The outsiders: This book is by S.E. Hinton the book is based on a group of teenagers who are involved in a street gang, the main gang members are Ponyboy, Dally, Darry, Sodapop, Their rival gang The “Socs” have had a problem for a while now and do not get along at all. Ponyboy doesn’t have any family his 2 blood parents died is a car crash a long time ago when he was a kid so he doesn’t have a father figure to show him right from wrong, He only has had his gang to rely on and do whatever is needed to keep each other safe and stay real without anyone dying and care for him and his brothers. Ponyboy lives in Oklahoma, He is a city boy trying to make a name for himself. Ponyboy has lived a rough and exciting life. One night Ponyboy and the gang went to the drive in to watch a movie, they ran into their rival gang the Socs and they a problem.
Ponyboy was walking and ran into the Socs , the Socs jumped Ponyboy and then got on top of him and put a knife to his throat and beat him up while he suffered and could do absolutely nothing about it, when they left the gang found Ponyboy laying there hurt bleeding from his head while Sodapop tried cleaning the blood from his head, Ponyboy was badly hurt and the gang had to help him onto his feet. Ponyboy and Dally later decided to cut off their greasy hair to protect themselves from other gangs including the Socs because the greasy hair resembles their gang the “Greasers”
Ponyboy watches his brother Darry get thrown in prison and stayed there for the rest of his life then he ended up dying in the prison, Then Ponyboy had to live the rest of his life knowing that he robbed a bank and got put away for life, Ponyboy has no longer been affiliated with the greasers he his clean and straight from that life and is sad about his brothers being gone for forever.