Ponyboy Vs Soc

The Outsiders is in a first-person perspective of a 14 year old Greaser named Ponyboy Curtis in the 1960's. There were two main groups in the 60's, you were either a Soc or a Greaser. The difference between them is that Socs were more upper class and lived in nice houses, wore nice things, had nice cars, nice everything. But on the other hand, Greasers were more lower class, they were viewed as hood, poor, dangerous. These two never associated with each other, whenever they saw each other, it was most likely fighting, or Socs jumping a lone Greaser. Everyone believes that the Socs had perfect lives, but we all go through some things and Ponyboy will realize that one day. The theme of The Outsiders is that everyone struggles and we're all driving on bumpy, curvy roads.

But, once Ponyboy met a Soc girl named Cherry, it really made him think more about life. Cherry tells Ponyboy, "I'll tell you something, Ponyboy, and it may come as a surprise. We have troubles you've never even heard of. You want to know something?" Then she continued off and told him, "Things are rough all over." (Hinton 34-35). He believed her, he was just confused about what could go wrong with them. They had all the nice things. Ponyboy, his brothers and his friends all have been through hard things. Especially Johnny, he had abusive parents and he slept on the streets usually or at Ponyboys' house. When the incident happened between Johnny and Bob, Randy, Bobs' best friend talked to Ponyboy. On page 116, he told Ponyboy, "One time he came home drunker than anything. He thought sure they were gonna raise the roof. You know what they did? They thought it was something they'd done. They thought it was their fault—that they failed him and driven him to it or something. They took all the blame and didn't do anything to him. If his old man had just belted him—just once, he might still be alive." (Hinton