Have you ever wondered how hard it was to be in a gang? S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders tells a story about a 14-year -old boy who learns how to stick together with the ones he loves even in very tough times in life. The book starts with Ponyboy getting jumped by Socs, a rival gang, while walking home from the movies. Ponyboy describes how this gang likes to get drunk and jump the greasers, their gang, for fun. The themes of change, family, and fitting in are shown through hard changes with his best buddy Johnny dying, having to stick together with his brothers no matter what happens, and having to deal with the Socs acting better than them and hurting them. Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” shows an example of how nothing amazing and beautiful, such as gold, lasts forever. This essay will show how some of the characters in The Outsiders show the message of the story
Ponyboy is one of the main characters in this book. The theme is shown through him with a lot of change happening in his life, such as Johnny and him running away to an old abandoned church when Johnny kills the Soc, Bob.Ponyboy is a …show more content…
She is a cheerleader at Ponyboy’s school. She was pretty to Ponyboy, with nice red hair and beautiful red eyes. She was Bob’s girlfriend. She is a Soc, but she is nice to everyone, including greasers. She doesn’t judge people for who they are or what they look like.In the quote, “Things are rough all over” (page 35), Cherry is explaining how even though the Socs get everything they want, it is still pretty hard for them. Cherry shows the theme with how she is a Soc. She is in the the cool crowd, but she isn’t mean or cruel to the greasers. She actually is nice to them. A lot of things change in her life, too, when Bob, her boyfriend, is killed by Jonny. She tells Ponyboy in the beginning of the book that even though they are in the upper class, life is still really hard for
Ponyboy is one of the main characters in this book. The theme is shown through him with a lot of change happening in his life, such as Johnny and him running away to an old abandoned church when Johnny kills the Soc, Bob.Ponyboy is a …show more content…
She is a cheerleader at Ponyboy’s school. She was pretty to Ponyboy, with nice red hair and beautiful red eyes. She was Bob’s girlfriend. She is a Soc, but she is nice to everyone, including greasers. She doesn’t judge people for who they are or what they look like.In the quote, “Things are rough all over” (page 35), Cherry is explaining how even though the Socs get everything they want, it is still pretty hard for them. Cherry shows the theme with how she is a Soc. She is in the the cool crowd, but she isn’t mean or cruel to the greasers. She actually is nice to them. A lot of things change in her life, too, when Bob, her boyfriend, is killed by Jonny. She tells Ponyboy in the beginning of the book that even though they are in the upper class, life is still really hard for