The conflict between Darry and Ponyboy is aggravated by misunderstandings, just like that of Socs and Greasers. The other divided community in the story can be found in Ponyboy’s immediate family. This means that without the conflict, the individual members of the two gangs might go their own way. For example, the greasers live by a motto to “stick together” against the Socs. However, the story also shows how the two groups depend on their conflict for their continual existence. In the conflict between the teenagers and their gangs, the novel shows how the two groups focus on their frivolous differences – they dress differently, socialize differently, and hang out with different girls, and how all this leads to hate and violence.
However, we are going to explore only empathy, divided communities, preserving childhood innocence, self-sacrifice and honour, and individual identity.ĭivided communities are a major theme of the novel as the story revolves around two major conflicts, which are- the conflict between the Socs and greasers and the conflict between Ponyboy and his brother Darry in the Curtis family. There are many themes that can be found in the novel ‘ The Outsiders‘.
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