Socs And Greasers Research Paper

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The Socs and the Greasers are gangs who causes some trouble.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Ponyboy and Darry are Greasers and they don’t want to get in trouble. The Socs tried to kill Ponyboy with a knife. Cherry was a Soc and became friends with the Greasers. The Socs causes more trouble than the Greasers.
Darry does not want Ponyboy to get in trouble with the police. Even though some of the greasers steal and get in fights, Ponyboy says that Darry, his brother, would kill him if he got in trouble with the police. Some greasers have their own rules. “Darrell would kill me if I got into trouble with the police. Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave.” Ponyboy and his brothers will stay together only if Ponyboy does not get in trouble by the police. Dally robbed a store and he tried to run away from the police then they shot him. Ponyboy does not want to get in trouble, however the Socs don’t care if they cause trouble. …show more content…

The Socs tried to murder Ponyboy with a knife by cutting his hair. “Hey, grease,’ one said in an over-friendly voice. “We’re gonna do you a favor, greaser. We’re gonna cut all that long greasy hair off.” “It occurred to me then that they could kill me. I went wild. I started screaming for Soda, Darry, anyone. Someone put his hand over my mouth, and I bit it as hard as I could be tasting the blood running through my teeth. The Socs does not like Ponyboy’s greasy hair, so they wanted to cut it off with a knife. They stabbed his neck with the knife. Cherry was one of the Socs, but she and the Greasers got

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