Family is Very Important No Matter Which Way it comes

Author’s Note: In the book The Outsiders there are three main themes the one that I am focusing in on is definition of family.  Which means your family does not have to be blood related.  Your family members just have to love and care for you.  Just like the Greasers to in this book.

"We're all we've got left. We ought to be able to stick together against everything. If we don't have each other, we don't have anything." Sodapop Family is the one thing you need in life and family does not have to be blood related family.  In the book, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, one of the major themes is “Definition of Family.”This means that family does not have to be related by blood.

First, Johnny has a real family but he does not consider them family. Johnny is one of the few characters that has a real family.  But Johnny's dad beats him and his mom and dad could care less about him.  They don’t care how late he comes home or even if he dead.  Johnny does not consider his blood mother and father family.  The greasers are Johnny's real family because they care for him and love him unlike is "parents". 

Just like Johnny the Curtis brothers have their family situation.  The Curtis brothers are Darry the oldest Sodapop the middle child and Ponyboy who is the youngest of the three brothers.  These three brothers are all they have left that is related by blood.  Their mother and father were killed in a car accident.  Darry has to work two jobs to keep the three brothers together.  Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy also consider the greasers their family.  They count on the greasers to look over Ponyboy while the two older brothers are at work.  The greasers help out the other members of the gang. 

Although both Johnny and the Curtis brothers have their situations with their family they are not the only ones; there are a lot of stories and movies that include family struggles into their plot.  For example the movie Snow White, Snow White runs away from her family because of the evil queen and ends up staying with the seven dwarfs.  While she is staying with them she bonds with them so much and she then considers the seven dwarfs her family. She found family through love and care rather than blood and bones.

This proves that families do not have to be related by blood. A fact that not everyone realizes, but yet they know is true. Blood is just until birth; after that, love finds, joins, and builds a family. This is exactly what happened in The Outsiders. But what exactly happened? Love, that’s all. Sacrifice, pain and hate all came in because of love. Blood never helped, it only hurt, this completely proves that it is not a blood relation that makes a family, but a connection through love and the heart.