Greasers In The Outsiders

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They walked around slowly...
I must have wandered around for hours; sometimes even out into the street, getting honked at and cussed out.(pg 150)
S.E. Hinton writes the story of two groups of people the Greasers and the Socs in The Outsiders. Two groups of people who live on different sides of town and have very different lives.
Ponyboy would walk around for hours all alone. Sometimes he didn’t feel like he was part of a group. Ponyboy was the youngest of the group, the Greasers. Everytime he hung out with Johnny or Two-Bit, they are not just part of their group, to Ponyboy they were family. Ponyboy is also a little different from everyone else because he doesn't like to hurt people. There are also other characters like Randy. Randy is a

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