Unit 2 Paper Review and Critique The Outsiders is about the life of a 14 - year- old boy named Ponyboy, who struggles with what is right and wrong in a society. Ponyboy and his two brothers Darry and Sodapop have recently lost their parents in a car accident. Due to this Pony and Sodapop are allowed to stay under Darry’s guardianship as long as they behave. Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry are greasers, a term that refers to the young men on the east side of town, meanwhile the Socs are the rivals of the greasers. The Socs refer themselves the West- side rich kids. The novel starts off with Pony walking home alone from a movie. Ponyboy is stopped by a gang of socs who badly injure Pony and threaten to kill him. The next night after visiting a drive- in movie Ponyboy and Johnny go to a vacant parking lot to hang out however they both fall asleep. At 2:00 am Johnny wakes up Ponyboy, due to it being two in the morning Pony runs back …show more content…
Dally gives them 50$ and directions to a hideout outside of town. The boys hop on a freight train, and find the hideout where they are supposed to wait until Dally comes for them. Dally shows up one week later, and takes the boys to Dairy Queen. While eating Dally tells Ponyboy that Cherry is now being a spy for the greasers. After eating Dairy Queen they head back to the church and discover that it is on fire. A school group is there, and little kids are trapped inside the burning building. Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally managed to rescue all of the kids, but Johnny did not make it out. Johnny managed to survive but sustained heavy injuries such as burns and bruises. Later on Johnny dies from his injuries. Due to Johnny dying Dally robs a grocery store, then he flees to a vacant lot telling the group to pick him up. The police catch up to Dally and shoot
In the book The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy, along with his brothers and friends, has to face the daily struggles of being a greaser among the Socs. This fiction book focused on Ponyboy’s life and the problems he ran into with the Socs. He and his gang of friends had fights with the Socs that happened often, and had to deal with a Soc being killed by one of the Greasers, though it was an act of self defense. The three topics addressed in this intriguing novel are the fight between rich and poor, the power of friendship, and what it means to be a hero.
In the movie kids were at dairy queen.pony was jumped by the Socs in the book.dally and johnny's mom did not argue in
They go to a park and get jumped by a gang of Socs they had conflict with earlier that day. Ponyboy is held under the water of a fountain and to save his friend, uncharacteristically, Johnny stabs the leader, Bob, with a knife. Bob ultimately ends up dying right there next to the fountain. To escape the police, they run away to an old abandoned church with the help from Dally, another in their gang. They spend days there with only baloney, cards, and a copy of Gone with the Wind. Ponyboy says, “The next four days were the longest days of my life” (75). They both had to sleep on the hard, stone floor (67) with no blankets. When they ran away, it insists that they believed they had no choice and soon realized what a ghastly experience it would be. Spending their days on repeat, doing the same thing, eating the same thing, can become redundant. For them it was hard to stay inside the church even though fear kept them
Pony starts to understand, through talking to Johnny and learning about his life, he has it better off than some people. A few days later, Dally, the Greaser who helped them, shows up at the church. He takes Johnny and Pony to a Dairy Queen to get a bite to eat. On their way back from the Dairy Queen, the boys notice that the church is on fire. Pony and Johnny instantly jump out of the car after they hear the screams of some children inside. They rush into the church and run to the back rooms to rescue the children. When the last of the kids are out, a burning timber crashes down into Johnny. They rush him to the hospital in a very bad condition. A few days later, when Johnny is about to die, Johnny tells Ponyboy that it was worth saving the kids and that everyone has a purpose in life no matter how bad it is. Johnny said that his purpose may have been saving those kids, but Pony should keep living life to its fullest. Johnny dies not long after. Pony can't get over his death and the fact that Pony thinks it was his fault. Pony ends up not wanting to “chill” and mess around with his other Greasers. He stops wanting to do his best at his school work and just sit around. The child in Ponyboy is gone. It went with Johnny. Ponyboy is no longer scared of the Socs or fighting. At the end of the book, some Socs come up to him and threaten him. Pony breaks off the end of his bottle and chases them away (pg. 171). Pony is now a man who will stick up for
The book ‘The Outsiders’ by S.E. Hinton, is a novel about Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles between right and wrong where there is Socs and Greasers and which he believes that he is an outsider. In ‘The Outsiders’ the author portrays the theme through characters, actions, and symbols.
He is being raised by his oldest brother because his parents died. Their family life is less than desirable; they are poor. Ponyboy expresses a lot of emotions during his life. He is bitter about the life they’ve been dealt especially since his brother Darry did not get a chance to finish school and make something of his life. Pony is embarrassed of his life and his looks; this is evident in the anger he expresses when their gang rivals call him white trash. When we first meet Pony we see his innocent, sensitive side; he enjoys sunsets, he reads novels, he takes pride in his school work. He respects his brother Darry even though he is pretty strict with him. Pony avoids conflict as he displays when he tries to get Dally to leave the Soc’s girlfriends alone when they are at the movie. He claims to want to rumble with the gang but deep down he is afraid and rather cling to hope that there will be a peaceful
Ponyboy has been heroic when he defends Sherry and Marcia at the drive-in theater when Dallas was harassing them. He also shows that he is heroic when he saves the children from the church fire. Ponyboy demonstrations how he can be a good friend by staying by Johnny’s bed side while he was sick. There are numerous amounts of heroic decisions that Ponyboy committed but he can also be the villain at some stages. Ponyboy smokes a packet of cigarettes a day which is bad for his health. Ponyboy fights a lot with Darry, Soda says, “I can’t stand to hearing y’all fight anymore.” After Johnny died Ponyboy’s grades went down and he wanted to drop out of school, Ponyboy announces, “I’ll have to get a job as soon as I get out of school anyway. Look at Soda. He’s doing okay, and he dropped out. You can just lay off”. Ponyboy listens to Randy even though he’s a Soc’s. “I swear you three are the bravest kids I’ve seen in a long time” said Randy. S.E Hinton has cleverly used Ponyboy to show that all people can be heroic and
are. When Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally went to the drive in movie, they met Cherry Valance, a
Ponyboy saves up money to try to buy back Sodapop's horse, Mickey Mouse. However, his most noble act is saving little children from a burning, abandoned church with the assistance of Johnny and Dally, two other members of the gang. After all the dreadful experiences Ponyboy endures, he feels he must tell his story to help people like him. Like Ponyboy, Darry suffers from having to live a very rough life, but still manages to produce acts of nobleness. Darry, a strict, 20-year-old muscular man with dark hair and brown eyes, has to deal with many hardships. Since both his parents die, Darry becomes the caretaker of his two younger brothers. He gives up his chance to go to college and instead must work excessively hard to support the family. Although Darry has to endure these hardships, he is still able to execute bighearted acts. Darry manages to always be the father figure of the greaser gang. He also overworks himself so he can help the family and give his little brothers their greatest shot in life. Both Darry and Pony could prosper from programs. Darry and Ponyboy, constantly have arguments and disagreements so maybe group therapy could be beneficial to
In the book The Outsiders, written by S. E. Hinton, Ponyboy and his friends have been fighting with the Socs for years, but one day things go horribly wrong. The novel focuses on how Ponyboy realizes how important the rest of the Greasers are to him. He experiences many hardships that alters his perception of the differences between the Socs and Greasers. The three topics addressed in this charming novel are the fight between rich and poor, what it means to be a hero, and the power of friendship.
Bob Gardner - Bob is Cherry's boyfriend. Johnny murders Bob to stop him from killing Pony.
Socs and cops unfairly stereotyped him and other greasers as “hoods.” This causes violence and while walking home from the movie theater he is jumped by Socs. Ponyboy argues with his older brother Darry who is very strict and it often rough with him: Then someone had me under the
The Novel the Outsiders set in the mid 60’s, Tulsa, Oklahoma written by S.E Hinton published April 24, 1967 is a book about the life of a 14-year-old boy called Ponyboy Curtis. The novel is about Ponyboy and his struggles in the society in that he believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy has two brothers, Darrel, who is 20 and Sodapop, who is 16. Ponyboy and his brothers are in a gang called ‘the Greasers’, the Greasers were the poorer kids. The Greasers also had an enemy gang called the Socs, short for Socials. The Socs were the rich kids. They Socs would always drink and look for fights with them. The Outsiders is not just a story about conflict, but is also about rivalry and competition. The biggest issue of conflict in the novel is about
Johnny and Dally are both very contrasting characters and each play a vital role in both the novel and Ponyboy’s life. Johnny is a soft character who is regarded as the stereotypical Greaser. Dally is a rugged and rough character that is regarded as a hoodlum. Therefore, I believe that this paper has been able to answer the topic question and also support my thesis.
While Ponyboy was coming home from the movies the Socs were following him but the color of the mustang the Socs were driving was red, in the book it was blue. Further on the Socs jumped Ponyboy and they tackled him to the ground and cut his neck, but really he got cut on the head. Later on, after Ponyboy and Johnny went to the drive in they met to Soc girls, Cherry and Marcia and Two-bit was there later on and asked how was the South side of town, but really he said in the book “ How do you like the west side of town” (Hinton p. . Coming home after the movie Ponyboy fell asleep in the vacant lot and came home late so Darry yelled at him and smacked him in the face but in the movie, Darry pushed him to the ground. Running away, Ponyboy and Johnny were being attacked by the Socs and one of them, Bob, was drowning Pony but he was really be drowned by five Socs instead of