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S.E Hinton displayed examples show the theme of friendship because throughout the book friends are shown to be the ones who will always be there for you. No matter what the situation might be, all the greasers are there for each other and show each others loyalty in different ways. An example would be Dally always having the greasers back even when it could be risking his life. The theme of friendship is shown throughout the book and S.E Hinton displays this

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"We gotta win that fight tonight," Dally said. His voice was hard. "We gotta get even with the Socs. For Johnny."
Previous to this Dally had asked for Two-Bit's switch blade which as Ponyboy says is one of Two-Bits most valuable thing he has. So he wouldn't hand it ot Dally if there wasn't a good purpose for it. Ponyboy says he did it "without hesitation".

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The final example of the theme of friendship being shown in chapter 8 page 107 when Ponyboy and two-bit go to visit Dally. Dally asks how Johnny is and when Two-Bit tells him he isn't doing well Dally starts to worry. Dally is described as the cold sort of person who doesn't really care about anyone or anything but when its shown in this chapter he is seen to be worried about Johnny. That shows the theme of friendship because Dally being the person who wouldn't care about anyone or anything no one would expect that from him. That shows how important friends can be to people.

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I got tired of watching him do it all, so I started digging into the sack myself. "Wheee!" I sat down on a dusty chair and stared. "A paperback copy of Gone with the Wind! How'd you know I always wanted one?" Johnny reddened. "I remembered you sayin' something about it once. And me and you went to see that movie, 'member? I thought you could maybe read it out loud and help kill time or something." (pg 61)

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When Ponyboy and Johnny are staying in the church and Johnny goes to get supplies he brings back a copy of "Gone with the wind" That shows the theme of friendship because they were on low supplies and even though things were rough Johnny still thought about Ponyboy and brought him a copy of the book.

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He didn't bat an eye when Johnny told him what had happened, only grinned and said "Good for you" when Johnny told how he had knifed the Soc. Finally Johnny finished. "We figured you could get us out if anyone could. I'm sorry we got you away from the party." "Oh, shoot, kid"--- Dally glanced contemptuously over his shoulder--- "I was in the bedroom." He suddenly stared at me. "Glory, but your ears can get red, Ponyboy." (Chapter 4, pg 52)

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Right after Johnny killed Bob he and Ponyboy ran away to Dally for help. This shows the theme of friendship because if he wasn't one of their friends he wouldn't have helped them find a place to go and hide them under his protection knowing if anything happened it would be his fault

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"You really killed him, huh, Johnny?"
"Yeah." His voice quavered slightly  "I had to. They were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you. And they had a blade... they were gonna beat me up...." (Chapter 4 page 50)

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The third example of the theme of friendship being shown throughout the book is when Johnny killed Bob for Ponyboy. Johnny and Ponyboy were out in the park taking a walk to calm Ponyboy down and the socs jumped them. They were trying to drown Ponyboy in the fountain Johnny killed on of the socs.

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The second example of friendship is shown where Ponyboy meets Cherry. Despite coming from different social groups the two get along. In chapter 3 Ponyboy and Cherry talk about the sunsets. "It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and, the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset." (Chapter

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The first example of the book being based off friendship is shown in the first part of the book when Ponyboy is describing Two-Bit being another brother to him, Sodapop and Darry. "We're almost as close as brothers; when you grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood like ours you get to know each other real well. If I had thought about it, I could have called Darry and he would have come by on his way home and picked me up, or Two-Bit Mathews" (Chapter 1, pg 4

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After reading The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the theme is friendship.