Summary
The unique begins with Ponyboy, brand new narrator, making the newest “dark of one’s motion picture household.” He has only viewed an effective Paul Newman film. He describes himself with the reader, really, and you can cards his home disease: he life together with his older brothers, Darry and you will Soft drink. Their mothers was in fact slain in a vehicle collision, and the boys can “sit together merely as long as we respond.” The guy plus refers to their social status, that is regarding good “Greaser”.
Ponyboy increases worried that he’s strolling by yourself, just like the Greasers commonly score sprang of the Socs, “the latest jet set, the west-front rich kids.” The moment he has which believe, a purple Corvair starts following the him, and then he starts sweating and having terrified.