Panicked, Ponyboy and Johnny find Dally, who they know will help them. During the fight, Johnny stabs and kills Bob to stop him from drowning Ponyboy in a fountain. Later, Ponyboy and Johnny are jumped by Bob, Randy, and other Soc gang members. Ponyboy runs home, but when Darry scolds and hits him for the first time, he goes back to find Johnny. Later that night, Ponyboy and Johnny accidentally fall asleep in their favorite vacant lot. On the walk home, Bob and Randy, the girls' Soc boyfriends, accost the group and then take the girls home. Ponyboy and Cherry enjoy watching the sunset together it is a bond that crosses their social boundaries and links their worlds. One night at the drive-in theater, Ponyboy, Johnny, Two-Bit, and Dally meet Cherry and her friend Marcia. Cherry is Bob's girlfriend, whom Ponyboy enjoys getting to know despite their class differences. Bob Sheldon-a bitter enemy of the Greasers who harasses them every chance he gets. The rival gang, the Socs, are richer kids from the West Side. Steve Randle is Soda's best friend, whom Ponyboy dislikes. Two-Bit Mathews is a wise-cracking shop-lifter who carries a switchblade and enjoys both fighting and school. The others know they can count on Dally for help if they are in trouble. He is hardened by his fight for self-preservation. He is a jockey who rides horses, which the narrator tells us, is the only thing he does honestly. Johnny Cade is a nervous sixteen-year-old who comes from a violent home his friends treat him like a kid brother. Darry won an athletic scholarship which he had to give up because his family could still not afford to send him to college. Darry is the oldest Curtis brother, a roofer who takes care of both Ponyboy and Sodapop. Sodapop is a happy-go-lucky sixteen-year-old, always grinning and getting high on life while abstaining from drinking alcohol. He lives with his older brothers Sodapop and Darry Curtis, as their parents have passed away in a car accident. Ponyboy Curtis is the fourteen-year-old narrator of the novel, who loves reading books and watching movies. The novel is set in the early 1960s, in a fictional city loosely based on the author’s hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma.įinancially and socially disadvantaged, the Greaser gang members are referred to as “hoods” or juvenile “delinquents.” They include the following characters: The boys suffer tragic consequences as they resort to violence still their loyalty and kinship grow stronger. The novel tells of the violence that ensues between the “Greasers,” who make up the lower-class gang and the “Socs,” their middle- and upper-class rivals. Hinton, is a coming-of-age story about class rivalry between two teenage gangs.
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