What one idea became clear to you as you read Chapters 3-4 in The Outsiders?

It becomes clear in Chapters 3 and 4 of The Outsiders that something violent is going to happen to Ponyboy (and maybe others) at the hands of the Socs. There is plenty of foreshadowing previously and while the boys are at the drive-in. Pony is attacked early in the novel, and we find that Johnny has been severely beaten before. The Socs threaten them when they are walking the girls home, and the mobility of their Mustang gives them the advantage of searching and stalking the greasers. As the two smallest of the gang members, they are easy prey. Pony's and Johnny's fears grow, and when Pony has an argument with Darry and heads out in the middle of the night, the reader knows that something else is bound to happen.