Read the passage from the novel The Outsiders. He [Johnny Cade] was the gang’s pet, everyone’s kid brother. His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was hacked off at something, and then you could hear her yelling at him clear down at our house. I think he hated that worse than getting whipped. He would have run away a million times if we hadn’t been there. If it hadn’t been for the gang, Johnny would never have known what love and affection are.

Which detail best supports the idea that gangs give some people a sense of belonging?

“His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him.”
“. . . except when she was hacked off at something, and then you could hear her yelling at him clear down at our house.”
“I think he hated that worse than getting whipped.”
“If it hadn’t been for the gang, Johnny would never have known what love and affection are.”