...the better or the worse. We all grow up eventually. Some people grow up because they want to drive or have a house of their own. But the real truth is that growing up is never fun we'll all face a problem or problems as we grow up. The outsiders by S.E Hinton in a perfect representation of that. Growing up is very important because it gives us change. In the outsiders most of the gang has to grow up without parents or people that love them. ILL be explaining growing up and how it can have a positive or negative effect on our future. People usually think that growing is a Huge thing and most kids want to grow up. In the outsiders ponyboy says that johnny was only 16...
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...In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the gang that includes Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Two-Bit, Dally, and Johnny shows a group of boys in a gang that is based on a group of friends that depend on each other for different reasons. These reasons include not having a strong family tie, not having parents, and not having a home. This relates to an article written by Amanda Vogt titled “Gangs a Cry for Family” which talks and explains that troubled teens with problems with family go to gangs for a sense of family and belonging. One reason is teens not having a strong relationship with their parents or not having parents. In the book The Outsiders, Johnny didn’t have much of a relationship with both of his parents, because they drank and yelled at him so he went to the gang and found a home to go too. He also found a group of friends that cared for him and wanted him to feel good and have a...
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...The adolescents are struggling these days. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton describes the main character Ponyboy also known as Curtis is in a gang called the Greasers. The Greasers always thought that the Socs had it better than them, but they found out that the Socs are cool to the point of not feeling anything. In the article, “The Allure of Gangs” it also describes why kids join gangs and what leads them into conflicts, like in The Outsiders. However in the article “Cool at 13, Adrift at 23” it shows how the influence of their childhood plays a role later in life. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton it describes two groups of teenagers who have so many differences. In the book it says the Greasers were the poor kids and lived on the East Side. On the other hand, the Socs were the rich kids and lived on the West Side. The Socs were always getting drunk and looking for fights with the greasers. However to the public, the Socs were seen as good kids who didn't get into any trouble. On the other hand, the Greasers were seen unruly and unlawful to the...
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...Name: Isabela Schmalz Advisory: Uyaguari Insider and Outsider? I know all of you must be asking, how can someone be both an insider and outsider? In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton many of the characters are both insiders and outsiders throughout the book. The genre of this book is realistic fiction because it was similar to what happened to S.E Hinton in high school, but the characters and story are fake. This book’s setting is based on Hinton’s hometown Tulsa Oklahoma. In this novel there are two different gangs of people, Socs and Greasers. They both have a rivalry and fight all the time. The book is through the eyes of the main character Ponyboy, whose parents died and is being raised by his two older brothers. Some of the main characters...
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...only glosses over many character relationships. <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/CNSite/;navArea=CLIFFSNOTES2_LITERATURE;type=Lit_Note;kword=SE_Hinton;kword=The_Outsiders;contentItemId=139;tile=3;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/CNSite/;navArea=CLIFFSNOTES2_LITERATURE;type=Lit_Note;kword=SE_Hinton;kword=The_Outsiders;contentItemId=139;tile=3;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" width="300" height="250" border="0" alt="" /></a> With the exception of Ponyboy, the viewer misses out on knowing most of the novel's characters. Darry and Soda are relatively minor characters in the movie, and the viewer is given little insight into their lives. The same is true for the rest of the gang, even Dally. Dally's death loses much of its impact because viewers aren't able to get to know him. Only the reader is aware of the fact that Dally's gun is unloaded, and the symbolic death of Dally in the spotlight is gone. Johnny's character is also...
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...Brennan Boone 11/2/15 7th period The Outsiders The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is "[A] classic coming-of-age book"(Philadelphia Daily News) about 3 brothers in a gang that have to go through life with many obstacles in their way. This book is written by a fifteen year old girl named S.E. Hinton. She wrote the book about what was going on in her life. This novel is about two rival gangs, the Greasers and the Socs. The Greasers are from the east side of town and are known as hoods. The Greasers have long, greasy hair and are poor. The Socs are from the west side of town. The Socs wear nice clothes and are smart. The Socs are also the rich people. Many characters in The Outsiders lean on each other for support while showing loyalty, kindness, and moral courage toward each other....
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...In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, the characters demonstrate friendship. The gang members help each other out when their buddies are hurt. Furthermore, they stick up for each other when times are rough. Hinton’s novel demonstrates generosity and kindness all throughout the book.From helping each other out with murder, to just being there for each other, the characters in The Outsiders show a theme of friendship. Dally shows a sense friendship to Ponyboy and Johnny. When Johnny kills Bob, he goes a with Ponyboy to find Dally for help. “ ‘Git goin,’ ” he messed up Johnny’s hair, “ ‘Take care kid,’ he said softly. ‘Man I thought New York was the only place I could get mixed up in a murder rap.’ ” said Dally ( ). Dally is showing sacrifice and...
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...Feeling like an outsider,isolated or an outcast makes people feel like they don't belong. Being isolated is an awful feeling that any person wants to feel. Also when feeling like an outsider can feel like the outcast. Like in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton feeling “isolated or an outsider” a lot in this novel. Ponyboy is portrayed as an outsider for he doesn't fit in his gang,he doesn't like fighting he makes friend outside of his gang friends. Ponyboy is viewed that he doesn't fit in because he smarter than everyone else. Typically Greasers don't care about school and usually drop out like Ponyboy's brother Sodapop. Also Greasers do bad things in school and don't care about there'd reputation. Hinton writes, “I never could please...
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...The Outsiders The Outsiders is a story about a group of young greasers living in a small rural town during the 1960’s. Ponyboy and his friend Johnny are the two main characters from this group of greasers and find themselves in a bind after Johnny kills one of the members of a rival click while trying to protect his friend Ponyboy. Eventually Johnny decides that he wants to come clean and turn himself in however, he never gets the opportunity because he is fatally injured after trying to save children from a church that was accidentally set on fire by Johnny and Ponyboy. After much grief and sadness Ponyboy decides to write the story The Outsiders for all the troubled boys involved in gang life. This story illustrates very well the social structure and hierarchy of adolescent life. The rival between the greasers and the socs is a classic example of teenage grouping and rivalry. Unfortunately today, we see these clicks and groups everywhere we go. I think that this story also illustrates the consequences of gang life and can teach children the importance of not becoming involved in gang activity. The Outsiders is and has been one of my favorite books for a long while. I think the story wonderfully illustrates the importance of brotherhood and friendship. Through thick and thin, these boys have an uncanny way of always sticking together and supporting one another, especially considering that they have no adult role models to follow. Definitely recommend this book to all adolescent...
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...share some similarities? These kids have their own conflicts to resolve in their lives, even if their rich or poor; It doesn’t matter. Both have similar problems that they need to resolve or just live through it. In the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, proves that Greasers, a gang who lives in bad neighborhoods and may have some financial issues, are similar to the Socs, who are rich and have lots of time in their hands. In addition to their gang rivalry, the individual characters each face problems of their own. Through depicting their personal conflicts, Hinton reveals that these young men, seemingly so different, share similar needs. Greasers face several problems in their lives, like getting abused or even joining a gang. In the Outsiders, Cherry asks Ponyboy, “Johnny… he’s been hurt bad sometime, hasn’t he?” and Ponyboy replied in agreement, “It was the Socs.” (Hinton 35). In other words, Cherry believes that Johnny has been beaten up or in another term, abused, before and Ponyboy confirms it. This shows that this is one of Johnny’s external conflicts that he...
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...What Life Lessons Can We Learn? What life lessons can you learn in an extraordinary time in your life? During the novel The Outsiders Ponyboy learns numerous life lesson, and also learns multitudinous thing about the people he is closest to. In this essay we will explore three different life lessons Ponyboy learned and how they influenced him. The first life lesson is nothing gold can stay. Johnny gave Ponyboy his copy of Gone with The Wind before he died. Inside was a note were Johnny told Pony to stay gold, and not to let the world change who he is. This changed Pony because he finally understood what the poem meant, and realizes that he should stay the way he is and not let someone else change him. Johnny also told Pony to tell Dally...
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...S.E. Hinton wrote an amazing book called The Outsiders. The Outsiders is a book about Greasers the are the teens who have hardly anything and have long hair with tons of hair grease, and the Socs (Socials) who are the West side of the city rich kids. The Greasers and Socs are constantly at war with each other. A member of the Greasers is Darrel (Darry) Curtis. When the Curtis parents died Darry starts to take care of his two siblings Sodapop (Soda) Curtis who is 16 and Ponyboy (Pony) Curtis who is 14. Darry is a 20 years old male who is 6 Feet 2 Inches. Darrel is a broad shouldered and muscular guy who looks older than 20 and has dark brown hair that kicks out in the front with a slight cowlick in the back. One thing that makes Darry different from the rest is he could be a Soc but there is one thing that is keeping him from being a Soc and it is the gang but mainly it is Soda and Pony. Even though Darry and Pony don’t always see eye to eye and Soda is always having to break them up and end the arguments they all still look out for each other, stick up for each other, and most of all love each other. Darrel Curtis is an athletic, responsible, and strict Greaser from The Outsiders. Darrel Curtis is a very athletic member of the Greaser gang. In the story you learn that in high school Darry was the Captain...
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...Immigrants vs Ponyboy In the novel, The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, and the memoir, “The Latehomecomer” by Kao Kalia Yang, describes being an outsider in society. Ponyboy, the main character in The Outsiders, is connected to immigrants in many ways. Some reasons are including that he is treated like an outsider or differently in society, he is split in his identity, and that he does not socialize with people in his area, other than his gang. An outsider is a person who does not belong to a particular group and is treated like an outcast, and immigrants are an example of many that are treated like outsiders. My first reason is that Ponyboy is treated differently than others in his gang and in...
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...Outsider Themes Have you ever thought that something as little as a theme can change the entire plot of a book? In the novel, The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, life is divided by the two main social groups: the Greasers, who are known to cause trouble and have a reputation of being dangerous, and the Socs, the people who are known to get all the breaks and are able to get away with anything they do. Ponyboy and his gang live their daily life rivaling against their enemy, the Socs, until things turn and events change the way they live their lives. People then realize things are not the way it seems to be and they find out the true meaning of life, the hard way. Throughout the story, many different themes are displayed, yet the two main and effective themes are changes over time and loyalty. First of all, changes over time can be found through each scene and event in the book. The first example is...
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...The Outsiders shows that teens join social groups to help create their identities. In joining these cliques, the adolescents take on both the positive and negative characteristics of them. Looking at life as an outsider and feeling as though one is being treated as an outsider is a matter of perspective or point of view. Adolescence is a time when teenagers may consider themselves to be adults, but in reality teens are still under the control of others. Parents, teachers, and other authority figures are always telling them how to live their lives. This loss of control inevitably leads to the feeling that life isn't fair. For example, Ponyboy knows that he is not safe walking the streets in his own neighborhood. He could be attacked solely...
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