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Thomas Aquinas The Outsiders
Thomas Aquinas once said: “There is nothing on this earth more prized than friendship.” In another manner, it’s saying that friends will always have your back. They will always love you through thick and thin. Aquinas’s proposal is remarketing true to his novel The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton. The Greasers, the so called town calls them, are an asset as a bunch of roughneck hoodlums. Ponyboy Curtis; Sodapop Curtis; Darrel ‘Darry’ Curtis; Dallas ‘Dally’ Winston; Keith ‘Two-bit’ Mathews are the asset group of this town. That gang is tough on the inside and outside. Friendship is the state of being friends. They’re not perfect and they make a lot of mistakes, but the make it through to each

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