Authors Note: The definition of family is a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. And that is one of the main big topics that comes in the story of “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hilton.
Throughout the story of “The Outsiders” the boys are surely a family and all of the boys have a different definition of family. Like Jonny’s family, which is a abusive family and he does not live with them. So that makes Johnny has a different definition for his family. (They are not good parents and he is with his gang family).
What is interesting that the greaser gang family is not blood related and they help each other and would do pretty much anything for each other. That is why they are a family. And even thought they don’t have any kind of parents, it’s the boys that are the parents of the family in a sense. Really for each of the boys in “The Outsiders” has their own definition of family.
But what can be worse than your parents died? That is what Ponyboy, Sodapop and Darry had to go through. There only definition of family is there gang, for their family. So that is why that the boys are together basically. (Both have a bad blood relative family or don’t have them anymore). The book talks about them doing things for each other for evidence. (Chapter 3, Page 40).
Overall you do not have to be blood related to be a family. And I that matters is that they all care for each other no matter what. But even in a book of magic and fairies or reel life family is family no matter what and that is why family matters.
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