Who's To Blame In The Outsiders

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Who’s to blame? The Socs or Greasers?

Butterfly effect ‘the idea, used in chaos theory, that a very small difference in the initial state of a physical system can make a significant difference to the state at some later time:’ which is what is true in The Outsiders by S.E Hinton. This book is about two different cliques, the Greasers and the Socials and how they have bad blood against each other. Both gangs face challenges which lead to bigger predicaments that could either be life or death. The story is told from the point of view of a Greaser named Ponyboy. In the novel, The Outsiders, much of the turmoil and conflict in the community is caused by the Socials. The Socs are a very hostile towards the Greasers, which is the start of many …show more content…
One example of that is that the Socs were unintentionally the blame of a death of a Soc named Bob. Johnny and Ponyboy were minding their own business when the Socs came to their territory, drunk might I add. The Socs were more aggressive than they normally are ‘I’m drowning, I thought they’ve gone too far’(56). Which is what Pony thought before he was unconscious. Then when Pony woke up, he found Bob dead. Johnny killed Bob from protection as stated in the book ‘They were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you” ’(57). The evidence shows that Johnny only killed Bob out of defense and protection for Pony. Also if the Socs haven’t attacked them on their turf, then that situation would have been avoided. Pony and Johnny wouldn’t even be planning to run away. Not only were the Socs the cause of the death of Bob they were also the indirectly the cause of Johnny’s death. Johnny’s death was because of third degree burns from a fire. A fire which had happened in a church where Pony and Johnny were hiding since they have run away from their hometown. Johnny and Pony ran away because of the crime that Johnny has done and Pony have witnessed, since they were so young they decided to ‘Get somewhere. Run away’(57). So they don’t get caught by the
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