Effects Of The Outsiders On Society

Societies that convince children to do bad things that no one would think any child would even be capable of doing have been introduced in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. In The Outsiders, a character, Johnny Cade, is severely affected by the standards of society where he lives which is introduced by character development. There are rules that no young boy should have to go through, like having to beat up people, and having to be afraid of getting jumped, and having to view a certain class of people as unintelligent and unreasonable, which hurts and upsets Johnny. He is forced to follow the rules of society, which changes him so badly that he kills someone. He has a hard life with his parents and the Socs already, so all of these things

He has been jumped very badly, and he gets beaten by his parents. He is very affected by this and is very upset. Hinton shows that Johnny has been jumped and he now carries a switchblade to protect himself because of how scared he is. He is very hurt that his parents don’t care about him either. Ponyboy explained how hard greasers have to hold it together by saying, ”Living in those conditions might have turned someone rebellious and bitter; it was killing Johnny.” (p.30). In this statement we learn that Johnny has a hard life at home and with the Socs and most people would be affected by that in a bad way that would make them rebellious, but Johnny was affected by it in such a bad way that it made him always scared, unlike the other Greasers who just would have turned mean and cold. Ponyboy was explaining how hard Johnny’s home life is by saying, ”Johnny’s parents didn’t care if he came home or not.” (p.43). This stamens shows that some Greasers have it really bad. Some of them even have parents that don’t even care about them. This shows that Greasers have troubles outside of having to deal with the