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    The movie, “The Outsiders” directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by S.E. Hilton and Kathleen Rowell, produced in the year 1983 was moderately entertaining. “The Outsiders” is about a group of boys who live in Oklahoma, but when Johnny, a Greaser, kills Bob, a Soc, things started to get out of hand for the boys. “The Outsiders” had a lot of scenes where the actors may have had a hard time acting, like Dally’s death. They did an excellent job at letting you know which boy was who in the…

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    External Identity Factors

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    scholarship which would give him fame and popularity. He decided to deny his scholarship and stay with his friends and family. The rest of the greasers who influenced him to stay a greaser. The greasers who were darry's friends wanted Darry to stay a greaser and not to join the popular socs. This worked out because Darry made the decision to stay a greaser and not join the “in crowd.” A report on by the University of Edinburgh stated that more Facebook friends someone has the more stressed and…

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    All throughout The Outsiders Ponyboy learns new ways of living and is put into situations that he is not used to. Although Ponyboy struggles to deal with his major problems in life he learns how to handle them and matures in the book. Ponyboy changes mentally, physically, and emotionally. By the end of The Outsiders Ponyboy experienced many new events that made him look at life much differently. First Ponyboy changes mentally during the plot of The Outsiders. This is shown when he makes choices…

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    Ponyboy is the main character. He is a 14 year-old boy trying to figure himself out. Over the course of the book he starts mellowing in many different ways. The book is about two groups of teens, the Greasers and Socs. There is many feuds between the two groups. Ponyboy is in a gang that is part of the Greasers. In their gang there's seven members; Ponyboy, Soda, and Darry Curtis, Johnny Cade, Dally Winston, Two-Bit Matthews, and Steve Randle. In the beginning of the book, Ponyboy asks…

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    Summary: The Outsiders

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    The Outsiders “Greasers- Poor/Regular Teens” “Socs- Rich/High class Teens” Anthony Rizzo the first baseman on the Cubs is a team player because he does his responsibility on the field. Not only does he do his responsibilities he also donates to charity, and this reveals that he is very warm hearted to others. Another person that relates to him is Dally, Dally Winston he takes care of his gang, and does what needs to be done. The Outsiders is a significantly great book made in 1967.…

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    throughout the story with his standing in life. He feels like he doesn’t belong with those he is living around. The environment that he lives in isn’t the best that a young adolescent teen should be living in. There is constant violence between the Greasers, who are the group of young teenagers, and young men that PonyBoy hangs out with, and the Socs, who are the upper middle class an rich group of men and boys around the same…

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    that window, and then the tough-looking kid going back in to save him. Mrs. O'Briant and I think you were sent straight from heaven. Or are you just professional heroes or something?" Sent from heaven? Had he gotten a good look at Dallas? "No, we're greasers," I said. I was too worried and scared to appreciate the fact that he…

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    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 year old greaser. His parents were killed in a recent car wreck. Darry and Sodapop Curtis are Ponyboy’s older brothers. They are also greasers. Soda is 16 and Darry is 20. Soda works at the local gas station and Darry roofs houses to support the family. Johnny Cade is 16 years old. He is the gang’s pet. The book says he…

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    wanted to have the upper hand on one another. One group was named the greasers the lower income kids and the socs short for socials the kids who had it all and were privileged from the lower income kids. Mainly the novel goes over the conflicts and tragedies that the protagonist ponyboy had gotten into over the course of two weeks. Ponyboy had two brothers named Sodapop and Darry whom were also apart of the gang known as the greasers other members where Johnny, Dally, Two bit and Steve. Ponyboy…

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    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…

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