Society/Class And Violence In The Outsiders

The Outsiders Theme Paragraphs

Society is just messed up as a whole In the book, The Outsiders by S.E Hinton they establish that society is clearly just mixed emotions piling on top of each other The two themes I'm going to mainly focus in is Society/Class and violence, these work hand and hand with each other wherever you live.
Society or class is just a very difficult term to deal with in any situation because there will always be someone who exists that will judge without knowing you. So what I'm saying is that society is judgmental. One piece of the text from the book is “It occurred to me then that they could kill me, I went wild. I started screaming for Soda, Darry, anyone” To further explain Society or certain people with not accept

Since Socs have that mentality of being violent to Greasers they won't come to terms with them and break into violence by jumping Greasers or just stomping on people. Another example of violence is “I ducked and tried to run for it, but the soc caught my arm and twisted it behind my back, and shoved my face into the fountain. I had fought, but the hand at the back of neck was too strong and I had to hold my breath.” to further explain the quote, Ponyboy and Johnny have done nothing wrong, but Socs, is drunk and mad at them and almost kill ponyboy without truly thinking about it with their clouded judgement and if weren't for johnny both of them would have easily been killed. If the scenario happens where bob kills Ponyboy and Johnny the likes of the Socs being let off would be higher just because everyone stereotypes the greasers as mean, tough, and greased hair. It's like if a white male and a black male were put in court for stealing anything there is a very high chance that the black male would have been guilty, because that's just how society works it is influenced by people that can reconstruct it into their own