Greaser

. . We get jumped by the Socs. . . . 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. We’re poorer than the Socs and the middle class” (Hinton 2-3). As part of the greaser community, a group of poor minorities whose lives are difficult, Johnny and his gang are frequently discriminated against and harassed. This concern is the basis for all other…

If I were Ponyboy’s English teacher and had to assign him his next assignment, I would instruct him to relate and parallel his actions and experiences to Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” in a short essay. I would do this because, as Ponyboy’s English teacher, I would want him to further analyze the poem and find it relatable to his life. I would also want Ponyboy to realize what Robert Frost was writing about. I think that Ponyboy would relate to the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay”…

old boy who lives with his two brothers Sodapop and Darry. He lives in a society where the population is separated into two different gangs : the Socs (the rich kids from the West-side) and the Greasers (the kids from the East-side). The Socs are a very brutal gang that enjoy bullying and attaking the Greasers : "Not like the Socs [..] for kicks" (page 3). 2. The Call, where conflict is introduded In the novel, the Call is introduced when Johnny and Ponyboy get attacked by a group of…

When people think of books 50 years ago, they think of the old, dusty books sitting on their grandmother’s bedside tables, and they may even think it boring; the classics, like Charlotte’s Web, or Animal Farm, but there is a book written around that time that is quite the contrary to all these stereotypes. The Outsiders is a novel written about 50 years ago that really makes you read between the lines, the most important example of this being the outburst of poetry from Ponyboy when he and…

differences, the book was more effective in telling the story. First of all, one of the most important scenes to compare is the rumble. In both the book and the movie, there was a lot of action between the Socs and Greasers. While both had a lot of action, in the book it told us more about the Greasers getting punched, kicked, and hit by the Socs. Also, the book did…

before this story takes place. Darry, which was the oldest, was left in charge of his two younger brothers. They were told to not get into any trouble or else Ponyboy and Sodapop would be sent off to a boys home. Ponyboy was in a group called the “Greasers,” with his friends Steve, Two-Bit, Dally, Johnny, and his two older brothers. They would always be beaten up by a mighty gang of rich kids called the Socs. As it got closer to the end of the book the story got more interesting.…

many similarities and differences, the movie was more effective in telling the story. To start, the first comparable scene is when Dally joined the rumble. Two similarities of the book and the movie were that Paul and Darry where the heads of the Greasers and the Socs. Everyone looked back at Dally when he joined the rumble. Two differences of the book and the movie were Dally said something different when he joined the rumble in the movie than the book. There was more…

talk with. The novel version and the film version have different ways to express them. In the film, it does not show what kind of people do greasers and socs talk with. In the film, it shows family…

the movie was more effective in telling the story. First of all, the first comparable scene is when the socs are running from the rumble. In the book the socs run and in the movie. Also in this scene the greaser are cheering same with the movie. In the book it doesn’t talk about the greasers and socs being muddy. In the movie they were muddy. The Movie was more effective during…

that Zoe cares about the place she raises her siblings and that they remember their house that Zoe had grown up in. While Zoe is a hero to her siblings, Darry is a hero due to his hospitality for his friends and family, which benefits all of the greasers. Personally, I do not think I could be as heroic as Darry or Zoe. I would not be able to keep in frustration or not be able to scold my siblings because I would feel sympathy for their problems and let them do anything. Also, Darry works…