“This is a formative essay about how the people judge the Greasers in The Outsiders”
Have you ever been stereotyped for just being yourself, when you’re doing absolutely nothing wrong? It happens multiple times to all the characters in the Greasers, they get judged about being Criminals, and just being bad over all, when most of them aren’t at all; they have a soft spot. People shouldn’t judge other people because it isn’t right and it could really hurt someone.
Mostly every character in the book “The Outsiders” are misjudged and misunderstood, they all see them as criminals and bad people when they actually aren’t. Dally, one of the main characters in the gang of the Greasers, he’s from New York and he’s been in many other gangs and arrested many times before. Dally is one who puts up a bad example for the gang, he hasn’t really changed. One example of this is when the Church was on fire and the children, Johnny, and Ponyboy were trapped, Dally was going to just save Ponyboy and Johnny not the little kids in the fire. So that puts Dally on the bad side of the stereotype side when people talk about the gang, but Johnny and Ponyboy went and saved the children. Johnny put his life over the children, how is that bad? How does that make them criminals or bad people? Saving those children made them hero’s which made people change their thought about the gang just a little bit. Many people would consider the greasers as selfish, greedy, and criminals when most of the members couldn’t even hurt a fly, they just care about each other a huge amount. I think it’s just their looks that make people want to judge them, they wear leather jackets, have their hair gelled back, and they just look all tough and bad.
All the characters in “The Outsiders” has been judged at least once and it’s not alright. People shouldn’t judge other people unless they know what they are talking about, it can hurt people’s feelings and it can really make people angry when other people talk about people like that.
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