Theme Of Social Divide In The Outsiders

Social divide represents unfairness. However, social divide still brings some benefits. Merely, we do not realize it. But, we can not deny the fact that social divide has its advantages to benefit our mental or physical ways. In the outsiders, there is an obvious social divide. Although the social divide brings about some negative conflicts in the story, it is not completely bad because it strength the relationship between the greasers, it let the characters in the story become mature and it makes all the characters in the story stay gold and keep the positive mood and be hopeful. Firstly, the social divide is not completely bad because it strengthens the relationship between the greasers. Some of the greasers do not have good relationship

Ponyboy is the youngest greasers in the gang. He is childish, moody and naive at the beginning of the Outsiders. His parents died due to an accident. Thus, his brother Darry takes care of him, like his father. Darry is the oldest greaser. He works all the time at two jobs to earn money. Meanwhile, he takes the responsibility of taking care of his two younger brothers. Unlike his younger brothers, he is very matured, strong and serious. Due the generation gap and the difference personality between Darry and Ponyboy, they struggle to understand each other. Ponyboy does not understand his pressure and his love to him. When Ponyboy does not take care of himself or be responsible for himself, Darry felt frustrated and angrily. The stress makes him exploded. He uses violence to Ponyboy. Unfortunately, it pushed their relationship broken. Fortunately, the social divide saves their relationship. One day, the Socs jump Johnny and Ponyboy. Johnny killed Bob to protect Ponyboy. Johnny and Ponyboy decided to get out of the city. One week ago, they knew that they should face their problem. Escaping was useless. They come back and they experience a lot of things. Ponyboy meets Darry in hospital. He wants to say sorry to Darry, but he is hesitated how to start his conversation until he sees Darry cries. “ ‘Darry,’I said,‘I am sorry… ’ ”(Hinton 98) The week that Ponyboy and Danny

From Ponyboy is the youngest one in the greasers to he grows up and has experienced a lot. He underwent Johnny, Bob and Darry’s death and the unfairness of social divide. He becomes matured and knew they are all individual body, but they have rights to find the beautiful things of the world. Everyone in the outsider be calmed to treat social divide and be tough and positive after they experienced their friends’ death. Johnny realized things cannot change, we need to be positive and find our happiness until he almost died: “You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There are still lots of good things in the world.” Johnny tried to use this letter tell all the greasers don’t focus on the negatives things that were make you frustrated and depressed. They didn’t need to fight and revenge Socs for him. That will make the war between the greasers and Socs never end. It will not have peace between the social divide any more. Jonny told them don’t be emotional and sentimental. Be positive and hopeful to find the positive things in the world and treasure their young life Johnny reminds them to be grow up, and treasure their life. Johnny regrets about he kills Bob. He doesn’t want to any his friends follow the same old disastrous road. This letter reminds soda-pop, two-bit, Darry, specially Ponyboy that