Aidan Ela a block Ms,copeland 30,march 2023 The Outsiders is a young adult action novel written by author S.E Hinton. The story is about a group of teen boys that are in a gang called the “Greasers” and they are rival gangs with the Socs, a gang formed with rich kids. And the main character's name is Ponyboy and the book started with Ponyboy being jumped by a group of Socs while walking down the street, which implies to the fact that they are both violent gangs that won't show mercy. And when the group of Greasers go to a drive-in movie they run into Cherry Valence who is a Soc but when Ponyboy developed love for her he had some issues. And as the story develops many crazy things happen, many fights break out and there are lots of unexpected endings between the characters in the story. And I believe that the real theme in the book the Outsiders is that “Violence won't solve any problems, it just makes more”. The first example of the theme that violence doesn’t solve problems is the part of the story where dally got shot. It was after his friend Johnny died after a fire he was very mad and he resorted to going to the local store looking around and getting a magazine. And suddenly the cashier said, …show more content…
It is a great example of the theme because the Socs mindset was them thinking jumping and hurting a young greaser would solve their problems. In that part of the story , jumping johnny didnt solve their problems, it just caused a big issue for them. Not only did it cause problems for them, the greasers also ran into problems. For example after the fight everything went downhill for john he went into hiding and was afraid to go out all because of a fight. Also the Socs stopped messing with greasers because of the impact everyone had after jumping johnny that day. This proves how the one act of violence they had jumping johnny led to nothing