Sofia Coppola

When was the last time you read a book and you said to yourself “Wow I really want people to know how good of a book this was.” Well when I finished reading The Outsiders by S.E Hinton I wanted to tell people what a great book it was. That’s why I’m writing this book review. To spread the word about this amazing book that I just recently read. Hopefully you go out right now and read this book because all I will say is it was amazing. The Outsiders being the amazing book that it was always had…

The book we read was named The Outsiders, we also watched the movie. The Outsiders is about a gang with an interesting group of guys and these guys are known for greasers. I had to find out the differences between the book and the movie. There is not a lot of big things that are different do I had to search for the little things that wouldn't stand out so much. I did find a couple so I will talk about them in the next paragraph. I will also talk about the gangs appearance and there is 7 members…

“Greasers are white trash,” A soc might say. The rivalry between the two gangs in ‘The Outsiders’ is something to remember. The story revolves around a gang which some call ‘greasers’. The book is told by a fourteen-year-old boy named Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy is intelligent and athletic, however, he has many problems throughout the book. For instance, his brother, not fitting in, and especially the other gang in town called the ‘socs,’ which is short for the socials. Similarly, Johnny has his own…

“They weren’t looking for a fight, they were looking to fit in.” This quote reflects one of many themes from The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Loyalty, appearance, and Society & Class and isolation are just some of the themes that are brought to light. Loyalty is what holds the Greasers, a gang on the poor, East side of town, together according to fourteen-year-old, Ponyboy. In the novel, there are other Greaser gangs which are “small groups of friends who stick together.” The other gangs are not…

The amazing novel, “The Outsiders”, written by S.E Hinton; is set in mid-west America, in the early 1960’s. “The Outsiders” is a gripping book about two rival groups, the Socs and the Greasers; and the inequality between their two very different social divisions. “The Outsiders” is told from a first person perspective by the main character, Ponyboy Curtis. The story addresses the themes of expectations and responsibility through the hardworking and strong character of Darry Curtis, and the…

In the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton,t the main character Ponyboy Curtis lives alone with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop because his parents were killed in an accident. All three of the boys are greasers or hoods. The brothers are at risk of being separated because Pony got into some trouble with the law. Many people believe the brothers should stay together, others think Pony and Soda should be put into a boys home. This essay is the side that the brothers should stay together.…

Things are rough all over, but is that true? Can two completely different things have the same rough spots, or can one have it worse than the other? If so, which one? In the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the reader is plunged into a world of greasers and Socs, with one pitted against the other. The Socials, popular rich kids from the West, and greasers, poor hoods from the East. But when one group goes too far, the groups collide in an all-out war, as the problems of each group rise with…

Literary Essay In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton the author describes Pony’s adventures and his struggles. The events that happen during his adventure lead him to make many realizations. One of them is that all people are having troubles and hardships, it’s what makes them human. Throughout the story, there are many instances where Pony thinks about the difficulties he has faced and what problems everyone around him has. When Pony is talking to Randy, he finally realizes that everyone had…

Our world is full of huge differences and very similar things, it is what makes us human. In The Outsiders, by S.E.Hinton, the two gangs, Greasers and the Socs, are a great example of that. The Greasers are expected of the worst and the Socs are expected of only the best but, they both deal with stereotypes and troubled families. In addition to their gang rivalry, the individual characters each face problems of their own. Through depicting their personal conflicts, Hinton reveals that these…

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…