Two Groups In The Outsiders

In many situations there are groups or opposing sides, but there might be characters who don’t fit in either of the groups. The outsiders. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton there are two groups, the Greasers and the Socs. Characters fit in these two categories, but there is also a hidden category, the outsiders. This is a category where characters who don’t truly fit in the groups of the Greasers and the Socs go. However, there are rarely any outsiders, they are special characters. I believe Ponyboy Curtis, Sherri Valance, and Johnny Cade all lie in this secret category. PonyBoy and Johnny are both technically classified as Greasers. However, they are different from Greasers. For example, in the text Soda chants, “I am a Greaser. I am