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    Does Ponyboy Fight For?

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    he fights. He thinks fighting is dumb and he would rather be someone else who is kind, gentle, smart and polite unlike those hardcore greasers who don't know much vocabulary or who are uneducated. He feels like he is someone else however, he feels like he has to be a greaser on the outside. On the outside Ponyboy is seen as a young aspiring greaser following in the…

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    dress. Although that is not the case for the Socs and the Greasers from “The Outsiders”. Each group either had an easy or hard time, but they both had a hard time at least once. “In the book Cherry says that both groups have a hard time(34.)” Initially I will tell you about the Greasers. Greasers were people that no one really liked. “Each Greaser was in a gang or most likely with other people.(1.)” People in a gang with the Greasers were considered family. Multiple individuals in the…

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    Outsiders’, Hilton has proven her point in which all young people should have a sense of belonging. Ponyboy, the main character as well as a member of the Greaser gang and he believes that belonging to a gang is the reason to the safety of his friends and himself; he has someone to rely on. Johnny, Ponyboys best friend as well as another member of the Greaser gang, needed the urgent sense of belonging as he wasn’t overly supported by his own family and “he would have run away a million times if…

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    Outsiders, Ponyboy matures from a sensitive adolescent to a young adult. Ponyboy, being poor and living with his brothers, joins a gang named the greasers. His brothers, Darry and Sodapop, join the greasers too. because the gang protects each other from the rich and spoiled children called the Socs. First, Ponyboy is different from the other greasers because he is sensitive on the inside. For instance, to look tough, he smokes at the age of fourteen. He smoked in the church, to calm himself…

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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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    thinking that his world is perfect. He has two older brothers, Sodapop and Darry, and his parents died in a car accident a couple years ago. Since then he has been raised by his older brothers, and because of them, he is part of a gang called the greasers. As Ponyboy walks out of a theater one day, he is jumped by another gang, the rich Socs that live on the west side of town. Luckily, his two older brothers, Darry and Soda find him in time, therefore Ponyboy doesn't get beat up as badly as his…

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    jumped by the Socs. I’m not sure that's how you spell it, but it’s the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West- side rich kids. It’s like the term “greaser,” which is used to class all us boys on the East Side.” This quote is said by Ponyboy, while he’s walking home from the movie theater. He’s alone, and it is common for the Greasers to be jumped by the Socs. There is a Red Corvair following them and Ponyboy is suddenly getting nervous because that car behind him could be filled…

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    what was wrong but I just followed Pony’s lead. Pony and I went to the park, greaser territory. As Pony and I sit and talk a blue Mustang pulled up, it was the SOCS. “This is greaser territory” Pony said to me. I noticed two of the SOCS as they got closer, one was Bob, the other was Randy, and then a few more SOCS, just enough SOCS to jump both Pony and I. They surrounded us all around and started making jokes about us greasers. Then…

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    of The Outsiders take you there. A book written by S.E. Hinon is called The Outsiders. It is a story about a greaser named Ponyboy and his story about what happened when he and his friends fight against the rich kids called the socs. When Pony and his friend walk 2 girls around, a car pulls up and it turns out to be socs and so are the girls. So after some fighting all the socs and greasers get into a big fight. Francis Ford Coppola’s movie does support the book when you look at the symbols,…

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    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 in the 60s where greasers and the socs were the bosses around town, also including the struggles for both socs and greasers, family problems, life problems and such. In the novel The Outsiders the main character Ponyboy experiences multiple…

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