What is the plot summary for The Outsiders?

Answer 1

Pony boy ( main character ) lives in a bad town where there is a rivalry between the Greasers ( pony's family and gang ) and the Soc's ( the rich kids ) . He and his older brothers take care of him since their parents passed away. Pony and his friend get into a fight with the Soc's one night at the park because the Soc's had been drinking too much. His friend, Johnny, stabs one of them to prevent them from drowning Pony boy in the fountain. They then have to leave town and live in a old abandoned church. One day, a fire starts in the church while a group of students is taking a field trip to it. Pony and Johnny, heroically rescue the students from the flames, but it crashes down on Johnny. He eventually passes away in the hospital. The greasers have one final fight against the Soc's at the park. The greasers win. One of the greaser gang , who is known for getting in trouble with the law and is furious over the death of Johnny, gets shot by the police.

Answer 2

"The Outsiders"

People will hide there true life from others and present there fairytale life to make it easier for others. This is presented in S.E Hinton's The Outsiders. Throughout the book Ponyboys perspective of Dally, Jonny, and the Socs changes.

Ponyboys opinion of Dally changes through out the story. In the beginning pony looks at Dally and sees this mean greaser who jumps kids, and steels and doesn't give a Yankee dime about anyone but himself. Pony explains that "He had been arrested, he got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, and jumped small kids." Pony thinks' of him as a drunken no good Greaser and that he dose not like or respect him as a person. Later in the story Pony fides out that his opinion of Dally wrong. This is clear when Dally starts to show his sensitive and caring side to Jonny when he warns him about jail and that he can't turn himself in. He explains that "you get hardened in jail. I don't want that to happen to you like it happened to you like it happened to me." All these years Dally tried to keep his true self anonymous while putting his though image at a high peak and now it is finally revealed to Pony.

Not only dose pony's opinion of Dally change but it also changes with Johnny's experiences with Pony. In the beginning of The Outsiders Pony looks at Jonny and sees this abused Greaser who gets beaten by his parent's everyday. Pony realizes this when Jonny says "I think I like it better when the old man's hittin' me. At least then I know he knows who I am. I walk in that house, and nobody says anything. I walk out, and nobody says anything. I stay away all night, and nobody notices. At least you got soda. I ain't got nobody." When Jonny says this all he wants' is someone to love him and give him some attention. Later in the story Johnny's mom comes to see him when he is in the hospital and he tells the nurse "I don't want to see her; she's probably come to tell me about all the trouble I'm causing her and about how glad she and the old man will be when I'm dead. Tell her to for once leave me alone." This shows that Jonny is through of his parents he can't stand them and he is done with them. Johnny show's that he is tuff he can stand up for himself and that he is not a little shy kitten.

Not only dose his opinion of Dally and Johnny change but it also changes with the Socs. In the beginning of the story Pony look's at the Socs and see's these mean snobby rich kids that have no worries of life what so ever. This is shown when pony say's "Even if they did have their own troubles. I really couldn't see that Socs would have to sweat about good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and mustangs and corvairs - Man, I thought if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky." This shows that he dose not like them and thinks it's not fair that they get everything easy and the greasers don't. Later on he meet's this Soc named Cherry and finds out that the Socs life's are not all that perfect like he expected. This is explained when Cherry says "Socs are always behind wall of aloofness careful not to let their real selves show through." After that Pony realizes that greasers and Socs lives are not all that different the only difference is wealth.

In the beginning of the story pony's opinion of the characters is wrong. Later on he get's to know them better and his opinion changes and there true identities are revealed. In the beginning pony looks at Jonny and saw this shy little kitten that later faced his parents and was the first one to run into the fire to save these total strangers. Pony looked at Dally and saw this carless Drug bug, and later found out that he is a sensitive caring guy who made many mistakes and wanted to keep his true identity hidden until his death. Pony looked at the Socs and saw these snobby rich kids who he thought were so different to the Greasers but later found out that they are the same. Reading the story the reader should get a sense of the real world and that life dose not have a fairytale ending but it is worth risking in finding out the truth and darkness of the outsiders.

Answer 3

Plot Summary

The Greaser Gang

The Outsiders opens with the recollections of Ponyboy Curtis, the narrator of the story. He tells the reader in the first paragraph that he is a "greaser," from the poor neighborhood of his hometown. In the second paragraph, however, he explains that he is different from other greasers in his love of movies and books. Ponyboy is daydreaming after a Paul Newman movie when he is jumped by a gang of upper-class rich kids, known as socials, or "Socs." It is only the intervention of his two brothers and their friends that saves Ponyboy from being badly injured. The greasers have good reason to fear the Socs, a group of whom beat their friend Johnny so badly that he began to carry a switchblade wherever he went. Partly for this reason, Ponyboy's oldest brother Darry yells at him for going to the movies unaccompanied, and Pony relates that he feels that he can never please Darry.

On the next night, Pony and Johnny accompany Dallas Winston, the most hardened member of their gang, to a drive-in movie. There Dally begins to harass two Soc girls who are there without dates. After one of the girls, Cherry Valance, tells Dally to leave them alone, he leaves she and Ponyboy strike up a conversation. Dally returns, and when Johnny tells him to leave the girls alone, Dally stalks off for good. Later Two-Bit will join them, scaring Johnny in the process. Later Cherry asks, and Pony tells, why Johnny seems so jumpy and scared. After hearing how the Socs nearly killed Johnny, Cherry tells Ponyboy that "things are rough all over," but he does not believe her.

Greasers Vs. Socs

After the movie, Cherry and Ponyboy share their thoughts on the differences between Greasers and Socs, and Ponyboy is surprised to find that they have similarities, too. The three greaser boys are walking Cherry and her friend Marcia to Two-Bit's car when they are spotted by the Socs. In order to avoid a fight, Cherry and Marcia agree to go home with the Socs and Two-Bit also goes home. Johnny and Ponyboy remain at the lot and talk about how things should be different before falling asleep. After Pony arrives home late, Darry confronts, then slaps him. Pony runs out of the house, and he and Johnny go to the park so Ponyboy can cool off before returning home.

In the park, Johnny and Ponyboy are accosted by drunken Socs. After they try to drown Ponyboy, Johnny kills one of them with his knife. The two decide to run away, and Dally helps them by telling them where to hide and giving them money and a gun. They hop a train to their hideout, a church in the country. There they cut and bleach their hair to disguise their identities. Pony feels that in losing his hair style, he has lost his identity, a feature that made him a greaser: "Our hair labeled us greasers, too --- it was our trademark. Maybe we couldn't have Corvairs or madras shirts, but we could have hair."

Ponyboy and Johnny pass a lonely and bored four or five days at the church, reading to each other from Gone with the Wind.One morning the two boys watch a sunrise, which reminds Ponyboy of a Robert Frost poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay," though he feels that the poem's deeper meaning escapes him. The next morning, Dally arrives and tells them that Cherry Valance will testify on their behalf. This prompts Johnny to say that they will turn themselves in. Dally tries to talk Johnny out of it, not wanting jail to harden him, but Johnny is determined. They are on their way back to the church when they realize that it is on fire and that a group of kids is trapped inside.

Hoods and Heroes

Ponyboy and Johnny manage to rescue all the kids in the church, but Pony faints after Johnny pushes him out the window. When he wakes up in ambulance, one of the teachers tells him that in spite of Dally's heroism in pulling Johnny from the flames, Johnny is in critical condition. Pony tells the disbelieving teacher that he and Johnny are wanted for murder. At the hospital, Pony is reunited with his brothers; when he sees Darry crying, he realizes the depth of Darry's love and concern for him.

Because of the publicity, Ponyboy realizes that he and his brothers could be separated. He also finds out that Sandy, Soda's girlfriend, has left town, and it is implied that she is pregnant. Later, Pony and Two-Bit encounter Randy, one of the Socs, who is tormented by his part in what has happened. He tells Pony that he could never have gone into the fire to rescue someone as Ponyboy and Johnny did. Two-Bit and Ponyboy then go to the hospital, and Pony realizes that Johnny is dying. Johnny's eyes glow when Pony tells him he's being called a hero, but when Johnny's mother comes to see him, he passes out from the strain of trying to refuse her visit. When Pony and Two-Bit then visit Dally in his room, Pony thinks of Dally as his buddy for the first time. Later, Two-Bit and Pony run into Cherry Valance, who assures them the score-settling rumble with the Socs won't involve weapons. She angers Pony when she says she won't visit Johnny in the hospital because he killed Bob. When Cherry weeps, Ponyboy tells her they both see the same sunset.

The rumble begins later that night when Darry squares off against an old friend of his from high school. Dally runs up to join the rumble and helps Pony fight one of the Socs. He then takes Pony to see Johnny at the hospital to tell him of their victory. Johnny tells them that fighting does no good and then instructs Ponyboy to "stay gold" before he dies. The one thing he loves gone, Dally runs out of the room in agony. After Ponyboy arrives home, the gang gets a call from Dally, who has just robbed a store. They arrive at the vacant lot in time to see Dally killed in a shootout with the police, and Pony faints at the scene of Dally's death.

"staying Gold"

Ponyboy is still recovering when he is visited by Randy, who leaves when he realizes that Ponyboy is trying to deny that Johnny is dead. Pony plans to confess to killing Bob at the hearing inquiring into the incident, but he is not questioned about it. Pony and his brothers are granted permission to remain together, but Pony continues to have trouble recovering. He tries to write an essay so he can pass English, but finds all the possible topics either meaningless or too painful. After Pony and Darry argue again, Soda uncharacteristically explodes in anger, and Ponyboy learns that Sandy was cheating on Soda. She will not answer Soda's letters, and the baby she is carrying is not his. Ponyboy has been oblivious to Soda's pain, and after Soda tells them that without each other, they'll end up like Dally, they vow to fight less often.

Shortly after the family reconciliation, Ponyboy picks up Johnny's copy of Gone with the Wind. Inside, he finds a letter from Johnny, in which he tells Pony to let Dally know that it was worth it to rescue the children from the church, and that Pony can be whatever he wants to be in life, even though he is a greaser. Ponyboy finally realizes what it means to "stay gold." He begins to write his English theme, thinking of all the kids who need to know there is good in the world. He begins with the day that he walked out of the Paul Newman movie, forever changed by all that has happened since.

Answer 4

In the story is begins with a 14 years old boy who is called Ponyboy Curtis and he sturrles with right and wrong is a society in which is an outsider. As Ponyboy , his brothers,and lower class gang of "Greasers",the battle the "Socs",the rich kids.....

Answer 5

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