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__ **Story Journal** __
 * The outsiders**

= Remember, being a Greaser is a label..... not a fact about who they truly are. =

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__ Chapter 1 __
 * __// Sodapop Curtis //:__ He is Sixteen-Going-on-seventeen. Never Cracks a book at all. He`s Slim. He`s got dark -gold hair that he combs back - long silky and straight. His eyes are dark brown .Not as tall as Darry, but a little slimmer. **


 * // __Ponyboy Curtis__ //: He had light brown almost red hair and greenish eyes. His hair was longer than a lot of boys wear their hair. He is not really a tough guy **

// __** ﻿ **__ // //__**Darry Curtis**__//**:** **He is the oldest brother of Sodapop and Ponyboy. Darry is six-feet-two, broad shouldered and muscular. He has dark brown hair. His eyes are like two pieces of Pale-blue green ice.**

__**//Steve Randle//:**__ **Sodapop`s best buddy. He was seventeen, tall and lean with thick greasy hair that he combs in complicated swirls. He was very smart. Steve`s specialty was** **cars. He could drive anything on wheels. Soda and Steve worked at the same gas station**


 * // __ Two-Bit Matthews __ // : He was the oldest of the gang and the wise cracker of the bunch. He was about six-feet tall. He had gray eyes and a wide grin. His real name was Keith. He liked fights and blonds **

__**//Dally Winston//:**__ ** He had an elfish face, high cheekbones and a pointed chin, small sharp teeth and ears like a lynx. His hair was almost white, but it was blond. He didn't like haircuts or hair oil either. His hair was curled behind his ears. He was arrested at the age of ten because, he got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks and jumped small kids, he did everything. **


 * __// Johnny //__ __ // Cade //: __ He was a shy boy. He was the youngest out of all the gang members. Johnny had big black eyes and a dark tanned face. His hair was jet black and heavily greased to the side. It was very long. His dad abused him physically and his mom ignored him. His parents didn`t really care at what time he went out and at what time he came back. **

__ **// Ponyboy`s Mom and Dad //:** ﻿ __** They were killed in an auto wreck **

//__**﻿Sandy**__//: **She is Sodapop`s girlfriend. Her Hair was natural blond and her laugh was soft, like her china-blue eyes. She was a greaser, but she was still a real nice girl.**


 * // ﻿Greasers // : They can`t walk alone or they will get jumped by Socs (socials). Greasers are East Side poor people **** : **


 * // ﻿Socs // //://They are jet set West-side rich kids. When they are going to beat up kids they pull up in blue Mustangs. They have to worry about good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs. **

//__** Summary ﻿of ﻿chapter 1 **__// // ﻿﻿ This chapter was about a boy named ponyboy explaining his life and his gang. Also what happened in this chapter was that ponyboy got jumped by the socs, but they didn`t beat him badly because his brother Darry and Soda came just in time to scare the socs off. In this chapter the miserable life of greasers was also explained. //

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//__Chapter 2__// //__ **Sherri Valance** __//: **Also called (cherry). She has very long red hair, dressed sharp and good looking. Sixteen or seventeen. She was a soc.**


 * __ ﻿Marcia __ __:__ She had short black hair. Also looked sixteen or seventeen. Friends with cherry and she was pretty. **

**__Summary of Chapter 2__** //This chapter was about Johnny,Ponyboy and Two-bit Matthews going to the movies and meeting these really nice girls (which were socs), talking to them and getting to know them. Ponyboy starts talking to cherry and telling her a little bit about himself and his brothers. At the end of this chapter Cherry makes Ponyboy realize the big responsibilities that socs have.//


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__// Chapter 3 //__ **__Bob__:** ﻿ **Cherry`s boyfriend and he wears a lot of rings. He drinks a lot. He`s handsome, his hair is black, he likes to drink and he is a soc.**

**Randy:** ** ﻿Marcia`s boyfriend. He is a tall guy with a semi-beatle haircut. He also likes to drink and he is a soc. **

** Micky Mouse : Soda`s horse. A dark gold buckskin, sassy and ornery horse, not much more than a colt**

__**Summary of chapter 3**__ //﻿﻿﻿After the movie in this chapter Two-bit Matthews offers to take the girls home and they accept, but then these guys called Randy and bob (the girls boyfriends) come and take the girls away and all the boys can do is say goodbye to the girls. Afterwards two-bit Matthews leaves and so does Ponyboy when he realizes that it`s past his curfew, but when Ponyboy gets home Darry is waiting for him and he gets in big trouble. He even gets slapped by Darry and after that he thinks "I`ve had enough" and he ran back to the parking lot where Johnny was and they decide to run away,but after running several blocks they decided that was a bad idea and they turn and go to the park.//


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__Chapter 4__ **Buck Merril:** Dally`s rodeo partner with buck -teeth and two teeth knocked out the front.

__ **Summary of chapter 4** __ // When Johnny and Ponyboy head back to the park and while they were talking Randy and Bob and 3 other socs got out their cars and tried to jump them, but Johonny fights back and ends up killing one. When Ponyboy wakes up after being almost drowned to death, Johnny tells Ponyboy what happens and they decide to go out and find Dally for some equipment to run away. When they find Dally at Buck Merril`s place they tell Dally what happened and Dally gives them 50 dollars, a gun, dry clothes for Ponyboy to wear and Dally also gives them directions where to go and what to do. So they head to the railroad tracks, jump in a boxcar and they are on their way to Windredville. //


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//__ **Chapter 5** __//
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// ﻿﻿In this chapter Johnny and Ponyboy get to Windredville and go to the old church and they decide to get a makeover so they`re not recognized by the fuzz. After that makeover they spent a week playing poker, reading, eating baloney and smoking. Then one day Ponyboy heard a certain type of whistling and thought it was Johnny, but it really was Dally and Dally decided to take them out for something to eat and when they got there Dally told them about the war that`s going on between the socs and the greasers. Dally also told them how the greasers got a spy named Cherry Valance. //
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//__** Chapter 6 **__// (**no characters intoduced**)

// In this chapter Johnny decides to turn hiself in to the fuzz while they were at the restaurant and Dally gets upset at Johnny`s initiative or idea. As they get back to the church they notice it`s on fire, but the worst part is they hear that little kids are trapped in there, So Johnny and Ponyboy go into the burning church to try and save the children and they get every kid out in time and then they get out, but by the time they start coming out, the church starts caving in and johnny`s trapped so Dally goes in the burning church and tries to save Johnny. Afterwards Ponyboy becomes half unconscious and then this man takes him to the hospital in his home town where he sees Sodapop and Darry again and reunites with them. //
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 * //__ Chapter 7 __//**
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// In this chapter Darry, Sodapop and Ponyboy are at the hospital waiting to hear a report about Dally and Johnny and during their wait the police and reporters show up to take pictures for newspapers and to ask questions,afterwards the reporters leave. When Sodapop, Darry and Ponyboy hear what condition Dally and Johnny are in they leave also. The next morning Ponyboy wakes up and cooks breakfast than Two-bit and Steve show up for a visit. Later on Darry, Sodapop and Steve leave for work and Two-bit and Ponyboy head for tenth street, while they were there Randy pulled up and wanted to talk to Ponyboy and so they talked and understood each other. //
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 * __ //Chapter 8// __**
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__ **Summary of chapter 8** __ // In this chapter Ponyboy and Two-bit go see Johnny and Dally. Later while they were on the bus and heading home, they decide to stop at a vacent lot and meet cherry and talk. Then they started to go home. //


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 * __ Chapter 9 __ **
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// ﻿In this chapter Ponyboy, Soda, Darry, Steve and Two-Bit were getting ready for the big rumble. When they got there the Socs started arriving also. Then Darry started the fight while Dally showed up. After the fight, the greasers won and everybody was bruised up pretty bad and so eventually Dally and Ponyboy decide to go see Johnny and he died right in front of them. //
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 * __ Chapter 10 __**
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__**Summary of chapter 10**__ // In this chapter Dally left Ponyboy at the hospital so Ponyboy had to walk home. During his walk some man offered to give him a ride and he accepted and when he arrived home he told the guys that Johnny passed away, than the phone rang and they heard Dally was in trouble, so they met him somewhere and the policemen shot dally right in front of the gang and then suddenly Ponyboy fainted. They found out he was sick, so they took him to the hospital than home. //


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 * __ Chapter 11 __**

__** Summary of chapter 11 **__ // In this chapter Ponyboy was lying in bed and he saw a picture of Bob in a yearbook. Whereas he was looking at the picture Randy showed up for a visit. During their conversation Randy reminded Ponyboy about their court date and also Ponyboy started thinking maybe he was the one who killed Bob and not Johnny. After a while Darry decided it was time for Randy to go. //


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 * __ Chapter 12 __**
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__ **Summary of chapter 12** __ // In the last chapter of the outsiders Ponyboy was failing all his classes in the beginning, despite the fact Darry tried to help him. While Ponyboy was at home Soda was upset because he got caught in a fight between Darry and Ponyboy and he ran off. When Darry and Ponyboy caught up to Soda, he told them how he felt about them two fighting all the time, afterwards they raced home. Ponyboy decided to finish reading "Gone With The Wind" and when he opened the book he found a note that Johnny left for him and then he knew what the theme for his assignment that his teacher gave him would be. //


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 * Theme **

Spirited vs. Miserly

Johnny was the spirited kind. Darry was the miserly kind of person.