Theme - The Outsiders

I think that one of the themes the author was trying to teach us is that people shouldn't be separated by how much money they have or how they look. I think this because if the Socs and the greasers didn't have money or looks to separate them, the Socs wouldn't have jumped Ponyboy and Johnny. Therefor Johnny wouldn't have killed bob the Socs to try to save Ponyboy. They also wouldn't have had the rumble and Dally wouldn't have got killed or all three of them wouldn't have gone into the church to try to save those kids and have gotten injured.