Why is it important to have a functioning society?My understanding of a functioning is when everyone helps each other out. It is our responsibility to maintain a functioning society so that our environment is clean and so we can have a safe society. My first reason as to why it is our responsibility to maintain a functioning society is so that our environment stays clean. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, we see an example of this page 172 , when it says “I didn’t know what he was talking about, so i just went on picking up the glass from the bottle end and put it in the trash can.” This quote shows that Ponyboy was picking up the glass and putting it in the trash can. I choose this quote because if Ponyboy would have left the
