In the novel The Outsiders, the main character, Ponyboy lives with his two older brothers: Sodapop and Darry. If you’ve read the book, Soda and Darry might seem like polar opposites, but they do, in fact, share many common characteristics. Sodapop and Darry. Yin and Yang. Fire and Ice.…
In the book Darry always yells at pony and never shows his love but we all know he just does that because he wants to act tough.…
“Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That was how you could tell the other guy was human too.” The book The Outsiders is about a 14 year old boy named Ponyboy, who lives with his two older brothers, Darry and Sodapop. Sodapop is 16 years old turning 17, Darry is 21 years old the three brothers are considered greasers. The book opens with Ponyboy getting jumped by a group of socs.…
“Things are rough all over.” The book The Outsiders is about a group of teenagers that go by the name Greasers and another gang of upper class kids called the Socials. When two greasers named Ponyboy and Johnny get into a fight with some Socs. One of the Socs dies, Making the two boys go into hiding. Ponyboy and the rest of the gang must take on the outcome of the death of that Socs in their brutal lives.…
“A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.” That is the definition of the word community. The Outsiders, a novel by S.E. Hinton, was based on a setting of a divided community consisting of the Socs, the rich Westside kids, and the Greasers, the poorer Eastside kids, usually deemed for trouble. The problem: they can’t put their differences aside, and realize they are both human. They just can’t crack the code on equality.…
Darry and Ponyboy are chasing Sodapop because he ran from home because Darry and Ponyboy were fighting and Sodapop was getting pulled into the argument. When Pony caught up to Soda he tackled him. Soda then said to Pony, “You don't realize all Darry’s giving up just to give you a chance he missed out on” (Hinton 175). This means that Darry is giving up part of his life for to make Ponyboy’s life better. He gave up collage for Pony.…
The narrator’s presentation of the events is unreliable and uncreditable. This is because, the narrator is unreliable because, he is too unsophisticated. According to the article, “The Outsider”, “I must have lived years in this place, but I cannot measure the time.” This shows that the narrator can’t tell time so, there is no way to no how much time has gone by in any of the events that happens. The narrator says that he can’t remember most of his life.…
Sade Adu once said “I think you only really feel like an outsider if you’ve been an insider.” S.E. Hinton thinks that the greasers are outsiders. In the book The Outsiders people only think of greasers as no good J.D. hoods when they are real people with real problems. Randy stands out from other Socs because he is less violent and he shows his emotions. First and foremost, randy is less violent than other Socs.…
How can one simply alter another's life? There is a novel called The Outsiders, and was written by S.E. Hinton, to partly show that anyone can write an intriguing book. In the book, the main protagonist is called Ponyboy, who is a “greaser” as stated in chapter one, “but I am a greaser” (Hinton 1). Some of the choices made by Dally, Darry, and Soda affect Pony’s life, how he sees himself, and relationships with his brothers.…
The classic novel The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton takes place in the 1960’s in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The story revolves around Ponyboy Curtis as he navigates the inequalities of societal structure; the privileged socs and the poor lower class greasers. Ponyboy and his close friends Johnny Cade, Dallas Winston or “Dally”, Keith “Two Bit” Matthews and his older brothers Sodapop and Darry. Ponyboy is caught in the middle of a feud between the two teen social classes that consequently lead to violence and death. A strong underlying theme within the novel is the natural cruelties of life and social biases.…
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.…
The Outsiders Rough Draft Can you hide your emotions from everyone or will you lash out on them? Emotions can be really hard to hide, and they can affect everyone else's emotions too, with sadness passing on to sadness. This can apply to events as well, like a chain reaction. S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders portrays these chain reactions clearly with each character having more problems grow when they were expressing their strong emotions; Ponyboy, Darry, and Dally are perfect examples for this, with their emotional outbursts towards everyone and themselves.…
Do you feel as though you are an outsider? Or see strange people walking around? Well, before you go around judging people just based upon their appearance or because they do not act the same as you. Definitely take the time to consider their value to our society and to our whole world. First of all, feeling like an outsider is a common thing people feel in many different settings and situations.…
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.…
The Outsiders Do you ever feel like an outsider? The book the outsiders was written by S.E Hinton she is actually a girl she put her initials so that people would not judge her by writing a book about boys made from a girl. The book was written in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1960. She was mad because the diversity of groups for example the greasers (poor people) and the socs (rich kids) (A). In document(B) it was talking about a kid named pony boy that was a greaser in a classroom full of socs because he was “supposed to be smart” when dissecting a worm he pull out a pocket knife a socs girl said to him “they are right you are a hood”.…