The Outsiders

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As he was walking home from a Paul Newman movie, the narrator(a greaser)wishes he has some company because most greasers get jumped by the rich kids from west side. These kids are known as the socials or socs for short. Although some socs just drive by in their expensive cars and yell пїЅGreaser!пїЅ , a lot of them like to jump greasers just because they are low class from east side. Greasers are like hoodlums. They steal, drink lots of beer, get into fights, steal old cars etc. They narrator doesnпїЅt do these things, because his older brother Darry would kill him. Their parents died in a car crash, so they canпїЅt afford any trouble.

A red Corvair soon pulled up beside him and five Socs got out. He was really scared after seeing Johnny (a member of the gang) beat up by some Socs. The Socs walked around him in a circle while smiling slowly until one said, пїЅHey, grease, weпїЅre gonna do you a favor and cut all that long, greasy hair off.пїЅ пїЅNeed a haircut Greaser?пїЅ another said. The narrator said пїЅNo.пїЅ backing away from