How to restore my MacBook Pro to default settings?

I do not want to save this information, i bought this computer and the person i bought it from has all of it somewhere. I just want to clear it up and start fresh with my macbook. Here are the details of my mac:
MacBook 13 inch. (Not pro it is old, but it's not air)
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Dup
2GB 1067 MHz DDr3
Macintosh HD
Version 10.0.8
I do not know what software it runs with, i konw its not the new one, it's oviously not mavricks, not mountain lion, i do not know it looks old, and the background is outerspace... Here I'll attach a photo. (That is the default background)
It also doesn't have a Recovery HD hard drive, where i can switch and then do all that stuff to make it brand new software, there is only Macintosh HD, and Windows for some reason. Please please plase please help me.
Is there a way i can restore this computer as the way it was when the person bought it?
Thanks, if you have any questions please please ask.
Thanks

It would have shipped originally with a set of restore optical disks, did the seller include those? If they did, you can boot from that (hold the C key down during startup) and do an erase and install - wipe the hard drive clean (repartition if necessary) and then restore the original operating system it came with from the disk.
If you did not get the media, can you ask the seller for it? If not, you can try calling Apple and see if they can ship you out a set of original disks for that machine (there would likely be a fee, but often not much).
P.S. a 2.4Ghz core2duo Macbook sounds like it was a 2008 model
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP5 - if so, it should have shipped with OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
or
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP500

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