By the end of the book, many plot lines get resolved. Before the hearing, Ponyboy’s doctor has a long talk with the judge. During the hearing, the Socs and the Curtis brothers tell the truth, except that ____ can’t understand why everyone says Johnny killed Bob. The judge, apparently warned that Ponyboy is out of touch with reality, asks Ponyboy only about school and life with his brothers. The ____ dismissed the case and lets the brothers continue to live together. Ponyboy returns to school but is unable to concentrate and begins to fail ____. His teacher offers him the chance to improve his grade by writing a personal-experience (theme) essay.  One day some Socs approach Ponyboy at school, but he drives them off with a broken Pepsi ____. He feels empty inside and works hard to continue feeling ____. He does not realize how worried his brothers are about him and how much his arguments with Darry tear apart their middle brother, ____, until the day he recognizes that Soda has problems of his own. After that, he can admit to himself that Johnny is ____, and that it was really ____ who killed Bob. Ponyboy opened the book Gone with the Wind that Johnny left to him, Ponyboy finds a note in which Johnny explains that he now truly understands the Robert Frost poem: “He meant you’re gold when you’re a ____, like green.” Johnny wants Ponyboy to know that he still has time to become whatever he wants. At last Ponyboy is able to write the essay based on his own experiences - a theme that begins with the opening words of this novel: “When I stepped out into the bright ____ from the ____ of the movie house.”

Chapter 12 Summary- The Outsiders

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