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Back-
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- The Curtis children lose their parents in an auto accident.
- Darry turns down a college scholarship to care for his brothers.
- Johnny is badly beaten up by the Socs.
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1
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- Walking home from the movies, Ponyboy is jumped by Socs.
- Darry scolds Ponyboy for walking alone and not using his head.
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2
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- Ponyboy and Johnny go to the drive-in with Dally.
- Dally harasses two Soc girls: Cherry and Marcia.
- Ponyboy becomes friends with Cherry and, for the first time, sees the human side of the Socs.
- On the way home, Bob and his Soc friends confront Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-Bit. Cherry defuses the situation.
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3
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- Ponyboy gets home late.
- Darry, scared about Ponyboy’s welfare, shouts at and hits Ponyboy.
- Ponyboy runs out of the house.
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4
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- Ponyboy and Johnny go to the Park. Bob and other Socs attack them.
- Johnny kills Bob.
- Dally helps Ponyboy and Johnny escape to Windrixville.
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5
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- Ponyboy and Johnny cut their hair as they hide out in an abandoned church in the countryside.
- Ponyboy and Johnny marvel at the sunrise and discuss the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”
- Dally comes to visit.
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6
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- Ponyboy and Johnny, aided by Dally, rescue schoolchildren from the burning church.
- At the hospital, Ponyboy understands how much Darry loves him, and learns that Johnny is badly, perhaps fatally, injured.
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7
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- The newspapers proclaim Johnny and Ponyboy heroes.
- Randy tells Ponyboy that he will not fight in the rumble.
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8
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- Ponyboy and Two-Bit visit Johnny in the hospital and bring him Gone with the Wind.
- They also visit Dally. Two-Bit gives Dally his switchblade when Dally asks for it.
- Ponyboy talks with Cherry about Bob, and they reaffirm their common love of sunsets.
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9
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- The greasers win the rumble, but Ponyboy is increasingly convinced that such fighting is useless.
- Dally rushes with Ponyboy to the hospital to tell Johnny of their victory. Johnny is unimpressed.
- Johnny tells Ponyboy to “stay gold” and dies.
- Darry runs out of the hospital room.
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10
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- Dally commits suicide by provoking the police with an unloaded gun and getting shot.
- Ponyboy passes out and his brothers take care of him.
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11
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- Ponyboy looks at Bob’s yearbook picture and sees him as a human being. Randy visits Ponyboy. Ponyboy becomes delirious and claims that he killed Bob.
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- At a hearing, a judge clears Johnny and Ponyboy of wrongdoing.
- Sodapop begs Ponyboy and Darry not to fight anymore.
- Ponyboy writes an English essay about his story and the deaths of Johnny, Dally, and Bob.
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