...In the novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy is the main character. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy changed very much. Ponyboy is intelligent, courageous, and caring. Ponyboy is intelligent; he is an all around smart kid. “... I make good grades and have a high IQ... “ (4, Hinton) Ponyboy is intelligent because he gets good grades and has a high IQ. Also because he wrote a book. “ I wondered for a long time how to start that theme, how to start writing about something that was important to me.” (180, Hinton) His end of year theme turned out to be the book The Outsiders. Ponyboy is also courageous. He takes responsibility for his actions. “I jerked loose and ran on. All I could think was. We started it. We started it. We started it.” (91, Hinton) When the church was on fire, Ponyboy and Johnny ran in to get the kids out because they knew they started the fire and couldn’t let someone get hurt from their mistake. Ponyboy is also courageous because when Johnny died he had to make death mean something. “Right then the most important thing in my life was helping us whip the Socs.” (134, Hinton) Another example is when Johnny killed Bob, the Soc. “We gotta get outa here. Get somewhere. Runaway.” (57, Hinton) Ponyboy didn’t...
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...The book the outsiders is a book about a boy named ponyboy. But there was something bigger than just ponyboy… and that was the socs and the greasers. They are at battle with each other. But ponyboy is in the middle of it. Ponyboy loves “movies and reading books”.(pg 1) Also he loves his hair… because it shows he is a greaser and he is proud of it. Because he is proud of being a greaser he has way too much emotions. He also lets everything get to him. Or if he doesn't he lies to himself. Like how he lies to himself when he says that “it does not if my older brother doesn't love me”. But in reality he cares deeply. One of the most important battles it when ponyboy was being drowned by Bob and johnny kills Bob (PG. 53 & 54 ). But it was all...
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...In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy is introduced and develops a wide imagination and organized personality to a dull-like and disorderly personality through his actions and feelings towards someone. The Outsiders is a novel about Ponyboy’s and his greaser friend’s journey about their life living as a greaser. Greaser is a term for poorer boys than the Socs and the middle class on the East Side. They wouldn’t walk by themselves or they will get jumped on by the Socs, or the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, and the rich West-side kids. One evidence from the book that shows us that Ponyboy had a wide imagination are on pages 1-2, and it reads, “I had a long walk home and no company, but usually lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch movies undisturbed so I can get into them and live them with the actors….I mean, my second-oldest brother, Soda, who is sixteen-going-on-seventeen, never cracks a book at all, and my oldest brother, Darrel, who we call Darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story or drawing a picture, so I’m not like them....
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...The book from S.E Hinton,The Outsiders, is about two classes of people,one of the them are the Greaser and the other ones are Socs. Socs are the higher class they are not like the Greasers who break the rules. Ponyboy,one of the Greasers, is not like them he doesn't like violence or the Socs. Later on Ponyboy changes his thoughts about the Socs because they are all people. In chapter 2,Ponyboy meet Cherry in a drive in movie,and they tell each other things that happened to them or to their friends. For example,Ponyboy tells Cherry how the Socs beat up the greasers. Cherry tells Ponyboy “Things are rough all over”. What Cherry is trying to do is that not just greasers have problems everyone has problems even the Socs. Cherry also means that he isn’t the only one that has problems. Also,Cherry tells Pony that other Socs have problems not just him. In addition, Cherry tells Pony how she also sees the sunset from her house. Ponyboy thought he was the only one who would watch the sunset. Ponyboy does not really believe that Cherry watches the sunset because she a a Soc. At the end of Chapter 3 he starts to realize how the...
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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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...Ponyboy Curtis is innocent. Ponyboy is a 14 year old boy, who has been moved up a grade. He is in a group known as the Greasers. The Greasers are for some reason against another group known as the Socs. Sadly, his parents died in a car crash. Randy Adderson and Robert Sheldon took giving Sherri Valance and Marcia a ride out on Johnny and Ponyboy. According to Ponyboy Randy and Robert said “here’s the little greasers who picked up our girls”, not realizing that Sherri and Marcia invited them to sit by them and they only insisted on bringing them home because Sherri and Marcia didn’t have a ride due to the fact they walked out. Robert, Randy and some other Socs came into their territory and grabbed Ponyboy. According to Ponyboy they...
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...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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...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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...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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... 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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...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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...The two novels The Last Song and The Outsiders both display numerous characteristics of teenage rebellion, where as one is more modern while the other is in an era of irresponsible excess. The more modernistic novel, The Last Song, displays a different outlook, compared to the severity of The Outsiders. There are several reasons behind these teens rebellious outburst, such as abandonment, environment, and revenge. Also, the punishments these teenagers must face are more severe in the more classical novel compared to the more current novel. The rebellious actions shown throughout both novels are quite similar, while displaying the same actions with a modern twist. Overall, today's teens display less severity, compared to the volatile actions of the teenagers in The Outsiders. The severity of the rebellious actions varies between a more modernistic outlook, compared to a classical approach. Ronnie, the main character of The Last Song, rebels against her father by refusing to play the piano. She refuses to use her incredible piano playing skills purposely to hurt her father's feelings. Ronnie also hangs with the wrong crowd, which gets charges filed against her. Although, Ronnie seems like a troubled teen, she does not engage in usage of alcohol or any illegal substances. Ronnie's mother becomes angered with the incidents that continuously occur with Ronnie. “Mom probably believed that the louder she yelled about Ronnie's grades, or Ronnie's friends, or the fact that Ronnie continually...
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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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...lead to a hero’s downfall. Although Ponyboy is usually seen as the hero in The Outsiders, Johnny is the most heroic character in my opinion. He was willing to sacrifice his life in order to save multiple lives in a burning church. As a result, he was nearly killed because of a falling pillar that hit his back. Johnny is selfless, loyal, and daring. One quality Johnny shows in The Outsiders is selflessness. He displays this trait when he saves the children from the burning church. The children are stuck inside the church while it burns down, and Johnny immediately goes to save them. Ponyboy also saves the children, but he sees something different in Johnny which represents his selflessness: “I blinked myself-- Johnny wasn't behaving at all like his old self... I caught one quick look at his face; it was red marked from falling embers and sweat streaked, but he grinned at...
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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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