Ponyboy and Johnny had to disguise themselves because Johnny killed someone to save Ponyboy's life and they were on the run from the cops. Ponyboy loved his hair because it symbolized who he was and he was a Greaser.
The word assume in this context is used to show how how easily the leader of the animals jumped to conclusions and also how docile the animals who were under his control were. In chapter 3, they also assumed that pigs needed apples and milk to sustain themselves. Assuming things can't always be accurate. It's better to collect facts first before deciding things.
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the purpose is to give attention to the good guy and then the bad one comes along and there is tension between the 2
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Ponyboy dislikes the Socs, whom we see through his subjective viewpoint. The distorting effects of hatred and group rivalry make his narration less than objective. Ponyboy is young enough to have changeable conceptions of people, however, and over the course of the novel he realizes that Socs have problems just as greasers do.
