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I think that the rumble was not needed to settle things off. I think that they could have just talked it out between the two social groups. Fighting wasn't the best option.

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I disagree. The rumble might be able to assure short term success. A "rumble" isn't going to stop kids from beating each other up, at least the reasons that peole give for fighting each other aren't going to be solved through another fight. Maybe for the short time of a month or two maybe a year, there won't be any fighting between the two groups, but people will contiue to fight if they still have a reason to.

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i agree because the fight had to happen for things to be settled once and for all. if it didn't happen, then the socs would still be at the greasers throats.

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I agree because the Socs and the Greasers are always at each other's necks, literally and metaphorically. Even though they had to resort to violence to settle things, they still stopped any further fighting witch could still benefit them. I also feel like moody teenagers in the 1960s couldn't just "talk things out."

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I agree because the Socs and Greasers absolutely hate each other, and usually can't work things out. That being said, holding the rumble was a smart idea because with the greasers winning, it led to the Socs to flee the area, which also leads to less trouble for the greasers.

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I disagree because it was unnecessary. Socs will be Socs and Greasers will be Greasers. Violence shouldn't be the only reason to settle things out. Just because they are in different social classes doesn't mean they have to hate each other and battle things out.

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I disagree only because I find fighting unnecessary and childish when it comes to certain situations. The gangs are not really ones to think things through and come to a common agreement but I feel that doing so would have given them more peace and would have actually settled things. Like Randy had said in a previous chapter, no matter who "wins" the fight, nothing will change. "Socs will still be Socs and Greasers will still be Greasers." By using violence to "settle" things it will only make matters worse and they'll be stuck in this constant cycle of not being able to solve anything without hurting one another.

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I feel like the events leading up to the rumble have made a lot of the socs and greasers rethink a lot of things and grow-up a little. They realized that the type of lifestyle that they live isn't one that they want to adopt forever. The rumble indicates sort of an end to all the fighting and stupidity of sorts and gives everyone and probably Johnny as well some closure. The few that stepped out of the rumble would probably lead others to the same conclusion over time as the conflict slowly subsides and burns away.

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I disagree because no matter how many times the Socs and Greasers fight, nothing would change and the Socs would always be on top and the Greasers would always be at the bottom regardless of who won the rumble or not.

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I disagree only because it was unnecessary. I do understand that the gangs aren't really the kind to "talk things out" but I personally don't think two wrongs would've made a right. Closure is different than revenge and I think they need to learn the difference.

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This fight is unnecessary because as Randy the Soc said, Greasers are Greasers regardless of what happens, and Socs are still Socs, whether they are victorious in fights or not. I understand that the Socs are furious at the death of Bob, a person who they looked up to as their unofficial leader. Obviously the Greasers are upset as well, and understandably so. However, what good does the extra blood do? Financially nothing changes. From a reputation standpoint little to nothing. All in all, the fight is unnecessary.

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I would argue that the rumble needed to happen for the Socs and Greasers to set their anger off to the side, but on the other hand there are other alternatives to this fight, and also Ponyboy decides to join a fight while his friend is dying, so a fight is not a priority

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I think that though peace is a better option, the greasers and the Socs have been at each others' necks for years, and it can be extremely difficult to find a common ground.

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I think it gave both the social classes closure between them and their beef. The rumble was neccasery.

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I think after all the excitement throughout the past chapters the rumble will allow both sides to have closure and take time to think over everything, but I wonder if the socs will actually leave the greasers alone and stay out of their territory. Nothing really changed, both sides are still the same and their status' are the same.

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It allowed the greasers and socs to have closure. Because they couldn't talk it out, a rumble seemed to be the easiest way to settle things.

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I think that the rumble gave the greasers and socs closure. The Socs were mad that Bob was killed by Johnny and the greasers got closure from beating the socs for the big rumble.

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The fight will be necessary to help each side blow off steam. The Socs needed a way to calm down because of Bob's death. The Greaser's got a chance to beat up the Socs.

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think the fight was unnecessary because it will not solve their problems and it will have terrible side effects. It happens to represent the end of the fight between Johnny and Bob, and between greasers and Socs, but then you see the side effects of the this ongoing fight, Johnny's death. Both sides lost someone. Do you think because of this one fight the Socs are going to stop? The Socs are not going to bow to submission because they lost the fight. If anything this fight might just anger both sides more, fueling their rivalry.

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I don't think that the greasers and the socs will ever be able to talk out their differences. At this point, the only thing both sides will understand is working things out through a fight.

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The fight was unnecessary because in the end they will always be Greasers and the Socs will always be Socs. The fight would be forgotten and the clashing between the Socs and the Greasers would probably still go on. I think that at the end Ponyboy was realizing that there was no need for the violence and that people shouldn't hate each other just because of what side they are on.

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I think that at this point they weren't getting anywhere with hurting each other. There needed to be some sort of ending or closure in order for both sides to be at peace.They could have solved the problem a different way, but something had to be done eventually.

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Things had to be settled between the two after all of the anger that was being built up.

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After what had happened in the last few chapters, I think that this was the only way to resolve the conflict, on both sides. They could have solved the problem differently, but I do not think either side was willing to comply any other way.

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There were better ways this could've been solved but both sides were mad and nobody could decide who was in the wrong. There needed to be something that would decide who was right.

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I agree because both sides, before this rumble happened, were very mad, both at Bob (Soc) being killed by Johnny, and because of Johnny being beat up by the Socs and the Socs constantly jumping/being rude to the Greasers. This rumble can setlle things because every single problem that has two sides to it cannot be resolved unless on side becomes dominant to the other. This rumble proved the fact that the Greasers were more powerful than the Socs, because they had won the rumble.

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It finally gave some closer to the greasers. Showing them that they are not the worst and proving that they stick together.

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Although the problem could have been solved in a different way, there needed to be something to settle the situation.

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Both sides were angry at each other. They also couldn't talk it out so they fought to resolve the conflict.

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There were probably better ways this problem could have been solved, but the soc's would not stop hurting the greasers, so winning the rumble may have been the only was for them to get the soc's to leave them alone.

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I think that the rumble proves that their group is capable and worthy of winning and being on top. Also, I think fighting all at once is better than continuously in the future.

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I think there were other options, but there needed to be some sort of closure. Both sides were very hurt and mad.

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At this point neither side is willing to talk it out. One side had their friend murdered and the other receives constant abuse, simply seeing the other will start a fight. In these types of scenarios you would have to "assert your dominance" by utterly defeating the other side. Once it has been established that one side can't win the fighting will stop because there is no point in it, they already know the outcome before fighting because the other side would be proven superior.