The Outsiders Character Analysis

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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is filled with conflicts, but not all of them are clear. Character vs character is obviously very clear, but that is not the only conflict. There are obviously several types of conflicts that characters in The Outsiders have faced, whether they were internal or external.
The book The Outsiders is in Ponyboy Curtis’s perspective so his conflicts are very clear. Ponyboy faced many different conflicts in his life, whether they were character versus nature, character versus self, or character vs character. One of the main conflicts in Ponyboy’s life was Character vs character. In the book The Outsiders there are two main stereotypes of people: The Greasers,who were known as the hoodlums with greasy hair, and The Socs,the

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