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Rivalry In The Outsiders
I read the Outsiders when i was fourteen years old.It’s about the rivalry between the greaser and the socs,the greaser are a group of boys who live in the poor part of town where as the socs are a gang that are from a wealthy part of town.much of the action in Outsider is driven by class conflict, the Greaser come from the economically struggling east side, which make them have to break the law in their favor that makes them perceive as hoodlums.Socs also break the law by stealing,jumping people but since they live on the west side they are still the good boys.

At first i thought that the outsider was just another book i had to read for a class project.I i'm not the biggest fan of books in general,the outsiders just seem not to interesting

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