Anyway, i went on walking home, thinking about the movie, and then suddenly wishing i had some company. greasers can't walk alone too much or they'll get jumped, or someone will come by and scream "greaser! " at them, which doesn't make you feel too hot, if you know what i mean. we get jumped by the socs. i'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the 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. —the outsiders, s. e. hinton what are the opposing forces in this passage? ponyboy and the greasers greasers and movies greasers and socs ponyboy and the dark night

 a long walk home and no company, but I usually lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch movies undisturbed so I can get into them and live them with the actors. When I see a movie with someone it’s kind of uncomfortable, like having someone read your book over your shoulder. I’m different that way. I mean, my second-oldest brother, Soda, who is sixteen-going-on-seventeen, never cracks a book at all, and my oldest brother, Darrel, who we call Darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story or drawing a picture, so I’m not like them. And nobody in our gang digs movies and books the way I do. For a while there, I thought I was the only person in the world that did. So I loned it.