Why People Join Groups In The Outsiders

After reading, “Rest in Peace, Doc,” and,” The Outsiders,” I learned that people, (especially younger adults) join gangs for a spectrum of reasons. Furthermore, some may join because they have limited life options or they may join because they want to. Whatever the reason is, no matter what, it is an illogical decision to join a gang. People in,” The Outsiders,” joined for a few different reasons. One example is,a partly main character, Steve, joined from peer-pressure. On page nine, it states that,”He was cocky, smart, and Soda’s best friend.” If Soda was in the gang before Steve was, Steve probably wanted to be like Soda and/or, Soda pressured him into becoming a Greaser. In addition, a character in,” The Outsiders,” named Two-Bit, joined for the adrenaline rush or the adventure of it. On page ten in the book, the text states,”... and he was always smarting off to the cops.” This meaning, he always liked to be on the very edge of getting in trouble with
For starters, in the first paragraph in,”Rest In Peace, Doc,” the text stated this,” He was always respectful of others and he had only started hanging with the guys, I heard, because his parents had been beat up pretty bad by a rival gang just to disrespect them and he was hurt pretty bad in the incident.” This shows that people don’t always join for fun or the thrill, but for a sense of revenge and vengeance. “Doc,” (also known as Desi) probably wouldn’t have found himself within a gang if it weren’t for the other gang beating his parents up. For example, Desi were to get into a fist fight, face-to-face, he’d probably get really angry and beat up the other person out of rage. Kids don’t necessarily want to get into a gang, but when something bad happens to the or someone close to them, they make impulse decisions, that usually aren’t