Significance Of Brotherhood In The Outsiders

Brotherhood is forever. In the story The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton the author demonstrates the true meaning of brotherhood. The boys in the story stick with each other thru whatever occurs, they consider each other family. Though the boys in the story come of as punks who have greasy hair, and untuck their shirts, but as the story progresses these “greasers” begin to understand the true meaning of brotherhood In the beginning of the story S.E. Hinton writes “Soda put his hand on me, easy Ponyboy, they aint gonna hurt you no more” (Pg.8) Ponyboy had just been attacked by a Soc on the way home from the movies. This shows that these brother care about each other and will protect each other no matter what. Soda who is Ponyboys older brother, cares about him and all his friends because he wants him to stay safe from the Socs. This shows how brotherhood is forever by exemplifying Ponyboys and Soda’s tight relationship with each other.

His brothers didn’t know where he was. After a huge fire at a church that Ponyboy and his friend Johnny were staying at, they rush in to save children that were trapped inside. They did save the school kids trapped inside, but with quiet a cost. His friend Johnny was seriously burned so they went to the hospital were Ponyboys brothers were waiting. They had thought something had happened to Ponyboy. The emotion that they show, shows that they care about each other deeply. When the brothers arrive at the hospital they all run over and hug each other, and show how much they truly love each other and cared about Ponyboy because they thought he was injured