Greaser

Imagine this, being a Greaser who lives in a poverty stricken neighborhood, with danger at every corner. Also imagine not having neither parent, and only has his brothers and friends. That’s the life that Ponyboy Curtis lives. Then, being bullied by Socs. Socs, or Socials are the rich and spoiled teens that get whatever they want at the snap of their fingers. They also bully the Greasers. S.E. Hinton illustrates the problems that each social class faces. Additionally, he shows how two completely…

and external conflicts including the main conflict in the novel, which is the division and struggle among social class. The two groups, Socs and Greasers, are drastically different, but also similar in a variety of ways. Socs and the Greasers are merely adolescents struggling with personal and social complications that unfold within society. As the greasers are portrayed as low-life scum no-good-for-nothing-dirt-bags, and on the other hand, Socs are depicted as privileged rich kids who catch all…

The Socs and the Greasers always have major conflict due to many reasons such as their style, their wealth, and who is better. Both Johnny and Ponyboy are Greasers along with their other relatives. Greasers is a wild gang that has an edgy style with their hair long hair slicked back with a generous amount of grease, hence the name given, Greasers. On the other hand Socs are completely different when it comes to their looks. Socs wear basic madras shirts and usually are wealthy with light colored…

loyalty shown by the greasers and from the Soc. Most of the bad examples are from the Socs and the good ones are normally from the greasers. The Socs are constantly betraying one another while the greasers stick together no matter what. Loyalty is very important and there are many examples in which the Soc, Cherry, and the greasers are being loyal and unloyal to one another. The first example is when Cherry is being disloyal to the Socs because she is being a spy for the greasers. The first…

may consider saying, more meets the eye than mankind has the ability to see. In the novel, “The Outsiders” there is a known distinction between the two society groups known as the Greasers and the Socs. Greasers are the resemblance of society’s lower class, mistakes. Society in their world has provoked and evolved Greasers into becoming slackers, troublemakers, and given ability to let their lives die then succeed. Aside from being recognized as the lower class, they are described as having long…

Are the Greasers Not so Bad Afterall? Are the Greasers all not so bad afterall? Is Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade and Dalles Winston actually good people. I think they're all good people for many good reasons and they have saved people's lives too. They also never leave anybody in their gang behind and always have eachothers backs. They even come running if they hear you yell help and will lend you anything if you really need it. My definition of a hero is somebody that is loyal to their people…

S.E Hinton provides a great motivational, and exciting story about a group of boys, in particular I chose Pony Boy and Johnny who are both best friends, one night something happens between the ‘’greasers’’ and the ‘’socs’’ which causes the two to only have themselves and their friends aka the ‘’greasers’’. Johnny’s parents doesn’t care about him, and Pony’s parents both died. So with not a lot of help and support the situation will be very difficult to get out of on their own. Will the two get…

Greasers and Socs are two different social classes. They are always fighting until one night something went terribly wrong. Two social classes one rich, another poor are always fighting. They are know as Socs and greasers they never really understood each other. Until Cherry Valance said things are rough all over got greasers seeing things different. The greasers struggle more because they are poorer than the Socs and middle class, bad home lives, and are blamed for everything.…

First, the Greasers were particularly shown as outsiders. They grow up on the wrong side of the tracks on the poor side of town. Even though the two main groups were the Greasers and Socs, the Socs were accepted in society. They were the upper class, the people with the most power. The Greasers on the other hand are the complete opposite. They were the lowest of the lower class, almost to the point of being homeless. Although all the Greasers had each other, but in society, they were the…

Greasers Compared to Socs Essay Don’t we all see the same sunset? It shouldn’t matter what side of town you live on, because at the end of the day, we all see the same sunset don’t we? At a certain point in time, this is all that Ponyboy Curtis believed his gang and the Socs, the other gang, had in common. Soon though, he learned that there was more similarities between the two groups than he originally thought. In this essay, I am going to explain the characteristics of a Greaser as well as a…