Period-4 English HonorsLiterary Criticism: The OutsiderGreasers will be greasers and the Socs will still be the Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle who are really lucky. Throughout history and even today there has been and is a gap between rich and poor. When there are two different types of people living totally different lives, it is inevitable that there will be problems within society. The people who are in the middle and do not belong to any social class are the ones who live life in the best way because they do not face any problems. In the novel The Outsiders by SE Hinton the theme of the gap between rich and poor is revealed, the two different social classes the Socs who are rich and the Greaters who are poor. The Outsider is told in the first person by Ponyboy, who is a Greaser. In the novel there are two social classes: the Greasers and the Socs. The Greasers come from a poor background and are not very rich. Then there are the Socs which is short for Socials, they are the rich kids from the West side. The main characters in this novel include Ponyboy Curtis who narrates the book, Darrel "Darry" Curtis, and Sodapop Curtis who are Ponytail's brothers. Other Greasers in the book are Two-Bit Matthews who is the wild card of the group, Steve Randle who is Sodapop's best friend, Dallas "Dally" Winston who is the toughest kid in the Greasers group, and Johnny Cade who has abusive, alcoholic parents. who don't take care of him. Johnny is sensitive and nervous. So, the older kids in the group usually took care of him, especially Dally. The last Greaser is Sandy who has no voice in the book and usually gets brought up when kids talk about her, she So...... middle of paper ...... I recommend this book because out of the ordinary many books I have, this is one of my favorites. This book has been accredited not only by me but also by famous organizations, for example the National Observer said: “What it is like to live alone, unwanted and cornered by circumstances… There is rawness and violence here, but also a honest hope. Another example is the Chicago Tribune which stated “Tense with tension, full of drama”. This book concerns the world and the life especially of teenagers because today there are social classes such as the popular kids, the cool ones and the nerds. All of these groups have their own social status and don't relate to each other much like the Greasers and Socs didn't relate to each other much. Then there are some people like Ponyboy who are part of a certain group but don't fit in because they are different and themselves or an outsider.