Read this excerpt from the outsiders. i’m different that way. i mean, my second-oldest brother, soda, who is sixteen-going-on-seventeen, never cracks a book at all, and my oldest brother, darrel, who we call darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story or drawing a picture, so i’m not like them. and nobody in our gang digs movies and books the way i do. for a while there, i thought i was the only person in the world that did. what is the theme of this excerpt? being part of a team is meaningful. growing up means accepting oneself. nature teaches powerful life lessons. family traditions are important.

Growing up means accepting oneself.

Explanation:

The theme of this excerpt from "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton, is that growing up means accepting oneself. Ponyboy is the narrator of this story. He and his two elder brothers are orphans. They live in Oklahoma. Darrel, the eldest, takes care of his brothers. Ponyboy is a member of a group called the greasers because of their hair. Their rivals are the Socs, who are high-class youths. In this excerpt, Ponyboy differences himself from his brothers, accepting this as a key aspect of growing up.

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