...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 Outsiders” takes you through a journey of struggle, violence, and death. It examines the life of a recently orphaned young man born into poverty confronted with the prejudices that he could not change. He struggles with the many conflicts between the lower class and the upper class youths. The Outsiders focuses on the life of Ponyboy Curtis who has two brothers, Darry and Sodapop, which belong to a group of young people that were called greasers. The Greasers defined as a group of hoodlums with a background of being poor, mean, and violent. Ponyboy’s brother, Darry, stepped in to support his family after their parents died in an automobile accident. Darry was a smart and serious person that worked most of the time, and was very hard on Ponyboy .He often yelled at Ponyboy to do better in school. Soda, the middle brother considered very handsome and likeable, was happy most of the time. The brothers often fought over Ponyboy’s future. They closely associated with two members of the greasers, Dally who was one of the oldest gang members and certainly the toughest, and Johnny who was shyer than Ponyboy. Dally seemed to enjoy being a criminal and thought the law was a joke. Johnny’s parents abused him, so he always seemed scared which made him the pet of the group. This story has many tragedies. The first tragedy in the story was when the socs jumped Ponyboy, who was walking home from the movies by himself. He was two blocks from home when he saw a red Corvair following him...
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...Danielle Nowak Ms. Adams English 8a November 14, 2012 Summary: Chapter 8 We couldn’t get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason. Two-Bit and Ponyboy go to see Johnny and Dally in the hospital. Johnny, weak and pale, whispers that he would like Ponyboy to finish reading Gone with the Wind to him. His mother shows up to visit, but she is a mean-spirited, nagging woman and Johnny refuses to see her. As Ponyboy and Two-Bit leave, she accosts them and blames them for Johnny’s condition, and Two-Bit insults her. Dally is recovering nicely in the hospital, and for the first time ever Ponyboy feels warmly toward Dally. Dally says that Tim Shepard, the leader of another gang of greasers, came in to talk about the rumble. Dally asks for Two-Bit’s black-handled switchblade, and Two-Bit gladly hands over his prized possession without even asking why Dally needs it. On the way home, Ponyboy and Two-Bit see Cherry Valance in her Corvette. She says that the Socs have agreed to fight with no weapons. Ponyboy asks her to go see Johnny, but she says she cannot because Johnny killed Bob. She says that Bob had a sweet side and was only violent when drunk, as he was when he beat up Johnny. Ponyboy calls her a traitor, but he quickly forgives her. He asks her if she can see the sunset on the West Side, and when she says she can, he tells her to remember that he can see it on the East Side too Chapters 11–12 Danielle Nowak Ms. Adams English 8a...
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...Reasons for Greasers to be Dishonorable Is there honor among the lawless? I think not. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a book about a group of greasers who live in a poor neighborhood and are against a group of soc’s. The greasers do a lot of dishonorable things and they always get mistreated because of it. But the soc’s since they live on the south side they are rich and they can always use anything against the greasers to get them in trouble. The greasers from The outsiders are not honorable because they steal, murder people, and threaten to kill people with blades. In The outsiders, the greasers do a lot of dishonorable stuff. For example, Dally robbed a grocery store and was running from the cops. In the book it quotes that “ It was Dally... he just robbed a grocery store and the cops are after him we gotta hide him..” (157). This is dishonorable because what person robs a store and then pulls a gun out at the cops and starts shooting and calls that honorable. Doing all that stuff was cowardly of Dally because since he didn’t want to feel...
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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...
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...S.E. Hinton wrote a book that shows many themes of teenage life in 180 pages. Here’s a little bit about the author, S.E. Hinton. S.E. Hinton starting writing the book The Outsiders at the age of 15, but did most of the work when she was 16. Also, she uses her Initials instead of her full name, Susan Eloise Hinton, because her publisher was afraid that the reviewers would think that a girl couldn’t write a book like The Outsiders. A quick summary is this book there are two main groups. The Socs and The Greasers, in which is Ponyboy the protagonist of this story. Both groups do the same things, such as beating people up and robbing stores, but the Socs are favored because of stereotypes. Life is pretty normal for ponyboy until one night Johnny Cade, another member of Ponyboy’s...
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...Ponyboy is a greaser in the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton. Ponyboy plays the narrator and the protagonist in the book. If you were to meet this character for the first time most likely some ideas about him would come to your head, but some of those ideas could be a stereotype. A stereotype is a belief about a group of people based on a common characteristic but is not necessarily true. Some stereotypes of Ponyboy could be he is a criminal, thief, does not care about school, and does bad things to people; however, these are not true. A stereotype for ponyboy of being a gang member is that he is a criminal and does bad things to other people. Some people would have many stereotypes about Ponyboy like if he is in a gang he is a criminal but that not true. Ponyboy is a gang member but he is not a criminal ponyboy helps lots of people out. There are many ways he has helped people, for instance, he saved 8 little kids lives from a burning building without hesitation. Furthermore, people may think he is a thief or a drug dealer for his gang. Ponyboy is not a thief or is involved with drugs in the book it never said anything about ponyboy being into drugs or a thief. When most people think of greasers or gang...
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...An outsider to me is somebody that tries to be themselves and not act like someone their not. For example, I would personally consider the “greasers” in this book an outsider. They fit the description perfectly. These group of kids do not care how they look or what others think of them, they stick of for each other even if it causes them to be mortified, and also do outrageous things that no ordinary kid would think of. The Outsiders as a book had its sorrow moments and its fortunate ones. The characters did indeed play apart in how/when these scenarios happened, but the one that is considered my personal favorite would be Ponyboy. The foremost reason is because he reminds me of myself (Besides the smoking). He is courteous to others, is living his young life in a slo-mo picture, and is always there for anyone that needs him, not just his gang. Pony and I also connect with our odd thinking of what will occur next in the future and how we may approach these problems....
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...To me, an outsider is a person that is different than the majority. People can become outsiders voluntarily or involuntarily. You can be in a different place, of a different ethnic background or just hanging out with people who you don’t share anything in common with. Sometimes being an outsider can be really important and life changing like Ponyboy, or it can be so minor such as being in a class with all girls. Being an outsider can be a positive or negative experience. Say, for Ponyboy, he gets jumped and lives in bad conditions but he has his friends to help him and support him. One instance that changed my view on other places by being an outsider was during summer camp. I have been going to the same camp for 8 years now and basically my second home. Camp and my own house is the two places on earth where I feel 100% at home and not at all an outsider. We were told the night before that we would be going on the Pawtucket Red Sox trip the upcoming day. I was very excited for the trip because I love minor league sports. We woke up at the crack of dawn, ate breakfast in the cafeteria and boarded the bus to Pawtucket. On the ride, I sat with Jason and I was very familiarized with everything around me for the start. We passed by my family's condo on the cape and the drive was exactly alike the 100s of drives I have done to Brewster and back to the mainland....
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...In the novel “The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton there are two juvenile rival gangs. One of the gangs are called the Greasers. They Greasers are the east side “hoods” who live in the bad part of town containing not many members and are usually dressed in blue jeans and tshirts , greasing their long hair back. Unlike the Greasers the Socs have a average amount of members and live in the wealthy west side of town usually dressed in plaid designed clothing.The Socs and Greasers both deal with trying to find acceptance and belonging with their peers, finding approval from their guardians, and trying to stay entertained. Many...
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...We read the book the Outsiders there was some different physical appearances in the movie. There was diffrent parts in the book that were different in the movie. They had changed some of the characters and the way they looked. They had more explaining in the book then in the movie. We can hear and see in the movie and in the book we can't. There will be some of the differences about the book. Ponyboy's hair in the book was light brown reddish. And in the movie it was different he had it black. Two-bit mathews did not have sideburns in the movie, but in the book they did. Soda had a horse and they talked about it in the book, but in the movie they didn't mention the horse at all. The book expresses feelings of the characters and explains what...
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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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...The theme of the outsiders is friendship can keep you sane. You can see this first in the part of the book when after Ponyboy got jumped everyone ran to him. They all started caring for him and making sure he was alright. “ It was Darry,” (Hinton 6). This is when Darry came up to him. “ Soda came looping back,” (Hinton 7). This is when Soda came for him as well. Soon after Steve came, then Two-Bit, Dally, and lastly Johnny. They all really cared for eachother. Everyone cared especially for Johnny because he was the “pet” of the gang. Even Dally had a soft spot for him. You could see this theme in the middle when everyone was worried sick about Johnny and Ponyboy. No matter what they stick together. When Ponyboy and Johnny went to...
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...Can two people be similar? They grew up so different? Is this even possible? However in S.E Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, there are two characters. Johnny Cade and Dally Winston are similar because they both have neglectful parents and they both care about each other. Despite their similarities they also have differences, Johnny and Dally have different ways how they died and how Dally tries to break laws and Johnny stays away from breaking laws. Therefore, Dally Winston and Johnny Cade although they have similarities in some significant ways, they also are quite different. Johnny Cade and Dally Winston have one significant similarity and that is they both have neglectful parents. For example, Dally is arrested at the age of ten in New York while beginning in a gang. If Dally’s parents gave him more attention he would have not have gone to jail so young. Dally only mentions his father once to say, “‘ Shoot, my old man don't give a hang whether I’m in jail...
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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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