Authors Note~ This is a piece I had to write for LA it is describing one of the themes in the book The Outsiders . The theme I am writing about is defying stereotyping.
My name? Ponyboy a.k.a. Greaser. My story well that’s something more complex. As I was growing up I never really had parents. Of course I had "family", but no mom or dad to love me and be proud of me when I came home from school with a good grade. Instead I had my older brother Darry. I know that he only wants the best for me and he wants to make sure I am save, but when you run around this town with the word greaser written across your face it is hard to stay save. That’s why us greaser have to stick together. What I have always been wondering though, what makes us different from everyone else why are we the outsiders? Is it the way we comb our hair, or possibly the leather jackets? I think it's the jackets. Well what does that exactly have to do with the type of person I am. Bet you couldn't tell by looking at me that I love to read. You probably would think I dropped out of school my 7th grade year. Well I didn't my brother would kill me. My brother wants me to stay in school because he couldn't. Ever since mom and dad died he wasn't able to stay in school any longer, he had to drop out to take care of me. In Darry's school life he was considered a Soc, one of our now found enemies. Can you believe it, my brother a Soc.? Yet what is so bad about them I mean my brother was one. He played football and he got good grades. Then all that disappeared and now all the sudden he was a greaser. Just because he couldn't go to school anymore or be the star on the football team he was a bad person, but the one thing never changed his personality. He is strong willed and sticks to his dissections no turning back. All he wants is the best for the people he cares about and that is us boys. My poor brother had to grow up to fast. He did the only thing he could do start a new family. Though we aren't liked by a lot of people in town live our lives the way we know how. It is not our fault that we can’t pay for fancy clothes or drive around in mustangs. That is something we cannot control so why is that the biggest thing we get judged apoun? I'll tell you why that is. It is because people like to be stereotypical. For example if you are rich you are snobby and stuck up. If you are poor you are a rebel or a no body, sound familiar? Also if you are athletic you're a jerk maybe a show off and if you are smart you are a geek or socially awkward. These might be examples of you or people you know, but it is not true for everyone, especially me . The only guy in our gang that really commits to our stereotype is Dallly. Jail bird at 10 years old sticks to his rep. He is a bad kid but yet he too has a soft spot. We all do but no one seems to see it because they are all to worried we are going to toss a switch blade out at them. I think the world needs to take a step back and look at the world from a different point of few. My point of view because I see everything from here. On the outside.
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