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Assess The Significance Of The Title 'The Outsiders'

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The significance of the book’s title. The title “The Outsiders” helps support the theme of the story. Throughout the book I found out the working class kids (Greasers) ranged against middle and upper-class kids (Socs). This is the main conflict that makes the novel move forward as it leads Johnny and Ponyboy to run from the law after killing a Soc. For that reason this title refers to the way in which the Greasers are the outsiders of the novel. As Ponyboy reveals, when there is trouble, it is always the Greasers that are treated bad by society and this makes them the outcasts. The Socs, Ponyboy says, "get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next” (Hinton 4).The Greasers are consider the outcasts of society and blamed for every wrong. However, the significance of the title grows when Ponyboy realizes how similar Socs and Greasers are. Through his friendship with Cherry and the conversations he has with other Socs, he comes to realize that in many ways they are very similar, although they are from different backgrounds, and that the Socs might also experience the feeling of being outsiders as well. …show more content…

One night this become more complicated, after Ponyboy and Johnny hang out with two Social girls they met at the movies, after that they fall asleep in the vacant lot in their neighborhood for a while, and Pony gets home late. Darry, who is worry about his brother, hits him and Pony runs out of the house. Johnny and Pony go to the park to calm Pony down, and they're attacked by a car full of Socs. One of them almost drowns Pony in a fountain. While Johnny, who was already beaten severely by the Socs, stabs and kills Bob. Johnny and Ponyboy hide in an abandoned church out of town. From then on things become way more

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