The four sub schools, Social Learning Theory, Social Control Theory, and Dramaturgy can be used to understand a criminals behavior. In 1983 film, The Outsiders, examples of all four sub schools can be interpreted. The Outsiders is a movie about a group of teen boys who consider themselves to be "Greasers" the boys misbehave, have knife fights, and commit crimes. Out of all the boys, Dallas Winston, is the boldest.…
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 the outsiders movie and novel it introduced the main characters and greasers Ponyboy Curtis, Darrel Curtis, Sodapop, Dallas Winston, Steve Randle, Two Bit Matthews, and Johnny Cade. In the movie/book Ponyboy had gotten jumped by the greasers rival the soc’s. During this time the Greasers had showed up and chased away the soc’s and threw stuff like rocks and empty bottles at them. Ponyboy had been lying drowsily on the ground when Darry and Soda had picked him up a little bit. After they had chased off all the Soc’s and helped ponyboy they went to Darry’s house and everybody except for johnny left.…
The Outsiders The Outsiders was written nearly 50 years ago and schools still use it in the classroom today. It was based around stereotypes of groups, such as Greasers, in the book. Ponyboy, the main character, is different than most Greasers because he is smart and likes to read. In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, people’s stereotypes for the greasers aren’t always what they seem to be.…
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a very different book. This is because it is written from an “outsider’s” perspective. However, we didn’t get to see much of the Soc’s point of view. Cherry says in the book that life for an “insider” isn’t as great as it looks to the Greasers. Bob As the gang and I were racing down the street in my blue Mustang, I violently jerked the steering wheel away from a mailbox.…
The Outsiders is a popular remarkable novel which describes the life of a fourteen year old boy named Ponyboy Curtis or Ponyboy and his struggles in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. This novel was written by S.E Hinton. This book is based on two youthful groups, the Greasers, and the Socials (also known as the Socs.) This novel contains violence, humor, and passion, intelligence, and action. Another well-known book is Speak.…
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.…
“There’s still a lot of good left in the world. Tell Dally. I don’t think he knows.” The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a book about two gangs called the Socs and Greasers that live in Oklahoma, they are always fighting with each other and one fight gets taken too far. Inside the book it shows the madness and how a few characters develop and adapt to what they are surrounded by.…
For my film analysis, I chose to analyze the movie “The Outsiders” directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on the novel “The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton. In this movie, a gang of outcasts from the north side of town called the Greasers are always fighting against a rival group called the Socials, who are the rich jocks from the south side of town. The story follows two young Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, who aren’t like the others. These two see that fighting is pointless, but it’s just the way they live their life. The two boys get into a fight with some Socials and end up killing one.…
S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders was written when the author was sixteen years old and attending high school. She witnessed the struggles of her peers, especially the violence between the different social class gangs, in school and began to write about them. The Outsiders began as a simple short story and quickly flourished into a novel due to Hinton’s irate state of mind regarding her own life. Her writing became a way to cope and work through her feelings about the violent situations surrounding her life.…
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.…
Who Are The Outsiders Have you ever wondered how the Outsiders are different than other groups today in society? Many social groups make up our world today. Susan Eloise Hinton (S.E. Hinton) was a highschool student in Tulsa, Oklahoma and she decided to write a book about the types of groups in her hometown. Susan decided to publish her book in the name as S.E. Hinton because she didn’t want people to judge her knowing she was a girl writing a book about boys.…
While some Greasers try to achieve redemption, others meet tragic ends. In S.E Hinton's, The Outsiders, the Greasers fight for something that they believe in that brings purpose to their lives. In the beginning, Ponyboy was walking home from the movie theater and the Socs jumped him and pulled a blade , the Greasers came running chasing away the Socs. “I about decided I didn't like it so much, though, when I spotted that red Corvair trailing me” said Ponyboy.…
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”.…