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Summary: The Outsider

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Would you rather follow people that you don’t fully believe in, and mask what you really feel, or stand out from the crowd and be an individual even without others by your side? How about you lead that crowd. When you follow the Crowd, sometimes it isn’t something you completely, 100% believe in. So why would you want to pretend to be something you aren’t? Do you really need praise from others to feel like you are an important individual. You can do something you believe in. If you are an individual you can be unique, and be one of a kind. If you are following the crowd, your creativity will burn out; you will lose it. We all have greatness within us. Being an individual is more important than following the crowd, because you can be your own person when you are being an individual. Just imagine you are looking at a horde of people, all lined up …show more content…

The book, The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton, is about a fight between the wealthy kids and the poor kids. The poor kids are a gang called the Greasers, and the rich kids were called the Socs. Even though they fight, they still can still love, they can still think their own thoughts, and they are still themselves, even if they were hardened from jail or from being jumped so often. Dally tells Ponyboy that if he gets tough nothing can hurt him. The way of the greaser is to have your hair overly greased. Randy talks to Ponyboy about the rumble that will occur some 9-11 hours thereafter. Randy claims he doesn’t believe in fighting, but he is still participating in the rumble just to be a Soc and stay with the Soc ways. This is considered as following the crowd, he is doing something he doesn’t believe in which is a downside of following the crowd. Dally tells Pony to get tough, but Pony refuses, a sign of being an individual. If Randy were to tell the Socs he wasn’t participating in the rumble, he would feel so much better, because he didn’t have to do something he didn’t want

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