The Outsiders
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problem, he is a greaser. The greasers are a gang that no
one really likes. They are the under privileged poor kids.
They have one major rival gang, the Socs. Socs stands for
socials, they are the complete opposite of the greasers, they
are the rich kids. One day after Ponyboy and his friend
Johnny took two Soc girls out to the movies, they were
walking home when five Socs jumped them. The Socs were
mad at them for taking their girls on dates. Bob (one of the
Socs) was about to drown Ponyboy in a fountain when
Johnny lost it and stabbed him. The Socs ran and so did
Johnny and Ponyboy. After this incident happened they ran
to a church outside of town. One day the church catches on
fire. Johnny and Ponyboy save the kids that were playing in
the abandoned church. Johnny pushed Ponyboy out of the
church right as the roof caved in killing Johnny. Ponyboy and
Johnny were heroes. They ruled that Ponyboy was just
fighting back in self-defense. Ponyboy eventually writes a
book about what has happened to him, the book that
Ponyboy starts to write, starts the same way the novel starts.
Ponyboy is a nice kid that's parents were killed in a car
crash when he was young. Ponyboy has light brown almost
red hair, and greenish-gray eyes. He has long hair that is
squared off in the back. Ponyboy is a skittish kid; he was
always worried about getting jumped by the Socs. But when
you are a greaser walking on the streets alone, you have the
right to worry about being jumped by the Socs. Ponyboy
does a lot of growing up in the book that makes him a
dynamic character. He has to cope with a lot of frustration
with his two older brothers and with the Socs. He handles it
pretty well until one day when he was being jumped by the
Socs he spit on one of them that started a brawl that
escalated into a murder. Ponyboy has a good relationship
with Johnny....
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