The Outsiders
By: S.E Hinton
Halle Coleman.
“We gotta win that fight tonight. We
gotta get even with those Socs! Let's
do it for Johnny, man. We'll do it for
Johnny! “ darry.
At this point the reader is informed of the true
dispute between the greasers and socs. The socs
beat up johnny, so the greasers are ready to get
even.
“ I think I like it better when the old
man’s hittin me.” johnny.
Johnny has horrible parents. They never showed him
love or affection. His father beats him up and his
mother ignores him. Although you could hear his
mother yelling at him clear down to ponyboy's
house. If it wasn’t for the gang, Johnny probably
would have ran away a long time ago.
“It’s okay. We aren’t in the same class.
Just don’t forget that some of us watch
the sunset too(66).”
• Ponyboy tries to get cherry to see that the dispute between the
socs and the greasers relates to the sunset. Socs and greasers are
treated differently when it comes to many things, but they still live
in the same world. They still look at the same sun.
“Greasers will still be greasers and
Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I
think it’s the ones in the middle that
are really the lucky stiffs. Randy.
• he tells Ponyboy that he will not be fighting in
the rumble. He appears to believe that,
despite their youth, the young men in the
story will never be able to move on and get
pass the ‘gang life’
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Ponyboy is a first person narrator.
darry