...In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, The main character Ponyboy Curtis is looked upon as an “outsider” or someone who doesn’t belong in a normal group. In the novel, Hinton takes Ponyboy’s character one step further by putting him in different situations that show him as an outsider. The novel is about two different groups, the greasers, which are known as the outsiders, hence the name of the novel, and the Soc’s which is short for Socials or the socially accepted crowd. These two groups hate one another, constantly fighting each other throughout the whole novel. Ponyboy is a big reason these two groups fight. Even though Ponyboy deep down inside of him is really intellectual he puts up an act and carries on the greaser’s attitude so that nobody can really see who he truly is, “There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense” (Hinton, 143)...
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...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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... 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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...The outsiders is a book about two juvenile gangs. The lower class are the Greasers from the east side and the upper class are the Socs who are from the west side. This story takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960's. Ponyboy Curtis and his two brothers Darry Curtis and Sodapop Curtis are living on their own because their parents recently died in a car accident. Ponyboy was leaving to the movies when a group of gang, the Socs jumped him. His two brothers Sodapop and Darry rescued him from the Socs. Two bit Matthews, Ponyboy, and Johnny walk Cherry Valance and Marcia back home that are from the Socs. They realize that Cherry is nothing like the Socs they had met before. Bob and randy that are from the Socs sees them and thinks that the...
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...strength. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton one of the characters, Ponyboy Curtis, showed heroism. Ponyboy showed heroism when he saved kids from a burning church. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy showed a lot of heroism and gallantry. Ponyboy Curtis, from The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, was heroic. Ponyboy is in a group called the Greasers, which is one of two groups in the book. These two groups are called the Greasers and the Socs. In The Outsiders Ponyboy is with Johnny Cade, another Greaser, when they are jumped by a small group of Socs. The Socs hurt the two Greasers and then start drowning Ponyboy. Johnny, however, kills one of the Socs to get them to stop torturing them. Ponyboy and Johnny end up running away after killing the Soc and finally take refuge in an old abandoned church. When Johnny and Ponyboy were living in the church, after running away when they killed a...
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...Outsiders Essay By: Victoria. B “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” is a saying that has been around for many years, however many people still judge people by the way they look. The Outsiders talks about two different social groups, the Greasers and the Socs, and how they are judged. This story shows the constant theme of coming of age for every character, but one character stood out the most. In The Outsiders, Ponyboy Curtis changes drastically from the beginning to the end of the novel. Pony goes from a scared fourteen year old boy, to someone who can overcome his biggest fears. He faces many challenges, but these obstacles help turn him into the brave, fearless person he is the end. Whether it be his oldest brother, the Socs, or his grades, Ponyboy was terrified of almost everything at the beginning of the story. Pony was the innocent one of the group. He suffered less and went through less than the rest of the gang. His biggest worry was disappointing Darry or...
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...The Outsiders Notes Characters: Ponyboy Curtis - He is fourteen year old greaser and the story is told from is point of view. Ponyboy is the smartest kid in his gang. Ponyboy lives with his older brothers Sodapop and Darry. Darrel Curtis - He is Ponyboy’s oldest brother in the book he is known as Darry. Darry is a twenty year old greaser who is raising Ponyboy because their parents died in a car crash. Sodapop Curtis - He is Ponyboy’s middle brother that has the good look and charm. Two-Bit Mathews - Two-Bit is a greaser that is always starting fights with the soc’s. Steve Randle - Steve is Sodapop’s best friend who is also a greaser. Steve sees Ponyboy as Sodapop’s annoying little brother. Dallas Winston - He is the toughest greaser....
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...“The Outsiders”, written by S.E Hinton, the author introduces us to three brothers. This novel investigates the lives of the Curtis brothers as greasers. The relationship between Ponyboy and Darry, two of the main characters will be explored from the time when their parents were alive, to their parent’s deaths and lastly, the brothers must learn to cope without their loving parents. First, when the Curtis brothers, had their parents the relationships between the brother were different. Darry didn’t have the protector role to fill so he wasn’t hard on Ponyboy he was more of a friend to Ponyboy. The author shows how when they were young the brother where happy on farm that they grew up on Darry was always able to hangout with Ponyboy even if he had lots of school work. Darry was about...
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...Throughout the novel The Outsiders, Ponyboy Curtis probably changes more throughout the course of the Outsiders than any other character. Ponyboy’s innocence plays a major part of the novel. In the course of the novel Ponyboy matures and feels many different types of feelings in certain events. One example of this is when Johnny and him saved the kids from the burning church and were part heroes part criminals. In this example Ponyboy’s actions describe how he is maturing and how he is witnessing important events unfold in the book. Towards the start of the Outsiders Ponyboy is an intelligent young teen, who is part of the track team. Although, he lacks the perspective to understand everyone around him. This means he can only see his part of the story and fails to see why others act the way they do. One example of this is how Darry, Ponyboy’s older brother, is always treating him bad. Ponyboy is constantly always thinking about how Darry bully’s him and is mean to him for no reason. Also,...
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...The novel, “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, is classified as Young Adult Fiction. In this novel, Hinton writes about real life situation teenagers go through. As for the teenagers in “The Outsiders”, social class is a major issue that brings most of the conflicts throughout the story. In this story, there are two types of people: the “Socs” and the “Greasers”. The Socs are a young and wealthy group who believe they are superior over the less fortunate. The Greasers are an example of a less fortunate group. The Greasers are “hoodlums” who live in the ghetto and are basically uneducated criminals who live in poverty.The Greasers get there name from the casual way the gang dresses, long hair that it greased constantly, and leather jackets. Ponyboy is the main Greaser character. Ponyboy has two brothers, Sodapop and Darry, and all three of them are in a gang. The Curtis’ boys have been through a lot since their parents died, and they are living each day trying to fend for themselves. Ponyboy is an intelligent young man who is constantly pushed to become something better than what he grew up to be by his two brothers. Ponyboy is walking home from school where he had been abruptly confronted by the West Side Soc who asked Ponyboy is he “needed a haircut” while he held his switchblade close to Ponyboy’s face. The Socs begin to beat Ponyboy up until Ponyboy’s brothers hear his death scream and quickly gather the gang along to the scene. Months before, another member of the...
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...the novel The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton. Hinton uses various characterization to show how much Darry does for the gang. Darry is brave for his friends, protective of his friends, caring for his friends, and also worried for his friends. For example, Darry is very protective of Ponyboy. He does not want Ponyboy to turn out like any of the others. He does not want him to be a hoodlum. On page 133, Darry says, “ I don’t know if you ought to be in this rumble, Pony.” Darry says this because he does not want Ponyboy to get hurt anymore. He’s trying to protect him. Even though Ponyboy persists on being in the rumble, Darry still tries to convince him. Towards the end of the book, Ponyboy gets hurt when he’s in the fire. When he’s home, he starts to smoke in bed, which none...
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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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...family? The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a story about Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society which believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy is an interesting character because he is dynamic. At the begging of the novel he was shy and awkward he grew into a tough, brave and more social person. Ponyboy learned to stand up to not only other men but to society. Ponyboy can be described as empathetic, selfless, and brave. Ponyboy can be described as empathetic. For example, Ponyboy understands that the socs have it rough too. On page 35 Cherry says “’Things are rough all over’ “I believe you’ says Ponyboy. This shows that Ponyboy understands that the socs have it hard...
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...Ponyboy Curtis has felt grief and pain from losing his love ones. He lost his parents in an auto wreck accident. He lost his close friend, Johnny in a church fire. Ponyboy also lost Dallas, a member in his gang in police chase. He had lost everyone close to him except his brothers and part of his gang. He tries different strategies to cope with their deaths. After Johnny’s and Dallas’ death Pony was in denial. He convinced himself that they were not dead. He thought to himself “That still body back in the hospital wasn't Johnny. Johnny was somewhere else-maybe asleep in the lot, or playing the pinball machine in the bowling alley, or sitting on the back steps of the church in Windriville. I’d go home and walk by the lot, and Johnny would be sitting on the curb smoking a cigarette, and maybe we’d lie on our backs and watch the stars. He isn’t dead.”-The Outsiders Ponyboy was in such disbelief. He was in shock, because he never thought Johnny would die so soon. He not believing that Johnny was dead made him feel better. When Dally die he just thought...
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...“They ain’t gonna hurt you no more” Sodapop Curtis. Sodapop is a nice brother to Ponyboy and Darry. At the beginning Ponyboy gets jumped and Sodapop helps comfort him so that he is not scared anymore. Sodapop is nice to Ponyboy. He was mad at Ponyboy and Darry, later that chapter he was happy and challenged them to a race. Ponyboy had a concussion Sodapop and was not yelling at him. First, Sodapop is very nice to his brothers Ponyboy and Darry. On page 8 in chapter 1 Sodapop was comforting his brother after he was jumped by the SOC’s. He is also like a mother to his siblings because he is so nice. He is very nice to his siblings and he is a nice brother when things go bad. Second, In chapter 12 page 176 he can become mad at Ponyboy...
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