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How Does Ponyboy's Journey Teaches Us That It Better To Be A Conformist

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Ponyboy’s journey teaches us that it’s better to be a conformist than to be an individual. Do you agree? Ponyboy is the protagonist of a book called the Outsiders. The book is about a 14 year old boy (Ponyboy), and how rough life is for the people who live in the East side of town, Greasers, and how they would always compete with the Socs, who are the rich that live on the West side of town. Greasers and Socs hate each other. Socs would always make fun of how the Greasers looked, with their big greasy hair, how dumb they are and how poor they are. The Greasers would make fun of how the Socs looked, dressed, how they would walk up and beat them up, and just how they are. Conformity means when people change their beliefs, attitude, actions, or perception to fit in with others. While there are stereotypes about both gangs, you have certain characters in the book that ignore the stereotypes. Coming towards the end of the book it shows Cherry has been helping spying on the Socs and supporting the Greasers. She does it in secret because she does not want to be looked down on by all her friends. When Cherry and Ponyboy are having a friendly conversation, she brings up school, telling him that if she doesn’t say hello don’t take it the wrong way, “Ponyboy… I mean… if I see you in the …show more content…

Although conformity can have a good impact on someone's life and bring out a belonging feeling for someone in a group, it can also influence them to make bad decisions. Randy Anderson, who was Bob’s best friend. Before Bob’s death he acted like a true Socs, called Greaser's white trash, being reckless thinking being mean was cool because his friends were doing it. But now that Bob tragically died he realised how silly fighting was and how going to the ramble is pointless, he was tired of gang and violence. Ponyboy also lost two of his friends, Johnny and Dallas, over a fight about the Greasers picking up Socs girlfriends, which led to Bob’s

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Some parts include during pages sixty-six to sixty-eight when Randy, Bob, and three other Socs attacked grease territory and attached them; they did this only because they were drunk, bored and Ponyboy & Johnny had been talking to their ex-girlfriends in a friendly manner. Another situation was explained during pages thirty-nine to forty-three where the same gang violated Johnny for no reason except probably because they had the power to do it. My final example was at the start of the book on pages five and six were a group of five Socs abducted Ponyboy and attempted to cut his hair without his permission, they probably would have if Ponyboy’s friends hadn't shown up and scared the Socs away. None of these situations had valid reasons for starting a fight, therefore, making them more of a hazard than the greasers. Another matter that Socs is a bigger scandal to society is that the Greasers aren’t that bad themselves.

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