we wear our hair long and dress in blue jeans and T-shirts, or
leave our shirttails out and wear leather jackets and tennis
shoes or boots. I'm not saying that either Socs or Greasers
are better;that'sjustthe
waythingsare.
"Leave my kid
brother alone, you hear! It ain't his fault he likes to go to
the movies, and it ain't his fault the Socs like to jump us,
and if he had been good at carryin' a blade it would have been
a good excuse to cut him to
ribbons..."