When Ponyboy goes back to school, his grades drop dramatically. While recovering, he tries to convince himself that Johnny is not dead and that he is the one who killed Bob. Ponyboy faints and stays sick and delirious for nearly a week. He then commits suicide by pointing an empty gun at the cops so they shoot and kill him. An overcome Dally rushes out of the hospital and robs a store. After the rumble, Dally and Ponyboy visit Johnny and see him die. He also says that the Greasers and Socs have agreed to settle their turf war with a major rumble. Two-Bit informs Ponyboy that he and Johnny have been declared heroes for rescuing the kids, but Johnny will be charged with manslaughter for Bob's death. Ponyboy then realizes that Darry cares about him, and is only hard on Ponyboy because he wants him to have a good future. When his brothers arrive to see him, Darry breaks down and cries. Ponyboy is relatively unscathed and spends a short time in the hospital. When Johnny and Ponyboy rush to rescue them, burning timber falls on Johnny, breaking his back. Johnny decides to turn himself in, but the boys then notice that the church has caught on fire and several children are trapped inside. When Dally comes to get them, he reveals that the fights between the rival groups have exploded in intensity since Bob's death. They stay there for a few days, during which time Ponyboy reads Gone with the Wind" to Johnny and recites the poem " Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost. Ponyboy and Johnny find Dally, who gives them money and a loaded gun and tells them to hide in an abandoned church. After Bob nearly drowns Ponyboy in a fountain, a terrified Johnny stabs Bob, accidentally killing him. As they wander around the neighborhood, Bob, Randy, and three other drunk Socs confront them. Ponyboy runs away and meets up with Johnny. When Ponyboy comes home very late, Darry gets angry and hits him.
Cherry and Marcia prevent a fight by leaving with Bob and Randy willingly. The Greasers walk Cherry and Marcia home, and Socs Bob Sheldon and Randy Adderson see them and think the boys are trying to pick up their girlfriends. Ponyboy realizes that Cherry is nothing like the Socs he has met before.
#The outsiders novel movie
The next night, Ponyboy and his friends Dally and Johnny meet Cherry Valance and Marcia at a drive-in movie theatre.
His older brothers Darry and Sodapop save him.
#The outsiders novel series
The book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965, but it is never stated in the book.Ī film adaptation was produced in 1983, and a little-known short-lived television series appeared in 1990, picking up where the movie left off.Īs the novel opens, Ponyboy, a member of the Greasers gang, is leaving a movie theater when a group of Socs jumps him. The story was based on a friend of Hinton's who was jumped for being a "Greaser," which upset her so much she went home that day and started writing the book. The book follows two rival groups, the Greasers and the Socs (pronounced by the author as " /soʊˈʃəz/", short for Socials), who are divided by their socioeconomic status. Hinton was 18 when the book was published. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel, but did most of the work when she was sixteen and a junior in high school. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel based in 1965 by S.
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