The Outsiders

T: Throughout The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Darry changes from being protective and appreciative, to frustrated and ignorant after the deaths of Johnny and Dally. E: Darry is known as being very protective, sacrificing anything to keep the gang together. However, Darry can get a little too protective. When Ponyboy was jumped Darry did a little too much to make sure he was okay. “Darry’s always rough with me without meaning to be. ‘I'm okay. Quit shaking me, Darry, I’m okay’” X: Although this is…

For The Outsiders, I picked out two main themes. The first, which is shown throughout the entire plot, is that no matter how different we may seem from each other, we’re all just human and looking for a place to belong. This shown through both the Socs and greasers-- more specifically, Bob and Johnny. I used them as my example for the Parts to a Whole assessment, but I’m going to use them again. So with Johnny and Bob, they seem like complete polar opposites; one’s a Soc with parents that…

They walked around slowly... I must have wandered around for hours; sometimes even out into 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…

In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, a young teenager named Ponyboy experiences problems that will shape how he sees life and the people around him. In this novel there are two social classes; the Socs and the Greasers. The Socs are preppy rich kids who can get around any trouble they get themselves into. The Greasers are the polar opposite. Greasers are tough, poor, and always in trouble with the cops, or “fuzz”. With the help of his new friend, Cherry, Ponyboy learns that the Greasers…

form a person’s perception on their past, present, or future. This something that S.E. Hinton touched upon in her book The Outsiders. As well as touching upon it, she also elaborated to a different topic in that range, such as the fragileness of a relationship between the characters in The Outsiders.This showed a realization that it may seem the relationships in The Outsiders are quick and easy to make because they bond over being greasers, but it is very difficult to rebuild one. These…

Throughout the story, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, the readers are told about the two gangs, the Greasers and the Socials, and how they affect each other’s lives. Throughout the book, Hinton shows us how the Greasers and Socials are different. The book states how the Greasers are less wealthy than the Socs and even the middle class. Believe it or not but the Greasers and the Socials are very similar. An example of this is through Ponyboy and Cherry's love for books, literature, and popular…

if you got in trouble, your friend would support you too. In the Outsiders, one of Ponyboys friends was telling him a story about the time that Two-Bit broke some windows at school, and how Dallas covered for him and said that he did it instead of saying that Two-Bit did it. That shows loyalty and friendship and that if Dallas ever did something like that, Two-Bit would remember that time and stand up for his friend. In the Outsiders, Johnny and Ponyboy fell asleep in the lot after hanging out…

In the Novel The Outsiders there are lots of forms of community and love in the community. Community, according to google.com is ”a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.” This definition very much represents the Greasers feeling of community. For example some community I noticed most was the bond that the Greasers had with each other, especially Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry after their parents died. The Soc’s also have community and…

In the book The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, tells the story of fourteen year old, Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. The fiction book focused on the story of when Greasers Ponyboy and Johnny end up into a fight with several of the Social members, the brawl ends in the death of a Social member. Ponyboy and Johnny are forced to run away and go into hiding. The other gang members of the Greasers must now cope with…

This painting relates to The Outsiders by showing what the greasers feel like. The greasers have to go endure the fighting and being outlawed because they look like “hoods”.The greasers look like rough tides, swishing back and forth hopelessly because it seems as if they will never get to shine bright like the sun in the sky.This is evident on page 5, “Hey grease, one said in an over-friendly voice. We’re gonna do you a favor, greaser. We’re gonna cut all that long greasy hair off”. On the other…