G07: L&L The Outsiders: Introduction

Greasers Ponyboy and Johnny meet and befriend Cherry and Marcia, girls from the rival Soc gang.
Ponyboy flees a fight with his brother Darry and runs into the Soc boyfriends of Cherry and Marcia, who try to drown him. Johnny stabs and kills Bob to save Ponyboy.
Dally helps Johnny and Ponyboy hide out. Before Johnny can turn himself in, he is critically injured when the three save children from a burning church...

The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider.