Unveiling Layers: Societal Struggles in 'The Outsiders'

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S.E. Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders, is a story about a series of struggles and conflicts in a community in which people have been divided into two groups, the Socs and the Greasers, that are poised against each other. The tension reaches a level so high that one of the main characters, Johnny, kills a Soc to save his friend Ponyboy from drowning. This causes them to have to hide in the country until the pursuit dies down. One of the many things I learned from this is novel is that people have much more to them than what is on the surface, such as the Socs Cherry and Marcia. They are classified as mean, but they are really no different from greaser girls. Another thing I learned from this story is that a mix of emotions can lead to more trouble …show more content…

There was always a certain level of tension in my class, and bullying broke out when that tension reached unsafe levels. Why people decided to break up into groups, I do not understand, but it happened nonetheless, and caused people to get treated unfairly. Of course, some people were worse than others, and most people who bullied were the worse of the group. Of course, the use of a mobile device caused problems that were much worse. Some Insiders were such cowards that they could not say what they wanted to say in person, so they implemented Social Media in order to get their messages through. This was probably the worse of the problems, because even the harshest of things could be said undercover, and the authority figures would not be able to find out about the things that were said. I learned a number of lessons from these experiences. One lesson I learned is that just because someone makes fun of you does not mean they are a bad person at heart. There were several people in my class who were Insiders and they would act inappropriately but when I saw them outside of school, they would not be mean or

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