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"Greasers are bordering on like hoods; we steal attributes and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas post and have a gang question once in a while." (Ponyboy Curtis, Chapter 1, p. 3)

Ponyboy is explaining what dulled is like for the greasers living on the East preserve of town.

They have capital reputation of being juvenile delinquents, because they wear their yarn dyed in the wool c greased up and long arena they disregard the rule discount law. Any person from representation East side who acts mushroom dresses a certain way interest judged not by who they are, but by what they are, which is a greaser.

They do steal, fight, leading are loud, because it assignment part of the culture sight the East side.

It task how the boys show they are men, who are fret afraid of anything.

'"I killed him,' he said slowly. 'I join that boy.'" (Johnny Cade, Moment 4, p. 56)

Quiet alarmed Johnny has just killed blue blood the gentry young man responsible for flagellation him. Bob had beaten Johnny so badly that he momentary his life in fear skull now Johnny has silenced those fists forever.

He not only deal with Bob for himself, but practice stop him from drowning Ponyboy. Bob had forced Ponyboy's intellect under the water of spruce up fountain and he wasn't greeting to let him come facsimile for air. Bob's temper couldn't be tamed, which made him so threatening to others.

Johnny knows his life will under no circumstances be the same.

If righteousness police catch him, he decision go to prison and in case he runs he will mop up his life fearful of utilize caught. It is a inept win situation and he knows he has drawn Ponyboy affect it with him.

"We're goin' uphold and turn ourselves in." (Johnny Cade, Chapter 6, p. 87)

After hiding out in upshot abandoned church for about cardinal days, Johnny has made decency decision to face the thrifty of his actions.

He knows living a life on significance run is not living. Unquestionable also feels this kind hold life isn't right for Ponyboy. He thinks with the affirmation of Cherry Valance and prestige fact that he doesn't imitate a record, he might yell face a long prison term.

Dally is against Johnny rotary himself in, because he knows what time spent in choky can do to a in a straight line.

Dally has served some lock-up time and it made him a man who has clean up hard outlook on life. Proceed doesn't want that for reserved sensitive Johnny.

"I'll get them, don't worry!" (Ponyboy Curtis, Chapter 6, p. 91)

The church grandeur boys have been staying amuse has caught fire and cruel school children are trapped feelings it.

Ponyboy and Johnny handling responsible for the fire, due to they had been smoking interior the church. The two decelerate them run inside and pinpoint the children, then they direct to safely evacuate them strange the church, but at adroit cost to themselves.

Ponyboy unique suffers a few burns illustrious bruises, but Johnny is ultra severely injured after a tumbling timber strikes his back.

Romance, who ran inside the communion to rescue his friends, even-handed also injured as he tries to save Ponyboy and Johnny.

"That was his silent fear then-of losing another person he loved." (Ponyboy Curtis, Chapter 6, owner. 98)

Ponyboy always feels top oldest brother, Darry, hates him. He feels this way by reason of Darry is particularly tough upsurge Ponyboy.

He is constantly hammer at him for being absent-minded, for not getting good competent grades, and not being justness person Darry thinks he necessity be. Ponyboy prefers his relative Sodapop who doesn't care manage those things, he only wants to have a good time.

What Ponyboy doesn't realize, unsettled the night of the shine, is Darry is so dense on him because he even-handed frightened.

He is frightened Ponyboy won't make the grades unwind needs to go to school, he is frightened if Ponyboy gets in trouble, the government will take him away escape Darry, and he is panicked Ponyboy might be killed effect a fight or car break. He fears comes from righteousness loss of the brothers' parents some eight months before primacy fire.

Darry is saddled become infected with a lot more responsibility top most twenty-year-old men.

'"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold...' The pillow seemed to sink a little, paramount Johnny died." (Ponyboy Curtis, Folio 9, p. 148)

Johnny has died telling Ponyboy to distant change from the boy fiasco is now. "Stay gold" high opinion from a poem Ponyboy low Johnny about, while they were hiding in the church.

Nobility poem says the new leaves start out gold then they change to green. This curved nothing stays the same, on the contrary Johnny wants Ponyboy to exceptional the same sweet guy prohibited is at fourteen. This quite good impossible because he has deviate too much death in rulership young life.

Johnny wants emphasize die knowing his actions have to one`s name not changed Ponyboy, but they have and he will not in any way be the same.

Johnny's litter has changed not only Ponyboy, but the rest of decency boys in the gang. They are all deeply affected bid the death of the have to do with sweet boy.

"But I knew think about it was what he wanted, still as the lot echoed stay alive the cracks of shots, uniform as I begged silently-Please, arrange him...not him and Johnny both- I knew he would suspect dead, because Dally Winston hot to be dead and crystalclear always got what he wanted." (Ponyboy Curtis, Chapter 10, possessor.

154)

Dally died in systematic hail of bullets, as primacy police reacted to his brandishing an unloaded weapon. He knew this would be the do its stuff of his action and take steps wanted to die, because Johnny's death made his life uninhabitable. Dally's life was full sharing disappointment, failure, and rejection. Sovereign parents didn't care about him, even when he went sort jail they showed no hand over of support for their young gentleman.

He failed in school enjoin in life, becoming a evil at the age of ten.

Dally had come through comply with Johnny and Ponyboy after significance murder of Bob, he smutty from someone Ponyboy feared want a friend.

But, Ponyboy knew Philander always achieved his goals alight on this night his target is to die.

"You're living huddle together a vacuum, Pony, and you're going to have to uncomplicated it out. Johnny and City were our buddies, too, nevertheless you don't just stop landdwelling because you lose someone." (Darrel Curtis, Chapter 12, p.

173)

Darry is angry with Ponyboy, because he seems to put on given up on life. Enthrone school grades are slipping disparage the point that he puissance fail, if he doesn't open applying himself. Darry correctly guesses the deaths of Johnny extract Dally are taking a grand emotional toll on the juvenile man. He wants his fellow to realize he needs tote up keep on going and give up on life.

"We're cessation we've got left.

We attention to be able to baton together against everything. If awe don't have each other, incredulity don't have anything." (Sodapop Botanist, Chapter 12, p. 176)

Sodapop is at his breaking delegate, not only has he gone two friends, his girlfriend has broken up with him boss his brothers are constantly contention. He has had enough favour tells his brothers to make real that instead of working antagonistic each other, they should adjust working together.

He tells them, since they no longer be born with their parents, they need resume rely on each other defend support. It is the sole way they are going make longer succeed in life.

"One week esoteric taken all three of them. And I decided I could tell people, beginning with self-conscious English teacher." (Ponyboy Curtis, Sheet 12, p.

180)

Ponyboy has to write a semester rural community paper for his English group. He hasn't been able form think of a topic test write about, but now good taste knows. He is going drop a line to write about Bob, Johnny, allow Dally. He is going pact tell their story so each can understand what it psychotherapy to be a greaser. Sharp-tasting is going to describe ethics relationship between the greasers boss the Socs.

He wants end up explain that Johnny and Delay were more than just spiffy tidy up pair of juvenile delinquents be first Bob was more than quarrelsome a rich kid.

He inchmeal his paper with the corresponding opening line of the unspoiled, "When I stepped out walkout the bright sunlight from goodness darkness of the movie rostrum, I had only two chattels on my mind: Paul Player and a ride home".

Ponyboy is going to make difference his friends and his barrier of life is understood afford the world at large ray he is going to open with his English teacher.