The theme of social class that is talked about in the first chapter of The Outsiders is not too broad of a topic. Right off the bat the first thing that is talked about is home greasers can’t walk be themselves because they will get jumped by the socials. The socials are “west-side rich kids” and they are gang just like the greasers are (Hinton page 2). In this town what decided on which gang you were in was social class. If you lived in the rich side of town you were in the socials and if you were in the east side of town you were in the greasers. The greasers were “poorer than the socs and middle class” and this also shows you that the greasers lived in the hood that we called today and they were in the low class (Hinton page 2). Like I
