Truth In Hinton's The Outsiders

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The Outsiders is a book based solely on the point of view of Ponyboy, the main character. The book revolves around the brotherly love of Ponyboy’s brothers and the rich gang, the Socs, who despise the Greasers-what Ponyboy is-because they are of lower social status. The Socs often remark the Greasers as ‘greasy’ and always needing a haircut. The Greasers, in retaliation, declare the Socs as cold-hearted and selfish. In truth, these remarks aren’t reality. Despite the way the Socs and the Greasers feud, they both are human and feel emotion just the same as one another; they don’t feel any less than the other, and they both can “see the same sunset”, as Ponyboy described it. For example, later in the story, Ponyboy and Johnny (Ponyboy’s