The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a book where there is a lot of hate, and throughout the book there is a lot of hate and at the end of the book S.E. Hilton shows there is love and empathy behind the hate. Quotation from the page: "I didn't know that" Randy looked worried, he really did. A Soc, even, worried because some kid greaser was on his way to a foster home or something. That was really funny. I don't mean funny. You know what I mean(141). This shows that the theme of this book is that love and empathy is over hate because the same person that got their close friend killed by Ponyboy's close friend is still showing empathy and brotherly love to what was called the opposition. In conclusion, there are many ways that even the opponent shows brotherly love to the greasers just as football players show respect to the other team in handshake time, even though just moments ago before the game ended they were trying to tackle each others brains out.…show more content… Mike tells all his troubles to his computer journal, and best friend Nate. He contends with his parents' divorce and a disinterested, selfish, crisis father. Then there's "The Girl," Gina, who he has known for years and has fallen in love with. Michael rescues Gina from Hunk at the Pizza place, after getting in trouble for drinking. Gina goes with doesn't even dance with Michael at the dance and pays him no attention. Duke dies, but when he died, he left 30,000 dollars for Michael to get a good
