Chapter 1 (English)
●Note to the reader: Although we use the present tense in this summary, Ponyboy tells the story in the past tense. He has a good reason for doing this, but it won't make sense until the ending. Now, on with the show…)
●The narrator (whose name we learn in a minute) comes out from a movie theater, into the sun.
●He wishes he looked like Paul Newman, and wishes he had a ride home.
●He's got "greenish gray eyes" (1.1) and is very focused on his hair:My hair is longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in back and long at the front and sides, but I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood doesn't bother to get a haircut. (1.1)
●(You'll learn more about "greasers" as the novel goes on.)
●He prefers going to the movies alone so he can "get into them and live them with the actors."
●His love of movies, books, and art makes him feel "different" from the other guys he knows, including his own brothers.
●Soda, his brother who's almost seventeen, isn't into books. His oldest brother, Darrel, called "Darry," is too busy working to be interested in those things.
●So our narrator "lone[s] it" (1.2), meaning that he spends lots of time alone.
●Soda "understands everything, almost" (1.3) about the narrator.
●Not like Darry, who yells and treats the narrator like a kid, even though he's fourteen.
●The narrator loves his brother Soda "more than [he] ever loved anyone, even Mom and Dad" (1.3).
●Soda is always smiling and happy, and Darry never is. Twenty-year-old Darry has had to take on adult responsibilities too early, while Soda will always be a kid.
●As the narrator walks, he wishes somebody from the gang was with him. It's not safe to walk alone often.
●He explains that Greasers, like him, are often attacked by the Socs:[…] Socs [is] […], an abbreviation for Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids. It's like the term "greaser," which is used to class all us boys on the East Side. (1.4)
●He says that greasers have less money than the Socs, and less money than "the middle class" (1.5).
●Socs and Greasers have different styles.
●Socs attack Greasers, destroy property, and "throw beer blasts" (1.5).
●Greasers steal, rob gas stations, and "have a gang fight once in a while" (1.5).
●Not that the narrator does those things.
●His parents died in a car crash and if he and/or Soda get in trouble, they might not be allowed to continue to live with Darry.
●Now the narrator's starting to wish he had waited for Darry or Soda to come to the movies with him, or that he'd asked one of the guys from the gang.
●Besides Darry, Soda, and the narrator, there are four other guys in their gang, guys the brothers grew up with.
●Two-Bit Mathews, one of the gang, would have come.
●The narrator makes good grades, but sometimes he doesn't do the smart thing outside the classroom.
●Walking home by himself like this is exactly the kind of thing that makes Darry get mad at him.
●He's a few blocks from home, but notices he's now being followed by some guys in a red Corvair.
●He walks faster.
●The narrator hasn't ever "been jumped" (1.7), but Johnny (from the gang) got jumped when he was sixteen, and he's never been the same since. The Socs hurt Johnny badly, and now he's afraid all the time.
●The Corvair parks near him and five Socs get out.
●The narrator wonders if he can run, thinking of the condition in which they'd found Johnny after the Socs got him.
●He was all beat up, "half conscious" (1.8), and crying.
●The narrator is sweating with fear, wishing he had some kind of weapon, but there's nothing around that he can use.
●The Socs surround him, and one of them tells the narrator he wants to cut his hair, and pulls out a knife.
●The narrator backs away, right into another Soc.
●They push him to the ground and hold him down. One guy sits on his chest.
●When he tries to get free, that guy punches him.
●One guy has the knife to the narrator's throat, and is threatening to cut him with it.
●The narrator stars screaming as loud as he can, hollering for his brothers.
●The Socs punch the narrator and try to keep him quiet.
●The push a handkerchief in his mouth.
●All of a sudden, the Socs are leaving, and someone's helping the narrator to his feet. It's his older brother, Darry.
●Darry shakes the narrator, and calls him "Ponyboy" (now we know his name!), and asks him if he's okay.
●Ponyboy says he's all right, even though he really isn't.
●He wants to cry, but isn't about to tell Darry.
●Ponyboy's brother, Sodapop, tells him he's bleeding, and asks if the Socs had a knife.
●He's about to cry, but still doesn't want to cry in front of Darry. He's not hurt badly enough for that.
●Soda comforts him.
●The gang had chased off the Socs and now they're all with Ponyboy.
●(Now, there's a little break from the action, while Ponyboy describes the members of his gang.)
●These guys are "tough as nails, and [look] it" (1.43).
●Ponyboy is the youngest, but the gang let shim hang around because of his brothers and because he "[keeps] his mouth shut" (1.43).
●Steve Randal is seventeen, and he's an expert in cars—stealing parts, working on them, and driving them. He works with Soda at the gas station; they both attract lots of girls. Steve doesn't really like Ponyboy, because he thinks he's a kid.
●Two-Bit Mathews is the oldest, and nobody in town calls him by his first name, Keith. They call him "Two-Bit" because he's always kidding around, making jokes and giving his opinion. Ponyboy tells us, "You couldn't shut the shut up that guy; he always had to get his two-bits worth in" (1.45). Two-Bit is an expert shoplifter, carries "a black-handled switchblade." (1.45), and really likes school—going to school, that is, not doing schoolwork. Two-Bit is a junior in high school at eighteen years old.
●Dallas Winston, called Dally (not to be confused with Ponyboy's brother Darry), is the most striking "character of the gang" (1.46). Ponyboy likes sketching Dally when "he [is] in a dangerous mood" (1.46).
●Dally's "spent three years on the wilder side of New York" and was arrested at the ripe age of ten. Dally is "tougher, colder, [and] meaner" (1.47) than the rest of the gang. There are many more organized gangs in New York than there are here (we still don't know exactly where "here" is). So, Dally releases some of his pent-up energy by being in gang fights. Ponyboy tells us that, here, "there are just small groups of friends who stick together, and the warfare is between the classes" (1.47).
●The Socs are the closest thing to a real gang, and they're impossible to beat, because they have "all the breaks" (as in, wealth, power, and privilege).
●Dally isn't a good guy—he even steals from little kids. Ponyboy tells us, "I didn't like him, but he was smart and you had to respect him" (1.47).
●The fourth member is Johnny Cade. Other than Ponyboy, Johnny is the youngest member of the gang. Ponyboy suggests we picture "a little dark puppy that had been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers" (1.49), if we want to get a better sense of Johnny. Everybody in the gang treats him like a little brother.
●He has a rough home life. His father beats him, and his mother ignores him except when she's screaming at him. Johnny only knows "love and affection" (1.49) from the guys in the gang.
●(Now that we know who's who, Ponyboy continues telling us about the time he gets jumped after going to the movies.)
●Ponyboy asks if they caught the Socs, and Two-Bit says they didn't.
●Ponyboy tells Dally he didn't know he was out of "the cooler" (1.53) (i.e., the jail).
●Dally says, "Good behavior. Got off early" (1.54).
●He lights a cigarette and admires Ponyboy's growing bruise, and the cut from the knife. He says, "Makes you look tough" (1.56).
●Ponyboy explains that "tough" means "rough"; and "tuff" means "cool" or "sharp" (1.57), and that "both are compliments" (1.57).
●Steve asks Pony why he was by himself in the first place, and Pony explains that he made a mistake by walking home from the movies alone.
●Darry starts getting mad at Pony, asking him how it is that he can get good grades, but not have any "common sense" (1.60). He says Pony should carry a knife if he's going to walk alone.
●Pony thinks that Darry yells at him no matter what he does. Darry doesn't yell at Soda, even when he quit high school.
●Soda tells Darry to step yelling at Pony. It isn't Pony's "fault" (1.62) that it's dangerous to do a simple thing like walk home alone by himself.
●Darry stops. He usually does what Soda asks.
●Two-Bit tells Pony that any members of the gang are happy to go the movies with him.
●Dally says he plans to go to the Nightly Double (a drive-in movie theater) the next night, to look for girls.
●He asks who'll come with him.
●Steve and Soda are taking their girlfriends, Evie and Sandy, for the game.
●Two-Bit has to work.
●Pony and Johnny agree to go, and Darry says it's okay.
●Dally has his ring on, because he broke up with his girlfriend Sylvia upon finding out that she was cheating on him when he was in jail.
●Pony doesn't think much of most of the girls the gang gets. He does like Soda's girlfriend Sandy, though—she's just a poor greaser like the rest of them, but she's pretty and nice.
●Other girls, girls with longer dresses, are afraid of them and yell "Grease" at the guys as they speed by in their fancy shmancy cars.
●Now Pony's back home, doing homework, thinking about those other girls.
●It hurts him when girls think he's a "hood" (1.77) or that he's dirty.
●He admits that the Greasers do bring a lot of it on themselves—stealing, drag racing, fighting, anything. Soda and Steve "have too much energy, too much feeling, with no way to blow it off" (1.78).
●Soda's giving Darry a back rub, since he works hard roofing all day, and Darry is falling asleep.
●Soda and Pony both think Darry works too hard. He's just twenty and he works "like an old man" (1.81).
●Darry had been "captain of the football team" and "Boy of the Year" (1.81) in his high school days. He was one of the popular guys, and was even awarded an athletic scholarship.
●But, the family still hadn't been able to afford college for Darry.
●When Pony goes to bed, lying next to Soda, Soda tells Pony that he's planning on asking Sandy to be his wife. He doesn't want Darry to know yet, though.
●Pony asks him to wait until he moves out. He doesn't want to be alone with Darry.
●Soda reminds Pony that Darry loves him very much, but Pony isn't so sure. He doesn't feel like Darry loves him.
●Pony asks him if he loves Sandy, and he says he does, and then seems to fall asleep.
●Ponyboy thinks his brother is handsome in the extreme.
●He tells us he doesn't care about Darry, but then admits he's lying.
●The chapter ends with these lines, "I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me" (1.101).
Chapter 1 (Chinese)
●读者注意：虽然我们在这个摘要中使用现在时，Ponyboy以过去时态讲述这个故事。 他有一个很好的理由这样做，但它没有意义，直到结束。 现在，与展会...）
●叙述者（我们在一分钟内学习的名字）从电影院出来，进入太阳。
●他希望他看起来像保罗·纽曼，并希望他乘车回家。
●他有“绿色的灰色眼睛”（1.1），并非常专注于他的头发：我的头发比很多男孩穿他们的长，在前面和侧面的长方形，但我是一个润滑脂，大多数 我的邻居不打扰得到理发。 （1.1）
●（你会了解更多关于“油彩”的小说继续。）
●他喜欢单独去看电影，所以他可以“进入他们，和演员一起生活
●他对电影，书籍和艺术的热爱使他感觉与他所知道的其他家伙，包括他自己的兄弟“不同”。
●苏打，他的哥哥几乎十七，不是在书里。 他最老的哥哥Darryl，叫“Darry”，太忙了，不想对这些东西感兴趣。
●所以我们的叙述者“孤独”（1.2），意味着他花费大量的时间。
●苏打“理解一切，几乎”（1.3）关于叙述者。
●不像Darry，他像一个小孩一样大叫和对待叙述者，尽管他是十四岁。
●叙述者爱他的兄弟苏打“比他爱任何人，甚至妈妈和爸爸”（1.3）。
●苏打总是微笑和快乐，而达瑞从来不是。 二十岁的达里不得不承担成年人的责任太早，而苏打将永远是一个孩子。
●当叙述者走路时，他希望团伙的某人与他在一起。 经常独自行走是不安全的。
●他解释说，Greasers，像他一样，经常受到Socs攻击：[...] Socs [...]，社会的缩写，喷气机，西方富有的孩子。 这就像术语“greaser”，这是用来给我们在东边的所有我们的男孩。 （1.4）
●他说，油公司的钱比Socs少，钱比“中产阶级”（1.5）少。
●Socs和Greasers有不同的风格。
●Socs攻击Greasers，摧毁财产，“抛弃啤酒”（1.5）。
●Greasers偷了，抢劫加油站，和“有一次帮派战斗一次”（1.5）。
●不是说说者做那些事情。
●他的父母在车祸中死亡，如果他和/或苏打遇到麻烦，他们可能不能继续与Darry住在一起。
●现在叙述者开始希望他等待着达里或苏打与他一起去看电影，或者他问了帮派中的一个家伙。
●除了达瑞，苏打和解说员，还有四个其他人在他们的帮派，兄弟们长大的家伙。
●两位Mathews，一个帮派，会来。
●叙述者做好成绩，但有时他不会在教室外做聪明的事情。
●这样回家自己就是让达里生气的事情。
●他离家几个街区，但注意到他现在被一些红色的Corvair的家伙跟着。
●他走得更快。
●叙述者从来没有“跳过”（1.7），但约翰尼（从帮派）在他十六岁时跳起来，他从来没有过。 索科斯严重伤害了约翰尼，现在他总是害怕。
●他附近的Corvair公园和五个Socs出去了。
●叙述者想知道他是否可以跑，想想他们在Socs得到他之后找到约翰尼的条件。
●他全都打了，“半知觉”（1.8），哭泣。
●叙述者冒着恐惧出汗，希望他有某种武器，但他周围没有什么可以使用的。
●社会围绕着他，其中一个告诉叙述者他想剪头发，然后拉出一把刀。
●叙述者背叛，进入另一个Soc。
●他们把他推到地上，把他抱住。 一个人坐在他的胸口。
●当他试图自由时，那个家伙打他。
●一个人有刀到叙述者的喉咙，并威胁要用它割他。
●叙述者星星尖叫着尽可能大声地响起他的兄弟。
●Socs冲击叙事者，并试图让他安静。
●在他的嘴里推一块手帕。
●突然，这些Socs正在离开，有人帮助叙述者站起来。这是他的哥哥，达里。
●达里摇了叙述者，称他为“小马小”（现在我们知道他的名字！），问他是否还好。
●Ponyboy说他没事，即使他真的不是。
●他想哭，但不是要告诉Darry。
●Ponyboy的兄弟Sodapop告诉他他正在出血，并询问Socs是否有刀。
●他要哭了，但还是不想在Darry面前哭泣。他没有伤害得很糟糕。
●苏打舒适他。
●这个团伙追逐了索契，现在他们都是Ponyboy。
●（现在，从行动有一点休息，而Ponyboy描述他的帮派的成员。）
●这些家伙“坚韧的指甲，和[看]它”（1.43）。
●Ponyboy是最小的，但是帮派让垫片挂在那里，因为他的兄弟，因为他“[保持]他的嘴关闭”（1.43）。
●史蒂夫·兰德尔是十七岁，他是一个汽车偷窃零件，工作在他们和驾驶他们的专家。他在加油站与苏打水合作;他们都吸引了很多女孩。史蒂夫不太喜欢皮尼奥，因为他认为他是个孩子。
●两位马修斯是最古老的，在城里没有人叫他以他的名字，基思。他们称他为“两位”，因为他总是在开玩笑，发笑和发表自己的意见。 Ponyboy告诉我们，“你不能关闭那个家伙;他总是得让他的两位值得”（1.45）。 Two-Bit是一个专业的商店行窃，携带“黑处理开关刀片”。 （1.45），真的喜欢上学，就是不上学。 Two-Bit是18岁的高中的初中。
●达拉斯温斯顿，叫达利（不要与波尼的弟弟达里混淆），是这个帮派最引人注目的“性格”（1.46）。 Ponyboy喜欢草绘Dally当“他是一个危险的心情”（1.46）。
●达利的“花了三年在纽约的荒野一边”，并在十岁成熟被捕。 Dally是比其他团伙更坚固，更冷，更温和（1.47）。在纽约有更多的有组织的团伙比在这里（我们仍然不知道“这里”是什么）。所以，Dally通过在帮派战斗中释放他的一些补足能量。 Ponyboy告诉我们，在这里，“只有小群的朋友谁粘在一起，战争是在类之间”（1.47）。
●Socs是一个真正的帮派最接近的，他们是不可能的，因为他们有“所有的休息”（如在财富，权力和特权）。
●Dally不是一个好人 - 他甚至从小孩子偷走。 Ponyboy告诉我们，“我不喜欢他，但他很聪明，你必须尊重他”（1.47）。
●第四个成员是约翰尼·卡德。除了Ponyboy，Johnny是帮派中最年轻的成员。 Ponyboy建议我们的照片“一只黑暗的小狗，被踢了太多次了，失去了一群陌生人”（1.49），如果我们想更好地了解约翰尼。每个人在帮派对待他像一个小弟弟。
●他有一个粗暴的家庭生活。他的父亲打他，他的母亲忽略他，除非她尖叫着他。约翰尼只知道“爱和情感”（1.49）从团伙的家伙。
●（现在我们知道谁是谁，Ponyboy继续告诉我们，他去电影后跳跃的时间。）
●Ponyboy问他们是否抓住了Socs，Two-Bit说他们没有。
●Ponyboy告诉Dally他不知道他是在“更冷的”（1.53）（即监狱）。
●达利说，“良好的行为，早起了”（1.54）。
●他点燃一支香烟，并欣赏Ponyboy的生长的瘀伤，以及刀的切口。他说，“让你看起来很坚强”（1.56）。
●Ponyboy解释说，“坚韧”是指“粗糙”;和“凝灰”意味着“酷”或“尖锐”（1.57），并且“两者都是恭维”（1.57）。
●史蒂夫问小马为什么他是自己在第一名，和Pony解释说，他犯了一个错误，从电影走回家。
●达里开始疯狂地对小马，问他是怎么可能得到好的成绩，但没有任何“常识”（1.60）。他说，如果他要独自走路，小马应该拿一把刀。
●小马认为，无论他做什么，Darry都对他大喊。达里不会在苏打上大叫，即使他高中毕业。
●苏打告诉Darry一步向Pony大喊大叫。这不是小马的“错误”（1.62），做一个简单的事情，如自己独自走自己是危险的。
●Darry停了下来。他通常做苏打问。
●Two-Bit告诉小马，该团伙的任何成员都很乐意和他一起去看电影。
●达利说，他打算第二天晚上去夜间双人间（一个前进的电影院），去寻找女孩。
●他问谁会和他一起去。
●史蒂夫和苏打正在带他们的女朋友，埃维和桑迪，为游戏。
●两位必须工作。
●小马和约翰尼同意去，达里说没关系。
●Dally有他的戒指，因为他发现当她在监狱里时，他正在欺骗他的女朋友Sylvia。
●小马不认为大多数女孩的帮派得到。他喜欢苏打的女朋友桑迪，虽然 - 她只是一个可怜的加油器像其他人，但她是漂亮和好。
●其他女孩，更长的礼服的女孩，害怕他们，大喊“油脂”的家伙，因为他们的速度在他们的花哨shanncy汽车。
●现在小马回到家，做家庭作业，思考那些其他女孩。
●它伤害了他，当女孩认为他是一个“罩”（1.77）或他是脏的。
●他承认，Greasers确实给自己带来了很多东西 - 偷窃，拖拽，战斗，任何东西。苏打和史蒂夫“有太多的能量，太多的感觉，没有办法吹掉它”（1.78）。
●苏打给达里一个回来擦，因为他一天工作硬顶，达里是睡着了。
●苏打和小马都认为Darry工作太难了。他只有二十岁，他的工作“像一个老人”（1.81）。
●达里在他的高中时代是“足球队队长”和“年度男孩”（1.81）。他是一个受欢迎的家伙，甚至获得了运动奖学金。
●但是，家庭仍然没有能力为达里提供大学。
●当小马睡觉，躺在苏打水旁边，苏打告诉小马，他计划要求桑迪成为他的妻子。他不想让Darry知道。
●小马要求他等到他搬出去。他不想和Darry一起独处。
●苏打提醒小马，Darry非常喜欢他，但Pony不太确定。他不喜欢Darry爱他。
●小马问他是否喜欢桑迪，他说他做了，然后似乎睡着了。
●Ponyboy认为他的兄弟在极端是英俊的。
●他告诉我们他不在乎Darry，但后来承认他在说谎。
●本章以这些线结束，“我一直对自己说谎，但我从来不相信我”（1.101）。
Chapter 1(Portuguese)
●(Nota ao leitor: Apesar de usarmos o tempo presente neste resumo, Ponyboy conta a história no passado Ele tem uma boa razão para fazer isso, mas ele não vai fazer sentido até o fim Agora, com o.. exposição…)
●O narrador (cujo nome aprendemos em um minuto) sai de uma sala de cinema, para o sol.
●Ele deseja que ele parecia com Paul Newman, e gostaria de ter uma carona para casa.
●Ele tem "esverdeados olhos cinzentos" (1.1) e é muito focada em seu cabelo: Meu cabelo é mais do que um monte de meninos usam deles, quadrado fora na parte de trás e longo na frente e os lados, mas eu sou um lubrificador e a maior parte meu bairro não se preocupa em obter um corte de cabelo. (1,1)
●(Você aprenderá mais sobre "greasers" como o romance continua.)
●Ele prefere ir ao cinema sozinho para que ele possa "entrar na deles e vivê-las com os atores."
●Seu amor de filmes, livros e arte faz sentir-se "diferente" dos outros caras que ele conhece, incluindo seus próprios irmãos.
●Soda, seu irmão, que é quase dezessete anos, não é em livros. Seu irmão mais velho, Darrel, chamado de "Darry," está muito ocupado trabalhando para estar interessado nessas coisas.
●Assim, o nosso narrador "solitário [s]-lo" (1,2), o que significa que ele passa muito tempo sozinho.
●Soda "entende tudo, quase" (1.3) sobre o narrador.
●Não como Darry, que grita e trata o narrador como uma criança, mesmo que ele tem catorze anos.
●O narrador ama o seu irmão Soda "mais do que [ele] nunca amei ninguém, mesmo mamãe e papai" (1.3).
●Soda está sempre sorrindo e feliz, e Darry nunca está. Vinte anos Darry teve que assumir responsabilidades de adultos muito cedo, enquanto Soda será sempre uma criança.
●Como o narrador anda, ele deseja alguém do bando estava com ele. Não é seguro andar sozinho, muitas vezes.
●Ele explica que Greasers, como ele, são frequentemente atacados pelos SOCs: [...] Socs [é] [...], uma abreviatura para Socials, o jet set, as crianças ricas West-secundários. É como o termo "lubrificador," que é usado para a aula todos nós, rapazes, no East Side. (1,4)
●Ele diz que greasers têm menos dinheiro do que os SOCs, e menos dinheiro do que "a classe média" (1,5).
●SOCs e Greasers têm estilos diferentes.
●SOCs atacar Greasers, destruir a propriedade, e "lançar explosões de cerveja" (1.5).
●Greasers roubar, roubar postos de gasolina, e "ter uma gangue lutar de vez em quando" (1.5).
●Não que o narrador faz essas coisas.
●Seus pais morreram em um acidente de carro e se ele e / ou Soda ficar em apuros, eles podem não ser autorizados a continuar a viver com Darry.
●Agora o narrador está começando a desejar que ele tinha esperado por Darry ou Soda para vir ao cinema com ele, ou que ele pediu a um dos caras da gangue.
●Além de Darry, Soda, eo narrador, há quatro outros caras em sua gangue, caras, os irmãos cresceram.
●Two-Bit Mathews, uma das gangues, teria vindo.
●O narrador faz boas notas, mas às vezes ele não faz a coisa inteligente fora da sala de aula.
●Caminhando para casa sozinho como este é exatamente o tipo de coisa que faz Darry ficar bravo com ele.
●Ele está a poucos quarteirões da casa, mas percebe que ele está agora a ser seguido por alguns indivíduos em um Corvair vermelho.
●Ele anda mais rápido.
●O narrador não sempre "foi saltado" (1,7), mas Johnny (do grupo) pulou quando ele tinha dezesseis anos, e ele nunca foi o mesmo desde então. SOCs ferido Johnny mal, e agora ele está com medo o tempo todo.
●Os parques Corvair perto dele e cinco Socs sair.
●O narrador se pergunta se ele pode correr, pensando na condição em que eles se encontraram Johnny após a Socs pegou.
●Ele era tudo bater, "meio consciente" (1,8), e chorando.
●O narrador está suando com medo, desejando que ele tinha algum tipo de arma, mas não há nada em torno de que ele pode usar.
●SOCs cercá-lo, e um deles diz o narrador, ele quer cortar o cabelo e puxa uma faca.
●O narrador se afasta, logo em um outro Soc.
●Eles empurrá-lo para o chão e segurá-lo. Um indivíduo senta-se em seu peito.
●Quando ele tenta se libertar, aquele cara lhe dá um soco.
●Um cara tem a faca na garganta do narrador, e está ameaçando cortar-lo com ele.
●As estrelas narrador gritar o mais alto que puder, gritando para seus irmãos.
●SOCs perfurar o narrador e tentar mantê-lo quieto.
●A empurrar um lenço em sua boca.
●De repente, os SOCs estão saindo, e alguém está ajudando o narrador a seus pés. É seu irmão mais velho, Darry.
●Darry sacode o narrador, e o chama de "Ponyboy" (agora sabemos o seu nome!), E pergunta se ele está bem.
●Ponyboy diz que está tudo bem, mesmo que ele realmente não é.
●Ele quer chorar, mas não está prestes a dizer Darry.
●O irmão de Ponyboy, Sodapop, diz que ele está sangrando, e pergunta se os SOCs tinha uma faca.
●Ele está prestes a chorar, mas ainda não quer chorar na frente de Darry. Ele não está ferido gravemente o suficiente para isso.
●Soda o conforta.
●A quadrilha tinha perseguido os SOCs e agora eles estão todos com Ponyboy.
●(Agora, há uma pequena pausa da ação, enquanto Ponyboy descreve os membros de sua gangue.)
●Esses caras são "duro como pregos, e [ver]-lo" (1,43).
●Ponyboy é o mais novo, mas a quadrilha deixe calço pendurar ao redor por causa de seus irmãos, e porque ele "[mantém] a boca fechada" (1,43).
●Steve Randal é dezessete anos, e ele é um especialista em carros de roubo de peças, trabalhando com eles, e conduzi-los. Ele trabalha com Soda no posto de gasolina; ambos atrair muitas meninas. Steve realmente não gosto de Ponyboy, porque ele acha que ele é um garoto.