The Outsiders

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In the novel The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is an excellent story

about the hardships and triumphs experienced by the Greasers and the Socs, two

rival gangs. This novel suggests the stories' content because the Greasers are

a gang of social outcasts and misfits. This novel's theme is very specific;

people, no matter what their social background, strive for the same goals and

experience the same disappointments. This novel shows this theme throughout a

detailed story line.

Ponyboy, the main character, lives with his brothers as a

greaser. One day Ponyboy and Johnny, Ponyboy's best friend, get jumped by a

group of Socs. The Socs start to drown Ponyboy in a fountain. Johnny,

realizing they might kill Ponyboy, kills Bob, one of the Socs with his

switchblade. Johnny and Ponyboy run to a fellow Greaser, Dally, who is always

in trouble

with the law. Dally helps them by giving them some money, a gun,

and a place to hide. They hide in a church outside of town for a week until

Dally says it's okay to come out. They go out to eat and when they get back to

the church they find it burning. When they see that there are kids inside and

the fire could have been started by their cigarettes, they run inside to save

the kids. Johnny and Dally are hurt in the fire and taken to the hospital.

They are hailed as heroes in the local paper. Dally breaks out of the hospital

to fight in a rumble against the Socs. While the Greasers beat the Socs,

Johnny dies in the hospital. When Dally finds out he goes out and robs a

grocery store. When the cops pull up he pulls out an empty gun so the cops

shoot him.

The theme of this novel is that all people are set back at times and

they all want the same basic things. This theme is expressed in the novel

several times. Disappointments are shown