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“When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only one thing on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.” Throughout this whole book all that was on my mind was how the greasers and the socs would act with each other in society. Weather it is the three brothers sticking together or the socy girls sticking with the hoods when they were in public it was a full out brawl between the two.
In the beginning of the novel we learned a lot about each group and what makes them who they are and how they act. To start is the greasers who consist of Ponyboy, Darry, Soda, Two-bit, Johnny and Dallas and to describe them you need to know that they don't care what happens they are outlaws and they do whatever they feel like it because they simply don't care. On the other hand they will always stick together and help eachother out if something comes up or if someone is threatening them. And for the socs they consist of Bob, Randy, Cheery and all of there friends. For them you need to know is that they are nice dressed driving their mustangs and looking for trouble but for the most part we don’t find a whole lot about them as we do the greasers. Even though the two groups are very different they are both looking for trouble and ready to brawl.
As the book went one a few greasers when to the movies and while they were there they ran into a selected few. They looked down and saw Cherry and marcia so they decided they were going to sweet talk them and get to know them a little more. As they went down to talk the soc girls were trying to get them away but they just would not budge and leave. So the greasers asked them to walk them home and the soc girls really had no option so they let them walk them h...

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...the fuzz eventually he thinks he is safe when he sees one of the cops pull out a handgun and shoots darry the group leader the oldest brother the one that help the three of them together was no longer there. All that i can remember said Ponyboy was “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only one thing on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.”
Throughout this whole book it was hard to comprehend all the event that took place and how they all reached to each one. But if there was one thing i got from reading this book its don't run away from something you did because it may hurt you or people around you. For example when bob got killed johnny ran away from it and it hurt him and it hurt Darry. I feel that from the end of the book on there was no more separation between the two groups because one things changed it all.

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