The Outsiders is a wonderful but drama filled book by S.E Hinton. The Outsiders book is about two boys, which are Greasers, who end up going head-to-head with their rival gang, the Socs. This brawl ends up with one Socs dead, forcing Ponyboy and Johnny to go into a hideout at an abandoned church. After this incident, all the Greaser pals (Johnny, Dally, Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Two-Bit, and Steve) must stick together and learn to live with their violent lives. As a result of this disastrous, Socs and Greasers war, some lives make tragic ends. The central message of this book is that class war is petty. There is no point in fighting over which class you are in, who has more money, etc, because as you can see, it results in unnecessary fights and even deaths. In The Outsiders the narrator is Ponyboy. He has two older brothers named Darry and Sodapop. Sodapop is greatly admired by …show more content…
There had always been meaningless war between the Greasers and the Socs. At one point on the book Cherry Valance, a Soc, mentions that Greasers and Socs are just alike. Perhaps she was the only one who thought the way because they end up going head-to-head anyways. Throughout the book there has been 3 deaths, 3 fights and counting, all caused by the war between the Greasers and the Socs. Dally wouldn't have died if Johnny wouldn't have died. And Johnny wouldn't have died if he wasn't in a hidden at an abandoned church for killing Bob. And Bob wouldn't have died if they hadn't started an unnecessary argument, and maybe there wouldn't have been an unnecessary argument if the Greasers and Socs could just settle their differences. This rivalry has ruined many innocent lives. The two groups are not so different. After all when they go to sleep at night, they look at the same beautiful sunset. By feuding they are not emulating each other, but rather destroying each other. They are stuck in a battle with no
According to Chris Pine, “The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.” This quote means you can choose how you view people and things.This relates to the Outsiders because the novel is about how you choose to view people. The Outsiders is about how people shouldn’t judge others based on stereotypes and they should get to know them first.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a story about two gangs who realize in the end that they are both just groups of people. The Greasers live on the East side of town and are known as poor and “hoods”. Meanwhile, The Socs live on the West side of town and are the wealthy kids. These differences don’t change that they are all people. These guys will do anything for eachother after all they are like family.
The Outsiders, an enthralling novel by S.E Hinton, is an excellent story about the hardships and triumphs experienced by the Greasers and the Socs two rival gangs. S.E Hinton tells a thrilling tale about the Socs and the Greasers that are two gangs and she characterize how they live. Ponyboy, his brother and his friends have to deal with the challenges relating to their environment. The three most important topics of The Outsiders are survival, social class and family support.
The Greasers are the poorest with not too much money at all. They drive fords and are much more laid back than the Soc’s. Greasers commit petty crimes and sometimes more serious ones. Greasers have long hair which they take great pride in; the Greasers wear older clothes and normally smoke far too much. The Greasers fight fair ‘“Skin fighting isn’t rough. It blows of steam better than anything.’” (p37) Greasers usually stick together but sometimes they can’t help throwing a punch or two.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about a group called the greasers, a group called the socs and what’s different between the groups and what’s the same. The greasers are the kids with little money, who feel a lot, and are tough. The socs are rich kids with not enough emotions and they never get in trouble. The Greasers have it worse because they have broken families, are always getting jumped by the socs, and are expected to steal and be rude because of their backgrounds.
Romeo and Juliet and The Outsiders Argumentative Essay The scared and bewildered look coming off of Johnny’s face, and the repentance and sorrow of Romeo. These were some of the unaccustomed feelings that not only the characters felt after they had just brutally murdered someone, but the audience felt as well. If only Romeo or Johnny knew what their future was going to be like, they could have saved themselves from the tragedy. Johnny is a character from a young adult fiction novel, The Outsiders, that took place in the mid-1960’s.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a late 60’s novel about a young 14 year old kid named Ponyboy. He is part of a hood group on the eastside of town called the greasers that to him are closer than family. Each and every person within the gang looks out for each other and would do anything for them, but sometimes these things they would do for each other without second thoughts have jurrasic effects that nobody could see coming in the future.
It is unthinkable for two dissimilar characters to have so many connections, but can it happen? S.E. Hinton certainly puts this claim to the test with her novel The Outsiders. Two characters, Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade, seem to be vastly unalike at first glance, but despite their differences, they also have similarities. They are similar because they both have abusive parents and they both care about each other. However, Dally and Johnny have opposite personalities and different views about laws. Consequently, Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade are tremendously different, while so alike at the same time.
This book showed the struggle between rich and poor. The two main groups of the story were the Socs and the greasers. The Socs are in the upper class while the greasers are the poor ones that dislike the Socs because they have more money, better cars, and act like they are better than the greasers. The Outsiders is a good story by S.E. Hinton that shows the struggles of growing up Hinton did a fine job with the character development, the plot, and the theme with a few flaws.
Can a story truly exist or at the very least be interesting without conflict? The answer is “no.” Even small children’s books have a conflict, and some books have even more than one. An example of this would be The Outsiders by S.E Hinton. There are many different types of conflicts that can be found in any book. A few conflicts that can be seen in books or stories are man versus man ,man versus society, man versus nature, and many more. The book The Outsiders shows 3 conflicts including group versus group, man versus man, and man versus self.
The Outsiders is a novel by S.E Hinton, that follows a young boy named Ponyboy who grows up in a gang. Johnny, Sodapop and Darry help him find how he fits into the world and without them he would have a hard time finding his own identity. Without having a close group of friends he would have a tough way of life, especially with the Socs. Being in a group that you associate with, that have different values to yourself can lead you to disregard your own ethics and do things you wouldn’t normally do, but at the same time this can assist and reinforce your own values…
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is about the rivalry of two gangs, Greasers and Socials. The Greasers are low class and the Socials are high class.
Book Report On The Outsiders Character Analysis: Ponyboy Curtis - Ponyboy is a fourteen-year-old member of a gang called the Greasers. His parents died in a car accident, so he lives alone with his two older brothers, Darry and Soda. He is a good student and athlete, but most people at school consider him a vagrant like his Greaser friends. Sodapop Curtis - Soda is Pony's handsome, charming older brother. He dropped out of school to work at a gas station, and does not share his brothers' interest in studying and sports.
The Outsiders is a story that follows the life of fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy is a greaser that lives on the poor side of town. The plot of the novel is constantly driven by the conflict between two different groups: the greasers and the socials, who have a long history of hatred for each other. The tension between the two groups is what causes the plot to arise. This story begins in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s. Ponyboy along with his friend Johnny explore the beauty of life and go through a drastic period of coming of age.
The Outsiders is about the life of a 14-year-old boy. The book 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."