Ponyboy is walking home from the movies when a group of Socs gang up on him and threaten to slit his throat. The greasers show up and save Ponyboy. The greasers are: Darry, Sodapop, Johnny, Dally, Two-Bit, and Steve. Darry is raising Sodapop and Ponyboy because their parents died in a car crash. Darry works two jobs and is very strict with Ponyboy.
Book summary for the outsiders Ponyboy Curtis belongs to a lower-class group of Oklahoma youths who call themselves greasers because of their greasy long hair. Walking home from a movie, Ponyboy is attacked by a group of Socs, the greasers’ rivals, who are upper-class youths from the West Side of town. The Socs, short for Socials, gang up on Ponyboy and threaten to slit his throat. A group of greasers comes and chases the bullies away, saving Ponyboy. Ponyboy’s rescuers include his brother Sodapop, a charming, handsome high-school dropout, and Darry, Ponyboy’s oldest brother (Darry assumed responsibility for his brothers when their parents were killed in a car crash).
She gets mad and goes by herself. She gets killed by the Population Police. Luke finds out and feels bad that he didn’t go with her. The Population Police found out that Luke existed and they tried to find him. George, Jen’s step dad, gets Luke a fake ID and Luke goes and lives with these other people so he can be
His three sons plotted to break him and his cellmate, Randy Greenawalt, out of prison. On July 30, 1978, the sons entered the prison for a visit, taking advantage of a policy that allowed an informal picnic setting for weekend family visits, carrying an ice chest packed with revolvers and sawed-off shotguns. [1] One of them aimed a sawed-off shotgun at a lobby guard. Greenawalt helped in the escape by cutting off telephones and alarm systems. [2] They escaped in Donald Tison's 1969 Lincoln Continental, but the next day, one of the Lincoln's tires blew out on a stretch of road not far from the California border, near Quartzsite.
Edmund worked for the department of transportation in Santa Cruz and began to pick up hitchhikers, bring them to deserted areas, and brutally rape and kill them. He killed a total of six college girls from the area, promptly earning him the title of Co-Ed killer. This all culminated when he decided to kill his mother with a ice pick, beheading her and using her head for oral sex. He later killed his mother’s friend who he had called
With farming duties to uphold, Clyde quit school after he graduated only the fifth grade (Rosa “The Story of Bonnie and Clyde”). After years of no farming luck, Clyde’s family packed up and moved to West Dallas, which was where Clyde’s criminal background started to unfold. Stealing turkeys with his brothers, Clyde soon created an unhappy relationship with police officers and was arrested three times for investigation of stolen cars but was let go. At age twenty, Clyde hitchhiked and found himself driven around with a car-full of criminal, it seemed he would never run away from breaking the law, even if he wanted to. When everyone in the car were taken into custody, Clyde explained he was merely a hitchhiker and it was the last time he would be legally let go.
Stephen King’s IT tells the story of Pennywise the clown that terrorises the town of Derry by murdering children. Seven children, all considered outcasts, choose to destroy the monster. IT: Georgie and the drain. This is the very beginning of the story and the tone is set rather quickly. Bill made his little brother George a boat so he could take it outside to ride along with the stream on the street caused by the heavy rain.
Cassandra Reeser Block 1 3/24/11 “Gang Violence” For the last few weeks I have been reading The Outsiders. The novel begins by showing the differences between the poor Greasers and the rich Socs’. When the Socs’ jump Ponyboy in chapter one it shows that Ponyboy lives in a place where even an innocent walk is dangerous. In the middle of the novel the Greasers kill a Soc named Bob. This leads Johnny and Ponyboy to run away.
He goes as far as Texas, eventually ending up in Mexico. The Kid gets imprisoned in a Chihuahua cell, but is released shortly by the leader of a clan of scalp hunters. The antagonist in the novel is Judge Holden, known as the “child-killer”. The Kid survives many hardships such as gun shots, bar fights, and fires as he blunders through the Mexican desert. He continually flees each town in hopes for a better opportunity, only to find more disarray and violence in the next.
Ponyboy imagines living out in the country, he would be able to elude all thoughts chasing after him and that all worries would simply float away and wonder through the thermosphere. Pony comes across many problems with family, friends, and the socs, pony later figures out that “things are rough all over.” (Hinton 29) Pony and Johnny find themselves in trouble with the socs that had jumped Johnny once before. However, this time the handsome soc named Bob had seen his girlfriend with them and Bob was a bit drunk. Bob found Johnny and Pony in the park and he began to fight, Johnny acted on it and he killed him, it was not his intention but it happened. After this Pony and Johnny had to get out of town and quick!