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).
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.
| Vehicle Failure | 1968/16 | Peck takes Lil Bit to the car. They discuss going further in their relationship. Peck gets a blanket so Lil Bit can sleep. | Idling in Neutral Gear | | Uncle Peck teaches cousin Bobby how to fish. Bobby gets upset after catching a fish and starts crying so peck releases it.
They ended up almost drowning ponyboy by placing his head in the fountain located in the middle of the park. Johnny stabbed the soc with his switchblade in defense which killed him. 3. The author foreshadowed that Johnny would use his knife in chapter 2 when he said how traumatized he was by the last time he got jumped by the socs. 4.
After dunking the boy’s head underwater to make sure that he was dead, they poured acid on his face (so that he would be hard to identify) then stuffed his body into a drainpipe. After this, they drove to Leopold’s home, where they spent the afternoon and evening drinking and playing cards. Around midnight, they telephoned the Franks’ home and told Mr. Franks that he could soon expect a ransom demand for the return of his son. They typed out a letter on a stolen typewriter and mailed it to Franks, intent on continuing their twisted
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.
The girl’s presence inspires Luis to stay at the junkyard all night washing the hubcaps looking for the special hubcap. Once Luis finds the hubcap, he runs all the way to the girl’s house, climbs the tree outside her window, throws pebbles at her window to get her attention, and tells her that he has found the hubcap. Luis must be in love with this girl because he straightens up when they get together (Cofer
His grandkids are all over after the ceremony and he finds his grand daughter, Ashley, smoking next to his car. She asks what kind of car it is and he tells her it’s a Gran Torino. Then she asks what she can have after he dies. He gets angry and walks away. His neighbor from the Hmong family, Thao, comes over for jumper cables and Walt gets angry and insults him.
These women enchanted them with their singing and put them to sleep. When the men woke up Pete was missing and the remaining two assumed he turned into the frog that jumped out of Pete’s clothes that were still there. After leaving the river Everett and Delmar come across a big man blind in one eye who takes them out for a picnic in order to attack them and steal their money. When the men get back to Everett’s hometown they find out that his wife, Penny, has taken up a new man to be her husband and told their girls that he got hit by a train so they thought he was dead. All of it resembles the blind singer on the island of Scherie, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and Ulysses’s wife
When the boys are dancing and chanting around the bonfire, they mistake Simon for the beast and brutally kill him with “no words…but the tearing of teeth and claws. In all the excitement at the bonfire, the boys show that they have become undomesticated since when they first got to the island. Their obsession with the beast has led to development of animal-like instincts, causing them to react in violent behavior in order to protect themselves. Lastly, the third death in the novel is heartless and intentional murder, proving that the boys have lost all sense of sympathy and have turned to killing to maintain power over each other. After Roger pushes Piggy down the mountain knocking Piggy to his death, Jack steps forward and begins “screaming wildly” and warns Ralph that if he doesn’t join his tribe, that “that’s what [he’ll] get”.