Struggles In The Outsiders

The Outsiders is a young adult novel written by S.E. Hinton that explores the hardships faced by both the poor and the rich. The Greasers walk in groups of gangs to protect each other from the Socs, while the socs beat the Greasers up and gang up on the greasers. The main character, Ponyboy, has his own gang and has a journey with Johnny and Dally when they kill a kid in self-defense. When they save kids from the church, they get injured and have to go to the hospital, where Johnny takes his last breath.

They had a big fight, where the greasers won. Ponyboy still mourns for his friend, and Dally gets himself killed by the cops because he misses Johnny. The theme of the book is to teach us not to judge other groups without getting to know them.

Ponyboy tells Cherry about why Johnny is so jumpy and scared: he got beat up by the Socs, and when Ponyboy finishes, Cherry responds, "All socs aren’t like that," she said. "You have to believe me, Ponyboy." Not all of us are like that. "Sure," I said, "that’s like saying all you greasers are like Dallas (Dally) Winston." "I'll bet he’s jumped a few people." (34). Cheryy is trying to comfort Ponyboy by saying all Socs aren’t like that, but Ponyboy doesn’t believe her since he hasn't seen any nice Socs, but then Cherry uses Dally as an example, saying that she can just stereotype all the Greasers by saying that they’re all like Dally. Their relationship was built off of that one night just because they didn’t assume the worst from each other and went deeper than the

“One time he came home drunker than anything. He though sure they were gonna raise the roof. You know what they did? They thought it was something they’d done. They thought it was their fault - that they’d failed him and driven him to it or something. They took all the blame and didn’t do anything to him. If his old man had just belted him- just once, he might still be alive. I don’t know why I’m telling you this. I couldn’t tell anyone else. My friends-they’d think I was off my rocker or turning soft.” (116). He says while after explaining Bobs hard life that he has no good role model or parental figure in his life that’s why he would get in so much trouble but he also said that Bob was a nice and funny guy with a lot of achievements but since he had so much freedom being such a good kid he would want to get put back in place Randy says but his parents would not punish him since they thought it was there fault for him getting drunk but all he wanted was someone to say no to him as Randy said. Ponyboy thought Bob was mean and really ain’t a good kid all around but once Cherry and Randy talked about how good Bob is to Ponyboy he might’ve re-concluded his thoughts on him. Ponyboy looked through two different point of views of an “enemy” we don’t know what he thinks of Bob anymore but we do know that he