Greaser

were being rebellious and outspoken was popular for young adults. The “Greaser” was the most popular and rebellious title a young adult could have during the those times. A “Greaser” is well known by wearing a leather jacket, plain white t-shirt, tight blue jeans, and a greased up hairstyle. In Tom Coraghessan Boyle’s story “Greasy Lake”, he tells us the story of three 19 year olds trying to spend a summer night living a “Greaser” lifestyle and getting into any trouble they can find. Through…

of two different socioeconomic groups: the “Socs (socials)” and the “Greasers”. Who are the outsiders? The real outsiders are the people that can see beyond the Greaser/Socs separation. It can’t be disclaimed that the Greasers are often looked at as outsiders. When Ponyboy flicked out a switchblade during class, a Soc girl said “They are right. You are a hood” (Doc B). This made Ponyboy feel out of place because he was Greaser in a class with a bunch of Socs and he only got into “A” classes…

The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton was a book about a young boy named Ponyboy, two brothers named Sodapop and Darry. Their gang called the Greasers and the rich gang called the Socials. Greasers were boys who had greasy hair, wore leather jackets, drove souped up cars, held up gas stations and who gotten into fights once in awhile. Socials were the rich boys, who drove souped up mustangs, smelled like tobacco, wore checkered shirts and who would get their name in the newspaper for being a…

warfare all over the city. That kid you killed had plenty of friends and all over town it’s soc against grease”(83). This shows that anger and hate towards the greasers for killing a socs made them lash out at each other and attack turning them into a mob. Another piece of evidence from The Outsiders by S. E.Hinton is “You know what a greaser is.” Bob asked,” White trash with long hair”(pg 56) The socs already have hatred…

essay on, “The Outsiders”, I will be arguing that the Soc’s and the greasers are not very different if you compare the two of them. This is important because people are always saying that the Soc’s started something or that the Greaser’s started something but in the end they are just two rival gangs that both do bad things in their own ways. I would say that I would not be classified as a Greaser or a Soc. In my opinion, the Greasers and the Socs are not very different; they both commit crimes,…

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 night, a group of Socs beat up Johnny and tried to drown Ponyboy in a…

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 behind him, knowing that the Socs would jump the Greasers at any given moment. The…

In “The Outsiders”, a novel written by S.E Hinton, the main protagonist, Ponyboy Curtis, is caught in the midst of an act of homicide, an event where Pony’s friend and fellow greaser, Johnny, kills a Soc. Worried about having the police on their trail, and a possible news headline on the night of the murder, Ponyboy and Johnny abandon the safety of their homes to take refuge in an abandoned church, hoping to escape a potential prison sentence, or, in Pony’s case, separation from his brothers.…

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost. The book is about two different groups the socs and greasers who are always fighting. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is about life and how most things that are good never stay. The theme of the book is divided community and the theme of the poem is nothing that is good ever lasts. The theme of chapter four from The Outsiders is divided community. The socs always jump the greasers and both groups always start fights. The author said on page 56 “The Soc caught my…

Obstacles faced by youth today and youth in The Outsiders are both, very, different from each other. In The Outsiders an obstacle youth greasers faced was getting jumped by socs because if any greaser got into a fight with a soc it would immediately get put onto the greaser if a police were to show up. Today, if that were to happen both teens would probably get sent to the police station and get put on a warning but not one kid would be accused if they didn’t have any proof of the fight…