Why Do The Socs Struggle More Than The Greasers

Do the Greasers or Socs struggle more?My perspective of this issue is that the poor East-side kids (Greasers) struggle more.

My evidence for why the Greasers struggle more than the Socs is that the Greasers have to make many personal sacrifices, & they experience a lot of violence.The Greasers are poor with a few good friends to help them, while the Socs are rich with no “real” friends to support them. Because of the sacrifices they made & the violence they were exposed to, the Greasers struggled more than the Socs.The Greasers struggle more because they were exposed to violence. According to pg. 33 of The Outsiders, “...one of them had a lot of rings on his hand--that’s what had cut Johnny up so badly. It wasn’t just that they had beaten him half to death-he could take that. They had scared him. They had threatened him with everything under the sun.” Explain how the quote shows the

struggles of the group.
This is an example of Johnny being beat up by the Socs.

This shows that Greasers get beat up by the Socs, & the Socs drive into the Greaser’s territory to jump them. Johnny gets scared, & after this he never walks alone again. According to pg. 92 of The Outsiders, “I leaped out of the window and heard timber crashing and the flames roaring right behind me. I staggered, almost falling, coughing and sobbing for breath. Then I heard Johnny scream…” This is when Johnny & Ponyboy are trying to save the kids.This shows the violence that Johnny was exposed to. He was exposed to the violence at the church because of the violence he was exposed to when Ponyboy and him got jumped. In total, the Greasers were exposed to a lot of violence in the story.The second reason why the Greasers struggle more than the Socs is because they have to make many sacrifices. Quote from the book to back up your perspective. In the book, Darry had to work to help pay the bills of the house, & to keep Ponyboy in school. He was way overworked, and he didn’t have any freedom to go anywhere because of his

work.

This shows that they have to make personal sacrifices for the good of their families.
This also shows that the Greasers struggle just with basic survival, having to work extremely hard just to support themselves.

In the book, Johnny & Ponyboy sacrificed their own safety to free the kids. Randy the Soc says that he wouldn’t have helped those kids.
This shows that the Socs aren’t willing to make sacrifices, while the Greasers risk their own lives for the sakes of other people. But Johnny paying the ultimate sacrifice made the group go through more struggle.
It shows that the Greasers were willing to go through struggle, while the Socs wouldn’t ever consider going through struggle.

Overall, this shows that the Greasers went through a lot of struggle, while the Socs barely went through any. Now, some think that the Socs struggled when they lost to the Greasers in the rumble. You might think the Socs struggle more from losing to the Greasers, but this isn’t accurate. This isn’t accurate because the Socs drove into the Greaser’s territory to fight them, so this shows they wanted to fight them, so it’s their fault they lost. Explain how the quote/example seems reasonable but isn’t more difficult like they say. The quote may seem like it shows that the Socs struggle more than the Greasers because they lose to them, but they could drive across town in their fancy blue ‘Stangs to fight the Greasers, so they didn’t struggle. You might also say the Socs struggled more because they lost Bob. But this reasoning is invalid. This is because Bob was killed by Johnny in self-defense. Bob got drunk, and one of his goons tried to drown Pony, so he killed him so they would go away. In total, the Greasers struggle more than the Socs because the Socs drove across town to fight the Greasers, and Bob was killed by Johnny in self-defense.

Overall, because of the violence they were exposed to and the struggles they went through, the Greasers struggled more than the Socs. The Greasers were exposed to the fire & to the rumble, so they were exposed to violence. The Greasers lost Johnny and they have to work hard just to support themselves. Some may say that the Socs struggle more, but they drove across town to start a rumble, & even though Bob was killed, he was killed in self-defense. Overall, the poor East-side kids struggled more than the rich West-side kids. Even if the Socs did struggle, the book didn’t specifically state many of the struggles the Socs went through, while it showed many of the struggles the Greasers went through