S.E. Hinton’s book the outsiders take place in a bad environment in the hood, a place where the greasers and the socs live. The conflict is the Greasers and the Socs are rival gangs and both hates each other’s guts. The lesson you learn is “you should look out and stick with your family, and Friends in any situation”.
In the very beginning of the story you can see the precise claim, for example “he heard a muttered curse and got slugged again”, Pony Boy said. The his brother Dally came and scared off the Sacs. That relates to the theme because he is there for his brother who was getting beat up by the Socs. Another example of the claim is when Johnny was with Pony Boy at the movie were there were a lot of the Socs. He was there so he did not get jumped and not the only greaser.
By the middle of the story, readers start to see the gangs start to get violent and physical, and also mad at each other. First Bob was bullying Ponyboy and then Johnny ends up stabbing bob, in self-defense. The two gangs organized a rumble were the two gangs fight and solve it.
The Socs are mad at the greasers for killing one of their people bob. It could be said that the Socs are mad. It is a good point that the socs are mad, but would not have been that mad at each other if Johnny have not killed bob, but it was self-defense. This shows that both of the gangs are mad in their own ways. The socs because one of their friends or family died.
In the end of the story you can see sad, and more sadness. Johnny passed away saving children from a burning building witch made the greasers sad but still stayed together no matter what. Dally got chased and shot from the police but the gang stayed together and kept moving past that. The gangs start to see all that they have caused and did to hurt each other. They threw away the hate and the madness at each other and became close. They looked out and stick together throughout any situation.