Leadership Qualities In The Outsiders

Leadership qualities are hard to find in people. In the book The Outsiders Randy showed great leadership skills while he was talking with Ponyboy. Randy was shown in the story by trying to bridge the gap between the Greaser and the Socs by talking with Ponyboy. Randy associated with the Greasers by telling them his opinion of Bob’s death. Randy took the liberty of talking to the Greasers even though they are from different groups, and he made a connection with them. Randy showed plenty of leadership qualities in the book. Bridging the gap was shown when Randy was telling Ponyboy that he does not want to fight in the “rumble.” The Randy goes on to tell Ponyboy that Bob was a good person and he didn’t deserve to die, making Ponyboy understand the Socs’ loss. After Johnny killed Bob in the newspaper Randy admit to the crime it stated, “His buddy Randy Adderson...also said it was their fault and that we’d only fought back in self-defense,”(Hinton 107). This shows Randy had the leadership quality of honesty and he took responsibility for being a good reason why Johnny killed Bob. Another leadership quality was when Randy backed out of the rumble he said, “‘I’m not going to show up at the rumble tonight…’ ‘you can’t win, even if you whip us. You’ll still be where you were before--at the bottom…’ ‘Greasers will be greasers and Socs will be Socs. Sometimes I think the ones in the middle are the lucky
Even if everyone else is for something he has his own mind and goes against it. When he believed in something he chose to go with what he believed in and he chose to talk to Ponyboy. Randy has honesty, responsibility, he is empathetic, he has determination, and he has many other leadership qualities. These all relate to bridging the gap because he uses these traits and talks to Pony and says he is against the rumble and all the fighting. Even though leaders are hard to pick out, Randy is great