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= = = = = = = = = = = Chapter1 = =﻿Ponyboy Curtis:light-brown/almost red hair(long hair put into a ponytail), greenish eyes, fourteen years old.= =Darry Curtis-(real name:Darrel) six foot two, twenty-two years old, broad -shouldered, muscular, dark-brown hair, eyes like pale blue-green ice, tough, cool, and smart.= =﻿Sodapop Curtis- aka Soda ,sixteen-going-on-seventeen, dark-gold hair (long,silkly,and straight), dark brown eyes.= =Steve Randle-seventeen, tall and lean, thick greasy hair.= =Two-Bit Mathews-(real name: Keith) oldest of the gang, six feet tall, stocy in build, long rusty-colored side-burns, gray eyes, wide grin, loves to show off his switchblade.= =Dally-(real name Dallas Winston) elfish face with high cheekbones, pointed chin, small sharp animal teeth, ears like a lynx( short-tailed wildcat), hair almost white it was so blond, eyes blue, blazing ice cold, with the hatred of the whole world, tougher,colder, and meaner then the rest of the gang, was arrested at the age of ten.= =Johnny Cade - smaller than the rest of the gang, slight build, big black eyes , hair is jet-black and heavily greased, dark tanned face, nervous, suspicious look in his eyes= =Sandy- Sodapop's girlfriend, natural blond, soft laugh, china blue eyes, also a greaser.= =Socials- (aka Socs) West-side rich kids who beat up Greasers for fun= = = =Summary= =﻿Ponyboy leaves a movie theater thinking about his family, gang, and Socs. As he nears his house when Socs out of nowhere come,and gang up on him with a plan to kill him. Soon his brother Darry and gang come to the rescue, driving the Socs away. Afterwards they have a smoke together. Then at home Ponyboy thinks about why the Socs hated the Greasers so much, and why they targeted greasers like Johnny and himself.= = = = Chapter 2 = =﻿ Characters:= =Sherri "Cherry" Valance- Socs, long red cherry-like hair, good looking= =Marcia- short dark hair, smaller than cherry, cute= = = =Summary= =Dally takes Ponyboy and Johnny to a drive-in movie, where they meet two Socs. Dally starts to talk smack to the girls, soon Johnny steps in telling Dally to quit. Dally leaves so Johnny and Pony begin to talk to Cherry and Marcia. Noticing that Johnny is so jumpy Sherri ask why and Pony tells her. After hearing the reason why Sherri explains that Socs have it bad to.= = = = Chapter 3 = =Characters:= =Randy- tall, with a semi- Beatle haircut, Marcia's boyfriend= =Bob- Cherry's boyfriend, wears heavy rings on his hand, was the Socs who had beaten up Johnny= = = =Summary= =After the movie Two-Bit, Johnny, and Ponyboy walk Cherry and Marcia home.Pony is surprised that in a way Socs are just like Greasers. Pony tells Sherri about Soda's horse and Darry. Soon a blue Mustang drives by containing Socs. It drives by a second time but stops. Then emerging from the car is Cherry 's and Marcia's boyfriends saying to let them take the girls home. When Ponyboy got home he was yelled, and hit by Darry. Filled with anger Ponyboy takes Johnny and decides to run away.= = = = = = Chapter 4 = = = = Characters: = = Buck Merril- tall, lanky cowboy with blond hair, buckteeth, mid- twenties, Dally's rodeo partner = = = = Summary = =Ponyboy and Johnny run to the park to cool off. While smoking they see a blue Mustang circling the park. From the car emerges Bob, Randy, and a handful of Socs. The group attacks Pony and Johnny, but soon leaves after a fearful Johnny stabbed Bob. Fearing what would happen they find Dally, who gave them a loaded gun, and fifty dollars. He tells them to go to an abandoned church on Jay Mountain and to stay there until it's safe. They reach the church and crash from being tired.= = = = = = Chapter 5 = = = =﻿Characters: None= = = =﻿Summary= =Ponyboy wakes up in the church half convinced that the events from last night was a dream the it's just another weekend in his life. After realizing where he was, he begins to worry about Dally, if he had been sentenced to death for helping them, or killed in a carwreck and no one would find them. Soon Johnny come back from the store with a week's worth of baloney, two loaves of bread, a box of matches, a paperback copy of //Gone With The Wind,// Peroxide, and a deck of cards. Johnny tells Pony that they have to cut their hair so they wouldn't be recognized, Ponyboy doesn't agree but finally gives in. Johnny then cuts Pony's hair bleaching it into a blond lighter than Soda's, and Pony cuts Johnny's and then washes it. After a few days Dally comes with a letter from Soda for Pony. Seeing how thin Ponyboy and Johnny were Dally takes them out to eat. While eating at a Dairy Queen, Dally tells Pony and Johnny about what was happening, and that they have a spy.... Cherry.= = = = = = = = Chapter 6 = = = =Characters:= =Jerry Wood - school teacher, heavy weight= = = =Summary= =Dally explains to Pony and Johnny why Cherry wanted to help them, and how she felt that everything that happened was her fault. Johnny tells Dally that Ponyboy and himself that they are going to turn themselves in. On the way home Dally tries to explain to Johnny what would happen to him if he does go to the police, and how jail will change him. As they drove down the road toward the church they notice that it's on fire! They get out of the car asking what had happened, Ponyboy and Johnny believe that they had caused the fire. They hear that a couple of kids were missing. Soon the group hears the screaming of children from inside the burning church. Ponyboy and Johnny rushed into the church, grabbed the children the guilded them to safety. As Pony runs out of the church he realizes that Johnny is not with him, and he hears Johnny scream in pain. Pony wakes up in an ambulance ( after being hit hard by Dally) and hears that Johnny and Dally are in another. Pony confusses about Bob's death to a school teacher named Jerry who had witnessed the fire. After being checked out by doctors at the hospital Pony was reunited with Soda and Darry.=

= Chapter 7 =

=Characters: None= =Summary= =﻿Pony, Soda, and Darry wait to see what happened to Dally and Johnny. Newsreporters ask Ponyboy( what seemed like ) a million questions at once, but soon they left along with the police. A nurse comes a tells the trio that Dally would be out in two to three days and Johnny is in critical condition with three- degree burns. She also tells them to go home and get some rest. The next day Pony was the first to get up so he went down to get breakfast. As he prepared breakfast Two-Bit and Steve came in happy to see him. Two-Bit show Pony the headline for the newpaper: JUVENILE DELINQUENTS TURN HEROES. Pony also found out that Soda and himself might be put into a boy's home. Soon Darry and Soda join the other in the kitchen. Pony asks Darry if he had heard what was in the papers, and that he had another of the nightmares that he can't remember what it was about. After telling this to Darry Soda announced that after they stomp the Socs Steve and himself were going to throw a party. Pony asked Soda if he was taking Sandy to the party as well only to find out that she had moved to Florida because her parents didn't want her getting married at sixteen. Soon Darry, Soda, and Steve leave to go to work while Two-Bit looks after Ponyboy.Two-Bit and Ponyboy go out and get some Cokes when Randy shows up wanting to talk to Ponyboy about wat had happened with Bob. He tells Pony part of the reason for his death was how his life was at home. Randy also tells him that he would not be fighting in the rumble that night and he was done fighting period. After talking Ponyboy no longer saw Randy as a Socs but as a regular kid.=

= Chapter 8 = =Characters:= =Johnny's Mother- little with straight black hair and big black eyes like Johnny but cheap and hard=

=Summary= =Two-Bit and Pony go to the hospital to go see Johnny and Dally, But when they got there they weren't aloud to see Johnny because his was still in critical condtition. Finall the doctor let them in saying that Johnny had been asking for them. They talk to Johnny about the rumble, the editorials writen about him, and who had come to visit. Johnny asks Two-Bit to go it copy of //Gone With The Wind// for him to read. While Two-Bit laeves to get the book for Johnny, Pony tells him to stay strong and that the gang wouldn't get along without him. Soon a nurse goes in telling Johnny that his mother was here to see him. Johnny tells er that he doesn't want to see her. Two-Bit and Pony leave Johnny and go to see Dally who was mad because they wouldn't let him smoke, and he couldn't go to the rumble. Dally asks Two-Bit if he could borrow his switchblade. Before they left Dally told them that they were going to win, they would get revenge for Johnny. While walking home Pony runs into Cherry, and they talk about the rumble, Bob, and Johnny.=

= Chapter 9 = = = = = =Characters:= =Curly Shepard- tough, cold, and hard as nails, miniature Tim, average hood, not real bright= =Tim Shepard- curly black hair, smoldering dark eyes, a long scar from temple to chin, tough hard look to him, nose tat was broken twice, lean, catlike, eightteen years old,smile is grim and bitter like Dally's= =Shepard's gang- fifteen to nineteen years of age, hard-looking, organized= =Brumly gang- young hoods that would became old hoods, weird vocbulary= =Paul Holden- blond hair, ex-halfback on Darry's football team in highschool, once Darry's best friend= = = =Summary= =After talking to Cherry, Ponyboy went home got washed and dressed for the rumble. After he went into the living-room where Soda and Steve were playing poker and joking about the rumble. Darry tried to get Pony not to go to the rumble, but with the help of Soda and Steve Darry agreed on letting Pony go. Two-Bit arrives just as Darry Jumps out of the house followed by Soda, Steve, and Ponyboy all doing acrobatics on the lawn. Soon they go to the lot and are greeted by Tim Shepard's gang and the Brumly gang. Pony talks to Tim a one of the Brumly boys. Finally the Socs arrive looking like they were going to a movie instead of going to a fight. The first to fight was Darry and his ex-friend Paul Holden. After a few minutes Socs ran to there cars in retreat. Dally who had come during the fight was now pulling Pony to the car he was borrowing to go see Johnny. They ran to Johnny's room to find him dying. Dallas tells Johnny that they had won the rumble, and they were still writing editorials about him in the paper. After talking to Pony Johnny died, Dally began to hit the wall and ran out believeing that Johnny was not died.= = = = = = Chapter 10 = = = = = =Characters: None= = = =Summary= =Ponyboy walks home from the hospital trying to tell himself that Johnny was not dead. When Pony got home he found Steve with his side banaged, Soda with a cut on his lip, and a bruise across his cheek, a Band-Aid around Darry's head and a black eye, Two-Bit had four stitches on his cheek, seven on his hand. Darry seeing the look on Pony's face asked him what was wrong. Ponyboy tells the group that Johnny had died and Dally had ran away. Then Dally called saying that he had robbed a store and the police were after him, and they had to go to the let to hide him. As they arrive Dally came running into the lot stopping and pulling out an unloading gun, the police (not knowing that the gun was unloaded) shot down Dally who died with a look of triumph on his face. Pony wakes up he next day and it was very quiet no TV or radio blasting, soon Soda comes in telling Ponyboy to go back to sleep. When Pony wakes up again he asks Darry what had happened. Darry tells Pony that he had been asleep since the rumble, he told him that he had a concussion from the rumble. Soon Soda comes into the room and talks to Ponyboy about how  out of it he was during his concussion. Darry who had gone to get some soup for Pony came back to find both Ponyboy and Soda asleep.= = = = = = = = Chapter 11 = = = = = =Characters: None= = = = = =Summary= =Ponyboy is bored after being in bed for a week, while looking in one of Soda's yearbooks he found a picture of Robert Bob Sheldon. Pony thinks about Bob and how he lived his short life. Darry then intersected his thoughts telling him that Randy was here to see him. Randy came in with an uncomfortable look on his face. He talked about the hearing for the next day, how his parents were reacting and asked how Pony's parents reacted. Pony told Randy that his parents were dead and he might be taken away from Darry if the judge decided that he was not a good guardian. Randy tells Pony that he did nothing wrong and it was Johnny who killed Bob. Pony tells Randy that he was the one who had the knife and stabbed Bob. The two went back and forth with who killed Bob. Darry who had heard the rising of Pony's voice told Randy that it was time for him to leave, telling Randy that Pony was still pretty shaken up with what happened.= = = = = = Chapter 12 = = = = = =Character:= = = =Mr. Syme- Ponyboy's english teacher= = = = = =Summary= =Ponyboy, Darry, Soda, Cherry, Randy, and the Socs from the nigth Bob was killed all go to the hearing. The Socs say that Johnny had killed Bob on purpose. Cherry told them what had happened before and after Bob picked her up. The judge asked Darry and Soda if they were buddies with Dally,and they both answered yes. When Pony was up the judge asked him if he liked living with Darry, if he liked school, and if he had good grades. After that the judge said that the case was closed. Afterwards Ponyboy goes back to school, but startes forgetting things, quitting eating things, and his grades began to drop. His english teacher Mr. Syme tells Pony that if he writes a good semester theme he will pass with a C. At lunch Two-Bit, Steve, and Pony went to a  greaser hang-out. While Two-Bit and Steve were inside talking to some girlsa car filled with Socs arrives one of which asked Pony if he was the one that killed Bob. Ponyboy ( tired with the Socs) busted his soda bottle threaten to kill he Socs if they didn't leave. As the Socs left Two-Bit came out asking Pony would have he do that. He told Pony not to get tough. When Pony got home Darry wanted him to start writing the theme, but Pony couldn't find anything to write about. Soon Soda came home from work asking if any mail had come like he always does, but was acting strange. After dinner Darry and Pony got into a fight. When Pony looked to Soda for help he found him white face with pain and tears in his eyes. Soda then ran out of the house leaving a letter behind. Darry tells Pony that Soda had sent the letter to Sandy and she sent it back unopened. They then went after Soda catching him in the park, where Soda told them he was tired of beong the midddleman in all ther fights and he wanted them to stop fighting. When Pony got home he deceided to read the copy of //Gone With The Wind// that Johnny had left him. As he opened it a letter from Johnny fell out. After reading it Pony finally had an idea for his theme. The theme was about a hurt, quiet defeated-looking sixteen year old whose hair badly needed cutting and who's black eyes had a frightened expression to them, and how one week had taken them all.=

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