Heroes don't all have to be perfect. The Outsiders is a book about the Greasers and the Socs. The greasers are poor and not have all of their basic needs met as the Socs are rich and get everything thing they want. this starts a rivalry. S.E Hinton wrote The Outsiders when she was only 16 because she was a teenager it provides an accurate portrayal of what being a teenager was like in the 1960s. The book was based in the 1960s and took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In this book there is a lot to argue if the greasers should consider themselves heroes or villains. The greasers are heroes because they stand up for what they believe in, they risk their lives for others, each and every one of them has had to overcome hard challenges, and they help each other become stronger. The first characteristic that make one or more of the Greasers heroes is that they stand up for what they believe in the fourth chapter ponyboy says to the Socs. “You know what a Soc is? White trash with mustangs and Madras.”(page 55) this is an insult to the Socs because the Socs had been cussing out Ponyboy and Johnny for picking up their girls, and they were not ok with that. Ponyboy had gotten fed up that the Socs and …show more content…
They are heroes because they risk their lives to save other people’s lives. After Johnny, Ponyboy, and Darry went to eat then came back and heard screaming. Ponyboy ran out of the car into a burning church and Johnny followed, the started saving children from the church and then Dally came and helped Johnny and Ponyboy out. Afterwards at the hospital, Jerry Wood said, “I think you were sent straight from heaven. Or are you just professional heroes or something”(page 81) Ponyboy and Jerry Wood was talking about how Dally Johnny and Ponyboy all risked their lives to save children from a burning fire, that is heroic. The courage it takes to run into a burning building is