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S.E Hilton does develop the theme more on as the story goes because at the beginning through the story the story ponyboy hated the socs but as he talked to a soc he noticed they weren't much different from each other the only thing that separated them was the fact that one of them had more money then the other because that is the only thing that caused tension between them. As the story goes on it seems more like the theme is about friendship because in the story they always cared and were there for each other.

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They care for everyone in their group

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They treat each other like their family

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They always have each others backs no matter what their going through, everyone is always there for someone

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When people in their gang don't have a place to stay Darry will let them stay at their house for as long as they need to

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One thing that shows that the theme of the story is friendship is that at the beginning of the book when Ponyboy was getting jumped everyone was there for him when they heard.

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The them for the story The Outsiders is friendship