Family In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

In the novel the Outsiders written by S.E Hinton, family is a very important theme. The greasers have no family but they consider themselves as one. Family is important because people need someone to look up to and in the outsiders the greaser the greasers look up to is Darry, who is a farther figure. Ponyboy and Sodapop are brothers with Darry so for them two they don’t feel they have a parent because to them Darry is just a brother. Dally is a lonely person but about the same age as Darry but Dally doesn’t look up to Darry, the only person who dally cares about is Johnny. Johnny is the most loved and respected person in the gang. Johnny has actual parents but they abuse him so they mean nothing to him and the gang feel bad for him because no other gang member has family and if they did they would want parents that cared, so to them they think Johnny’s parents are a disgrace.
How is family important to the Curtis family? When the parents of the Curtis family died Darry the oldest son of three took over the responsibility to look after two teenagers. Darry and pony boy most of …show more content…
Dally is the loneliest person in the greaser gang because he does not have family and does his own thing with no one else. When the church caught on fire Dally did not save the kids but he was there to save Johnny. Johnny's life is so prechess to him that he doesn't think he can live without him. When Johnny died Dally could not take it because Johnny was all the family he had and he thought if he never told them to stay at the church he would not have died also Dally thinks that if Johnny had have been a hard as him this accident would not have occurred. "I was crazy, you know that, kid? Crazy for wantin' Johnny to stay out of trouble, for not wantin' him to get hard. If he'd been like me he'd never have been in this mess." (9.106). therefore, even if Dally were alive he would not have lived a great life because there would have been no one for him to talk