When he was almost 2 blocks away from home, Ponyboy saw a corvair following him. The car was full of Socs/Socials. He started thinking about how Johnny got attacked by the Socs/Socials. Ponyboy stopped walking, and just stood there, trying to think of what to do. The Socs/Socials started teasing Ponyboy, asking him if he needed a haircut...
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Ponyboy gets beaten up or "jumped" by the socs; the abbreviation for the socials, the jet set, the West side rich kids. There were five of them, they knocked him to the ground, straddled him, and were going to chop his hair off with a knife. Ponyboy began screaming for Soda, Darry, or any one from his gang while the socs kept yelling at him to shut up and one of them placed their hand over his mouth which he bit hard and drew blood from. While stuffing a handkerchief down his throat to make him shut up they suddenly let him go and ran as Darry, his brother, came running over to save him.
The classic movie "The Outsiders" had a character named Ponyboy. While on his way home from the movies he gets jumped by a gang.
Ponyboy wishes had had company on the way home from the movie house because of Socs. They jumped him on the way home, and he had no help.
Dreams are like movies in the way that we see them and comprehend them.
"No Way Out" (1987)
Jack was an influence to Sampson's life in a way that Ponyboy's life was influenced by soda from the outsiders.
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