Two-Bit Mathews, a member of the greasers, shows up at the movies and offers to drive the Soc girls home. When they get there, Ponyboy talks about Johnny’s experience of being beaten by Socs, which explains Johnny’s decision to carry a knife. Cherry and Ponyboy head to the concession stand. At the movies, they make friends with two Soc girls, Cherry Valance and Marcia. Dally Winston invites them to see a movie the next night, and Ponyboy and Johnny agree to go. Walking home after seeing a Paul Newman movie, the narrator Ponyboy Curtis is jumped by members of a rival gang, the Socs, but his gang members arrive in time to scare them off. Hinton’s work has proved to people that teenagers can write about significant issues, such as gender, sexuality, and violence. People learned that juvenile fiction could go beyond dating and courtesy topics and move to address real issues with depth and nuance. ‘ The Outsiders‘ is one of the books that made people believe and start reading juvenile fiction, or what the publishing industry refers to as young adult fiction. Ponyboy learns valuable lessons about family, unity, friendship, and goodness and is affiliated with a group when a Greaser kills a Soc. Ponyboy Curtis and his gang of greasers regularly fight with another gang, the upper-class Socs.
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