Ponyboy explains what makes a gang and a pack different. A gang to Ponyboy is when stick up for your members. But a pack is when you don’t stick up for a member, you stick together. This shows that the socs don’t stand up for each other, but when the jump the greasers they stay together. This also shows that the greasers don’t stay with each other but they stick up for each other For example, when Ponyboy walks home alone from the movies he gets jumped by the socs and Darry comes to save him