The Outsiders
...Side of town and the "Socs" from the West-side of town. This is a story that is
told in the first person. This book took place in the early 1960's.The mood of the story, in
my point of view, was pretty misfortunate and is a tragedy, because when you think
that it couldn't get worse, it just did. Ponyboy Curtis is the one telling the story.
The novel starts off, one day, as Ponyboy is walking home from a movie, he was
about to get jumped and beaten by a gang of Socs, but at the last minute, his gang of
greasers that includes his brothers Darry and Sodapop, who raise Ponyboy now that
their parents have past away, the big tuff Dally Winston, innocent Johnny, and the loud
and wise-cracking Two-Bit, show up to save him. The night after Jonny and Ponyboy
went to the movies with Dally. They sat behind a pair of attractive Soc girls, whom Dally
hits on very obnoxiously. After Johnny tells him to stop, Johnny and Ponyboy sit with the
girls, Cherry and Marcia, and Ponyboy and Cherry finds out that they both have a lot in
common. Ponyboy and Jonny sees Two-Bit there so they all sat together. As they are
walking back to Two-Bit's house so he could drive the girls home, they run into the girls'
drunk boyfriends. Cherry and Marcia agree to leave and go home with their boyfriends
to prevent a big fight.
Ponyboy got home very late, which made Darry very angry, but most of all
worried. So sick and tired of having his brother criticizing
and inspecting every little thing
that he does, Ponyboy yells at Darry, which caused them to get in a bad argument.
Being so furious Darry slaps Ponyboy across the face! In shock that his brother had
slapped him, he ran out the door and meet up with Jonny, they left for the park. At the
park Ponyboy and Jonny sees Bob and Randy, Cherry and Marcia's boyfriends, with
some of their Soc friends. One of the Socs held Ponyboy's...
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