Summary: The Outsiders

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Did you know that there are 1.4 million active gang members in the U.S. In the book “The outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, the Greasers and the Socs are two gangs that involve many issues in their lives in terrible neighborhoods. The Greasers and the Socs are enemies but share things in common. Both the Socs and Greasers deal with parenting issues, money problems, and they both struggle with bad health decisions. The Greasers and the Socs struggle with issues from their parents. “ They may feel as though they are unimportant in their own world and join a gang because they need identity”. This quote from from, “The Allure of Gangs”, shows that Johnny’s parents made him feel unimportant by not paying attention to him. This also states that Johnny joined …show more content…
“...they had a 45 percent greater rate of problems resulting from alcohol and marijuana use and a 40 percent higher level of actual use of those substances”. This restatement from, “ Cool at 13, Adrift at 23” states that may kids, even kids in gangs, make many bad decisions that can harm their bodies. Moreover, it can harm them if they smoke a lot like Ponyboy smokes about a pack of cigarettes a day and eat chocolate cake every morning, which is his decision. “...and would testify that the Socs were drunk and looking for a fight…”. This quote from “The Outsiders” chapter 6 page 86, shows that you can even get yourself killed, like what happened to Bob. To add, doing drugs or anything that can harm your body, can get very worse. In conclusion. Both gangs have great struggles in bad health choices that affect them in many ways. To conclude, although both gangs, the Greasers and the Socs, struggle with may things, such as parenting issues, money problems and bad health decisions. Both gangs put themselves in trouble in each of those reasons. They can achieve not doing those any more by stopping. It’ll be hard, but things that are worth doing are often not
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