The Outsiders Book Report

Theme: The theme to me is There is no line that separates us. In the story The Outsiders the two main groups who are figuratively and literally on the opposite sides of town, the East side and the West side where the prime meridian of the city separates the Greasers and the Socs. When Pony and Johnny are at the movies and stop Dallas Winston from annoying the two Soc girls in front of them, the girls start to talk them and the boys realize that Socs aren’t very different from Greasers, besides the slicked back hair and the fancy blue Mustangs. Another example is Randy, he was a the right-hand man of the big Soc, Bob. Randy was a mean guy at the beginning of the story but as it progresses he starts to realize that just because of your parent(‘s)

I chose him because he showed everyone that it doesn’t take much to change who you are. Since he is a Soc he acted like a rich kid who is a jerk to anyone who isn’t his kind. He drove around in fancy Mustangs with his best friend Bob, but when Johnny stabbed Bob when they got in a fight at the park Randy changed. He changed into a better man, that better man became friends with the Greasers because he saw that they are much alike, they are all humans and live in the same town. He wanted peace in the feud between the two groups, but it didn’t work because it ended up in a rumble with the Greasers on one side and the Socs on the other side, Randy made his choice and and stood for the Socs one more time. After the rumble he was done he really wanted to change for good. Randy is a flat character he didn’t stand for much until the end after his best friend died. He is dynamic because he changed at the end of the book and became the person he was meant to

That conflict was Dally versus nature, but its was also against himself because he thought it was his fault for not stopping Johnny. Even though it’s not the biggest conflict it’s the greatest since it shows how depression and sadness can get the best of you. It’s so important because it shows that Dally was not just a brick wall but he was caring person, who showed loyalty. He said he became hard in jail, he really wasn’t because he showed that he really cared for Johnny when Johnny was dying. I said it was Dally versus nature versus himself because it was nature of things that took Johnny’s life, but it was really Dally versus himself for letting Johnny to go into the burning church. This conflict didn’t last because Dally cared too much for Johnny that depression got the best of him and it ended up taking his life. Dally knew that Johnny wouldn’t want him to kill himself for Johnny but he couldn’t control his emotions from taking over when Johnny had died. It was Dally that won in the end, but he didn’t win because he actually lost to