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    Mrs. Staley The Outsiders novel essay Thursday of this week The conflict inside the Outsiders Ponyboy is one of the main characters, also the youngest. He runs into quite a bit of conflicts, these are the biggest and the best three. SE hinton wrote this book in high school, connecting some of the book within her own life, furthermore, The Outsiders became an overwhelming success later on in her life. The main characters in The Outsiders are Ponyboy, Johnny, Darry, Dally. The Outsiders in based…

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    had to run away and hide? A story showing a lot of astonishment of character, friendship and bravery. Something that everyone can relate to sometimes. The Outsiders is a theme in itself. Looking at life as an outsider and feeling as though one is being treated as an outsider is a matter of perspective. Ponyboy is brave to run away and hide he also shows friendship toward johnny while they're in the church. “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.” As…

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    In The Outsiders, a novel by S.E. Hinton, based on real events about two different groups, the Socs and the Greasers and their “problems” within each other. The Socs known as “White trash with Mustangs and madras”(55) and the Greasers being known as “White trash with long hair”(55). Throughout this essay you will be reading about “friendship”. In the beginning, Ponyboy was just leaving the movie theater and began walking home. While Ponyboy was walking, suddenly he saw a group of Socs coming up…

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    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. The gangs in The Outsiders are mandatory for individuals to mature, find their place in life, and most importantly feel loved, because…

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    Carness Greaser; a group of poor but caring people that everyone thinks differently about. Despite the stereotypes surrounding him, Sodapop is caring towards everyone, mostly his closest friends and family. Sodapop is one of the characters in The Outsiders, a book about a group of teenagers who are greasers. The greasers steal, get into fights, and deal with weapons and other dangerous things that could get them in trouble with the cops,but this is not all true, this is only what almost every…

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    Ponyboy Curtis is the main character in S.E. Hinton’s popular novel, The Outsiders. After Ponyboy’s parents tragically died in a car accident, he is left to live with his older brothers Darry and Sodapop. The three brothers are part of the Greaser gang. Greasers are looked at as ‘hoodlums,’ mostly by their rival gang: the Socs. After the Socs cause the gang lots of trouble and even a couple of deaths, Ponyboy's strength is really put to the test. Ponyboy’s character is very admirable because he…

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    Ponyboy’s Turmoil All creatures have conflict, in the novel The OutSiders there is a great amount of conflict. The novel by S.E. Hilton follows a fourteen year old boy named Ponyboy. Ponyboy and a friend named Johnny are part of a gang named otherwise known as “greasers”; the two get involved in a murder and must run away. In the process of eluding capture the boys become heros despite there ruff and tuff appearance. However, one does not live to bask in the glory. Ponyboy experiences turmoil…

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    yourself “Wow I really want people to know how good of a book this was.” Well when I finished reading The Outsiders by S.E Hinton I wanted to tell people what a great book it was. That’s why I’m writing this book review. To spread the word about this amazing book that I just recently read. Hopefully you go out right now and read this book because all I will say is it was amazing. The Outsiders being the amazing book that it was always had action and so much more going on. When you’re reading the…

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    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…

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    The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hilton and released on 1967 was a compelling novel. The book depicted the violence between two gangs, the Socs and the Greasers, as well as discrimination of the poor and lower class. The Socs were described as upper class snobs that always got what they wanted. The greasers were described as long haired kid-brothers that always stuck up for each other but couldn’t stop getting into trouble. Later in 1983 The Outsiders novel was created into a movie. Although both…

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