Identity In The Outsiders, By S. E. Hinton

“Whenever two people meet, there are six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he is.”- Willam James. In the novel, The Outsiders, the author S.E Hinton, was able to present the theme of identity by using her characters and opposing social classes. However, identity is a foremost substance to the human eye. On the other hand, let's see how identity conveys itself into three parties. Identity is shown to be more far-fetched in reality, identity is about the understanding that a being has of himself, a group that is held an image held by its members, and how someone relates himself to the group. Willam James' quote shows a lot about what a person could be as one of my three parties, what he meant when saying “whenever two

At us”, by S.E Hinton, chapter 1 of page 2, this quote is packed with identity information, for understanding pony is informing us that if his alone too much, a stranger would scream Greasers!, and that might cause people to be frightened or even cops would suspect them, this statement proves that a greaser can’t walk alone without someone judging them. In chapter 3 page 45, the quote “ I couldn’t ever cut anyone”, this quote comes in handy, with just a simple selection it is accurate to my point, by the time Two-bit was babbling to the greasers, the socs were ready to fight, at that moment Pony reacts to it by shattering a glass bottle, by the time Pony point the glass bottle at the Socs, Socs already ran off to that point, even Cherry believed that Pony would use the glass bottle, this is proving my point because the Socs thought that Pony would use the bottle, what I'm saying is that his identity as a greaser is taking his role of what he