The Outsiders Essay

A fourteen year old boy named Ponyboy Curtis is coming home from the movies alone. Where Ponyboy lives, is a dangerous place where the Socials (the rich kids from the West) are the bullies. Ponyboy is a Greaser and Greasers are the targets for the Socials to bully. Next, Ponyboy gets attacked by a whole car full of Socials. Luckily, his two older brothers: Darry and Sodapop – and the rest of his gang: Steve, Two-bit, Johnny and Dallas comes to rescue him and chase away the Socials. After this…

Ponyboy Curtis, a member of a gang called the “Greasers”, is leaving a movie theater when groups of “Socs”, the Greasers’ rival gang, jump him. His older brothers—Darrel and Sodapop—and several members of their gang rescue him. The next night, Ponyboy and his Greaser friends Dallas and Johnny meet Socs, Cherry Valance and Marcia, at a drive-in movie theatre. Ponyboy realizes that Cherry is nothing like the Socs he has met before. Afterward, Two-Bit Matthews, another gang member, Ponyboy, and…

Identity is who someone is and who they are as a person. For Ponyboy finding his identity was difficult because he was labeled a greaser before he really figured out what a greaser was. It was only through his journey of becoming a greaser that he realized who he was, and what he stood for. Ponyboy develops his identity throughout the book in many ways. In the beginning of the book Ponyboy is trusting, scared, and compassionate towards others. Ponyboy is content with being a greaser…

A meaningful theme brings a sense of purpose to any novel, and ties all the events together in a coherent way. Many of the most appealing storylines have more than one central idea which the story revolves around. The Outsiders explores the two reoccurring themes of "bridging the gap" and "honor among the lawless" through an array of characters and emotions. The message of "bridging the gap" is relevant in this novel because, there is a seemly insuperable gap between the two social classes, the…

The Outsiders Perspectives The dictionary definition for “stick up for” is to “support or defend a person”. In the book, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, it seems that friends are always supporting and/or defending each other in all ways, taking blame, lying and being extremely supportive. I completely agree that friends should always stick up for each other. Dally from the story has this perspective too, as he helped Johnny and Ponyboy get out of the town after killing the Social. Johnny also…

The Outsiders was written in the 1960’s to describe the struggle between the upper and lower classes in that time period. S. E. Hinton, the author of the book, wrote it when she was in high school and published the book when she was a freshman at the University of Tulsa. She became known as “The Voice of the Youth”. This pressure brought her writer’s block that lasted three years. Hinton broke the block by writing two pages a day, which led to her next novel, That Was Then, This Is Now. She has…

The Outsiders book and movie are both good but the book is better in my opinion. The book and movie are both the same in some ways but the movie goes by faster. The movie has some the things that it doesn't show like in the book. Although the I like the book the movie was great to. Both the book and movie show the church burn’s and them saving the kids. They're both similar but the movie doesn’t show…

In this world, people are labeled based on their appearance. Everyone is different, but similar in multiple ways. “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton is a novel about two different social groups: Socs and Greasers. Socs and Greasers are two groups who live their lives differently from one another. Socs are the upper class: wealthy and treated with respect. But, on the other hand, greasers are the low class: poor and treated like garbage. Socs and Greasers face different challenges in their lives,…

Moise Armbruster 10/5 3-4 Dallas Winston. the toughest scariest Mean looking kid around one of the character of The Outsider is not that mean like everybody thinks once you've get to know him a few reason i say that are dally is never mean to ponyboy curtis johnny cade or any of the greasers if you are one of the socs you got some work to do to try to become dallys friend the reason i say that is when dallys good friend ponyboy was just walking around he got jump by the socs and he couldn't…

S.E. Hinton’s World Famous Book “The Outsiders” was published on April 24, 1967. She started the book when she was 15 and finished it a year later. The book is about a group of teenagers who are dealing with Bad social situations at school and in the neighborhood. Because over 14 million copies of the book were sold, Director Francis Coppola helped S.E. Hinton bring her book to life. Doing so, she told the Director how she wanted it to go. To my surprise the movie came out almost exactly the…