Final Essay for the Outsiders

Stereotyping Epidemic
Authors Note: This piece is a reflection on the stereotyping in the book "The Outsiders" and how bad the effect is.   


“The Outsiders” is a book that depicts two sides of life you are a Greaser or a soc, and if you fall into a category you are immediately assumed to have the bad traits and all the good ones. In other words that’s just stereotyping. Maybe a greaser has money and can sustain they just choose to hang out and act different. Maybe a soc is poor and made friend with other socs and lives on the south side.


Where you live, how much money your parents have, and what you like shouldn’t play a roll whatsoever on how you are ranked socially in the community and how much respect you get. Those are things you can’t control and because of those people assume you have other traits that are bad that you can control when you are nothing like that.


This kind of stuff happens all over the place in schools, sports, and even adult work environments. When a football coach goes to pick a position he might look for someone tall and slim, but firmly built which are two thing genes control, but he stereotypes and thinks that he will be better than everyone else. Maybe the short weird looking kid has better skills, but you never gave him a chance because you stereotyped and it could cost you a bunch of games.


The girl who wrote the book had to have some experience of this happening to her or around her. The deep thought in the book about how the greasers can’t control. They get a bad rep about being thugs and criminals that just don’t care what happens to them. When really they care deeply about how people use the greasers like a doormat and stomp all over them because they are better at things no one can control.


Next time you think about judging someone from a different walk of life because they are short or their nose is weird, or whatever reason, you are hurting that persons feelings because of things they can’t control .That is ridicules, how would you feel if someone said you can’t because of things you can’t control/ fix you will never be able to do what you want because of height, or appearance if stereotyping continues.

What will arise

“The Outsiders” What will arise
The knowledge I’ve acquired from the book “The Outsiders” so far something big is going to happen to Johnny, Ponyboy, and probably Cherry. These three characters reach out to and hint me off the something big will happen between them they could change the views of each social group.

My first hint was when Johnny and Ponyboy sat next to Cherry and she didn’t reject them she welcomed them, and said “You two are too sweet to scare anyone.” That really showed me that she wasn't a normal soc she didn’t think that because they were greasers they were bad people she seemed to understand the whole situation. That led me to think that her a Ponyboy will fall in love because she really seems to like him.

Johnny is the one who killed Bob, but that was the guy who beat him up. That seems odd to me because the author made sure to mention it so it makes you think Johnny was thinking more about that than he was drowning Ponyboy. It makes me think something big will happen with Johnny he will get hurt or even die.

This book has some really suspicious hard prediction that you really need to pay attention to get. Cherry was nice unlike the other socs then at the end of chapter five she becomes a spy. If you didn't realize she was different than the other socs you would have thought nothing of it.