In this novel the author shows that in a gang where boys are “brothers” not by blood, but by bond. They look after one another and when one of them are in trouble they come together and fight. There is at least two groups, the Greasers which are known as dirty hillbillies and the socs who are the rich and insulting teenagers and this already gets my attention to read it so who are the nicer and more helpful ones. The Socs are always attacking the Greasers and will jump out of nowhere and yell out “greasers!” and beat them up (pg4 S.E. Hinton) and as soon as Soda and Dally (the gang members of the Greasers) found out one of them are being attacked, they immediately come to help and further on in the story something big happens and this was pretty big event it made me also think that the Greasers aren’t so bad …show more content…
Hinton) Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are in the car driving to the church then all of a sudden Dally slams on the breaks. The church is burning. So Dally tells the other two boys to stay in the car, but they were confused but of course they don’t they ignore that so they follow Dally to the church. Adults tell the boys that children are stuck in the building and immediately Johnny and Ponyboy rush to help them. After saving them, they were known as the towns heroes. Further into the story the Greasers and the Socs are in a rumble, they meet up at a spot and they snarl at each other and both groups fight. The Socs have requested no weapons, but no one followed it (pg 140 S.E. Hinton) “but I knew shepard's gang were used to fight with anything they could get their hands on- bicycle chains, blades, pop bottles, pieces of pipes. Any other gangs thought they were tougher than the Greasers just because they had the advantage with the weapons they used in the rumble but that didn’t make them win the Greasers
Stereotyping is a constant theme throughout The Outsiders. It may seem as if the Greasers are the ones that really have to deal with presumptions, but the Socs also have quite a bit of stereotyping to deal with. While the outside world tries to force these stereotypes onto the gangs, they also tend to assume things about each other. This leads to divisions between them that most likely would not exist if stereotyping was not so abundant. The Greasers are pegged as nasty hoodlum troublemakers that are dropouts and criminals. On the other hand, the Socs are made out to be the opposite- crisp, intelligent young adults that have no real problems. Many cases of stereotyping between the two groups leads to violence between them.
...e better and the Socs to be worse. Being tough and tuff were the two things required in each group, but not every individual were able to be the two things. This caused some individuals not to be themselves for the gang. Internal and external expectations changed the group to be better or worse. The Greasers were expected by others to do bad things, but they were able to prove they could be heroes. The Greasers are disgrace to the society which helped them to strive to become real heroes. While the Socs were to pressure by the high expectations they decided to rebel. The Socs took advantage which led those group to be a disgrace, although no one ever thought the Socs were capable to do bad things. Society should stop being judgmental to avoid changes that make other worst. The only expectations people should make is to help other people to be the best they can be.
This story is about a young boy of 14 named Ponyboy. He is part of a hood group called Greasers on the east side of town, a group of lower-class teenagers who wear their hair long and greasy, wear jeans and ripped-up T-shirts, and are at odds with the rich-kid bullies known as the "Socs". This group of hoods are born into rich families from the west side of town, are of a high "social" class, drive around in Mustangs and Corvairs, and mostly wear checkered jackets with a madras on them. One day, as Ponyboy is walking home from a movie, he is jumped by a gang of Socs. At the last minute, his buddies from his group (made up of his brothers Darry and Sodapop, who raised Ponyboy now that their parents are dead, the hardened hood Dally Winston, quiet innocent Johnny, and wise-cracking Two-Bit) scare off the socs and rescue him. The next night, Ponyboy and Johnny join Dally to go looking around for a good fight and maybe catch a movie. There they sit behind two attractive young girls and Dally attempts to obnoxiously get their attention and pick one up. After Johnny tells him to stop, Johnny and Ponyboy sit with the girls, Cherry and Marcia, and Ponyboy and Cherry discover to their mutual surprise that they have a great deal in common. Two-bit appears, and the three greasers walk the Socs girls back to Two-Bit's house so that he can drive them home. On the way, they run into Bob and Randy, the girls' drunken boyfriends and the socs that beat up Johnny a couple years ago, and the girls agree to leave with them in order to prevent a fight between the two gangs. On his way home Ponyboy takes a stop by the vacant lot with Johnny and accidentally drifts off. When he wakes up and goes home his brother Darry angrily lectures him on what could have happened and slaps him. Then he runs out the door, finds Johnny, and goes to the park to get away from things. There, however, the two young greasers run into Randy and Bob, with a few of their Soc friends. One of them holds Ponyboy's head under an ice cold fountain, and Ponyboy blacks out. When he comes to, he is lying on the ground next to Johnny.
A hero is someone who is admired for his/her courage and his/her need to help others. Some examples of heroes are Spiderman, Superman, Ironman, Superwoman, and Batman. However, the real heroes are strangers that risk their lives to help others. The book, The Outsiders, shows several heroes that sacrifice their own safety for the greater good. This book centers around the gang, greasers, and the feud between the greasers and Socs. Three characters that show enormous courage and save multiple lives are Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally. In S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders, Johnny, Ponyboy, Dally emerge as heroes because they all risk their lives for another.
I feel as though the novel The outsiders has many themes, but the most important one is belonging. The greasers are a group of poor, low class youth that don’t have much and live on the wrong side of town. They are always held accountable for their actions. On the other hand, the Socs are a bunch of high class youth that are very privileged and aren’t held accountable for their immature actions.
On the outside, the Socs appear to be good kids. They have lots of money, they dress well, and they drive nice cars. Underneath their goody two-shoe exterior, the Socs are really bullies who actively cruise the streets of the Greasers' neighborhoods, looking for opportunities to attack. Like the Greasers, the Socs are often fighting and drinking alcohol. The Socs believe in playing it cool to the point of showing not showing feelings at all. Some of the Socs are Randy, Robert, Cherry, and
Dally is a man that just doesn't care about what he does. Johnny is just a sixteen year old that just gets pushed around too much.Ponyboy is 14 and he is a boy that doesn't like to get into a lot of trouble and he will do anything to help people. These are the heroes that I’m going to be talking about in these last three paragraphs.
In the 1920’s there was a study conducted by Fredric M. Thrasher. Thrasher studied 1,313 gangs in Chicago and revealed the issue of gangs. He considered the poor in poverty as the area increasing in gangs. This area was known as the “zone in transition” and was referred as in his studies. Thrasher has many law reinforcement and social workers helping him bring a stop to this madness. According to Thrashers studies “Important variables such as the age of gang members or the organizational features of the gangs were not related in a straightforward way to differences in the behavior of gangs” (Cummings 6). Thrasher has analyzed these gangs in many ways to the extent or romantic life in gangs. He helped us distinguish the difference in stereotype gangs and then the actual facts involving them.
I hate the Socs. I read chapter 1 of the Outsiders, which is about a town in the 60’s separated by class. There are the Greasers, who are poor and have their hair long and Greasy, and the Socs, who wear madras shirts, drive Corvairs, and are rich and like to show it off. I believe the Socs are cruel, and I can show you why.
The Socs are almost always the ones that are starting the fights. For instance, jumping the Greasers all the time,just out of boredom! They usually also target weaker victims, just like when they beat up Johnny. Johnny is a Greaser, the “pet” of the group, and one of the youngest. The Socs affected him so badly that he had a scar emotionally and physically. “Johnny's face was cut up and bruised and swollen, and there was a wide gash from his temple to his cheekbone. He would carry that scar all his life. His white T-shirt was splattered with blood. I thought he might be dead; surely nobody could be beaten like that and live”(Hinton 29). Here, the author reveals that the Socs did some damage to Johnny that he would have as long as he lives, and it’s not only the physical hurt. Even though the Greasers are not fully innocent, overall the Socs have done more
For example when Randy and Pony boy are talking in the car Rand says how they don’t know why Greasers and Socs are fighting. Another detail is in the book Pony boy says how the two gangs are young and dumb and don’t exactly know they’re way in life In the fight. They are just young gangs that don’t know they’re way in life. while some people argue, the Socs have it hard because the Greasers do because they have difficult lives, are considered thugs, and some of them don’t have parents to take care of them, like the Curtis brothers, so they have to give up on their education in order to work to pay their bills. Body Paragraph #1: While some may say Socs have it harder really, Greasers do because of how they live and look, they are also constantly fighting with they’re family.
The main character in this book is a 14 year old boy named Ponyboy. He lives with his two older brothers, Darry and Sodapop, ever since his parents passed away. He and his brothers belong to a gang called the Greasers, who are from the wrong side of the railroad tracks. They all have long and "tuff" hair; their trademark is the amounts of oil that they put in their hair. They hate the Socs. The Socs have everything, they have great girls, great cars and they think they are superior so they always pick on the Greasers.
A lot of Socs tend to pick fights with greasers because it’s fun. Greasers then fight for fun or for self-defense. And innocent people like Ponyboy get wrapped up in it all. Fighting is no good, it solves nothing, creates nothing but violence, and hence that what comes out of it is only pain and trouble. We shouldn’t fight, we’re all human. We all suffer here and there. We all go through things, though unfortunately some of us don’t make it out. We really, truly, don’t need to fight. After all, things are rough all
bad for the good greasers. In the book where the greasers were beat up by the Socs, I
Socs are your upper middle class, you're rich snobby kids who have everything they want. Ponyboy describes the socs as “ they jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next”( Hinton pg3). “ it’s the abbreviation for socials, the jet set, the west side rich kids”( Hinton pg2). This is why Ponyboy calls them socs. People that are socs in the story are Cherry, Bob, Randy, and Marcia. Socs like picking on the greasers and stealing things from them. Socs are just mean to anyone who isn't like