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How Does The Outsiders Change
In the novel The Outsiders Written by S. E. Hinton there is a constant war between the Greasers and the Socs. Two rival gangs constantly fighting because one group, the Socs are wealthy and the other group, the Greasers are poor. In the story the outsiders the characters Ponyboy, Johnny, Darry, Dally, Two-bit and Sodapop are all a part of the greasers. In the story all the characters change some way or another. This is how Darry changed as the story progressed. In the beginning of the story darry is constantly undermining ponyboy and acts like the leader of the group at all times. Darry also can get very easily angered as on page 50 he strikes ponyboy causing him to run away and start the main storyline. Later near the middle of the story

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