Discrimination In The Outsiders

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For my second word I chose discrimination. The word discrimination relates to The Outsiders, because the greasers are constantly made fun of and treated differently just because they are greasers. In the article, an Israeli boy named Eliav Terk noticed that people were tearing down Islamic flags at an international festival taking place at his school. This reminds me of how the socs were following the greasers in their car and trying to start fights with them. Students from the following year’s international festival told Eliav that more discrimination was happening at the festival. This is sort of like how Ponyboy’s friends told him and Johnny what was happening when they visited both of them at the church.

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