Terrified as to what to do next, Ponyboy and Johnny rush to find Dally, who gives them money and a loaded gun, directing them to hide in an abandoned church in Windrixville. After some heated talk, Ponyboy spits at the Socs, prompting them to attempt to drown him in a nearby fountain, but Johnny stabs Bob, killing him and dispersing the rest. Running away from home, Ponyboy and Johnny wander into a park, where Bob and four other Socs surround them. Pony runs out the door and meets up with Johnny, expressing his anger at Darry's increasing coldness in the wake of his parents' recent deaths in a car crash. Ponyboy gets home at two in the morning, enraging Darry until he suddenly slaps Ponyboy. Bob and the greasers exchange taunts, but Cherry prevents a fight by willingly leaving with Bob. Cherry scorns Dally's rude advances, but Ponyboy speaks civilly with Cherry, emotionally connecting with a Soc for the first time in his life.Īfterward, Ponyboy, Johnny, and their wisecracking friend Two-Bit begin to walk Cherry and Marcia home, when they are stopped by Cherry's boyfriend Bob, who badly beat up Johnny a few months back.

The next night, Ponyboy and two greaser friends, the hardened Dally and the quiet Johnny, meet Cherry and Marcia, a pair of Soc girls, at a drive-in movie theater. Several greasers, including Ponyboy's two older brothers-the paternal Darry and the popular Sodapop-come to his rescue. Ponyboy Curtis, a fourteen year old boy who is a member of a 'gang of 'greasers', is leaving a movie theater when he is jumped by 'Socs', the greasers' rival gang.

A stage musical adaptation with a libretto by Adam Rapp and songs by Jamestown Revival is currently in the works as of 2022. A dramatic stage adaptation was written by Christopher Sergel and published in 1990. The story in the book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965, but this is never explicitly stated in the book.Ī film adaptation was produced in 1983 by Francis Ford Coppola, and a short-lived television series appeared in 1990, picking up where the movie left off. The story is told in first-person perspective by teenage protagonist Ponyboy Curtis.

The book details the conflict between two rival gangs divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class ' greasers' and the upper-class 'Socs' (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z/-short for Socials). Hinton was 18 when the book was published. Hinton was only 15 when she started writing the novel however, she did most of the work when she was 16 and a junior in high school. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S.E.

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