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== **1. Complete a journal on your page for each chapter. Label the chapter. Write any characters introduced and a short description. ( You should revise and add to this as you read.) Write a 3-4 sentence summary of the chapter highlighting the key events.** ==

=**Chapter 1**=

==**Dallas Winston-(Dally)-elfish face,with high cheekbones and a pointed chin, small,sharp animal teeth, and ears like lynx. He has hair that is almost white because of how blond it was. His eyes are blue,blazing ice, and they are cold with hatred for the world.**==

**The Socials-(Socs) gang of wealthy kids, who like to beat up greasers**
= = = = = = = = = = =//**SUMMARY**//= ==//One day, a greaser, Ponyboy Curtis was walking back from the movies and was jumped by the rich kid gang, the Socials (Socs for short). Soon after he was jumped his brothers Darry and Sodapop, and other greasers came to help Ponyboy and scare off the Socs. Later on in this chapter Ponyboy wonders why the Socs hate and jump greasers.//==

=**Chapter 2**=

**Marcia-she is a soc with short dark hair**
= = = = = = =//**SUMMARY**//= ==//**In this chapter Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally all meet Cherry and Marcia at the drive-in movies. Dally was very rude to these girls and left angry at Johnny for telling him off. Two-Bit Matthews showed up and became very friendly with Marcia. Ponyboy and Cherry have been very talkative toward each other.**//==

=**Chapter 3**= = = =Bob-Cherry's boyfriend, a soc, he is handsome and black-haired, wears rings, a drinker= = = = = =Randy-Marcia's boyfriend, a soc, he is a tall guy with a semi-Beatle haircut, a drinker=

=Mickey Mouse-a buckskin horse who belonged to a guy who kept Mickey in a stable where Soda used to work. Soda called this horse his own= = = = = = = = = =//**SUMMARY**//= =//Cherry's and Marcia's boyfriends found them walking with Ponyboy and friends. The girls then went with their boyfriends and told the greasers that they could no longer be seen together.When Ponyboy came home late was slapped across the face by Darry then Ponyboy ran away with Johnny.//=

=**Chapter 4**=

//SUMMARY//
==//Ponyboy and Johnny were jumped by Bob, Randy and friends. Ponyboy was scared to wake up and find that Johnny has killed Cherry's boyfriend, Bob. They then turn to Dally for a gun, money, and a plan to runaway from New York. Dally then tells them to runaway to Jay Mountain until things cool down in New York. When they finally reach Jay Mountain they stay in a church.//==

=**Chapter 5**= = = =**(NO CHARACTERS WERE INTRODUCED)**= = = = = = = = = = = =//**SUMMARY**//= ==//**In chapter five, Johnny and Ponyboy are still at the church and they're hungry, tired and cold. When Ponyboy wakes up he thinks he's imaging everything that has happened and tries to tell himself he's home with Darry and Sodapop. As he came back to reality, he realized Johnny went to a drug store and as he was looking at what he got he looked at Johnny, and said "NO" ( Johhny had bought supply to cut their hair so no one would reconize them because their pictures were in the paper). A couple days after they cut their hair they heard a car zooming down the road, it was Dally and friends coming to get them. He had a letter for Ponyboy from Soda, after reading ot Dally took them out to Darry Queen to eat and then told them that a spy, who was a soc,was helping them and her name was Cherry.**//==

=Chapter 6=

//**SUMMARY**//
==//**As they were in the car leaving Dariy Queen, Dally slammed the brakes noticing the church was on fire! Ponyboy ran out of the car and Dally was after him. They then found out what happened, they said that they were having a school picnic and then the church started burning up (Ponyboy tells Johnny that they probably started it). Then they heard someone say that some of the kids were missing. Ponyboy then ran in the burning building then Dally and Johnny. As they got all the kids out of the building Ponyboy was knocked out, and woke up in an ambulance. He then found out that Johnny had a broken back and Dally was going to be alright, but he burned his arm. As he was talking to Jerry Wood his brothers came to see them and Darry felt horrible for hitting him.**//==

=Chapter 7=

= = =(NO CHARACTERS WERE INTRODUCED)=

**//SUMMARY//**
==**//While the three of them were waiting to hear about the boys reporters came and attacked Pony with questions. After the reporters left, Darry finally got the doctor to tell them how the boys were doing. Dally was going to be okay in a couple of days, but Johnny might not make it and if so, he would be permanetley crippled. Darry carried Ponyboy home that night; the next day Two- Pit and Steve came to see Ponyboy while he was making breakfast and showed him the paper calling them heroes and also an article talking about the 3 boys. As he read the last line that said that they shouldn't be seperated he thought to himself; "Are they really thinking about putting me and Soda in a boys home. Two-Bit aso reminded him about court that he to attend about "that night". A littler later Two-Bit and Ponyboy take a walk and they realize that a mustang was following them and it was the same one from the night Bob was killed. While they stopped to get something to drink, the Socs. then came out of the car and Randy went over to Pony and said that he was brave for saving those kids; he also said that he is really sick of fighting and he will be called a chicken if he skips the rumble*. After their conversation the Socs. pile back into the car and they drive off. Two-Bit and Pony then decide to go see Dally and Johnny.//**==

**//* a rumble is a fight between the greasers and socs//**
=Chapter 8=

=(NO CHARACTERS WERE INTRODUCED)=

//**SUMMARY**//
==//**They then go to the hospital to see Johnny and Dally, while they are ther Johnny asks for oil for his hair and the book "Gone With The Wind". Two-Bit runs out for that; and leaves Ponyboy with Johnny. Pony talks to Johnny about the rumble (which is set for 7 that night). The nurse then comes in and tells Johnny that his mom was here to see him, Johnny said that refused to see her and he was so mad that he fainted. The nurse rushed Pony out and when he went into the hall Two-Bit came back with the book and gave it to the nurse and asked if she would give it to him when he woke up. They then decide to go see Dally; Dally tells Ponyboy he's happy he is alive. As they tell Dally that Johnny was in a really bad condition he asks Two-Bit to borrow his switchblade. Two-Bit looked at Ponyboy and could tell he was sick, but Pony begged him not to tell Darry anything. They then decide to go home, while they are waiting for a bus, they see Cherry Valance and she told them that the Socs. are going to play fair, no weapons. Pony was brutely honest with Cherry which hurt her feelings so he then asked her how the sunset was on the west from the east.**//==

=Chapter 9=

=Tim Shepard- lean, catlike and he's eighteen years old. He looks like the model JD you see in movies and magazines. Tim has curly black hair, smoldering dark eyes, and a long sacr from his temple to his chin, where a girl* hit him with a broken pop bottle. He also has a bitter smile and tough look like Dally.=

=Paul Holden- he's husky and blonde; he went to school with Darry=

//**SUMMARY**//
==//**As Darry, Soda, Ponyboy, Two-Bit, and Steve get ready for the rumble, Darry tells Pony that he shouldn't fight but Soda stands up for Pony so Darry gives in. At the rumble the gang was joined by Tim Shepard and his crew and the Brumly's gang and later on in the fight Dally joins them. Darry started the fight with a former teammate, Paul Holden, and then everyone started fighting. Not long after it began, Dally pulled out Two-Bit's switchblade and scared off the Socs., they than all cheer say "WE WON". Dally goes to Pony and says lets go see Johnny (he has askd for Ponyboy); Dally speeds down the road and was stopped by a police officer and lied saying that Ponyboy was in an accident and needed help so the policeman gave them an escort to the hospital. Dally and Pony were just about to walk in the room when the doctor stopped them saying that he was worse and Dally pulled out the switchblade and the doctor lets them in. They ran to his side and Dally told him about the rumble and he said fighting is useless and no good, he then turned to Ponyboy and said "Stay gold" and the Johnny died. Devistated Dally slammes his fist through the wall and runs out the door and down the hall frustrated.**//==

=Chapter 10=

=(NO CHARACTERS WERE INTRODUCED)=

//**SUMMARY**//
==//**Ponyboy wandered around for a while(since Dally drove off without him)until a stranger picked him up and drove him home. As he walks in everyone can tell something's wrong and he tells them about Johnny's death. They then get a phone call that Dally robbed a grocery store and he needed them to meet him in the vacant lot. When the get to the lot, Dally is under a street light, he takes his unloaded gun, points it toward the police and then the police open fire and Dally falls to the ground dead and Pony faints. When he regaines consciouness he sees Darry sitting next to him asleep and also finds out that he has been unconsciousness for three days. He also knows that he has to make up school work, got to court about Bob's death, and could be put in a boy's home. Later on, Soda gives Ponyboy the book Gone With The Wind he said that the nurse told me that Johnny wanted you to have it. However, Pony didn't want to keep reading it** because it would be a constant reminder of Johnny and Dally's death.//==

=Chapter 11=

=(NO CHARACTERS WERE INTRODUCED)=

//**SUMMARY**//
==//**Ponyboy must stay in bed for a week to recover; while doing so he decides to go through Soda's yearbook and he came across Bob's picture and was reminded about court. Randy also comes to see Pony while he's recovering to talk about the hearing. He feels like he has ashamed his father so he is going to tell the truth at court; Randy tells Pony that he has nothing to worry about because Johnny was the one with the knife, who killed Bob. However, confused Ponyboy tries to tell Randy he was the one with the knife who killed Bob, and Johnny was still alive. Darry can hear that Ponyboy was upset so he went in the room and told Randy that he should leave. As Randy left, Pony could hear Darry telling Randy not to bring up Johnny because he's not mentally or emotionally stable. After returning to Pony's room Darry yells at Pony for smoking in bed and also tells him to clean his room. When talking Darry calls Pony "little buddy" which he usually calls Soda; Pony promises to be more careful after he realizes Darry does care about him.**//==

=Chapter 12= =(NO CHARACTERS WERE INTRODUCED)=

//**SUMMARY**//
==//**At court Randy and the other Socs. tell the truth about that night; however Pony think their lieing when the say Johnny killed Bob. The judge convictes Ponyboy not guilty, but he's still not able to put things behind him. Pony has stopped eating, he forgets things, and he's slipping up in school. His English teacher gives him a choice, the teacher will pass him with a C average if he write a good end of the semester theme. After Bob's death the Socs. still don't leave Pony alone; when Steve and Two-Bit go into a grocery store some Socs. pull up and challenge him for killing Bob. He then grabs a bottle, breaks it, and then threaten them and the run off. Two-Bit, who was watching the whole time, told Pony not to harden up now. Ponyboy has had some troble paying attention to his school work and writing his theme for English; after Darry yells at him they get into an argument. Soda, who is still heart broken after his girlfriend moves away, runs out of the house as they fight. As Darry and Pony run after him he tells them he's sick of being in the middle of tug o' war, so then they make up and everyone goes home. Still having problems with his English paper, Pony decides to look at Johnny's copy of Gone With The Wind. When he picks it up, a slip of paper falls out of it; Johnny had left a note telling Pony that it was worth dying saving those kids, he tells him to stay "golden" forever, and that there is still good in the world. Now Ponyboy can accept Johnny's dead and move on, and he will remember him as a good friend who cared about people and their problems. He was inspired by Johnny words so he decided to tell people the challenges people like him face everyday. He is going to write this as his end of the semester English paper. The book ends on that note of positivity.**//==

= 2. Choose one character form the story and predict where they will be in 10 years. What will their life be like? What occupation will they have? Will they get married? Include anything you feel is important. Creatively display your results. ( Power Point, video, collage ect...) =

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= 3. Choose one theme from the story. Name the theme and give an example from the book. ( Rich vs. Poor) =

=Group vs. Group= =Socs. vs. Greasers=

At the rumble, it was greasers vs. socs; also when greasers get jumped by socs, it would be tilted as group vs. group.
= 4. Start and/or participate in a discussin on the "Discussion" page. =

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