Ponyboy Curtis's The Outsiders

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How would it feel to lose your parents? That’s how Ponyboy Curtis felt. He wants to be part of a group, but he is younger smarter than everyone else so he mostly hangs around Jonny. So he joins the greasers, they always want to fight with the Socs, but they killed a soc and have to run, so he runs away. The book “The Outsiders” takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in a neighborhood that is pretty poor, it is right close to the rich area where the socs live. You can definitely tell that Ponyboy and the greasers live in a poor area by seeing their clothes and their house and cars, also the environment is very only and rusty. On other hand the socs have beautiful mustangs and don’t wear dirty, old clothes so you can tell they are more wealthy.

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