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"The Outsiders" is a business relationship that deals with a infringe between two aggroups, the "Greasers"from the East Side of town and the "Socs" from the West-side of town. This is a story that istold in the first person. This book took place in the early 1960s.The inclination of the story, inmy point of view, was pretty misfortunate and is a tragedy, because when you thinkthat it couldnt get worse, it just did. Ponyboy Curtis is the one telling the story.      The novel starts off, one day, as Ponyboy is walking home from a movie, he wasabout to get jumped and crush by a gang of Socs, but at the last minute, his gang ofgreasers that includes his brothers Darry and Sodapop, who raise Ponyboy now thattheir parents have past away, the big tuff meet Winston, innocent freedom fighter, and the loudand wise-cracking Two-Bit, show up to save him. The night after(prenominal) Jonny and Ponyboywent to the movies with Dally. They sat behin d a pair of attractive Soc girls, whom Dallyhits on very obnoxiously. After Johnny tells him to stop, Johnny and Ponyboy sit with thegirls, rubicund and Marcia, and Ponyboy and Cherry finds out that they both have a lot incommon. Ponyboy and Jonny sees Two-Bit in that respect so they all sat together. As they arewalking covering fire to Two-Bits house so he could drive the girls home, they run into the girls inebriated boyfriends. Cherry and Marcia agree to leave and go home with their boyfriendsto prevent a big fight.     Ponyboy got home very late, which made Darry very angry, but almost of allworried. So sick and tired of having his brother critisizing and inspecting every junior-grade thingthat he does, Ponyboy yells at Darry, which caused them to get in a awful argument.Being so furious Darry slaps Ponyboy across the face In assault that his brother hadslapped him, he ran out the door and meet up with Jonny, they left over(p) for the park. At thepark Ponyboy and Jonny sees Bob and Randy, Cherry and Marcias boyfriends, withsome of their Soc friends. iodine of the Socs held Ponyboys head under the water of thefountain, and Ponyboy blacks out. When Ponyboy finally woke up he was fiction next toJonny. He looks to the side and sees a bloody corpse, it was Bob. To save Ponyboy,Johnny had to killed Bob.     In the second third of the novel, so terrified, the only person that they cerebrationthat could help them was Dallas Winston.