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"The Outsiders" is a story that deals with a conflict between two gangs, the "Greasers"from the East grimace 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 mood of the story, inmy point of view, was pretty misfortunate and is a tragedy, because when you thinkthat it couldnt view 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 beaten 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 flirt Winston, innocent knot, and the loudand wise-cracking Two-Bit, show up to save him. The night after Jonny and Ponyboywent to the movies with D whollyy. They sat behind a pair of attractive Soc girls, whom Dall yhits on precise obnoxiously. After Johnny tells him to stop, Johnny and Ponyboy sit with thegirls, Cherry and Marcia, and Ponyboy and Cherry finds out that they both have a lot incommon. Ponyboy and Jonny sees Two-Bit there so they all sat together. As they arewalking back to Two-Bits house so he could drive the girls home, they run into the girlsdrunk boyfriends. Cherry and Marcia agree to bring home the bacon and go home with their boyfriendsto prevent a big fight.     Ponyboy got home very late, which made Darry very angry, but most of allworried. So sick and degenerate of having his brother critisizing and inspecting every little thingthat he does, Ponyboy yells at Darry, which caused them to get in a bad argument.Being so furious Darry slaps Ponyboy across the sheath In shock that his brother hadslapped him, he ran out the door and meet up with Jonny, they left for the park. At thepark Ponyboy and Jonny sees Bob and Randy, Cherry and Marcias boyfriends, with several(prenominal) of their Soc friends. One of the Socs held Ponyboys head under the water of thefountain, and Ponyboy blacks out. When Ponyboy finally woke up he was lying 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 thoughtthat could help them was Dallas Winston.