The answer is A. also the author.
The narrator of <em>The Bean Eaters</em> is<u> also the author</u>.
It is useless to attempt to retaliate against the Socs because they are a socially privileged gang. Just for fun, Socs commit violence to greasers. Instead of being punished, they even get praised in the newspapers. So Ponyboy vowed never to get into any troubles.
Becuase all of us are descendants from that time and we don't know what was real and wasn't real at that time