Class Issues In The Outsiders

With all these class issues and social classes, there is bound to be competition someway, somehow and it never ends up too pretty either. Class issues play a big part in the book and movie, The Outsiders. These class issues in The Outsiders leads to a rough competition because the two gangs, Greasers and Socs, are completely opposite and believe there can only be one gang in the town. They hate each other and because of class issues the town looks down upon the Greasers and don’t mind the Socs. These problems were not just in The Outsiders but is also portrayed in the book and movie, To Kill a Mockingbird. The competition made from class issues in To Kill a Mockingbird is a court case between a black man that everyone loves and a white family
“I want to propose that the educational canonization of The Outsiders is enabled in part by the fact that, although it tantalizes audiences with the relativity rare acknowledgment of social classes as a problem.” (Tribunella). In The Outsiders, the main issue is between the Greasers and the Sons because of where they stand when it comes to their social classes. The Greasers are poor and wear leather jackets with jeans and slicked back hair. “The ‘popular kids’ run the school and mandate the status quo.” (Artifice). The Socs on the other hand are rich and wear their varsity jackets while sitting in fancy cars looking for a poor Greaser to jump. Class issues and social classes are also present in the book and movie To Kill a Mockingbird. The social class issues in this book/movie are between the black part of
In The Outsiders, the rumble the two gangs got into was the main point of them trying to end the competition between the Greasers and the Socs. None of them really think the rumble is a good idea but some of them are still excited for the rumble, but not all. “Before the rumble, Ponyboy has a private conversation with Randy, a Soc, who shares his belief that the rumble will not solve anything and he tells Ponyboy that he is chasing not to participate.” (Inderbitzin). The Greasers end up all beat up but they still win the rumble because the Socs were the first ones to run away during the rumble. The Greasers are happy and proud of themselves but they don’t know what to do next since there is more tension with the Socs but they might think the Socs will bother them less because of the fact that they beat him. The movie scene in To Kill a Mockingbird that portrays competition was when they were in the court room going through the case between Tom Robinson and The Ewells. “The visual language of the film thereby complicates and limits the story's popularly understood moral of progressive possibilities, illustrating an historically central weakness in national rhetoric surrounding arguments for racial equality” (Watson). Atticus was Tom Robinson’s lawyer and he ended up pointing out that it was impossible for Robinson to have done all those things to