Blog #6

The novel The Outsiders is a very inspirational book. It is a great book to read to help you get through a tough time. This book in my mind can help you get through a tough time because the people in the book are going through tough times. Reading about how they get through their problems can be very inspirational to you to try to get through yours. Although their problems and yours may be different it can still be very beneficial to you. While reading about the Greasers and Socs I found many ways to relate their problems and issues to mine. Reading about how the Greasers and Socs hated each other and even inflicted pain on the other group throughout the book, I thought that the Greasers and Socs would never even come close to resolving their issues and hatred for each other. Then, as I read on even after some of the tragic accidents, they started to become closer and closer to resolving the problem. Although the hatred was never fully gone between the two parties, evidence from events in the book made it seem as if they were headed toward peace when the book ended. A couple of the Greasers and Socs even said to each other that they were done with the violence and just wish that it would be over with. I think that that is why I like this book so much, because it shows how much people and things can change. Things can change so quickly in life. Things can go from great to bad or from bad to great in a matter of minutes. In this novel the two gangs go from absolutely hating each other to resolving their problems. I think that is a great lesson for anyone and anyone reading this book can hear the message and it can help them in their own life.