By writing about such important sociopolitical issues, Hinton is able to encourage thinking about how to defy negativity perpetuated by differences. Among these include wealth disparity, racial and ethnic differences, or even just ideological differences, like M&M’s pacifist mentality, which is so at odds with the rest of the gang-dominated neighborhood. Like many of her other books including The Outsiders, Hinton wants to explore the artificial boundaries that divide people, and how people often use them so negatively. Set during a fraught political time, racial tensions are somewhat explored in this book. You think I’m weird-well, you’re the weird ones” (23). “You make me sick! You just rescued me from some guys who were going to beat me up because I’m different from them, and now you’re going to beat up someone because he’s different from you.
This quote is a reminder not to believe everything that a narrator says-at least not for the entirety of the story. However, as time goes on, this statement will be completely reversed or unbelievable at the end of the story. Bryonīrotherhood is central to this story, and to understanding the complex relationship between the two main characters (which is a relationship that appears simple at first) in this passage at the beginning of the story, Bryon attempts to simplify this relationship for his own understanding. In looks, we were complete opposites…He was my best friend and we were like brothers” (13). He had lived down the street and it seemed to me that we had always been together. “I had been friends with Mark long before he came to live with us.
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