The Outsiders in English

Chapter 11

I HAD TO STAY IN BED a whole week after that. That bugged me; I'm not the kind that can lie

around

looking at the ceiling all the time. I read most of the time, and drew pictures. One day I started

flipping

through one of Soda's old yearbooks and came across a picture that seemed vaguely familiar.

Not even

when I read the name Robert Sheldon did it hit me who it was. And then I finally realized it was

Bob.

Chapter 10

I WALKED DOWN THE hall in a daze. Dally had taken the car and I started the long walk home

in a

stupor. Johnny was dead. But he wasn't. That still body back in the hospital wasn't Johnny.

Johnny was

somewhere else--- maybe asleep in the lot, or playing the pinball machine in the bowling alley,

or sitting on

the back steps of the church in Windrixville.

Chapter 8

THE NURSES WOULDN'T let us see Johnny. He was in critical condition. No visitors. But

Two-Bit

wouldn't take no for an answer. That was his buddy in there and he aimed to see him. We both

begged and

pleaded, but we were getting nowhere until the doctor found out what was going on.

"Let them go in," he said to the nurse. "He's been asking for them. It can't hurt now.

Chapter 6

JOHNNY GAGGED AND I almost dropped my hot fudge sundae. "Cherry?" we both said at the

same

time. "The Soc?"

"Yeah," Dally said. "She came over to the vacant lot the night Two-Bit was jumped. Shepard and

some of

his outfit and us were hanging around there when she drives up in her little ol' Sting Ray. That

took a lot of

nerve.

Chapter 5

I WOKE UP LATE IN the afternoon. For a second I didn't know where I was. You know how it is,

when

you wake up in a strange place and wonder where in the world you are, until memory comes

rushing over

you like a wave. I half convinced myself that I had dreamed everything that had happened the

night before.

I'm really home in bed, I thought. It's late and both Darry and Sodapop are up. Darry's cooking

breakfast,

Chapter 4

THE PARK WAS ABOUT two blocks square, with a fountain in the middle and a small swimming

pool

for the little kids. The pool was empty now in the fall, but the fountain was going merrily. Tall elm

trees

made the park shadowy and dark, and it would have been a good hangout, but we preferred our

vacant lot,

and the Shepard outfit liked the alleys down by the tracks, so the park was left to lovers and little

kids.

Chapter 3

AFTER THE MOVIE was over it suddenly came to us that Cherry and Marcia didn't have a way

to get

home. Two-Bit gallantly offered to walk them home--- the west side of town was only about

twenty miles

away--- but they wanted to call their parents and have them come and get them. Two-Bit finally

talked

them into letting us drive them home in his car.

Chapter 2

DALLY WAS WAITING for Johnny and me under the street light at the corner of Pickett and

Sutton, and

since we got there early, we had time to go over the drugstore in the shopping center and goof

around.