Able To Stay Together In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

What would you do if the one thing that made a group stay together left? What if that group was a family of outcasts,or ”hoodlums” that their society blames them for. Would that group be able to stay together? That group of “Misfits” would be able to stay together after losing the thing that kept them together. Even though they lost a loved one,they would still do anything for one another like backing each other up without a second thought.While reading The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the death of Johnny formed the question about whether or not the gang would be able to stay together.The death of Johnny made me believe that the bond of the gang was stronger then before. Like choosing to back up each other whenever needed, helping each other when …show more content…
Most groups have something they can relate with so they can communicate better, for the gang they are all greasers and have to watch out for each other. With this bond that they all share the gang can communicate better, but without Johnny it messes up the balance, or so we thought.With this the group would be able to stay together because even with Johnny, they would do anything to help one another, even if they get hurt themselves. Everyone that fits into the greaser category no matter where, has a strong disliking towards the Socs. If the Socs jumped someone from the group, the gang would retaliate back for each other. For example, in the quote it explains how the gang will back each other up even if it means that they could might get injured. When the Socs confronted Ponyboy because of his involvement in Bob’s death, Steve and Two-Bit would’ve went to back him up no matter what would’ve happened. I guess they knew I meant business, because they got into their car and drove off. “You really would have used that bottle, wouldn’t you?” Two-Bit had been watching from the store doorway. “Steve and me were backing you, but I guess we didn’t need to. You’d have really cut them up, huh?” (The Outsiders page 171). Without a doubt in this predicament the gang showed that they aren’t afraid to fight for one another, and would help the others without a second thought, even if it means that they are blindly running into …show more content…
It’s one thing to have a person you really care about get seriously injured, but if you learn about their death while you weren’t there it or don’t know about it, it stings even more. Even though they had just learned about Johnny’s death, they would still all run out to assist one another like they did for Dally. As everything unfolded about Johnny, the group all ran out to assist Dally after they had been informed about what he had done. “Johnny... he’s dead.” My voice sounded strange, even to me...“It was Dally. He phoned from a booth. He’s just robbed a grocery store and the cops are after him. We gotta hide him. He’ll be at the lot in a minute.” We all left the house at a dead run, even Steve, and I wondered vaguely why no one was doing somersaults off the steps this time (The Outsiders, Page 153). This quote showed how Johnny’s death affected all of them, right before this they were all super pumped about the rumble and after they got informed about Johnny none of them was as excited as they were while going to the rumble. Because of the news that people had learned about Johnny, they were shocked, but they all still try to help Dally, who cared about Johnny more then all of them. When they were told about Johnny they had this dead silence, I would