...could not just stand there and watch this go down so he stabbed Bob (Hinton 56). It was a very inconceivable of him since he was like a "...puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers..." (Hinton 11). Johnny coming along has made him become less timid. He could be considered brave for standing up to Pony, even though in result he has become a murderer. Now Pony and Johnny had a bigger rationale to be running: They were wanted for murder. Johnny was never the one anticipated to be a killer. If anyone, it would have been Dally (the toughest of the gang). Johnny had never done anything so criminal in his life until the moment his switch blade went into Bob. It's funny how one action someone chooses to make can change someone tremendously. It's like how if someone touches a stalagmite, it stops growing; One accident stops the growth. There is no going back after an action is made. When Johnny was deciding what to do about Bob he kills him, which prevents Johnny and Pony from moving forward with their normal lives and having to start living a brand new one. Pony and Johnny end up living in a church after the murder. They both had to chop off their hair to change their appearance. Long, greasy hair is a valuable feature to a greaser so Johhny and Ponyboy didn't want to lose it. First the murdering, and now the hair. They never expected any of this to happen from running away. Johhny could have been hanging out with the gang, but instead he had to...
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...Depending on what age you are, you might've read a book called "The Outsiders". If you haven't "The Outsiders" is a book about the rivalry between the Greasers and the Socs, but mostly focuses on Ponyboy, who is the main character, and his choices throughout his life. In this essay, we're going to talk about how Ponyboys relationships change throughout the story. The first major change in a relationship is when Ponyboy comes home late after he accidentally fell asleep at the "lot" Once he comes home his brother Darry yells at him. (Page 43-44) "It sounded dumb, even to me, when I stammered, "I... I went to sleep in the lot..." "You what?" He was shouting, and Sodapop sat up and rubbed his eyes. " "He should never yell at Soda. Nobody should ever holler at my brother. I exploded. "You don't yell at him!" I shouted. Darry wheeled around and slapped me so hard that it knocked me against the door." "Suddenly it was deathly quiet. We had all frozen. Nobody in my family had ever hit me. Nobody. Soda was wide-eyed. Darry looked at the palm of his hand where it had turned red and then looked back at me. His eyes were huge. "Ponyboy..." The second main change in a relationship is between Pony and Johnny. After Johnny kills bob to save his friend, (Page 49) "I killed him," he said slowly. "I killed that boy." they decide to go into hiding, and so they did. (Page 50) "We'll need money. And maybe a gun. And a plan." They stayed in the church for a little under a week, but ponyboy admitted...
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...The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy and his two brothers — Darrel (Darry), who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16 — have recently lost their parents in an automobile accident. Pony and Soda are allowed to stay under Darry's guardianship as long as they all behave themselves. The boys are greasers, a class term that refers to the young men on the East Side, the poor side of town. The greasers' rivals are the Socs, short for Socials, who are the "West-side rich kids." The story opens with Pony walking home alone from a movie; he is stopped by a gang of Socs who proceed to beat him up. The Socs badly injure and threaten to kill Ponyboy; however, some of his gang happen upon the scene and run the Socs off. This incident sets the tone for the rest of the story, because the event tells the reader that a fight between these two groups needs no provocation. The next night Pony and two other gang members, Dallas Winston (Dally) and Johnny Cade, go to a drive-in movie. There they meet Sherri (Cherry) Valance and her friend Marcia, who have left their Soc boyfriends at the drive-in because the boys were drinking. Dally leaves after giving the girls a hard time, but another greaser, Two-Bit Mathews, joins Pony and Johnny. The boys offer to walk the girls home after the movie, but along the way, the girls' boyfriends...
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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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..."Nothing Gold Can Stay" When in the church on Jay Mountain, Ponyboy recites the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" written by Robert Frost. He remembered the poem, but couldn't recall the meaning of it. Johnny finds out the meaning of the poem at the end of the book, and tells everyone in his gang the meaning and how it connects to the greaser gang. Even though Robert Frost talks about plants in this poem, its figurative meaning is about babies and how they lose their innocence over time. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” symbolizes pony in the outsiders. The first line in the poem is “Natures First Green Is Gold” . This means that when the plants start budding, they are very beautiful. Ponys life can be compared to “natures first green is gold”. Pony is the...
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...Staying Gold What is the theme of The Outsiders, a novel written by S.E. Hinton? The main character, Ponyboy, is a greaser that lives in a society where the rich kids, or Socs, are different from the poorer kids, or greasers. He reveals that life is worth living, no matter what difficulties he faces. Darry, Ponyboy’s oldest brother, shows that family is important. Sodapop, Ponyboy’s other brother, communicates that an understanding person should be kept close. Cherry, a Soc, shows Ponyboy that a stereotypical Soc is not that different from the stereotypical greaser. These are all minor themes, but the main theme of The Outsiders is that innocence should be treasured. Ponyboy memorizes the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost. He remembers...
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...The Outsiders. This poem has two meanings, the first about good things never last forever and the second about youth and innocence. Robert Frost’s poem relates to the novel, the Outsiders in many ways. The first meaning is that good things do not last. That life may seem perfect when everything is going right, but this will not stay forever. Everything living is beautiful and every beautiful thing will eventually die. Robert Frost is saying good things will never stay forever. Many times in a person’s life there will unhappiness and sorrow, the good times will end. Even though the great times come to an end, they will be followed by more and more great times. It is just like life. Life begins through beautiful babies, but sadly, in many years the baby will die. But, since good times will come again, a new beautiful baby will be born. It also means that all things are going to change eventually, like people, seasons and nature. Gold in the poem represents youth. Line one, “Natures first green is gold,” indicates nature’s first green is youth because every living thing begins with youth. Line two, “Her hardest hue to hold,” represents that youth is very hard to keep because they get older in age. In line three, the poem says, “Her early leafs a flower”, which defines youth as innocent, and beautiful like a flower. Line four, “But only so an hour” means that the young child will grow older and no longer be innocent for it will mature and begin to do wrong things. In line...
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...The Greasers and Socs expect to be better than the others. The Socs already think they are more improved than the Greasers because they think that can jump the Greasers whenever they want. The Socs are rich so that makes them think that they are based on what they have and how much better their things are. The Socs jump the Greasers to make them scared of them, just like what happened to Johnny. The Greasers want to be tougher than the Socs because in the book, before the rumble, they talked about how much each one of them wanted to beat the Socs. The Greasers don’t think they have a big future because they don’t have as much as the Socs. Many of the Greasers dropped out of school so they probably can’t get a well paying job. As for the Socs, they want big things for themselves. They have good grades, they have lots of money, and they have everything they could dream of. This makes them...
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...Everything was gold, life was great for Ponyboy and Darry they were getting along throwing the ball to each other and having the occasional fight as brothers but we learn in Robert Frost's poem nothing gold can stay. In the event of Ponyboy’s parents passing away in a car crash. This had a huge impact on the Curtis brothers. This effected Darry the most because he was forced to take up the role to take care of Ponyboy and Soda. Darry couldn’t have the role of the big brother he had to become the dad that kept the family safe and together. The reason this effected Ponyboy and Darry is because they couldn’t have that brotherly relationship toward each other Darry started to be hard on Ponyboy to excel in school because Darry had to drop out of school to get a job to provided for him, Ponyboy and Soda. When Ponyboy look toward Darry to hangout he couldn’t because he had...
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