He thought how silly it was that he believed in something so arbitrary. He foolishly believed he had a purpose, that he was destined for something better. Now he had to live with the fact that he was just a lonely boy with no identity at all. And he had made a lot of terrible mistakes. Kris Noel
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The quote above is from the book, "The Outsiders," by S.E. Hinton. The book is about the characters in the novel who were all brought up in different social classes and how their lives change when they join together and become a group known as the Greasers. When Ponyboy and Johnny join together to form a gang, they begin to take their old identities away and begin living new lives where they don’t have to conform to social norms and rules.

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