Summary The Outsiders By: S.E. Hinton This story is about a young boy of 14 named Ponyboy. He is part of a hood group called Greasers on the east side of town, a group of lower-class teenagers who wear their hair long and greasy, wear jeans and ripped-up T-shirts, and are at odds with the rich-kid bullies known as the “Socs”. This group of hoods are born into rich families from the west side of …showed first 75 words of 1767 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1767 total…Juvenile Hall for two years. When I finally returned home there was plenty of missed homework to be done, but I decided to take the rest of the week off. Instead, I decided to have Johnny’s and Dally’s funeral in the vacant lot and bury them there with all our memories together. We promised Dally and Johnny that we would take it upon ourselves not for their deaths to have been in vain.