Loyalty, it’s not just a word, No it is a lot more than that. Throughout the book the outsider’s loyalty is something that holds many strong and lasting friendship together. You need someone throughout your life that has your back. Someone there for you when you mostly wish for it. Loyalty is something that changes PonyBoy Through this piece and makes him see from different angles of life.
Flying down the high way of the outsiders you soon feel and believe that PonyBoy doesn’t want to be in a gang. He doesn’t want that pressure or that commitment. He is in the gang because he seeks belonging somewhere where people are loyal to him as he is back. “Here are just small groups of friends who stick together, and the warfare is between the social classes.” PonyBoy and his gang that he is in (the greasers) formed it for security and to protect the members involved. Gang is like family they support each other. Without each other you won’t achieve much without you them. “Since Mum and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of use only get to stay together only as long as we behave. So Soda and I stay out trouble as much as we can.” Reading this you soon find out the greasers have it really tough. They use their love to keep them alive. Would you run away with you closest friend if he did something horrible? As much PonyBoy didn’t want to run away, He had to. Even though PonyBoy didn’t do anything wrong he was loyal. Johnny didn’t do anything as well. "So Cherry Valance, the cheerleader, Bob's girl, the Socs, was trying to help us” From this you can take out that Cherry was also trying to be supportive of the situation PonyBoy and Johnny were both in. Cherry was loyal to everyone that was respectful to her. From what happened in Lot, she testified. Because she knew that was right. "Randy was supposed to be too cool to feel anything, but there was pain in his eyes." In this part of the book it is an emotional rollercoaster for everyone.