For The Outsiders, I picked out two main themes. The first, which is shown throughout the entire plot, is that no matter how different we may seem from each other, we’re all just human and looking for a place to belong. This shown through both the Socs and greasers-- more specifically, Bob and Johnny. I used them as my example for the Parts to a Whole assessment, but I’m going to use them again. So with Johnny and Bob, they seem like complete polar opposites; one’s a Soc with parents that spoil him, and the other is a greaser with abusive parents that don’t pay attention to him. On page 116, Randy says to Ponyboy (referring to Bob) that “he kept trying to make someone say ‘no’ and they never did. They never did. That was all that he wanted”.
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On pages 178 and 179, Johnny described the poem as talking about how “you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold.” Johnny was telling Ponyboy to continue to see things with new eyes and to their full potential. I think that another theme for The Outsiders was also to see people to their full potential too. On page 118, after talking with Randy, Ponyboy defends him when talking to Two-Bit by saying “he ain’t a Soc. He’s just a guy”, which made me, as a reader, realize that this could be a turning point for Pony. And even after that, we continue to see Ponyboy viewing the Socs as just guys and not total bitter enemies anymore by him continuously asking himself “why do I fight?” before The Big Rumble with the Socs. And my final example for this theme is how much each of the characters changed in the story; for example, Darry. At the beginning of the book, Pony referred to Darry as his annoying and mean older brother that’s constantly nagging on him, but towards the end, Pony and Darry’s relationship started to get better by the two finally listening and communicating with each other, and Pony seeing Darry finally as a friend rather than a foe. And since the book is told from Ponyboy’s perspective and will be slightly biased to his opinion on
On pages 178 and 179, Johnny described the poem as talking about how “you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold.” Johnny was telling Ponyboy to continue to see things with new eyes and to their full potential. I think that another theme for The Outsiders was also to see people to their full potential too. On page 118, after talking with Randy, Ponyboy defends him when talking to Two-Bit by saying “he ain’t a Soc. He’s just a guy”, which made me, as a reader, realize that this could be a turning point for Pony. And even after that, we continue to see Ponyboy viewing the Socs as just guys and not total bitter enemies anymore by him continuously asking himself “why do I fight?” before The Big Rumble with the Socs. And my final example for this theme is how much each of the characters changed in the story; for example, Darry. At the beginning of the book, Pony referred to Darry as his annoying and mean older brother that’s constantly nagging on him, but towards the end, Pony and Darry’s relationship started to get better by the two finally listening and communicating with each other, and Pony seeing Darry finally as a friend rather than a foe. And since the book is told from Ponyboy’s perspective and will be slightly biased to his opinion on