How Does The Outsiders Show Loyalty

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How does loyalty, violence, and chosen family relate to The Outsiders? These themes are some of the main themes connected to this story. They tie in mostly with some of the characters and how they behave in the story. They also tie in with some of the events in the story, such as some of the fights, the burning church, and more. But, who do these themes relate to most, and how? Johnny Cade and Ponyboy help show loyalty, violence, and a chosen family in The Outsiders. Loyalty is defined as a “strong feeling of support”. Some examples of this are when a friend stands up for the other in a bad situation or when they stand by you through thick and thin. Johnny and Ponyboy, the story's two main characters, demonstrate strong loyalty to each other …show more content…

Loyalty is also shown in some of the violence that happens in The Outsiders. Violence is the act of using physical force to harm someone or something. Violence plays a huge part in The Outsider, due to the main characters’ involvement with a street gang called the Greasers. Both Johnny and Ponyboy demonstrate violence in how they fight when needed and stop it when it gets too far. Johnny uses less violence than Ponyboy because he dislikes violence, demonstrated when he talks about killing himself because of all the violence around him and how it affects him and tries to avoid it as much as possible. Ponyboy uses more violence than Johnny shown in how he fights back harder than Johnny in the fight with some Socs by the park fountain where Ponyboy keeps resisting the Socs’ attacks, while Johnny didn’t. Violence is used with both characters in different ways, but they are stronger in some of these fights. A chosen family is a relationship where the members are connected in a non-biological way to support each other, usually chosen deliberately. The way most of the Greasers, like Johnny and Ponyboy, are connected in a chosen family-type

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