Authors note: The author’s purpose for righting this is to show you the real definition of family. You don’t always have to be biologically family members; it’s the love you share with one another.

The Hopes of a Family

We have had those days where you’re down, mad, or even sad. That’s the thing, we all have those feeling, but there’s always a family to make you happy. Family gets you through things just like in the Outsiders. The Greasers real families died or didn’t care about them and that’s when they got a new life by being a greaser.

First of all, while many people mistreat the Greasers, they are a great example of how families stick together. Like when bob was trying to kill Ponyboy when Johnny showed up and saved Ponyboy and Johnny ended up killing bob. There is also the one were Johnny and Ponyboy help each other and they also save the children.  Then Johnny happened to get by a falling beam and one of his friends came to save him.

 Also, the Greasers are an example of how a family protects one another, no matter what. When Johnny killed Bob Dally was there to get Johnny and Ponyboy out of site so they wouldn’t be beat up or even killed. Also Dally saved Johnny and Ponyboy from the burning church it was because he loved them and wanted them to be safe. He did this because he cared about both of them.

Johnny treats everyone like a family except his parents his parents don’t like him they don’t even care for him. That’s why he cares for everyone else because he knew that his parents didn’t treat him with respect, so he decided to treat everyone with respect.

Dally never really had a family his parent died while he was going to school. Then when his parents died he wanted to watch after his brothers so he decided to drop out of school and stick to his family and that was his brothers.

I think the outsider shows the problems between the greasers they never really had anyone to love or to care for them until they became greasers. I think if the greasers kept make smart decisions they would be a really good family.