Teen Rivalry In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

Look through the past and then realize how life is now. Timelessly people have always been divided by there social class. A huge bitter rivalry between teen classification will always be timeless. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton was about a young boy who lives in a world of tough guys, runaways, and outlaws. He experiences the real world in different ways. These teenagers go through a tragedy and realize that they are all going through the same thing. Social classes have been separating people for the longest time. People are classified by there looks, race, clothing, and money. Teen rivalry is inevitable causing misfortune. The Outsiders is a timeless novel because it is so relevant to how years have passed on because it is always classifying people into groups. Usually people criticize others with a glance instead of talking and getting to know them. The Soc's and greasers classified each other into groups, they didn't get to know one another. All they really did was look, they didn't look on the inside. Ponyboy was having a conversation with Randy when he then realized what Cherry meant. "I remembered Cherry's voice: things are rough all over. I knew then what she meant.(99)'" He registered that there all the

The rumble is when the Greasers and the Soc's fought, "a rumble, when its called, is usually born of a grudge fight.(10)" They are grudges from the fight before that, they keep doing this until who know when. Johnny killed Bob, one night a group of the Soc's were drunk and went to the park, where Johnny and Ponyboy were. Bob was trying to drown Ponyboy causing Johnny to stab Bob. The Soc's and Greasers fight a lot, the Soc's usually instigate the Greasers first because usually they are bored because they don't have a job like the Greasers do. These groups are forever fighting, with really no reason. The bitter rivalry is inevitable, it will continue