The Outsiders Research Paper

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“Things are rough all over.” The book The Outsiders is about a group of teenagers that go by the name Greasers and another gang of upper class kids called the Socials. When two greasers named Ponyboy and Johnny get into a fight with some Socs. One of the Socs dies, Making the two boys go into hiding. Ponyboy and the rest of the gang must take on the outcome of the death of that Socs in their brutal lives. In the book The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton contains person vs. person and person vs. society conflict.
A example of person vs person would be when Johnny was jumped by a few Socs a few week earlier. After the fight Johnny was very badly bruised and hurt but also he was very shaken up. Johhny even starts to carry a six inch pocket blade

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