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The book shows that while money creates a division between the Greasers and the Socs but it doesn’t stop them from sharing common feelings like fear, loneliness, and the want to belong."

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Over the course of the novel, we see Ponyboy gain a newfound understanding of the Socs difficulties, through interactions with Greasers like Johnny, Soca like Cherry and Randy, and his own internal development.

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In the beginning of the book, we are presented with two stereotypical groups, the Greasers and the Socs, but after many events such as Bob's death and Pony and Johnny running away, we realize that the Greasers aren't as tough as they seem, and the Socs don't live perfect lives.

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The two groups economic status aren’t alike, the Socs are rich, popular, and more listened too, however the greasers are none of that, but they do have one thing in common which is they see the same sunset.

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In The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton shows how economic status separates the Greasers and the Socs, causing conflict between them. Ponyboy sees the Socs as rich, privileged kids who will never understand what it's like to struggle. But as he gets to know them, he realizes that pain, fear, and loneliness exist on both sides, proving they have more in common than he thought.

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Throughout the book you can see the development that Ponyboy has, his perception of the socs changes showing that the two different groups aren't that different but pretty similar.

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In the novel the socs are viewed as spoiled rich kids meanwhile the greasers are viewed as poor and tr but later in the book they realize that even though they are in different social groups, they share similar feelings and emotions.

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Ponyboy's initial perspective on the Socs was that they are more, 'mean', he fears being jumped by them, that there is a big difference between the two social groups, slowly he comes to realize that even though the two social groups are very different, they also share struggles, interests, and they 'see the same sunset'.

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From the very beginning we see how economy separates the Greaser and the Socs. This socio-economically influenced stereotype plays a huge role in the events that happen. Because the Greasers are lower class, they are picked on. Socs have more economic power, making them way more superior, which is proved wrong in the rumble later on.

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In the novel, we are introduced to two social groups, the socs and the greasers. Each group has made up stereotypes about the other. The Socs see the greasers as troublemakers and reckless people who do whatever they want. The greasers see the socs as snobby people who think that they are superior to others. We get to see that these stereotypes are not entirely true.

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The book Outsiders uses symbolism like sunsets and the greasers' hair. This represents the themes of innocence, identity. This shares humanity between the characters despite having different social backgrounds. 

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The main theme of this novel is preserving the characteristics of childhood, a symbol that represents this is gold. In the novel Johnny tells Ponyboy to “Stay gold”. Gold meaning to stay young, Johnny tells Ponyboy to stay young and innocent for as long as he can.

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In the book, you can immediately tell that there are two different social groups, divided by wealth, that hate each other but in small hidden ways, they are proven to be similar.

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At the start of the book, we learn that Ponyboy has a lot of hatred toward the socs but as the book progresses we learn that Ponyboy develops a new perspective of them through events like talks with cherry and randy, the runaway and aftermath of the rumble.

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 -Changing perspective Ponyboy  changed his perspective. At the start of the novel, he saw the Socs as spoiled rich kids. He saw them as mean guys who beat up greasers for fun. His mother and father were both gone, and he lived with his brothers. But slowly, he saw that the Socs had problems too. In one part of the story, he talked to one Soc and he changed the way he viewed them. Maybe some of them are not bad.---Let me know if you'd like it edited or formatted differently!

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 -Changing perspective Ponyboy  changed his perspective. At the start of the novel, he saw the Socs as spoiled rich kids. He saw them as mean guys who beat up greasers for fun. His mother and father were both gone, and he lived with his brothers. But slowly, he saw that the Socs had problems too. In one part of the story, he talked to one Soc and he changed the way he viewed them. Maybe some of them are not bad.---Let me know if you'd like it edited or formatted differently!