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    Greasers In The Outsiders

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    the street, getting honked at and cussed out.(pg 150) S.E. Hinton writes the story of two groups of people the Greasers and the Socs in The Outsiders. Two groups of people who live on different sides of town and have very different lives. Ponyboy would walk around for hours all alone. Sometimes he didn’t feel like he was part of a group. Ponyboy was the youngest of the group, the Greasers. Everytime he hung out with Johnny or Two-Bit, they are not just part of their group, to Ponyboy they were…

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    The Greasers Analysis

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    Synopsis: The greasers and the Socs, two rival groups in the mid 1960’s, are facing many challenges throughout The Outsiders. Ponyboy, played by C Thomas Howell, is a young teenager living with his two older brothers Darry, Patrick Swayze, and Sodapop, Rob Lowe. He is part of the greaser gang, along with his closest friends Dally, Matt Dillon, Johnny, Ralph Macchio, Two-Bit, Emilio Estevez, and Steve, Tom Cruise. The two social groups do not get along, to say the least. Throughout the movie,…

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    Greasers Monologue

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    don't fit in. I don't act like a greaser, I don't fit in with the family and I don't want to come back because I am an outsider. I don't fit in with greasers because i'm not one. I don't fit in with the family because i'm not part of it, and I don't fit in with society because i'm not one of them. Soda, I can't come back because I will be arrested. They could get Johnny and I for life, especially Johnny. He could get the electric chair. The fuzz knows we are greasers, they won't even give us…

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    Socs Vs Greasers

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    Taylor). The “Greasers” or also known as poor kids have more struggles than the “Socs” which are the rich kids. There is more evidence that the “Greasers” struggle more because of the sacrifices and the violence they were exposed to. The “Greasers” struggle because they are exposed to things they have never seen and the “Socs” have an lot to expect from. Because of the sacrifices they made and the violence they were exposed to, the “Greasers” struggled more than the “Socs”. The “Greasers” are…

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    Are the Greasers and the Socs really that different or are they more alike that they realize? Greasers are a gang of kids, who live on the East side, that banded together because of a series if likenesses that they share. Socs are a bunch of rich kids who live on the Southside and have all the best cars, clothes, and alcohol possible. These two groups think that they are different, but their similarities outweigh their differences in 180 pages of literature by S.E. Hinton. Even though Greasers…

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    of worrying about himself and his future, Darry takes on the responsibility as parent. Together, the boys and the Greasers face the Socs, “West-side rich kids,” causing them all to grow up in a way (2). The boys are “poorer than the Socs and the middle class,” causing them to be a target (2). The Socs “jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blats for kicks…” (2). The Greasers have to come together to face the torment of the Socs. Bullying done by the Socs could result in “…risky…

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    Socs And Greasers Summary

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    a car accident, so they live together on the east side of their town. In the town that they live in the people are divided into two groups, the socs, and the greasers. The socs are the rich people of the town and the greasers are the poor kids of town. The socs and greasers have been at war with each other and whenever the socs see a greaser walking alone they will attack them with a weapon. The socs have…

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    make him a good man. Stop falling for his deceit so easy! However, which of the two personalities is the true deception? Ugh, stop with your vague, wannabe-poet talk because that doesn't matter now, does it? For at the moment, I'm stuck with Mr. Greaser…

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    the society. This also happens in the novel The Outsiders. It’s telling(This novel tells) a story about the class conflict between two gangs, the greasers and the Socs,.The main conflict in The Outsiders is Greasers against Socs. The reasons that Greasers against Socs is because of their different social status and different living styles. Greasers (consisted) are by boys on the East Side, including Johnny, and Curtis family.??? Socs, the abbreviation for Socials, refer to the West-side rich…

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    We see this in all the Greasers, who were born on the east side, and in the Socs, who were born in the west side. The Greasers have extremely contrasting values to those of the Socs. Greasers are tough and reckless, have tight bonds, and aren’t afraid to get on the wrong side of the law. They live in poverty, pushing them to do things like stealing, and often…

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