Violence In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

In the story The Outsiders, a young adult realistic fiction, by S.E Hinton, a big central problem is “You can solve things nonviolently so no one gets hurt.” Scars after scars, bruises after bruises, fights after fights. The boys in the outsiders known as The Greasers,” are a gang of kids from East Tusla, Oklahoma. Night after night the Socs and the Greasers meetup for a “rumble.” A rumble is a big massive conjoined fight. The first reason I think the Greasers are too violent is because near the beginning of the story, Johnny stabs Bob, one of the Socs. Secondly, in the book and movie it says how Johnny’s parents are abusive to him and neglect him. You can see this when Johnny’s mom shows up at the hospital more mad than even sad and encouraging

So as you read the book you realize how much trauma Johnny has had in his life. First off, Johnny’s parents. Ms. Cade is not spoken much about or seen in the book or movie, but we do know that she basically neglects Johnny. She doesn’t do anything about Johnny’s dad hitting and she basically ignores Johnny at all costs, she keeps herself busy on pills and alcohol. Now for Mr. Cade, it doesn’t get any better. He hits Johnny and verbally abuses him. Ponyboy describes Johnny as one of the frail ones. He is small and has a slight build. He always has a nervous, suspicious look in his eyes, because of his parents and when he gets beat up by the Soc’s. Speaking of Soc’s, Johnny also has trauma from Bob. Bob is the Soc that gave Johnny that black eye and scar in the first place. When Johnny and Ponyboy find themselves in a scrum with the Soc’s one night, Johnny stabs Bob. “They were drowning you Ponyboy, they were going to kill you!” (Hinton 50) I don’t know about you but I think a murder could cause a little trauma (Sarcasm). You can see how Johnny could’ve picked the safer route in some moments, like for example not killing