My Heritage

In Romania it can be similar to America in some ways. For example, the holidays are no different than the ones from here. We celebrate Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and other holidays too. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving or 4th of July though because Romania is in Europe. There are a lot of different things in Romania that are different from here though. Money for example is different in every place in the world. If Romania instead of dollars we have "lei". 5 lei would be around $1.27 which is not a lot. 1 leu is not much at all. It would be only $0.26 which is not much at all. When you think of $50 that seems like a lot because it is but 50 lei would only be $12.72 in the U.S. It seems like a lot of money but when you compare lei to dollars it's not much at all.

Outsiders Theme

I think that the theme of the story is the conflict the greasers have with the Socs. It seems like almost every part in the book leads back to something the greasers and the Socs did. I think this is the theme because in the outsiders it says "we're poorer than the Socs and the middle class. I reckon we're wilder, too. Not like the Socs, who jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next." This shows how much the greasers and socs don't lik each other. Not only does this say in the beginning of the book but also in the middle and end. Near the middle of the book it says "I stared at the Socs coolly. Maybe they could scare us to death, but we'd never let them have the satisfaction of knowing it." This actually shows another part in the book where the Socs and greasers encounter each other again. Another part that shows that this might be the theme is at the end where it also says "I went back to stand with Soda and Steve and Two-Bit then, because the Socs were arriving. Right on time. They came at in four carloads, and filed out silently. I counted twenty-two of them. There were twenty of us, so I figured the odds were as even as we could get them." This is where the greasers were gonna fight the Socs so this shows the conflict the greasers have with the Socs which is why I consider it the theme.

Biggest Fears

After reading part of The Outsiders I realize how tough the characters act but how every one of them has a fear. Even the socs. fear something. The socs. act like they don't fear anything but when they saw that Johnny killed someone..... They ran away as fast as they could showing how frightened they were. Everyone in the gang is afraid of something. Soda has real feelings too and you can tell this when he had his horse taken away. He cried so much and he feared losing the horse which he did. Reading this book I noticed that Darry fears something too. He tries to take care of Ponyboy and he makes sure nothing happens to him. Even Ponyboy acts all tough when really he is scared of many things too. He acts tough and that he doesn't fear anything but he fears losing people and even fears the socs. When he encountered the socs. In the beginning he remembered what happened to Johnny and he just froze because he was so frightened. Surprisingly even Dally fears losing people he loves. Dally doesn't care about anything or anyone first of all but when Johnny died at the end he totally broke down and even let himself get killed. This shows that Dally did care and also feared something. So, almost every character in this book acts tough when they all have a fear of their own.