Theme Of Loyalty In The Outsiders

In the novel of The Outsiders the presence of showing loyalty is stronger than the loss of child innocence because it showed more signs of loyalty than loss of child innocence here’s why. Although the greasers are “almost like hoods” who constantly run afoul of the law, stealing cars, holding up gas stations and fighting. They exhibit loyalty which made them almost as close as brothers which sets them apart from the Socs. In Chapter 7, Two-bit and Steve walk into the Curtis home, and Ponyboy mentions that Darry always kept the front door unlocked in case any members of the gang needed a place to spend the night because Darry doesn’t want any of his friends to get into trouble, so he opens the door to his home for them to relax and composed …show more content…
When you're in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering pack like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.” Pony proves his own point at home. When he and Darry start to lose loyalty to one another, their home becomes a place of argument, anger and mistrust. In the beginning of Chapter 1 Pony says, “the three of us only get to stay together only as long as we behave. So Soda and I stay out of trouble as much as we can.” This shows that if they weren’t behaving well enough they would’ve been in a foster home already. So, Ponyboy and his family are loyal to one another so that they can be together. During the fountain scene in Chapter 4, Johnny says, “I had to. They were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you. And they had a blade. they were gonna beat me up..” They were outnumbered, Johnny could’ve just run away and left Ponyboy but instead, he did a very brave thing, he saved Ponyboy by killing Bob with a switchblade. When the abandoned church on top of Jay Mountain caught on