Outsiders: A Brief Summary Of Greasers

Ponyboy, the narrator, is walking back home from watching a Paul Newman movie. He wishes he looked like Paul Newman but likes how he looks himself. He likes to watch movies by himself but wishes he had some company since it dangerous to walk alone for greasers like him because they might get jumped by the west rich kids on the other side of town known as Socs.

Socs like partying a lot. They get in the paper one day for being a public disgrace and an asset to society the next. Greasers grease their hair a lot and like to keep it long. They are much poorer than Socs, steal, and get into a lot of fights. Pony doesn’t do any of that though because Darry (his older brother) would kill him if he did. His parents died in a car crash so Pony and his

One of the Socs pulled out a blade and threatened to slit his throat. Ponyboy yelled for help. Pony’s brothers and the rest of his greaser gang chased away the Socs. Darry started to yell at Pony for walking instead of calling for a ride but Sodapop covered up for him. Dally (the tough guy of Pony’s gang) asked the gang if any of them would like to go to a movie with him the following night. Jonny and Pony both decide to go with him. Pony started to think about what greaser girls and Soc girls were like. Pony thought about how he felt that the kid Pip, the main character of it The Great Expectations, reminded Pony of himself and resembled his life. Soda told Pony that he was planning to marry Sandy after she got out of

Ponyboy and Jonny went to the fountain. It is very cold out and Pony is wearing a short sleeve T-shirt. Then the boys saw a blue mustang they saw earlier that night. Five Socs come out of mustang including Bob and Randy. The Socs came to get the Pony and Jonny for picking up their girls. Pony could tell that they were drunk. The Socs surrounded them at the fountain. A Soc shoved Pony’s head in the fountain and held it underwater until he blacked out. Once Pony had regained consciousness, Jonny tells Pony that he killed Bob. He explains that he only killed him because they would have drowned Pony, had a blade, and were going to beat up Jonny like they had done before. Ponyboy and Johnny hurry to find Dally Winston, the one person they think might be able to help them. They find Dally at the house of Buck Merrill. Dally gives the boys fifty dollars, a change of clothing for Ponyboy, and a loaded gun and instructed them to go to Windrixville and hide out in the abandoned church at Jay Mountain. Ponyboy and Jonny got in a train for Windrixville. When they get to Windrixville they hop out the train and Pony asked someone for directions for Jay Mountain. The man told them how to get there and Jonny and Pony hiked to the top of the mountain. They go in the church and went to