'The Outsiders' handlingsresumé

Once Pony, Johnny and two other members of the gang go to the cinema. There they get to know two good looking girls. The ones name is Cherry Valance, who is Bobs girlfriend, but the greasers dont know that, and the others called Maricia. They have a lot of fun. After the cinema Two-Bit, Pony and Johnny want to bring the girls home, when a car passes them and comes back. Bob and five other Socs are in this car and they were very angry, because their girls talk with greasers. Bob wants the girls to come with them, but they refuse, because the Socs are drunk. Two-Bit wants to help the girls and suddenly Bob threatens him, because they are six and the greasers are only three. But the Socs leave the Greasres, because Cherry and Maricia go with them. After that Two-Bit goes to a party and Pony and Johnny decide to watch the stars, but they fall asleep. But Pony should be at home at midnight. He runs home and Darry is very angry, and shouted with Ponyboy. Soda sticks up for his brother and then he yells at Soda. Pony runs away, although Darry says that he is sorry and didnt mean so. Pony runs to Johnny and then both run away without any direction. In the middle of the park there is a fountain with a small swimming pool for little kids. Suddenly the blue mustang with the Socs appears and everyone of them is still drunk. The Socs are very angry, because the greasers have picked up their girls. They are looking for a rumble. When Pony and Johnny realise, that the Socs are looking for a fight, it is too late to hide. First Bob only calls them names, but when Pony shouts back, he hits Pony and he shoves Pony's face into the water. The hand in Pony's neck is very strong and he can't hold his breath any longer and then he faints. When he wakes up, he is lying on the ground and the Socs are gone, except Bob. He is lying next to Pony. Both dont know what to do, especially Pony fears that they, put Johnny on the electric chair for killing Bob. So they go to Dally, because he knows best what to do. Dally gave them some money and a loaded gun. He wants them to go to another place, where a church on the top of someplace is. Dally tells them to stay there until he will arrive there, too. Then they disappear in the darkness. After some days, Dally came and he first goes eating with them, because both lost a lot of weight. The police think that they went to Texas, because Dally got hauled into the station and he let slip over that they were going to Texas. When they are driving back to the church, Johnny tells them that he wants to turn himself in, but Dally advises him against doing this, because he was there and doesnt wish anyone of his friends to go there, because being in a jail makes you hardened. When they arrive at the church, they notice, that it is burning. There is also a school-class and Pony gets to know that there are still five kids in the burning church. He and Johnny run towards it and climb through the window, although Dally shouts they shall come out and leave the kids alone, because the roof will break down, because of the flames. But both don't notice the danger in which they are. They take the crying kids and put them through the window. All kids get saved, but Ponys back is burning when he climbs through the window. Dally pulls Johnny outside, because he faints, when a burning timber falls on his back. At the hospital a man thanks Pony many times for their selfless help. Pony tells this man the whole story. He promises to help them. Johnny is still unconscious, has burnings the third grade, a broken back and is in critical condition. Dally has only a burned arm and will be able to leave the hospital in some days. At home Dally calls them that the police is after him, because of a robbery. They meet him in the park. When the police arrives, he takes his unloaded gun and the police shoots him dead, because they don't know that his gun is unloaded. It was a kind of suicide, because he wanted to be dead, maybe in heaven with Johnny. Johnny was the only person who he really loved. There are all the other guys, who saw how Bob got killed, and they get questioned about this night. They tell the judge the truth, but to Ponys point of view they lie. At home Pony finds a letter he got from Johnny. He wrote that Pony should give his best to reach his aims and that he was thinking about the poem, they read in the other town.