The Outsiders Essay

The Outsiders is about a story written in 1960s by the main lead, Ponyboy Curtis. Through narration, the story was told in a first person perspective. The story evolves between two groups of people, the lower-class group of Oklahoma youths called greasers and the upper-class youth from the west side of town called Socials, Socs for short. One night, some of the Socs were unhappy with some of the greasers when they befriended their girlfriend, Cherry Valance and Marcia at a drive-in. Later that…

quote because I will be comparing The Outsiders book to the movie, personally I think the book was better because it is the original think it was made a lot better than the movie. Although the movie did help me imagine all the characters and some of the scenes in the book a lot better. The book had a lot more details about the characters and their lives, like Sodapop and his horse, how Pony’s english teacher was the one who inspired him to write the Outsiders, and many more enticing details.…

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is an American classic set in an economically divided city in Oklahoma. The protagonist, Ponyboy Curtis is a member of a gang called the Greasers, a group of youth from lower-class families. Ponyboy is lost in his own mind one night after attending a movie when he is attacked by a group of Socs, which is short for Socials. The Socs are a group of youth from the upper-families from the West side. The Greasers show up in the nick of time, saving Ponyboy from the rival…

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. Soda is arguably the most well liked character in The Outsiders. He is also very sensitive and sweet despite having the label “hood”. He has…

In The Outsiders, two gangs, the Socs and the greasers have extremely different social structures. These two social groups define the characters, when really they should all be seen as individuals. In The Outsiders, the author portrays the communities to which one belongs greatly influences, but does not determine, one’s overall individual identity. The Socs and the greasers are two different social groups with different social lines. The Socs are looked at as the rich, popular, and…

The plot of The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is quite interesting because it gives the reader a sense of what it was like to be a fourteen year old boy that belongs to a group that is known as the outsiders of society. I chose this book because I am a teenager, and this book is about a real life teenager struggling with what is right and wrong in society. This story takes in the Southwest United States sometime during the 1960’s. Ponyboy Curtis is the main character in the story. He is a fourteen…

Did you know that the movie for the outsiders is only roughly one hour and thirty minutes. Some might say that the movie the outsiders makes you have less sympathy for Johnny and Dally. I am saying this because in the book Dally sounds like he wanted to die more in the book. I am saying this because when it was written in the book even said he had a look of triumph in his eye, and in the movie, it seemed that he was scared and how he didn't want to die. The book is better.I think this because…

because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” ― Anaïs Nin. This quote by Nin under shadows the book The Outsiders. The Outsiders is a book by SE Hinton which talks about gang violence and it’s impact on individuals. The protagonist in the story is Ponyboy and it focuses on his life and perspectives changing. A song Another One Bites the Dust is by Queen…

S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders and introduced many unique characters. Each individual had their own situation, problems, and struggles which shaped them into the people they were. Two members of the gang, Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade, are different from what they seemed in the first half of the book. Dally was known as a hardened thug, but deep down, he cared about others. Johnny Cade was a boy who seemed meek, but was actually one of the strongest characters mentioned in the story. Their…

Outsiders Essay Joey the teacher told me that you couldn’t decide to read or watch the Outsiders. Well I have done both and I wanted to give you my opinion on both the movie and the book. I would personally read the book. The reason I would read the book is, that I think it goes it to more depth than the movie and it explains it much better. The movie misses some things that I think are important to the story line. Like where Ponyboy gets jumped on the way back from the movies and the gang…