Recent Event Highlights: Pony talks to Cherry about the big rumble, Dally tells Pony and Johnny what happened last night, Pony Meets Cherry, and 9 more...
Ponyboy looks at Gone with the Wind and writes the story of his friends so that other gangs would not take their anger out at the world and bother about life’s greatness. He started his theme with “When I stepped outside from the Movie Theatre I only had two things on my mind, Paul Newman and a ride home”.
Ponyboy wakes up from his concussion and looks at Bob the Soc from Sodapops old yearbook. Ponyboy says that Bobs grin looks like Soda's. Pony wonders if Bobs parents hated him. Pony concludes that Bob wasnt good at all but he was still like everyone else, a normal human being.
Dally calls and says that he just robbed a store and is running from the police. Dally takes out an unloaded gun from his pocket and aims it at the police. The police shoot Dally and he is no more. Then Ponyboy passes out.
The Greasers have won the fight against the Socs. after the fight Ponyboy and Dally rush to the hospital to see Johnny and tell him the news. Johnny moans "stay gold" and then Dies.
Ponyboy talks to Randy, a soc, about fighting at the rumble. Randy realizes that fighting is not everything and that socs are the socs are the same as greasers.
Johnny, Dally and Ponyboy drive by the church they were staying in and find that it is on fire so they jump out of the car, and upon hearing two children they rush into the church to save them. As a result of them going into the fire Johnny breaks and will never walk again.
Dally arrives and talks to them about what happened the other night and that the cops have found out. This is important because if the police catch them the Johnny will have to go to jail.
Johnny kills a soc named Bob to save Ponyboy's life. This results in Johnny having to go to prison and the socs getting even more upset leading to a fight.
Ponyboy gets home late and Darry is really mad at him and slaps him upside the head. Nobody has ever hit pony at home in the family before and Ponyboy is so upset by this he decides to run away.
Ponyboy befriends Cherry Valance at the movies.
The conversation between Ponyboy and Cherry shows that both the Greasers and the Socs have to deal with the same problems, they just handle them in different ways.
Ponyboy gets jumped by a group of Socs in a Chevy Corvair. They try to cut his hair off but Ponyboy’s brothers save him just in time.
This shows that the Socs hate the Greasers.
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