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Themes In The Outsiders

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‘The writer chooses themes that are relevant to the younger audience.’ This is true and false. Some of the themes in ‘The Outsiders’ by S.E. Hinton are completely relevant to the younger audience and others are only relevant to a small part of teenagers. Themes that are chosen include violence, conflict, society, class and love. Conflict is relevant to most of the younger audience. Violence might only be relevant to teenagers who have a violent family. Society and class is relevant to only some of the younger audience and some adults. Love is definitely relevant to all people. Violence and conflict was investigated in The Outsiders, specifically on pages 6 “pulled a knife out of his back pocket and flipped the blade open” ,13 “ In New York Dally blew off steam in gang fights”and 62 “I shouted. Darry wheeled around and slapped me so hard that it knocked me against the door.” Self conflict was shown when Ponyboy expressed how he felt about himself (pg. 23) “I lie to myself all the time but I never believe me.” Violence is not as relevant today because there is now less racial and less violence against women and homosexuals. Since it is illegal to discriminate especially violently. Conflict is definitely relevant because there are still younger people who are just discovering what they like and don’t like and that creates conflict because not …show more content…

2,3.) This theme is not relevant to the majority of the younger audience. Unless you live in an undeveloped country you could be treated equally and be proud of who you are without judgement. Since it is almost 50 years after this book was wrote things have

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