Conflicts In The Outsiders

The novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a heart touching story about two rival gangs that are very, very different from each other and always fight. As fights get more serious a lot of life changing things start to occur. There are so many voices to be heard in this story, everyone has their own story to tell. This novel has so many things to tell the reader, but one of the main and most important ones shown by story clues and conflicts is ‘Family or the people that care about you will always be there for you no matter what. Family is always there for you, this is, not only true in the book, but also very true in real life, this is proven in many conflicts and story clues throughout the story. People who have read The Outsiders may not believe this point and say that not all the characters had a great family. But, family doesn’t have to mean your biological family, family is only made up of the people you care about and the people that care about you. This is demonstrated all over the novel, the characters refer to themselves as a gang but they all know, deep down inside, that they are a family. A conflict in the story proved this point very clearly. On page 175 this is what Dally did, “ Dally was having a hard time because his left arm was still in bad shape, “I ain’t now” “How” I managed to ask as the Soc I was fighting leaped on me and we rolled near Dally. “Talked to the nurse with Two-Bit’s switch. Don't you
Whenever you’re sad or mad, just think about the one thing you will always have and never loose, your own family. People say that you can’t choose your own family, but you actually can. The characters in The Outsiders also see this and they know that they have chosen the right family. This really is the most important theme in the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, people just have to see it in real life too, maybe they might also start to realize