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The Outsiders Essay

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Mya Blackwell 8P April 6, 2023 Even in darkness, there's will always light S.E. Hinton's 1967 novel, The Outsiders, is a novel about a rivalry between the West Side Socs and East Side Greasers. Relatively, Socs and Greasers envy each other because of their social class and what they are known for. The Socs hate the Greasers because of the way they look like hoodlums and how they act, and the Greasers hate the Socs because the Socs can get away with everything because they dress and look wealthy and put together compared to the Greasers who are blamed for everything. Even though the Greasers look and occasionally act like hoodlums, they can develop into better people. This is demonstrated by Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and Dally(Dallas) Winston …show more content…

To start off with, Ponyboy further see’s into how his brother Darry really feels when it is referred to in: “In that second what Soda and Dally and Two-Bit had been trying to tell me came through. Darry did care about me, maybe as much as he cared about Soda, and because he cared he was trying too hard to make something of me. When he yelled "Pony, where have you been all this time?" he meant "Pony, you've scared me to death. Please be careful, because I couldn't stand it if anything happened to you."”(chapter 6, pg 84). This quote shows that ponyboy finally realizes that his brother Darry actually does care about him, although Darry covers it with the strict policy he has set for ponyboy so Ponyboy can live the life that Darry couldn't. He also grows as a character when he talks to Cherry(Sherri) Valance and points out that no one really has their life as easy as it may seem. In the quote “Cherry no longer looked sick, only sad. "I'll bet you think the Socs have it made. The rich kids, the West-side Socs. I'll tell you something, Ponyboy, and it may come as a surprise. We have troubles you've never even

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