Greasers Compared to Socs Essay
Don’t we all see the same sunset? It shouldn’t matter what side of town you live on, because at the end of the day, we all see the same sunset don’t we? At a certain point in time, this is all that Ponyboy Curtis believed his gang and the Socs, the other gang, had in common. Soon though, he learned that there was more similarities between the two groups than he originally thought. In this essay, I am going to explain the characteristics of a Greaser as well as a Soc, and what made them so alike in the end as well.
You know what a greaser is? White trash with long, greasy hair. That is what one of the Socs in the book, Randy, described the greasers as. The greasers were the East Side, also known as the poorer neighbourhood. In fact, majority of kids from there who graduated couldn’t even go off to college. They were emotional in a way, some more than others. One greaser in particular, Dallas Winston, said once: “You get tough like me and you don’t get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin’ can touch you.” But in the end, even Dallas had a breaking point. They only fought when they had something to fight about, while the Socs fought for nothing. They drove around in 50s vehicles that they had fixed up themselves, mostly …show more content…
They still had problems at home. For instance, Johnny didn’t want to go home because his parents didn’t care about him, but Bobby, a Soc, didn’t want to go home because his parents always blamed themselves for whatever he did. Both Socs and Greasers seemed to get in trouble with the law. Both of them lie and drink and steal and speed, simply because they’re still learning how to grow up and mature. Both of the groups attend the same school, in the same town, and are both looking at the same
Don’t we all see the same sunset? It shouldn’t matter what side of town you live on, because at the end of the day, we all see the same sunset don’t we? At a certain point in time, this is all that Ponyboy Curtis believed his gang and the Socs, the other gang, had in common. Soon though, he learned that there was more similarities between the two groups than he originally thought. In this essay, I am going to explain the characteristics of a Greaser as well as a Soc, and what made them so alike in the end as well.
You know what a greaser is? White trash with long, greasy hair. That is what one of the Socs in the book, Randy, described the greasers as. The greasers were the East Side, also known as the poorer neighbourhood. In fact, majority of kids from there who graduated couldn’t even go off to college. They were emotional in a way, some more than others. One greaser in particular, Dallas Winston, said once: “You get tough like me and you don’t get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin’ can touch you.” But in the end, even Dallas had a breaking point. They only fought when they had something to fight about, while the Socs fought for nothing. They drove around in 50s vehicles that they had fixed up themselves, mostly …show more content…
They still had problems at home. For instance, Johnny didn’t want to go home because his parents didn’t care about him, but Bobby, a Soc, didn’t want to go home because his parents always blamed themselves for whatever he did. Both Socs and Greasers seemed to get in trouble with the law. Both of them lie and drink and steal and speed, simply because they’re still learning how to grow up and mature. Both of the groups attend the same school, in the same town, and are both looking at the same