Greaser

The classic novel The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton takes place in the 1960’s in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The story revolves around Ponyboy Curtis as he navigates the inequalities of societal structure; the privileged socs and the poor lower class greasers. Ponyboy and his close friends Johnny Cade, Dallas Winston or “Dally”, Keith “Two Bit” Matthews and his older brothers Sodapop and Darry. Ponyboy is caught in the middle of a feud between the two teen social classes that consequently lead to…

race, but also, gender and sexuality. Doing much research on the "Mammy" stereotype of black women and the "Greaser" stereotype of latino men i came to a conclusion on believing his views of masculinity and femininity. Throughout this paper i will talk more about the differences and describe the way the film subjects the main two topics and how it keys in on race, gender, and sexuality. Greasers, who were also known as, “Hood”,…

and fearful teenager scarred from years of physical and mental abuse to a courageous protector and hero. In the beginning of the story, Johnny is a wounded soul who desperately needs the acceptance and physical and emotional support of his fellow greasers. As the story unfolds, however, Johnny rises above his nervousness and fear and becomes a leader and a hero. He shows leadership when he saves Ponyboy from being drowned by Bob, a hated Soc, and then calmly leads Ponyboy away to the country.…

Where do you take place in society? What does that place mean to you? The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton makes you wonder how your place would change if you were in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. Would you be considered a low class, poor greaser? Or would you be a wealthy, living the high life Social? No matter how you answered those questions, you should read The Outsiders. The narrator of this book is a fourteen year old boy names Ponyboy Curtis. Yes, that is, in fact, his real name. One of his brothers…

reason why the book is better than the movie. The story was about a group of greasers, who are the “poor slums”, who get jumped or beaten up by a group called Socs, who are the “rich, tuff kids”. The overall meaning of the book is to not judge someone by what by what they look like or by how much money they have. The greasers live on the East side of town and the Socs live on the West side. The Socs always invade the greasers’ part of town. Johnny and Ponyboy are the main characters in the…

Sandy is associated with light and pastel colors. Her fashion wardrobe consisted of feminine clothes such as skirt and sweater set in light, pastel colors such as pink, blue, yellow, green and so on forth. On the other hand, Danny is a common 1950s Greaser guy: devilishly handsome man with jet black hair and, intense blue eyes, and tanned skin. Danny is associated with black that’s represented as “cool, bad guy”. His fashion apparel is usually a T-shirt in white, black, or red color with black…

was drowning Ponyboy, and Johnny stabbed him to save Ponyboy. The brawl was over Greasers hanging out with Cherry and Marcia, which are Socs' girlfriends. The Socs got worked up over something so small which resulted in a fight they most likely didn't think about the results that they might receive from this quarrel.…

They both tell how there needs to be change. In the outsiders page 48 it says “But I gotta do something, It seems like there's gotta be someplace without greasers or socs with just normal people.” This shows that he wishes things would change. He wishes that there wasn't any so called gangs. It also says in page 41 “Maybe the two different worlds we lived in were not so different,” This shows that the people were alike but they need to change so they can actually realize it. In the Inaugural…

Do people ever think how does social status affect how others look at the world today? In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton it shows the point of view of low social status views.All people have their own domains of society many parts should be taken into consideration of how they are looked at. Life is vast with lots of people, most people are judged by their peers just like how books are judged by their covers. Social status is what corrupts the world today, the breaking point is what…

many more things. The story is based in a group of teenagers. There were two groups: “The Greasers” and “The Socs”. The Socs were the group that had a lot of money and lived in rich avenues and things like that, and The Greasers were the ones that didn't had much money and lived in little houses. The main characters are Ponyboy, Johnny, Dallas, Sodapop, Darry and Two-Bit (The main characters are all greasers). Ponyboy and Johnny were very good friends Ponyboy was 13 years old and Johnny 16.…