In the first place if you always had to follow the rules how would you make a difference in this world? “All I could think was: We started it. We started it. We started it!” “I slammed a big rock …show more content…
In The Outsiders, it says “Randy’s not going to show up at the rumble. He’s not scared. He’s just sick of fighting.” Everyone told Randy in The Outsiders that he should fight, but he decided since he doesn’t have his buddy (Johnny) anymore he doesn’t want to fight and they can also get in trouble for having the fight. He also doesn't care much about the Socs anymore he just wants everything to be fine. In the book My Parents, he said “I feared the salt coarse pointing of those boys who copied my lisp behind me on the road.” When he said that doing what you are told vs doing your own thing shows the boys don’t care if they are being mean because they still wanted to do it even if it weren’t very nice. In another book One Flick of A Finger, it said the boy took the gun with him. He did it easily because his father was not paying attention. He didn’t care what his father said he just took the gun because it looked “cool” to the gang he wanted to be