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Love In Hinton's The Outsiders
Love can be thought of as your own conscious, there is a good side and a bad side. While being adored and admired is a great feeling to have we also can also feel hurt and upset if somebody shows it in a way that we are unaware love is being show. There are people in this novel who do not know how to show love in 'right' way. The truth is, there is no right way to show love Darry loved Ponyboy with all his heart but showed it through expectations and rules, Dally had done a lot of things wrong in his past but the one thing he did right was love Johnny and tell him that. Last but not least, the greasers make us view the Socs as a nightmare but in reality, they are only humans who experience love and hate, who have lost and grieve everyday over

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