Family In The Outsiders

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Class and family are always yours. They will not change. You are born into both, and stay in both. Family are the people that you go to for help, and the people you go to to make you laugh. The people in your class are your community and the people who you are friends with. In The Outsiders, Ponyboy has two families. He has his actual family; the descendants of his parents, but he has another family. He has his friends. What does it take for unrelated people to become your only family? There is the type of family you can choose: “The four boys Darry and Soda and I have grown up with and consider family. We’re almost as close as brothers; when you grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood like ours you get to know each other real well.”(3). Ponyboy and his brothers are choosing this family. The gang are the …show more content…

You are born into both and you can’t change both. All of the people in the book are good people, we may just not see it. They all are caring, smart and strong - internally and externally. The only thing that makes them different is their class. There are very different stereotypes for greasers and others for Soc’s. The stereotypes for greasers are: long hair, lazy, criminals, hoods, poor, and violent. The stereotypes for Soc’s are: smart, athletic, rich, not fair fighters, drive nice cars and they jump greasers. There are similarities too. They both are trying to get out of trouble and not get into jail. They want to be themselves. They both participate in fights between the classes. They all have dreams. Ponyboy dreams of having a better life for himself, with opportunity. Randy dreams of having a non violent community: “And tonight… people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I’m sick of it because it doesn't do any good.” (98). There are similarities and differences between these two subjects but there is one point that are really striking; class and family are the only things you have in life that will always be

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