Socs And Greasers In The Outsiders

Who are the Socs and Greasers? In the novel The Outsiders, Socs and Greasers are two groups of gangs who do not get along well. They are very different but can be alike in some ways. Socs and Greasers both deal with different problems. One problem the Greasers have is having a bad reputation that they have to deal with for most of their life, Socs, on other hand, feel to violently and do things they don’t always mean, finally,...
One problem that the Greasers have to deal with is having a bad reputation, and once you have a bad reputation, you have to deal with it for most of your life. For one example, in the article called “The Allure of Gangs,” it states that in some gangs, status is gained by having the most callous and ruthless reputation. In result, the gang members do bad things to earn a “good” reputation in their gang but even though their reputation may be “good” in their gang, their reputation is slowly turning bad in front of the outside world. If the person decides to quit the gang, they will never be able to so they will have to stick with a bad reputation. Also, in the story The Outsiders, Dally robbed a grocery store and was caught by

For proof, in the beginning of the Outsiders, the Socs beat up Johnny really badly. This tells us that the Socs do violent things and they beat up Johnny for absolutely no reason. That piece of evidence tells us that Socs feel too violently. Moreover, in the Outsiders, is when the Socs beat up Ponyboy when he was coming back from the movies and threatened him with a knife. This displays that the Socs feel to freely and think they can do whatever they want, even attack/threaten people with knives. They also know that their parents have money to get them away from trouble if they get in any. In conclusion, a problem that Socs have to deal with is doing things they don’t always mean and feeling to