The novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton develops a theme that stereotypes do not always define the person that you are, but only by showing that as individuals we are capable of changing and going beyond people’s expectations, only then, it truly defines the person who you really are. Although Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are Greasers, they risk their lives to save kids from the abandoned burning church. Later on in chapter 6, pg.95, when Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are at the hospital, Jerry says to Ponyboy, “Mrs. O’Briant and I think you were sent straight from Heaven” and in that moment Ponyboy tries to explain to Jerry that he’s a hooligan, and he is someone that’s not worthy of such praise, and most people would look at him as
