“Trouble is a part of your life- if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.” (Shore, Dinah) In the book, The Outsiders, there are two gangs:the Greasers and the Socs; they both struggle in the book by making many different sacrifices. There is clear evidence that the Greasers had much more trouble in their life than the Socs because they had all the hard breaks and had to make personal sacrifices. Anyone can believe that the Greasers, the kids without resources but with friends struggle more or less than the Socs, the kids that are filthy rich but have no real friends. Be strong and clear. Outline two areas of evidence you will present. Because of the sacrifices and violence they made, they were exposed to the “Greasers” struggled more than the “Socs.”
The Greasers have life worst than the Socs because they all have to make personal sacrifices. Darry has to work two jobs and give up his college scholarship to keep his younger brothers together as a family (Hinton, S.E). This shows that some Greasers made personal sacrifices to …show more content…
The Socs frequently find themselves in fights in fights or rumbles where they are being beaten by the Greasers (Hinton, S.E). This is not accurate evidence of their struggle because the Socs are driving across town just to start the fights. This really shows that the Greasers have learned they must stay together to defend themselves. A Soc, named Bob, was stabbed to death by a greaser named Johnny (Hinton, S.E). This does not show that the Socs struggle more because the Socs had first picked the fight with the Greasers. Additionally, Johnny had only attacked Bob in the first place because he was trying to drown his friend, Ponyboy. The Socs struggle in their own way, but the Greasers they try to stay away from all the violence but it never works because the Socs call it upon themselves to trouble the