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 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)…
The Outsiders “Greasers- Poor/Regular Teens” “Socs- Rich/High class Teens” Anthony Rizzo the first baseman on the Cubs is a team player because he does his responsibility on the field. Not only does he do his responsibilities he also donates to charity, and this reveals that he is very warm hearted to others. Another person that relates to him is Dally, Dally Winston he takes care of his gang, and does what needs to be done. The Outsiders is a significantly great book made in 1967. The book of the Outsiders was made at this time during segregation on purpose.…
A very interesting and important character from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders is Sodapop Curtis. Soda Curtis is a teenage hoodlum and Ponyboy’s, the narrator's, older brother. Soda is the middle child in a family of three boys. His parents died in a car wreck causing him and his older brother Darry to obtain jobs in order for the three of them to survive.…
The Outsiders ,book and movie both,is a great piece of media. The two of them,since they’re technically the same story,are very similar. There are also several differences. Such as it starting with Pony writing the theme. You also see an image of the parents dying.…
T: Throughout The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Darry changes from being protective and appreciative, to frustrated and ignorant after the deaths of Johnny and Dally. E: Darry is known as being very protective, sacrificing anything to keep the gang together. However, Darry can get a little too protective. When Ponyboy was jumped Darry did a little too much to make sure he was okay.…
The novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton develops a theme that stereotypes do not always define the person that you are, but only by showing that as individuals we are capable of changing and going beyond people’s expectations, only then, it truly defines the person who you really are. Although Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are Greasers, they risk their lives to save kids from the abandoned burning church. Later on in chapter 6, pg.95, when Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are at the hospital, Jerry says to Ponyboy, “Mrs. O’Briant and I think you were sent straight from Heaven” and in that moment Ponyboy tries to explain to Jerry that he’s a hooligan, and he is someone that’s not worthy of such praise, and most people would look at him as…
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 outsiders is a novel based on two groups of teenagers formed on social/income class. With these two group of teenagers they had conflict for petty reasons and wanted to have the upper hand on one another. One group was named the greasers the lower income kids and the socs short for socials the kids who had it all and were privileged from the lower income kids. Mainly the novel goes over the conflicts and tragedies that the protagonist ponyboy had gotten into over the course of two weeks. Ponyboy had two brothers named Sodapop and Darry whom were also apart of the gang known as the greasers other members where Johnny, Dally, Two bit and Steve.…
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to lose your parents or not have much money and be in a never ending battle? Then this book and the movie might be for you so if you don’t want spoilers I recommend you watch the movie and read the book. In this paper I will Tell you the differences from the movie and the book of the Outsiders. There are many differences and similarities in the book and the movie.…
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.…
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.…
Stereotypes are everywhere in the world. Today many major groups of people are still being stereotyped due to certain events that are being witnessed around the world. In The Outsiders, there are two groups of people. They are socs and greasers. They are groups of people that stereotype each other.…
A basic human tendency when meeting new people is to automatically assume many things about them just based on their physical appearance. People don’t often consider the fact that a person’s exterior doesn’t have any correlation with their interior. Many people struggle to overcome or ignore this bad habit, for it can lead to the downfall of what might have possibly been a great relationship. In the film, The Outsiders, this concept of judging someone by their appearance, seems to be popular and a very important part of the plot. It can even tie in on the factors on who was cast solely by appearance and physical features.…
His personality stands out as the gentle one of the gang, but he “was a good fighter and could play it cool, but he was sensitive and that isn't a good way to be when you're a greaser” (88). Ponyboy knows that Johnny could fight if he needed but Johnny says “fighting’s no good. . . .” (148). He believes that fighting does not answer the problems the greasers and the Socs have. Before Johnny died he wrote a note in Gone With the Wind and left the book for Ponyboy.…