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The Greasers In John Steinbeck's 'The Outsiders'

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Second, Cherry tells the truth in court about what happened at the park and why Jognny killed bob, she defends the greasers and says the socs were drunka nd looking for a fight and they were beatting up ponyboy and drowning him and johnny had no choice, it was self defence. Randy did the same thing for the greasers because they new it was the right thing to do. Cherry new they were good people and never killed bob on purpose. Third, Cherru helped them look at things and people differently. the greasers realized that the socs arent that different from them and that everybody has problems no matter what side of the tracks u come from. they realized that ot all socs are rude and obnocksious. To conclude, Cherry helped them all these

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