In the book The Outsiders, written by S. E. Hinton, the theme is that people, though they may be very different, they still live in the same world and they are really the same. This can be proven with Ponyboy’s quote within the first half of the book, “We aren’t in the same class. Just don’t forget that some of us watch the sunset too” (page 46). The first half of the quote tells that the two people are in very different social classes, in this case, the Socs and the greasers. The two gangs are always in conflict, however, the second half of the quote emphasized that the two groups of people indeed living under the same sun, watch the same sunset, and practically do the same thing. This can also be proven through Ponyboy’s description