The Outsiders Blog 1 - Quarter 4 Blog 5

 After abandoning What is the What, I decided to read The Outsiders which is a book that I've been wanting to read for a while. What I've learned is that a 14 year old Greaser named Ponyboy grows up around his two brothers, Dallas and Sodapop, who raise him after his parents pass away in a car accident. But as well as his brothers raising him, he grows up around his other Greaser friends in their gang. The Greasers have a rivalry with the Socs who are the preppy and rich kids on the other side of town. But so far in the book, Ponyboy begins to question if he was meant to be with the Greasers and asks why he had to live in such an environment of constant fights and robbery all based on reputation.

One thing that stuck out to me was when Ponyboy was with Johnny and Two-Bit, members of the Greasers, went to a drive in and ran into a couple of girls. One of the girls, Cherry, began to understand Ponyboy's story and told him, "It's not just the money. Part of it is, but not all. You Greasers have a different set of values. You're more emotional. We're sophisticated-cool to the point of not feeling anything." This quote proves that it's sort of like a brother/sister relationship between the Greasers and the Socs. They are growing up around the same neighborhood but like a relationship between a brother and a sister, it has its significant differences. But at the end of the day it's not all that different. "Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset."