'The Outsiders': The Socs And The Greasers

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The Socs and the Greasers have been rivals throughout the book. The Socs are upper class, rich teenagers who hate the Greasers. Greasers are poor and get jumped by the Socs a lot. One day while on a walk, Johnny and Ponyboy get jumped by some Socs named Bob and David. Ponyboy was being drowned by David and Johnny uses his switchblade to kill Bob. Johnny is not justified in what he did and is guilty because Bob was not harming anyone and it could not have been self-defense, An innocent person would not flee and run after the crime, and Johnny said that he would kill the next person who jumped him. Bob was not harming anyone and it could not have been self-defense. ¨Bob shook his head, smiling slowly. ¨You could use a bath, greaser. And a good