Importance of Family and Stereotypes

Author’s Note: I am going to be writing about the importance of family and stereo types.

In the glorious book, The Outsiders by the author of S.E. Hinton, there was a gang, or group of people named the Greasers. These groups of people have jailbirds, stealers, killers, and many other kinds of personalities. But, this group also has scholars, protectiveness, and caring, respectful people in this group. They all care for each other; just they all show it in different ways.

When these Greasers hangout it possibly could come to troubles within themselves. Most Greasers don’t do anything as horrible as killing people, but you never know. Although most Greasers aren’t educated, they can all be street smart, instead of book smart. A few people that are actually book smart are Johnny, who is 16 and normally quiet around everyone, and Ponyboy, who is 14 and loves to read.

Out of the whole gang of Greasers, there are smaller gangs inside of it. One group in particular has mostly brothers or really great friends. These Greasers names are Dally, Two-Bit, Steve, Johnny, Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy. There are three brothers in this gang; Darry, Sodapop and Ponyboy. Even though they are all fantastic friends, they’re more like family.

When the tragedy of Johnny murdering Bob struck, all hecks broke loose after that. Ponyboy and Johnny had to run away so they wouldn’t be put in jail, but then they got hurt from saving children from a church that had caught on fire. When Ponyboy and Johnny became injured, the crew became closer, or more caring.

Then when Johnny and Dally died, they were all disturbed over everything. So yes, even Greasers can feel/have emotions and act just like any other person would. Greasers are just like people, but no one realizes this. Everyone expects the Greasers to be poor, unattractive, greasy, rough/dangerous, and get in a hassle with the cops a lot. No one expects Greasers to be educated, compassionate/gentle, and doesn’t get into trouble many times. People can be what you don’t expect of them, and that’s just how some of the Greaser’s are. It’s their own personalities, no one else’s.

People named the Greasers, was a group or gang that always hung out together. Some groups were jailbirds, or stealers. Other groups were more like family; which I thought they had better personalities that way. In the book “The Outsider” by the author of S.E. Hinton, it discusses the hard core life of being a greaser.