Essay Comparing The Running Dream 'And The Outsiders'

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Analyzing the the two books, The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen and The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, both contain social inequities. These novels consist of similarities and differences of the same idea, social discrimination, which branches off to judgment, social status, and displacement. The Outsiders and The Running Dream have characters and situations that include these inequalities.
To start off, Rosa from The Running Dream has cerebral palsy, a condition that causes damage to the brain, is treated differently than the other students at school. No one recognizes here because she sits in the back of the classroom, and no one can quite understand her because of her disorder. In The Outsiders, the greasers live at a lower class than the socs. They get judged by their hair and the way they dress, “My hair is longer than a lot of boys…(S.E. Hinton,1.) The difference between these two books is that in The Outsiders, there are others that are the same. That leads to having friends. Unfortunately, Rosa has very little friends, if even, because no one else shares with her the way she has to live. …show more content…
Cherry and Ponyboy go to the same school, but Cherry gives him a head up to not feel bad if she doesn't acknowledge him in the hallways. In The Running Dream, Rosa eats lunch in a classroom while doing work, and doesn't talk to other people in the hallways or classes. The only difference is that it changed for Rosa in other ways. “Hey, I know she’s hard to understand at first, I say keeping my voice down. ‘But that goes away…(Wendelin Van Draanen, 260.) Jessica made an effort to get to know Rosa, be her friend, and encourage others to look past her appearance and get to know her as a
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