Why Do The Socs Struggle More Than The Greasers

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Do the Greasers or Socs struggle more?My perspective of this issue is that the poor East-side kids (Greasers) struggle more.
My evidence for why the Greasers struggle more than the Socs is that the Greasers have to make many personal sacrifices, & they experience a lot of violence.The Greasers are poor with a few good friends to help them, while the Socs are rich with no “real” friends to support them. Because of the sacrifices they made & the violence they were exposed to, the Greasers struggled more than the Socs.The Greasers struggle more because they were exposed to violence. According to pg. 33 of The Outsiders, “...one of them had a lot of rings on his hand--that’s what had cut Johnny up so badly. It wasn’t just that they had beaten him half to death-he could take that. They had scared him. They had threatened him with everything under the sun.” Explain how the quote shows the …show more content…

This shows that Greasers get beat up by the Socs, & the Socs drive into the Greaser’s territory to jump them. Johnny gets scared, & after this he never walks alone again. According to pg. 92 of The Outsiders, “I leaped out of the window and heard timber crashing and the flames roaring right behind me. I staggered, almost falling, coughing and sobbing for breath. Then I heard Johnny scream…” This is when Johnny & Ponyboy are trying to save the kids.This shows the violence that Johnny was exposed to. He was exposed to the violence at the church because of the violence he was exposed to when Ponyboy and him got jumped. In total, the Greasers were exposed to a lot of violence in the story.The second reason why the Greasers struggle more than the Socs is because they have to make many sacrifices. Quote from the book to back up your perspective. In the book, Darry had to work to help pay the bills of the house, & to keep Ponyboy in school. He was way overworked, and he didn’t have any freedom to go anywhere because of his

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