The Ponyboy Murder Case

Eight-year old Steven Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers were brutally murdered with no explanation, no trace and no justice. Three teenagers were arrested and convicted for their murders based on the counts of Witch Craft.

They were on the run for three days until the police caught them, but Hines never once mentioned that he was Christmas’s grandfather. Later in the novel Mr. and Mrs. Hines meet with Hightower and explain Christmas’s birth. Hines compares to McEachern, Christmas’s stepfather, by being driven by “absolute religious certainty” (Murphy). After having suspicion of his eighteen year old daughter, Milly, he follows her one night where he discovers her with a circus man. After learning that Milly was impregnated by the man, Hines shot and murdered the man.

Miraculously, Scout kept her composure after two traumatizing events. Upon being attacked by a savage man, most nine-year-olds would be a wreck of emotions, but not Scout. All she worried about was Jem. Just a few minutes before, Bob Ewell attacked the two children on their way home from the Halloween celebration.

“That’s for you, Royal!” and then the sound of footsteps hurrying into the rain, and then he had fallen to the sidewalk, clutching his stomach, trying to stop the flow of blood.” (Hunter 1). In Evan Hunter’s short story On the Sidewalk Bleeding, the main protagonist is a 16-year-old boy named Andy who is in a gang called the “Royals”. However, with every gang in a story, an opposing band is present. In the story, the rival gang is known as the “Guardians”.

They then started walking to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, where they stayed until the Communists overthrew the government in 1991 and forced the young boys to leave at gunpoint. Chased by Ethiopian government tanks and armed militia, the boys frantically tried to cross the River Gilo, where thousands drowned, were eaten by crocodiles or shot. Evaluation: This site wouldn’t be the site you rely on. A negative of this site that it doesn’t give you any links.

Rahm Emanuel Fires Fall Guy in the Laquan McDonald Shooting The American people have expressed their outrage over the shooting of unarmed black teen Laquan McDonald by a white Chicago police officer. The outrage was not just that Officer Van Dyke shot McDonald 16 times as the teen was calmly walking down the street, but that the police department and city officials tried to cover the incident up. There was a police car dash cam that caught the whole incident on film, but the recording was hidden away for over a year. The nearby Burger King had its footage erased by fellow officers.

In 1875, Mattie leaves her large estate in Yell County, Arkansas to travel to Fort Smith, Arkansas alone to capture the man who killed him, Tom Chaney. Mattie’s Father Frank Ross hired Chaney to lead back a chain of ponies to the family farm. Late one night after the two had a lot to drink, Tom thought that he was being cheated in a game of cards, and killed frank after he lost a lot of money. Unfortunately, this wasn’t very uncommon for the time. Tom stole his horse and ran off to Indian territory.

At the beginning of Wolf Rider by Avi, Andy a 15 year old boy is just an average teenager about to leave for a party when he gets a call from a random man named zeke, who has claimed to have killed somebody. “ I just killed someone… I killed Nina.” (1) Andy first reported the call to the police. He later calls again out of paranoia.

A road gang truck breaks down - A group of "bad men" are coming along the road near where the man and his son camped for the night. The road gang 's truck breaks down, and the man grabs his son and they run through the woods and try to hide so as not to be discovered. One of the bad men comes across them and grabs the boy, holding a knife to him. The boys father shoots the bad man, killing him. This lead to the boy having trauma from the event, to the point of not being able to speak, and wondering if they are still the good guys

"I had the knife. I killed Bob"(Hinton 165). This quote is about how he killed one of the Soc’s and is talking to Ponyboy about this. This is a major conflict because if they got caught they would have to go to jail or an all-boys home. Also because they had to run away to a church in Windrixville to escape from the cops.

Bob Ewell feels that Atticus have made him look bad in front of the town, and he wants revenge. Ewell follows Atticus to Tom house and spits in his face. Days later someone takes Scout’s shoes and her dress, now she has to walk home dressed like a ham from a Halloween party. Jem hears something following them, and then Scout hears the same noise. Its Bob Ewell, he grabs Jem and hurts his left arm, then knocks Scout to the ground.

He drove away, not seeming one bit pleased. A couple minutes later Johnny and Pony left for home. That’s the last I saw of either of them." Cade and Curtis have been missing since the night of the attack, Curtis’s older brothers, Darrel “Darry” (20) and Sodapop (16) have filed a missing persons report for both of the suspects. A friend of the Curtis family told police that the two were heading south towards Texas, investigators are following this

Jeremy went to the police to issue a complaint, because his house was searched, and left a mess. During his complain, Jeremy was question about his son and his confrontation with Crag, he deny everything. Now the detectives are letting him know that Crag was shot in his front yard. After Jeremy was interrogated and was of no help, the detective had no other choice but to reach out to the news. Four days after a local car dealer got in touch with the homicide squad; informing them that, they recently sold a black SUV to Sarah.

Bailey and Jasmyn were thrown from the bed of the truck and hurled onto the asphalt below, killing Bailey instantly. Matthew, not realizing the severity of what he did, fled from the parking lot in fear of the consequences. After the investigation, it was found that all three of the high schoolers had been drinking underage. How many more stories like this would there be if high schoolers could be allowed to drink?

Ponyboy Michael Curtis- This is the main character of the story and is also the the narrator. He is described as having light brown hair and greenish gray eyes. He identifies himself as a greaser because of his style of clothing. ¨When