The Greasers Are Not Honorable

Does somebody who breaks the law still honorable? Well it depends on how someone takes it into perspective. In the book The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, is based on a gang, The Greasers, that breaks the law and sometimes is straight mean. Since they break the law so much they show that they are dishonorable opposed to being honorable. So The Greasers are not honorable because they kill other people. The greasers also steal from stores. And they threaten to hurt other people.
To begin, The Greasers are dishonorable because the gang is responsible for a death. For example, Johnny, a gang member, kills Bob, a soc, for real no reason. “ ‘I killed him’ he said slowly” (56). This shows that he is dishonorable because killing someone is a crime and when someone breaks the law they are considered a dishonorable person. As a result of Johnny killing Bob it’s not only breaking the law but it’s hurting other people which is being dishonorable. In particular, he is responsible for someone's death. Therefore, killing someone is not only breaking the law it’s hurting other people.

Furthermore, they are dishonorable because they steal from stores.

In particular, Dally was dishonorable when he robbed the grocery store and got himself in trouble.”He robbed the grocery store and the cops are after him” (152). Because he robbed the store it caused the police to chase after him and he had a gun without bullets which made the cops have to shoot which means he’s responsible for his own death. Since he caused his own death he made a lot of people sad. He basically robbed a grocery store to hurt himself but he didn't realize that he would hurt his gang. Thus, him stealing caused him to die which caused pain upon others and that was very

dishonorable.
Lastly, the gang is dishonorable because they threaten to hurt other people. When Ponyboy broke a bottle and threatened to cut multiple soc’s. “I started toward them holding a bottle” (171). Threatening to hurt someone is never the right thing to do. Just because someone may be in a situation using violence is never the right answer. It’s not only threatening to hurt someone is being a dishonorable person in a community. Hence, when Ponyboy broke that bottle he was being a dishonorable person.
Although they do bad actions they still do honorable actions. For example, when Ponyboy runs into the burning church to save little kids. While risking a life it is nothing to be played with. When he went to save the kids he was taking his own risk to save the kids lives rather than his. Ponyboy didn't have to save the kids from the burning church but he decided to do the honorable thing and save them from possibly dying. However, doing one honorable act doesn’t make up for doing dishonorable actions. When Ponyboy breaks a bottle and threatens to hurt a soc. Although he saved the kids, saving them doesn’t make it ok to threaten to take someone else’s.
To conclude, even when someone is good at one point doesn’t mean that they can do dishonorable things and get away with it. For example, when someone steals from a store. Or when someone threatens to hurt someone. Or better yet when someone is responsible for a death. It can show someone that just because they do something honorable doesn’t mean that the dishonorable actions they make are ok.