Mariam

The Outsiders
**By: Mariam Majeed __7th grade summer project__** **__ ﻿ __** **__ Chapter 1 __** __** Characters and Summary **__ **__ Ponyboy Curtis- __ Doesn't look tough, has light brown, almost red hair, greenish-gray **  ** eyes, and has longer hair then alot of boys. Ponyboy diggs movies and books. **

__** SodaPop Curtis- **__** Ponyboy's sixteen-going-on-seventeen year old brother with dark- **  ** gold shiny long hair. His eyes are dark brown. Not as tall as Darry, just a bit slimmer. **  ** Never cracks a book or movie like Ponyboy. **

__** Darry Curtis- **__** Oldest brother in the Curtis family. Darry is 6"2 in., board shouldered **  ** and muscular. He has dark brown hair. His eyes are like two pieces of pale-blue **   ** green ice. **

__** Steve Randle- **__** seventeen, tall, lean, he also has greasy hair. **
__** Keith-(Two-Bit Mathews)- **__** six feet tall, he is the oldest person in the gang. **  ** He has long rusty-colored side burns, gray eyes, and he loves to show off his switch- **   ** blade. **   **__ Dallas Winston-(Dally)- __ elfish face, high cheekbones, pointed chin, small sharp animal- **   ** like teeth, and he has ears like a lynx. He has hair that almost looks white because of **  ** how blonde it is. His eyes are blazing blue ice, with hatred for the world inside them. **   __** Johnny Cade (Johnnycake)- **__** Jet-black hair, big suspicious eyes, smallest member of **   ** the gang. **   __** Sandy- **__** Soda's girl, natural blonde hair, she has China blue eyes. **   __** SUMMARY **__   ** Ponyboy just got out of the movies,wishing his eyes were more gray. He was just **  ** two blocks away from home when he got jumped by the Socs (Socials). The gang **  ** (Greasers) got there just in time. After that he wonders why the two gangs are **  ** against each other. **

they fall both fall in love with Cherry. Then Two-Bit comes and scares them.
= Chapter 3 =

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Summary
= Ponyboy and Johnny run to the park to cool off. While smoking they see a blue Mustang circling the park. From the car emerge Bob, Randy, and a handful of Socs. The group attacks Pony and Johnny, but soon leaves after fearful Johnny stabbed Bob. Fearing what would happen they find Dally, who give them a loaded gun, and fifty dollars. He tells them to go to an abandoned church on JayMountain and to stay there until its safe. They reach the church and crash from being tired. = = = = Chapter 5 = = Characters: None = = Summary = = Ponyboy wakes up in the church have 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 car wreck 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. = = = = hapter 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 they hear the screaming of children from inside the burning church. Ponyboy and Johnny rush into the church, grabbed the children the gilded 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 confesses 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. News reports ask Ponyboy (what felt 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- 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 newspaper: JUVENILE DELINQUENTS TURN HEROES. Pony also found out that Soda and he 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 leaves 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 what 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 condition. Finally the doctor let them in saying that Johnny had been asking for them. They talk to Johnny about the rumble, the editorials written 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 leaves 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 her 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. = = = = =

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