Examples Of Prejudice In The Outsiders

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” by Oscar Wilde. Your identity is who you are. You don't need to be someone else, you can be who you want to be . Putting on a mask and pretending to be someone else isn’t always the right way. In today’s society this is very common in many people. Prejudice and Stereotypes are causing this false action. When people look at each other, they automatically judge. People will preconceive you and not know the true facts. An example of prejudice is in the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. There are the Greasers and the Socs. They have a rivalry. They don't really have reason for it though. The two groups criticized each other and did not have the true facts. At the end of the novel, both of the

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