getDateStr()) Just … [more] about Cinderella. The Greasers almost always carry switchblades, mostly to be used when the Socs harass them. on Darry’s football team in high school, and the two of them used to be Back at their house, Ponyboy sees the article in the paper that portrays them as heroes. and has beaten Johnny up. He brings his boys and also the Brumly When he wakes up, he learns that Johnny stabbed Bob (remember, one of the girls' boyfriends), and Bob is dead.

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