The Outsiders By S.e Hinton
Have you ever been judged by people who don t really know who you are? Maybe it was because of
the way you looked, or your social class. This is a problem that occurs all too often, and it happens
everywhere. S.E Hinton, author of The Outsiders, noticed this happening in her own neighbourhood,
so she made this a huge part of the theme of her book. She wanted people to stop judging others
before they really knew who they were, and their life circumstances. In this book there are two main
social classes she focused on, the Socs, they were rich, and lived in the nice part of town, and the
Greasers, who were poor and didn t have a great place to live. This caused them to constantly have
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She doesn t want him to ruin her good reputation even though Cherry knows he s not bad, She knows
not everybody understands that. She is nervous that if she does hang out with Ponyboy, and the other
Greasers, her parents will get mad at her. Additionally, her friends will betray her. It is very unusual
for Socs to hang out with Greasers, especially if they are popular. Cherry is a cheerleader, and is one
of the most popular girls in their school. If anyone sees her hanging around the Greasers, all that could
change. One night Ponyboy, and another boy from the gang, Johnny, were in the park alone. Some
Socs pulled up in a fancy car. When the Socs came after Johnny and Ponyboy, Bob, a big time Soc,
said You know what a Greaser is...White trash with long hair. This makes Ponyboy mad, I felt the
blood draining from my face. I ve been cussed out and sworn at, but nothing ever hit me like that did.
Johnnycake made a kind of gasp and his eyes were smoldering. This is used to explain what Socs
really think of all of the Greasers. This is why it hurt Ponyboy so much. The Socs don t think twice
about who they really. They only know them as how they want to know them, dirt. Socs don t
understand how hard life is for them, and how some of them have to live. Most of the Greasers parents
don t even care about them. When Socs beat up Greasers, they think it makes them cool, however they
don t think about how it will
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