The 1950’s was a period were being rebellious and outspoken was popular for young adults. The “Greaser” was the most popular and rebellious title a young adult could have during the those times. A “Greaser” is well known by wearing a leather jacket, plain white t-shirt, tight blue jeans, and a greased up hairstyle. In Tom Coraghessan Boyle’s story “Greasy Lake”, he tells us the story of three 19 year olds trying to spend a summer night living a “Greaser” lifestyle and getting into any trouble they can find. Through series of events we see how the narrator and his two friends end up with a different mindset of how he changes towards the end of the story.…
The Outsiders is a story based in the 1960’s. It explains the life of a 14 year old boy and all his friends. He lives in a world where there are two groups the “Greasers” and the “Socs,” as for him he is a greaser. The Outsiders was brought to life by S.E. Hinton. She started writing the novel when she was 16 years old, after it was published they made a movie based off of the original novel.…
In her novel The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton explores the theme that stereotypes are unfair and that therefore, one cannot judge an entire group of people based on these prejudices. A person is more than just a product of their community or circumstances, which is seen to be true in the characters of Johnny and Ponyboy. The Outsiders has two types of people, there are Greasers and Socs. The Greasers were the middle class unlike the soc who are more rich and Greasers are more wilder.…
In S.E. Hintion's book the outsides. There are two groups that fight agents each other. There are greasers and socs. There are differences between the greasers and the socs. I can identify with both the greasers and the socs.…
“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.…
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.…
Honor Among the Unruly What is honor? Honor means sticking to what is right or having a code of conduct. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, is a book that displays that maybe there is honor among those who don’t follow laws or rules. The Greasers are a gang of brothers who rivals with the Socs, the rich gang. They go through some obstacles throughout the book and while they do, they show honor to each other.…
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.…
The main idea in this story is to represent all the different gangs and people there were. In this story, The Outsiders, there are 7 boys in the Greasers gang. From youngest to oldest there is Ponyboy, Johnny, Sodapop, Steve, Dally, Two-Bit and Darry. From the book it states “That was the difference between his gang and ours- they had a leader and were organized; we were just buddies who stuck together-each man was their own leader.” This states how each person can achieve and do great things.…
In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton tells the tale of 2 gangs, the stuck-up, rich socs, and the rough, impoverished greasers. Pony thinks that greasers are the only ones that have it hard, and that they’re the only ones with problems. He then talks with his family who agrees, but friends who don’t. He proceeds to go to the movies and meet a girl named Cherry who talks to him about socs lives. Pony then decides to learn more and realizes that even if you’re given whatever you want, that you will still have problems.…
The book, The Outsiders, is about a constant battle between a group of west side rich kids, called socs, and east side poor kids, called greasers. The socs are always jumping the greasers and beating them up but they never get caught because they have rich parents and are high up in society. Throughout the book it gives details on the struggles that the kids with no money have to go through every day. It also gives insight into the true motives and feelings of people and how not everything is perfect, even for the people who seem to have it that way This book is told from the view point of a fourteen year old greaser named Ponyboy Curtis.…
Socs say that greaser are “hoods”, trouble, come from the wrong side of town, and are poor. Greasers say that socs are “preppies” and sporty, and are wealthy. The main character, Ponyboy, is a greaser, and another major character, Cherry, is a soc. They are from different sides of town but they find out that things are rough all over for both of them. All around the world, people are going through some rough times but in the end you will find happiness…
In this essay will be comparing and contrasting the greasers and the socs. First, the greasers were a Caucasian subculture for teens in the 1950s. The greasers listen to rock and roll, their styles were influenced by singers Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, and Vince Taylor. Their style was more popular in the poor neighborhoods that had higher crime rate than upper-class neighborhoods (Socs).…
It’s commonly told that any animal with sympathy, will willingly take in another creature as their own. Such as wolves raising a human child, a familiar tale of an unlikely group loving an anomaly to their standards. In such cases, the species can be very much alike, such as a human to a human, however their personalities, traits, and natural environments are very different. This is seen throughout The Outsiders, within the Greaser Gang everyone has a different home life, personality, and have all grown up differently. The likeness of each other is their social status and the fact that they all love each other.…
Bridging the Gap Between the Rich and the Poor The Outsiders is a very well-known novel written by the author S. E. Hinton in 1967. The book follows the story of two conflicting gangs named the Socs and the Greasers who are separated by their positions in society. There are countless themes and main ideas throughout the book which teens can easily relate to, including themes of isolation, violence, innocence and even love. The Outsiders mainly talks about the theme of Society and Class; how the city that the book takes place in is divided into two by factors of wealth and position in society.…