Family Sticks Together In The Outsiders, By S. E. Hinton

Family sticks together Have you ever stopped and thought about what everybody in the world has in common? Family is a very common thing. It could just be a group of people that you care about and love or it could just be a person. Family is always together and family never falls apart. Family is that one group that you love and worry about and it can be that one person. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton family is a very important thing. Family is the best blessing to have. The theme S.E Hinton talks about is family always sticks together. The theme that S.E Hinton talks about family always sticks together. Family always cares and helps each other no matter what happens. This theme is display in the beginning of the novel in the way Ponyboy , Sodapop ,and Darry are always there for each other. An example is when Ponyboy says “greasers are almost like a hood they steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations and have a gang fight once in a while (3).” What Ponyboy means by this is they are just like a family because they do everything together just like a family would do. They might look mean but they have love and care in their hearts and that

In the beginning of chapter 11 Ponyboy says, "Darry is a good guardian he makes me study and knows where I am and who I am with (165)”. The reason why this is a great example of the theme family sticks together is because the things Darry does for Ponyboy are things a parent would do. The next example of theme is when Ponyboy tells himself "Don't remember how Johnny was your buddy and don't remember that he didn't want to die (156)”. This is another example that also great because Ponyboy doesn’t want to remember but he knows in the inside that he does want to remember the good times with Johnny and even the bad ones. At the end of the outsiders the theme family always sticks together shows up a