Stay Young In The Outsiders

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I have looked around and noticed that children are treated poorly. I have noticed that when kids are treated poorly or abandoned they grow up faster and have to care and do things on their own. Kids these days see a collection of terrible and awful conditions in this world, so without guidance they just follow the crowd because they don’t know better. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the problem of growing up too fast is awfully terrifying. It shows us how children always will need a insufficient bit of guidance along the way. People judge others on the way they act even when they know nothing about them. This is mentioned in the novel The Outsiders when ‘’Dally had been arrested he got drunk, he rode in rodeos,
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This is mentioned in the novel when Ponyboy asks the gang, “how come you like fights?”(133).The gang likes to fight because that's all they know and that's all they think is right. They have no one to tell them differently. If they had some guidence things might have ended up differently. Another way the gang portrays growing up too fast is when Johnny asks the gang “ am I sick?” (155) Johnny has only the gang he doesn't have anyone else that truly cares for him and actually loves him. The Greasers only have each other they don’t have anybody but each other. The theme from the book The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton is some children are forced to grow up too fast. Today people in society don't really understand what kids these days actually have to go through. This relates to the theme because the greasers have it hard; they have no one to care for them except for themselves and the gang. It’s not okay for people to think differently about someone before getting to know them. To conclude, children are forced to grow up too fast. Don’t consider that the greasers have it easy at home. You should try walking in someone else's footsteps before you say, think, or do anything. Also You need to realize how much guidance one person has before judging

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