The greasers are an example of outsiders. In (Doc. B) Ponyboy is assumed to be a hoodlum. “ One time in biology class I had to dissect a worm, and the razor wouldn’t cut , so I used my switchblade. They are right.…
“Maybe the two different worlds we live in aren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.” (Hinton 41) In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy is the main character. Even though Ponyboy shows many signs of a possibility of being a Soc, he is apart of the poorer class, the greasers.…
Since cherry got him speaking about this topic he had it on his mind. Later on in the book Pony find some differences between them. He says "the difference between Tim Shepherd's gang and ours - they have a leader and are organized; we are just buddies who stick together - each man is his own leader". I think the one major difference is that the greasers are family and they stick up for each other no matter what. The little themes in this book can really teach you life lessons.…
Outsiders: Compare and Contrast Ponyboy is the main character. His brothers are Soda and Darry. His friends are Two-bit, Johnny, Dally, and Steve. He lives in a poor part of the city.…
The Outsiders The book and movie about the outsiders was a very enjoyable story that had many events and funny scenes like the big rumble. The book was very good and explained the scenes in many details. I enjoyed the movie because I got to relaxed and got to watch some funny parts. While the book and movie have many similarities and differences, the movie was more effective in telling the story.…
They always have to show aloofness to represent the socs, and they can’t really be themselves around the greasers. They also can’t really do much when they are trying to look cool all the time, so it’s hard to enjoy anything. Since their stereotype is being cooler than the greasers, they always have to act cool, so…
The Outsiders Essay Are the Greasers and the Socs really that different or are they more alike that they realize? Greasers are a gang of kids, who live on the East side, that banded together because of a series if likenesses that they share. Socs are a bunch of rich kids who live on the Southside and have all the best cars, clothes, and alcohol possible. These two groups think that they are different, but their similarities outweigh their differences in 180 pages of literature by S.E. Hinton. Even though Greasers and Socs come from different worlds and have different problems they have more in common than they think.…
S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders and introduced many unique characters. Each individual had their own situation, problems, and struggles which shaped them into the people they were. Two members of the gang, Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade, are different from what they seemed in the first half of the book. Dally was known as a hardened thug, but deep down, he cared about others. Johnny Cade was a boy who seemed meek, but was actually one of the strongest characters mentioned in the story.…
Outsiders: Movie v. Book S.E. was in high school when she wrote the book the Outsiders . Also fun fact about the movie is the scripts were taken right out of the book. I would say that the book was more effective, and had a lot more details. The movie was good but I didn’t like how they skipped a few parts that were in the book. While the book and movie have many similarities and differences, the ( book ) was more effective in telling the story.…
So nowadays a lot of books old and new are getting movies and maybe even movies are getting books. But what we want to be looking at is what they put in or what they left out. We're looking at the compare and contrast of things. In this case we are talking about The Outsiders movie compared to the book and vice versa.…
“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.” -Anne Frank. In the book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton there are two rival gangs, the Greasers and the Socs. The two gangs have two completely different appearances, mainly because of their social classes.…
Greasers aren’t so bad, although, they do sometimes steal and run away from their troubles. They show honor by saving each other, saving random people, and standing up for one another. Although society might not know it, everyone has honor, rich or poor, but the point is that everyone is still human - they just make mistakes sometimes. To begin, most of them are not related to each other.…
S. E. Hilton’s novel and popular film The Outsiders expresses a variety of internal and external conflicts including the main conflict in the novel, which is the division and struggle among social class. The two groups, Socs and Greasers, are drastically different, but also similar in a variety of ways. Socs and the Greasers are merely adolescents struggling with personal and social complications that unfold within society. As the greasers are portrayed as low-life scum no-good-for-nothing-dirt-bags, and on the other hand, Socs are depicted as privileged rich kids who catch all the “big breaks.” What determines to where each member of society belongs which group is the individual’s appearance and finance.…
Time and time again people come to the common question of, “Movies vs. books?” Many movies follow their books word for word whether its character development or plot development, whereas other movies change and twist the book’s stories in unimaginable ways, yet people are still faced with the question, “Movies or books?” An example of how books and movies can differ is in the story “The Outsiders” written by S. E. Hinton and produced by Francis Coppola. Although there are many similarities that both the book, The Outsiders, and the movie share, there were many noticeable differences in the appearance and personalities of all the characters. Three of the main characters, Pony, Johnny and Soda, will be reviewed in particular.…
Hinton never uses the word "outsider" in her novel, yet it's the title of the book. Maybe she left it open for us to ponder. Write an essay in which you explain what she may have meant by The Outsiders. Be sure to define what you mean by an outsider, and then explain who you think Ms. Hinton was referencing when she titled her book.…