What Are The More Struggles In The Outsiders

Cherry says, ‘’I’ll tell you something, Ponyboy, and it may come to you as a surprise… Things are rough all over.’’ ( Hinton 34-35). The novel The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is about how Ponyboy and Johnny kill a Socs named Bob and they go to Dally for help. S.E. Hinton’s theme of ‘’Things are rough all over’’ is evident in the struggles Greasers and Socs face. However, the Greasers face more struggles than the Socs because they live in poverty, they have very little education, and the Socs get all the breaks. The most important difference is that the Greasers live in poverty, while the Socs are rich. Pony says, ‘’We’re poorer than the Socs and the middle class.’’ (Hinton 3). This shows that Soda drops out to work and pay bills. And that they …show more content…
This also proves that Soda dropped out of school to work for more money. Soda drops out of school that is why they have very little education. Finally, the Socs get all the breaks because they do not have to worry about money and their parents always help them out when they are in trouble. For example, Randy tells Pony that the fighting does not matter because the Socs will ‘’... still be the lucky ones with all the breaks.’’ (Hinton 117). This concludes that the Socs get the breaks because the Greasers get blamed for it when they did not do anything and the Socs did it. This also concludes that the Greasers have a difficult life because when the Socs start a food fight in the cafeteria they blame the Greasers. Therefore, the Greasers struggle more than the Socs because they get in trouble with the law a lot and not the Socs. In The Outsiders both the Greasers and the Socs struggles support the theme that ‘’things are rough all over’’, but the Greasers struggle