The book starts off with the Curtis parents on a drive to the store to buy some chocolate cake. The Curtis family loves to eat chocolate cake for breakfast, however the parents only make it on Sunday morning, meaning they have to get the cake batter on Saturday evening. The Curtis’s have made chocolate cake their entire life, and it is like second nature to them. The Curtis parents do not have much money so they can not take their three children on exotic vacations, to the waterpark, or anything of that sort. The chocolate cake is a way of giving them something to look forward to. The Curtis children, Ponyboy(12), Sodapop(15),Darry(18), are waiting at home dreaming of biting into the rich chocolate cake. While these children are at home fantasizing about cake, something truly horrifying just happened.
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The father had already passed and the mother was in severe shock, multiple broken vertebrae, and extreme trauma. As soon as the Curtis brothers received the phone call about their parents, they hopped in their car and drove as fast as they could to the scene of the wreck. As soon as they got their they talked to the police. The police stated that the father had already passed, and the mother was going to pass away very soon. The police also told them that the blue Mustang that had caused the death was from the West Side of town, where the rich families are from. The West Side kids are called Socs or Socials. The kid that had been driving was drunk, and apprehended for DUI (Driving Under the Influence). The next day was bland without chocolate cake or much talking at all. The Curtis boys got ready for the funeral very dreadfully. Things got worse when the parents of the boy that had been driving showed up. As soon as the brothers had seen them, Darry got up and told them to leave. To this day the Socs and the Greasers are rival gangs, and refuse to accept each other's
The Curtis …show more content…
The father had already passed and the mother was in severe shock, multiple broken vertebrae, and extreme trauma. As soon as the Curtis brothers received the phone call about their parents, they hopped in their car and drove as fast as they could to the scene of the wreck. As soon as they got their they talked to the police. The police stated that the father had already passed, and the mother was going to pass away very soon. The police also told them that the blue Mustang that had caused the death was from the West Side of town, where the rich families are from. The West Side kids are called Socs or Socials. The kid that had been driving was drunk, and apprehended for DUI (Driving Under the Influence). The next day was bland without chocolate cake or much talking at all. The Curtis boys got ready for the funeral very dreadfully. Things got worse when the parents of the boy that had been driving showed up. As soon as the brothers had seen them, Darry got up and told them to leave. To this day the Socs and the Greasers are rival gangs, and refuse to accept each other's