This incident sets the tone for the rest of the story, because the event tells the reader that a fight between these two groups needs no provocation. The Socs badly injure and threaten to kill Ponyboy however, some of his gang happen upon the scene and run the Socs off. The story opens with Pony walking home alone from a movie he is stopped by a gang of Socs who proceed to beat him up. The greasers' rivals are the Socs, short for Socials, who are the "West-side rich kids." The boys are greasers, a class term that refers to the young men on the East Side, the poor side of town. Pony and Soda are allowed to stay under Darry's guardianship as long as they all behave themselves. Ponyboy and his two brothers - Darrel (Darry), who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16 - have recently lost their parents in an automobile accident. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy.
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