Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs" (Hinton 117) • Who said this and why is that significant? • What is the deeper social message being communicated?

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Marlon Barnett

6 June, 09:37

Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs" (Hinton 117) • Who said this and why is that significant? • What is the deeper social message being communicated?

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Xavier · Answer 1

Randy in S. E Hinton's the Outsiders

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This quote is from Randy in the story by S. E Hinton. Here Randy tries to emphasize here the futility of the violence between the two rival groups in the story-the greasers and the socs. He pushes the idea that both groups would never be able to move past their social identities even though they were all youths and therefore a wealthy person would always be wealthy and a poor person would always be poor