Empathy In The Outsiders

Empathy is a very strong emotion that has the ability to understand a person’s emotions from their perspective compared to your own. The 1983 film The Outsiders, directed by Francis Ford Coopola and based on the book by S.E. Hinton, shows the audience the difference in communities, the reality of events happening, and themes such as youth, innocence, love, honour, sacrifice, and respect. The film highlights how no matter what class you come from, we all want the same things: family, love, happiness, and belonging. The Outsiders shows the lifestyle in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the 1960s, where the filmmaker Francis Ford Coopola depicts the themes of innocence and youth and divided communities where the Greasers and Socs have many differences, especially the image they have in society with rich and poor. These scenes

In this scene, Johnny is in the hospital, burned from the fire in the church, where he, Ponyboy, and Dally saved many young children. Johnny has been injured the most and is not likely to survive in the hospital, where Dally knows that if Johnny dies, he wants to die as well. Both of them had a very close relationship, like close-knit brothers. When Dally finds out that Johnny has died, he robs a petrol station, which gets the attention of the police. During the chase by the police, he makes a call to the rest of The Greasers, telling them to meet at the park. But he is too desperate to die; he pulls out an unloaded gun, and the police shoot him. The reality of both Dally's and Johnny’s deaths affects Ponyboy greatly, causing him to lose interest in school and his grades, which he loved. This scene highlights the emotions of depression, sacrifice, identity, violence, and gang ideology. Some film techniques used are long shots, music, and lighting, which create the atmosphere where Dally is killed by the