The theme of family

                                                Meaning of a family

                                                      By Zevion Flowers

The meaning of Family in “ The Outsiders” means that someone cares for you. Or if your friends take you in. If your friends treat you like their relatives. If your older friends treat you like their children, and set an example for you. Maybe if your friends take you in to their home. In “The Outsiders” your friends can be your family, and your family would not be your family.

 

In the outsiders some of the greasers in the story don’t really have a family. For example Johnny. Johnny ‘s  real parents do not  really care about him. His dad beats him and his mom does not care about him. Every time when he is at home his parents may also have a fight. Without his friends he might not know the meaning of a family. Johnny’s friends are like a family to him because they care for him, whenever Johnny’s parents kicked him out of the house his friends would let him sleep over their house. His friends take care of him when his parents don‘t. Another example is Ponyboy and his brothers.

When their parents died they only had each other, and the greasers. Ponyboy’s dad was Darry, and Ponyboy’s mom was Sodapop. But they still were brothers at the same time. Dally too had a family, the greasers. Almost all the greasers family is the greasers.

That is what family means in “The Outsiders. Johnny  being reminded of family. Dally being reminded of family. Ponyboy being reminded of family. Darry being reminded of family. Sodapop being reminded of family. And all the greasers being reminded of family.All because they care for each other. That is the theme of family in “The Outsiders”.