Love And Support In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

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Living without love and support is like having nothing. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, is set during a time when teenagers weren’t being thought of as much as they needed to clear up their unusual lifestyles. Teenagers weren’t getting enough love and support from others in their world to clear up their way of life and improve it. In the novel, the members of both gangs didn’t have a source to provide the love and support they needed. Members of both gangs had either lost their parents or loved ones or didn’t get treated the way they should have been in order to receive the necessary love and support. First of all, the teenagers lives in the novel were just about having fun and living a free wildlife. When it came down to reality, …show more content…

If you recall, Sodapop said that he doesn’t get enough respect from the other Curtis brothers, such as love and support because he is always the one to be brought into the middle of a fight.(Ch. 12) This tells me that there should be less fight and more love and support being spread not just throughout the Curtis family, but to the whole gang and even the Socs. Johnny says that he greatly appreciates the love and support the greasers have given him throughout his whole 16 years of his life and he will forever and always love the gang, especially Ponyboy.(Ch. 9) This tells me that only some of the teenagers peers are giving out that love and support that the teenagers in this world really do need, and those peers or parent guardians need to add that to their priority list. If people give, the others shall give back. As you can see love and support really does mean a ton to not just these teenagers but others in the world. I know that it’s not possible to spread love and give support to everyone in this world, but people really do need to be thinking about others in the world and at least put forth some love and support to the ones …show more content…

When Johnny killed Bob to save Ponyboy’s life, it was an instant instinct that Johnny had.(Ch. 4) As you may know, the teenage greasers go to the extreme lengths to help and protect the gangs friends and loved ones. When Pony, Johnny, and Dally all went back to the church and saw that there was a fire and then felt responsible for it, really shows the love and support they all have for others.(Ch. 6) Those three teenagers all risked your lives for those kids in the burning building and they should be proud of themselves. As greasers have shown some of the more brutal parts of life, but as well good parts of life, peers should really take in what the greasers have done and how they have changed throughout their lives. Imagine what it’s like for the people that have no one left in their lives. People really do need to start thinking about others in life right now and what they are doing to themselves because they have no one left in their lives, imagine what it would be like for

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