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helpmenow123
helpmenow123
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High School - 9th Grade

What is the difference between the greasers and the socs in The Outsiders?

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Posted by helpmenow123 on Thursday September 24, 2009 at 9:56 PM and tagged with contrast, different, greasers, socs.

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  1. hi1954
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    The basic difference is economic, the socs being the teenage children of more upper-class parents and the greasers being from the classic "wrong side of the tracks."  The differences are highlighted by their modes of dress and the cars they drive, the kinds of jobs they and their parents have, the very fact that some of the greasers have to work while the socs are never mentioned as having jobs themselves.  Ponyboy's family and his closest friend are the epitome of this, one from a family where everyone but the youngest works and the other a young teenager from a classically disadvantaged and "low class" family.

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    Posted by hi1954 on Thursday September 24, 2009 at 11:03 PM