Summary
The fresh new novel starts with Ponyboy, the fresh narrator, making the newest “darkness of movie family.” They have simply seen an effective Paul Newman motion picture. The guy makes reference to themselves to your reader, individually, and you may cards his domestic state: the guy life along with his elderly brothers, Darry and Soft drink. Their moms and dads were murdered in a car crash, and boys can also be “stay together merely provided i function.” He and relates to his social status, which is that of a good “Greaser”.
Ponyboy expands nervous that he’s strolling by yourself, since Greasers usually rating jumped from the Socs, “the new jet set, the west-top steeped children.” When he’s so it envision, a yellow Corvair begins adopting the your, and then he initiate work and obtaining scared.