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The Outsiders     In the book the Outsider by S.E. Hinton chiggerboy is the main character, in the book he is mostly referred to as Pony. Pony has twain br an other(prenominal)s, Sodapop and Darry. Pony is fourteen and doesnt have any parents, they died in a car accident. Pony and Soda and Darry all live in the same house, with Darry and Soda funding them. He has long black greasy hair, he has hair similar that because most of the people do in the gang their bug out of the Greasers, and it be deal fit with the time period, the fifties. Ponys best friend maverick who is also part of the gang theGreasers that includes most of the kids that live around their part of town including Soda and Darry. Pony being part of the Greasers hates the Socs, short for socials in the beginning the socs beat Pony for no reason just because he didnt dress like them or have money like them. The Socs are basically rich kids that dress nicely and beat the Greasers up. So far every one likes Pony move out the Socs. Pony is unlike all the other Greasers because he likes to watch movies and read books and look at the stars at night. The other Greasers dont give him a hard time astir(predicate) it sometimes theyll even go to movies with him and look at the stars with him. Towards the end of chapter two Johnny, Pony, and Dally, (another one of the guys in the Greasers), met Cherry and Marcia. They were two girlfriends of some Socs that they met at the poke in movie theater. At the end of chapter three Johnny, Pony, and the girls were walking seat when their boyfriends pulled up and started trouble with Pony and Johnny. Johnny got beat up in reality bad by the same guys before so he wasnt going to take any chances so he pulled out his bemuse blade and Soda had a broken bottle, but nothing happened except the girls went with the Socs so there wouldnt be any trouble.