Socs Vs Greasers Essay

The Socs and the Greasers always have major conflict due to many reasons such as their style, their wealth, and who is better. Both Johnny and Ponyboy are Greasers along with their other relatives. Greasers is a wild gang that has an edgy style with their hair long hair slicked back with a generous amount of grease, hence the name given, Greasers. On the other hand Socs are completely different when it comes to their looks. Socs wear basic madras shirts and usually are wealthy with light colored hair such a blonde. Some say that Socs tend to be more destructive when it comes to masculine competitions such as physical fights. Based on the information in the text it says “We’re poorer than the Socs and the middle class. I reckon we’re wilder, too. (Hinton, 3)” This is important because many of the Soc individuals assume that if they are wealthier, then they are better. At times many people fear Greaser because they are wild and untameable but some of they are kind hearted and risk their lives for others. For example, the church that Ponyboy lived in, caught into flames while there were young children in it. Based on the …show more content…
One day Johnny and Ponyboy decided to go to the park late at night due to their problems at home. As they were regularly cooling down, a car pulls up and 5 socs come out of the car and attacked Johnny and Ponyboy. According to the information in the text, it states “Five Socs were coming straight at us, and from the way they were staggering I figured they were reeling pickled. That scared me. A cool deadly bluff could sometimes shake them off,but not if they are outnumbered you five to two and they were drunk.” Obviously from this information you can tell that both Ponyboy and Johnny were frightened from the Socs because they knew that they were going to have a fight between the 2 of them against the 5