The Outsiders Who are the outsiders? In Tulsa, Oklahoma a 17 year old high school student named S.E. Hinton wrote the book called “ The Outsiders”. The book tells the story of two groups of teenagers : the greasers and the soc. (Doc. A)…
S.E Hinton wrote the outsiders when she was in high school and did not plan to publish the story. Since then it has been made into a book and a movie. I think the book was bad because it did not give the effects that the movie did. I liked the movie because it had more of the story put into it detail wise. While the book and movie have many similarities and differences, the movie was more effective in telling the story.…
“Stay golden ponyboy.” That means that Ponyboy should stay good and not do bad things. I thought the book was okay because it wasn’t really detailed like the movie because the movie had more action about the rumble or when dally robs a store and gets shot or even when Johnny dies. The movie was really detailed. While the book and movie have many similarities and differences, the Movie was more effective in telling the story.…
S. E. Hinton wrote the novel The Outsiders to present a complex theme that her characters have to deal with. She portrays an environment where characters created happiness for themselves but then have it destroyed by an action of grief. Throughout the book when one of the characters experienced joy there would also come pain. For example there was a character named Bob in The Outsiders that brought Cherry Valance comfort but when Bob died a great distress came over her which causes her to learn how to let go. In summary, one will understand that the author is trying to cast the theme that the main characters in the novel will experience delight, but it will get interrupted by agony.…
When turning a book into a movie, many components need to be taken into consideration. Incorporating each and every detail exactly would challenge the directors, greatly. The Outsiders movie and book have no exceptions. People who worked on the movie did a great job portraying the book. However, the movie lacked some of the pivotal points coming from the book.…
Heroes are special, in the way that they can help others while putting away their own needs. Such heroes can be seen in many places where they help others without worrying about problems they have for themselves. People who can be defined as heroes in S.E. Hinton’s book, The Outsiders, are the teenagers Johnny, Sherri, and Ponyboy. Johnny can be defined as a hero in the book, because of what he does for other people. Johnny proved that he could be a hero, when he dashed in with Ponyboy in the burning church with no regard whether he would survive or not.…
In the novel the Outsiders written by S.E Hinton, family is a very important theme. The greasers have no family but they consider themselves as one. Family is important because people need someone to look up to and in the outsiders the greaser the greasers look up to is Darry, who is a farther figure. Ponyboy and Sodapop are brothers with Darry so for them two they don’t feel they have a parent because to them Darry is just a brother. Dally is a lonely person but about the same age as Darry but Dally doesn’t look up to Darry, the only person who dally cares about is Johnny.…
Darry responds by telling Ponyboy that they could send him to college because he is a smart kid and he could get into college. Darry wants the best for his younger brother. Darry is the oldest of the three brothers and had to take care of the family when their parents died in a car crash. Darry…
The Outsider book is an excellent book to read and is easily relatable. The book has all four types of conflict, however, the two main ones discussed below are man vs. man and man vs. self. Both conflicts are present more than once throughout the book which makes the book all the more interesting to read. Below are examples of both types of conflicts in the book.…
In the books The Outsiders and The Lord of the Flies, Hinton’s and Golding’s approaches to the themes of challenges, choices, conformity all contrast. For example, in The Outsiders, Hinton’s approach to challenges contrast Golding’s plot and the way they affect the story. One of the challenges Ponyboy faces is the fact that his parents are dead and his oldest brother, Darry, is supporting the family. On page 3, Ponyboy says, “Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave.” (Hinton 3).…
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 is a novel of conflicts. Throughout the story, the author S.E Hinton shows that problems occur all over the small town of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The title, The Outsiders is very unique. In the story, it is clearly shown that, the greasers are considered the outsiders of the town, Johnny and Ponyboy feel that they fall in between the socs and greasers, and Ponyboy feels outcasted from his oldest brother Darry. Growing up in this town in the 1960’s you belonged to one of the two groups, the socs or the greasers.…
Likewise, when Pony is gone with Johnny are on the run. In the book it’s hinted when Dally tells Pony, that his brothers are worrying about them deeply. Despite this, with Darry still being the loving brother he is, protects Pony from all the news media from the hospital after the church incident. “Darry finally told them I wasn't in any shape to be yelled at so much and they slowed down a little. Darry’s kind of big” (100).…
He might enjoy walking home from the movie theater alone, but he is still threatening his safety by walking home alone without a member of his gang. Darry, Ponyboy’s brother, character is shown here to. Darry is generally the strict one of the family. He supports the family by paying the bills and is basically the leader ever since their parents died. Ponyboy says how it annoys Darry when he does that, likely stressing him out and describing his character for the first time in the…
Life experiences change us as people and these experiences can affect our lives both positively and negatively. They teach us lessons that provide wisdom that cannot be obtained in a classroom. However, these lessons can be difficult to grasp at the time they are experienced as it may be through death or harassment. While joyful events can teach us many things, it is the crisis that mainly brings knowledge, especially of how to remain strong in the absence of positivity. Life experiences can also determine our perspective and outlook on life, essentially forming our individual personalities.…