Greasers and Goats

In the article Herd Behaviors, there are a lot of similarities to the book The Outsiders. What I found most similar was the fact that goats almost always are in herds and that it’s rare for a goat to leave the herd.

In a way, the Greasers are like the goats. In Herd Behavior, goats will follow the group and what one goat does, goes. In The Outsiders, during the rumble, not everyone felt the same. There were people who didn’t want to do the rumble and people who loved these kinds of things. Yet, everyone participated. That’s because people do things that they think is normal to fit in.

It has been proven before that both humans and goats will start acting like the group they’re with, despite their actual personalities. In the book The Outsiders, Johnny and Ponyboy act very tough and like they don’t have a care in the world. While in reality, they both care, a lot. We found all of this out when the boys were talking to Cherry and Marcia and when they went into the burning building. They act tough because they’re always surrounded by tough people, not because they actually want to be.

In conclusion, there are many similarities between goats and Greasers. They all stay in a “Herd” and are always sticking together and acting like each other, despite their true colors.