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Comparing The Gangs Of S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders

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An Outsiders Look on The Gangs of S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders We Begin with a rivalry between two gangs the Socials and the Greasers. In S.E Hinton’s book The Outsiders these two gangs have their own unique circumstances and opinion that dictate how they make decisions in certain situations and depending on how they act in those situations will dictate how society views them. The community considers one of the gangs a menace to their town. They are considered having no contributing factors to society but in reality they contributed and sacrificed more than the other gang. When comparing the two gangs it turns out society is completely wrong. The first gang we have are called “greasers”; they are known for their greasy hair. The group of …show more content…

This hurts the image of the gang overall feeding into the stereotype that the greasers don’t have any manors at all and that they’re causing more harm than good to the town. Johnny gets Darrel to stop messing with the girls which helps them regain some good reputation. The gang later attempts to take the girls home unfortunately they were met by a group of socials who threatened them with violence and they were forced to turn over the girls (pg45). Later Johnny and Pony were attacked by a group of socials that ganged up on them. The group of socials almost drowned Pony in a nearby fountain; when Johnny saw Pony being drowned it forced his hand and he stabbed one of the socials, killing him(pg57). This saves Pony by scaring the socials away but this seriously hurts the image of the greasers; to an individual who was not informed this was self-defense this makes the greasers look like criminals. The group does redeem their reputation when they save a group of school kids from a fire that was started in a church. This causes one characters to die; he sacrificed his life for these children(pg91-93). The final action that affect how society views the greasers is that Dally stole from a grocery store and is shot by the police for having a weapon on

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