Pony Boy leads a hard life, with great difficulties. In this life, he is constantly avoiding being jumped and beaten down by the Socs. S.E. Hinton portrays perfectly, how at any time a Greaser is roaming the streets, or walking home from the movies, they are in danger of being attacked by the Socs within an inch of their lives. Although, there is much violence, Hinton does show that some love is left in this society. Whenever a Soc is jumping a Greaser, most times the ratio between the Socs and Greasers is five to one. Simply put, there is tough beating instead of a fair fight. Contrastingly, "When we [Greasers] do fight among ourselves, it's a fair fight between two"(29). This quote shows that they are not at all bad, and they show humility, to have a fair fight. This is why they don't like the Socs, for they don't fight fair. They fight with blades, andgang up on each other.
One day, Pony Boy got a windfall of luck with the ladies. When he goes to the movies with his friend Dally and his brother Soda and they sit down for the movie, Dally starts to hit on the two girls in front of him, even when they responded negatively. Dally asks to the girls if they wanted a coke, they respond, "'I wouldn't drink it if I was starving'" showing her distaste for Dally. This shows the rubbing tension between he Socs and the Greasers, for the girls were of the Socs gang. As Dally went away, outraged, one of the girls started to hit on Pony Boy. This was strange; after all Dally and Pony Boy come from the same group. Hinton shows that even in a society with fights, the power of love can overcome the two different sects (Socs and the Greesers). Meetings like this don't happen often, but when they do, the unity of human kind is revealed, and everyone just "gets along" for a little while.
