In the beginning of Chapter 1 the main characters are introduced. The first character the author introduces in Ponyboy. He is a greaser and is the youngest brother in a family with no parents. Ponyboy is walking home from the movie theater when he gets beat up, by a group of Socs. Socs are the upper class kids that live on the west side of town who do not like greasers like Ponyboy. They haven't ever liked each other and Socs and greasers always get in fights. Ponyboy is beaten, but luckily he isn't very hurt because his brothers and friends find him before it is too late. In this part of the chapter Ponyboy explains what all his friends and brothers are like. First there is Darry who is Ponyboy's oldest brother. He has to take care of the family because their parents haved died. He is very hard on Ponyboy and Ponyboy always wonders if Darry really loves him. Next, is Sodapop. Sodapop is Ponyboy's other older brother. He is more fun-loving and upbeat. Everyone loves him, even Darry, because of is optimistic personality. He is very handsome, but he dropped out of school because he wasn't very smart. Sodapop's best friend is Steve. Ponyboy doesn't like Steve because he sometimes doesn't want to include Ponyboy because he thinks he is too young to be his friend. Another friend is Two-Bit. He is the oldest of the group and he thinks life is a joke. He always has a smart remark to make. Dally is another one of Ponyboy's friends. He is a rebel and has been arrested multiple times. He is always breaking rules and he is the toughest out of the group. He sometimes gets violent and agressive towards the police and other people. Finally, there is Johnny who is very quiet. He has had a tough life because he has been beaten up badly at home and beaten up even worse by the Socs. He usually doesn't talk much, if at all. After Ponyboy introduces all his friends he goes home, shaken because of what happened earlier. That night he thinks about how he was beaten up by the Socs and wonders why Darry is so tough on him. He knows he has a hard life and wishes he had more support.
"How would you like that haircut to begin just below the chin?" This quote was what one of the Socs said to Ponyboy when they were beating him up. This represents the rivalry between the greasers and the socs. The two groups always fight and hurt each other for no reason. The socs and the greasers are both very violent and will kill each other just because they are different.
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