The Outsiders is a great novel telling the story of a couple of boys in a poor part of town. The author in his novel uses street slang representing where they live and how they grew up. He uses slang throughout the whole book and without it it wouldn’t describe the setting of where they live in the same way. The author, S. E. Hinton uses street slang in the book, The Outsiders, to show where they live and the way they are seen by others. In the beginning of the book we find out that the main character and his “gang” are called greasers. Knowing this isn’t really in our vocabulary we use context clues to figure out that they are the lower class citizens and they live in the poor part of town. We also find out that they get mugged or jumped
In S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders Socs and Greasers are enemies. Society put them against each other and labeled them. Greasers are the poor, dirty, no-good kids that nobody wants around. Socs are stuck-up, perfect, rich kids who looks down on everybody. In the book, two boys- Johnny and Ponyboy- start some trouble with a couple of Socs, and Bob is killed. They have to run from the police, all while the tension between Greasers and Socs is thicker than ever. Throughout the novel, it explains how “things are rough all over”. The Greasers have it the worse because they feel emotions so harshly, they are constantly getting jumped by the Socs, and they only have each other because their families are broken.
First, the Greasers always felt insecure and had to be aware of their surroundings because they were
After all, they are the “out” group— the clique that society condones. Ponyboy, the protagonist, also identifies himself as part of them. While reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, he felt Pip, the main character reminded him of the greasers–”the way he felt marked lousy because he wasn’t a gentleman or anything, and the way that girl kept looking down on him” (Doc B). Greasers are lookeed down opon in society becuase they aren’t rich, and the image associated with them is negative. They are believed to be a general menace to society; people think they all steal stuff for kicks, attack innocent bystanders for no reason, and are uneducated hoodlums. They are outsiders to society as a whole. Pony, no matter how smart or talented he may be, will always be treated as an outsider by the Socs just because he’s a
Some people feel The Outsiders should be banned because of language and the theme of adolescents on their own (Sarah Reads 2). The story also has a lot of violence scenes that some feel are too extreme for young readers. Some of the book’s content is inappropriate for minors, and servers as a way teens should act out towards their parents (Sarah Reads 3). The story has many references to sex, drugs, fighting, start of gangs, being disrespectful, and using foul language. As a cause of the author, S.E. Hinton allowing these things to be
The Greasers only problem isn't just money, one of the bigger problems is also finding a home or education. The Greasers drank alcohol to help them calm down, most of them also smoked cigarettes. Greasers also had very different physical features. For example a lot of the Greasers had long dirty hair because hair was like their prize possession. They also wore white tee-shirts and leather jackets which wasn't considered very nice clothes back in their time. Greasers put hard work and sweat into making money, while the Socs either steal money or are gifted money. Something that Ponyboy said about Greasers was “We're poorer than the Socs and the middle class”(3). When Ponyboy says “and the middle class” he is trying to show that Greasers aren't just more poor than Socs but they are also more unfortunate than the middle
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.
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton is about two gangs, the Socs and Greasers, who do not get along and are fighting each other as well as society. Both of the gangs are judged by their appearance, social status, and where they are from. One character that stands out in the story is Ponyboy because he is dynamic with many sides to his personality, and he is the protagonist of the story. Ponyboy can be described as sensitive, smart, and brave.
In S. E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, the protagonist, Ponyboy Curtis, is a fourteen-year-old orphaned teenager from a poor family. He lives with his two older brothers, Sodapop and Darry, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where there are two main social classes; the greasers and the Socs. Ponyboy, his brothers, and their friends Two-Bit Mathews, Johnny Cade, Dallas Winston, and Steve Randle are all part of a greaser gang. The Socs are “the jet set, the West side rich kids” (2) who jump greasers and have beer blasts for fun. Ponyboy does not like the Socs - he thinks they get all the breaks and they are all stuck up. His opinion on the Socs changes when he talks to Cherry, Marcia, and later, Randy. Pony learns that the Socs and the greasers really are not that different; he learns to be independent and think for himself; and he learns that he can be himself and still fit in with the greasers.
The Outsiders is a great book that involves friendship and leadership. The setting is in Tulsa Oklahoma. Some main things in the story are when Ponyboy and Johnny run away. Then the Socs come and tries to drown Ponyboy in the park in the fountain. Then Johnny kills a guy that is in the gang with the Socs.
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton was written in 1967. This novel tells the story of the conflict between two different social groups, the greasers and the socs. The socs were the socials who lived in the rich part of town, and the greasers were the lower class youths. This novel tackles issues such as violence, class conflict, and prejudice. The novel takes place in the early sixties. The Outsiders examines how two different groups compete, and unite for survival, which is often justified with violence. Hinton’s publishers decided that she should publish the novel under the name S.E. Hinton. They were worried that readers would not respect a females perspective on violence, and that is why they chose the non-gender author name of S.E. Hinton.
The Outsiders is a book about Greasers And Socs. The Greasers are the poor east side kids they would wear their hair long and greasy and they will dress in blue jeans, T-shirts, or wear they shirttails out and wear a leather jacket and tennis shoes or boots. The Socs are the rich west side kids that worn nice clothes, drove nice cars, and had all the pretty lady’s. They both was gangs in Oklahoma. The Socs they would jump Greasers, wreck houses, and throw beer blasts for kicks.
The Outsiders identified the 60’s, often there would be violence between groups and often involving a group’s social class. For instance, the tensions between the Socs and Greasers is violent, and this will lead to Bob’s death, Johnny’s death, as well as many injuries throughout both gangs. The book The Outsiders is written by S.E. Hinton and is portrayed through the eyes of a high school student in Tulsa, OK where S.E. Hinton grew up. Hinton began writing The Outsiders in 1965 at the age of 17 and the book was finally published in 1967 when she was 19. The difference in perspective upon the society and social class creates issues throughout The Outsiders and they assume the problems will be solved with violence,
The book “the Outsiders” (S.E. Hinton) is based on the story of two gangs the Greasers and the Socs. These two groups of individuals have conflicts. the Greasers are the East side working class people. The Socs are the West side rich kids. they drive around in a blue mustang, they “jump” the greasers and injure them purely because they are lesser than the Socs. The Greasers are a interesting bunch of individuals. the story is based from their perspective. They aren’t rich but they get by, they steal they fight they smoke but they aren’t bad guys.
S.C. Hinton wrote the novel, The Outsiders about two different groups with a different social class status. The Socs were considered the wealthy, sophisticated kids, while the Greasers weren’t liked so much by society. They were poverty-stricken and lived in poorly maintained neighborhoods. “Most greasers don’t have real tuff builds or anything. This is partly because they don’t eat much and partly because they’re slouchy”(Hinton 140). The two associations fought each other time and time again with an intimidating appearance. They may have on a hard face on the outside, but on the inside, they are people with emotions and are devoted to keeping their brotherhood safe.
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."