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    Outsiders Book Comparison

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    Outsiders: Compare and Contrast Ponyboy is the main character. His brothers are Soda and Darry. His friends are Two-bit, Johnny, Dally, and Steve. He lives in a poor part of the city. He spends a lot of time with his friends. Him and his brothers live alone, because his parents died. Darry works two jobs and Sodapop is a dropout that works one job. Ponyboy is a smart kid that is a grade up and doesn’t use his head. They are called greasers. The rich kids are called socs. The Greasers are…

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    In the book The Outsiders there is a lot of gang violence including street fights, robberies, and ganging up on one of the the opposing gang members. S.E. Hinton describes the Socs as the wealthier people that live in the better parts of town and the Greasers as the poor trashy part of town. Even though the Socs and Greasers aren’t that different, they still have war with each other for no apparent reason. Some people don't understand that Socs don’t act as the ideal Socs are, and some Greasers…

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    Heros In The Outsiders

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    The Heros of The Outsiders If you have read the book The Outsiders then you know that there are many heroes in that book, and not the kind that fly and wear capes, the real kind. One of the heros in that book is a boy named Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy Curtis is a fourteen year old boy. Another hero in that book is Johnny Cade. Johnny Cade is sixteen years old but he looks like he could be the same age as Ponyboy. Finally one last hero I'm gonna talk about is Dallas Winston. His friends call him…

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    In S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, the character Johnny Cade changes from a constantly nervous, suspicious 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…

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    The movie and book are about the same concept but there are some parts of the story that aren't the same. Like when you read the book pony comes home from the lot at 2:00 cock in the morning.he walks through the door and darry starts yelling at him about it. So soda steps in and and darry start so yell at him but pont yells DON´T YELL AT HIM !in the movie darry shoves.but in the book pony gets slaped real hard. Which causes pony to run away to the lot. Pony grabs johnny c´mon we're runnin…

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    The Outsiders Essay

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    Ponyboy Curtis is a 14 year old boy in the book The Outsiders. The story takes place in the 1960s and the main plot is the differences and rivalry between the south side (soc’s) and the North side (greasers) of the city. If you are born a soc you are blessed with wealth, nice cars, good schooling, and a future in society. But if you are a greaser you are condemned to a life of being poor, having to live of stealing working lousy jobs. Ponyboy and his two older brothers Sodapop and Darryl are…

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    The book, The Outsiders, is about a constant battle between a group of west side rich kids, called socs, and east side poor kids, called greasers. The socs are always jumping the greasers and beating them up but they never get caught because they have rich parents and are high up in society. Throughout the book it gives details on the struggles that the kids with no money have to go through every day. It also gives insight into the true motives and feelings of people and how not everything is…

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    Growing Up Too Fast Essay

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    say this because they have to be tougher to survive, their parents aren't there, or they aren't with them when the children need them. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton the greasers have to grow up too fast. They do this because their parents are either dead, they abuse them, or they just don’t want them. S.E Hinton reveals in The Outsiders that some children have to grow up too faster than they should to survive the world they are living in. In the beginning of the novel you can tell…

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    Dally and Johnny Often, people who seem to be opposites are not so different at all. Throughout The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton proves this, but never as well as with Johnny and Dally. Although they come from similarly abusive households and care immensely about the other, the characters have very different philosophies. They have different outlooks on the law, and the world in general. Despite their differences, Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade have many similarities. Neither Johnny nor…

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    The Outsiders is about a story written in 1960s by the main lead, Ponyboy Curtis. Through narration, the story was told in a first person perspective. The story evolves between two groups of people, the lower-class group of Oklahoma youths called greasers and the upper-class youth from the west side of town called Socials, Socs for short. One night, some of the Socs were unhappy with some of the greasers when they befriended their girlfriend, Cherry Valance and Marcia at a drive-in. Later that…

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