He is killed by Johnny Cade. Bob Sheldon and his goons attacked Ponyboy and Johnny one night, and Bob nearly drowned Ponyboy. The only reason Ponyboy survived the encounter was because Johnny killed Bob to protect his fellow Greaser.
Bob's bloody corpse is nearby. Johnny says, “I killed him,” and Ponyboy sees Johnny's switchblade, dark to the hilt with blood. Ponyboy panics, but Johnny remains calm.
Right before he dies in the hospital, Johnny says “Stay gold, Ponyboy.” Ponyboy cannot figure out what Johnny means until he reads the note Johnny left. Johnny writes that “stay gold” is a reference to the Robert Frost poem Ponyboy shared when they were hiding at the church.
Ponyboy denies Johnny's death as a survival mechanism, because he has so much grief, pain, and disappointment to deal with. Denying Johnny's death helps him to compartmentalize his emotions, allowing him to deal with the tragedy at his own pace and time.
By trying to convince himself that Johnny was still alive and that he was the one who killed Bob, Ponyboy is trying to cope with all the tragic events that he had witnessed. He is to some extent blaming himself because Johnny is dead and it all started with him trying to defend his friend.
According to Randy, Bob's problem was that his parents never set any boundaries for him or punished him for his misbehavior.
Dally then felt like it was his purpose to save Johnny's "innocence" (his emotions,thoughts etc.) from the cruel things they had to endure. When he failed at this, his guilt took over and he then killed himself (by the hand of another).
At this pronouncement, Ponyboy erupts, "I had the knife. I killed Bob." Randy is confused but continues to correct Pony and assure him that Johnny killed Bob. Pony repeats, "Johnny is not dead." Darry rescues Randy from this scene and tells him that he must go.
Sodapop runs out of the house to avoid witnessing another one of Darry and Pony's arguments. He is already upset about Sandy, and the fighting between his brothers pushes him over the edge.
Darry asked Randy to leave because he mentioned Johnny's death and gave Pony a temper when he's supposed to stay calm and still to recover from his concusion. After their deaths Pony starts to fail his classes, runs into things, forgets things, and stops eating. The Socs try to harass Pony one last time.
Dally died by police fire: suicide by cop. When Johnny died, Dally was so sad that he ran out of the hospital and it seems that he went straight out and robbed the store. After he did that, it seem like he purposely got the police to shoot him.
Q. Who is delusional about Johnny's death? Randy.
What does Bob say a Greaser is? Bob says a Greaser is "white trash with long hair." p. 55.
At home, he finds the greasers gathered in the living room and tells them that Johnny is dead and that Dally has broken down. Dally calls and says he just robbed a grocery store and is running from the police. Ponyboy muses that Dally wanted to die. Feeling dizzy and overwhelmed, Ponyboy passes out.
The verdict is in. Johnny Cade is guilty of manslaughter in the death of Bob Sheldon. The accused and main character in the S. E. Hinton novel The Outsiders was sent up the river for four years to Collins Bay Penitentiary Thursday during a mock trial at Gananoque Secondary School (GSS).
The soc, Bob Sheldon, dies first. When Ponyboy and Johnny flee after Darry hit Ponyboy they run into their rivals Bob and his best friend Randy Adderson. Bob takes Ponyboy and starts drowning him until Johnny gets his switchblade out and kills Bob. After this, Johnny dies.
The Outsiders is realistic fiction, meaning that something related could have happened, but not necessarily with the same people or details. the author, S. E. Hinton, was born in the same timeframe in Oklahoma, where the story took place. So, yes, this book is fictition but it is realistic fiction.
There, Darry says "When Sandy went to Florida it wasn't Soda" We don't know what "it" is, but I assume that "it" refers to who the baby's father was. That's why Soda was so devastated. We can also infer that she was pregnant because Soda offerred to marry her before she left.
Soda did not die in Vietnam.
Sandy, Sodapop's girlfriend, gets pregnant and moves to Florida with her grandmother. Sodapop writes to her, but his letters return unopened.
Sodapop Curtis's real name is Sodapop according to his birth certificate in The Outsiders. He is Ponyboy's brother.
Character. Sodapop Curtis dropped out of high school dropout at sixteen, and works at the local DX (gas) station with his best buddy, Steve, fixing cars and working the pump mostly. Sodapop is dating, and in love with Sandy near the beginning of the book, a pretty girl with china blue eyes and blonde hair.
Sodapop, Ponyboy and Darry are the three handsome Curtis brothers in Susan Hinton's teen novel "The Outsiders." Sodapop drops out of high school when his greaser girlfriend Sandy gets pregnant. He finds out that the father is another girl, but he wants to marry her anyway; she ends up moving to Florida.
Two or the most important artists in the Outsiders are Elvis Presley and The Beatles because they each represent a social group. Elvis was a big role model for the Greasers. That was part of the Greaser influence. Lots of Greasers greased their hair just like Elvis to look tuff and some like Two Bit acted like him.
Terms in this set (3) No the names Pony boy and Soda pop are not nicknames they are they're real name because when they are at the movies with Cherry and Marcia they ask if Pony boy is his real name and he said it was and that it said Soda pop on Soda pop's birth certificate.
The Outsiders - Characters
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| Two-Bit Matthews | Oldest in gang, wisecracker. 18 years old, long red sideburns, famous for shoplifting and black handled switchblade. |
| Johnny Cade | 16 years old. Ponyboy's best friend. Smaller than the rest of the gang. Feels his family doesn't want him |
