The Outsiders

Hard yet Caring Have you ever thought of someone as being hard and caring at the same time? The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about the Greasers not getting along with Socs because of the stereotyping they do against each other. They live in Oklahoma, the Socs live on the West side and the Greasers live on the East side. One character that stands out in the story is Dally because he is the only person in this book to be hard and soft at the same time. Dally had some internal as well as external…

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…

Dreaming for Better In The Outsiders there is so much anger and hate. There is the anger Dally has at the world. The anger Bob has at his parent’s for not giving him any rules. And most prevalent, the animosity between the Socs and the greasers. One person is trapped between these two gangs and that person is Cherry Valance. Like any teenager, she feels the pull of wanting to be socially accepted by the group she was originally in, the Socs. But yet she feels that the way the greasers are…

Have you ever guessed anything about someone you didn’t know well? Chances are that we all have. Stereotyping, the simple act of just inferring something about somebody or having prejudice without past knowledge, is immensely common nowadays. The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton is scattered with stereotyping and inferences. When I started reading the book I didn’t notice stereotyping or anything of that sort in the book. After I started reading it, I started to note how stereotyping had crept up…

Fight for what you believe in because in the end it can only make it better. In S.E. Hinton’s book, The Outsiders, there are six main characters:Ponyboy Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, Dallas Winston(Dally), Darrel Curtis(Darry), Keith Matthews(Two-Bit), and Johnny Cade. Two teen gangs; the Greasers, and the Socs are in a “turf war.” Johnny and Ponyboy are later jumped by the Socs ending in one of the Socs members death, Johnny and Ponyboy then went into hiding scared of getting caught. Soon the…

and that them being from two different feuding families will result in them being torn apart by said families. It sounds like the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, right? However, this blossoming love story can be applied to many books, one being The Outsiders. Dallas Winston and Sherri Valance. It’s the relationship that could have been made possible, with the addition of a few pages and chance encounters. So, if such a relationship transpired, then how would the two feel about each other? How…

The Outsiders Essay “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles” (Christopher Reeve). The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a realistic fiction novel. In the story, two gangs called the greasers and the socs are rivalries, where the socs are the rich, popular kids and the greasers are the poor, underestimated kids with little to no hope. The main character, Ponyboy, is a greaser and dislikes the socs due to jealously. Both gangs…

The book The Outsiders has two social classes, Greasers and Socs, the Socs being richer and fancier than Greasers. Johnny was a Greaser and he had a very difficult and complicated life. Johnny was abused by his parents and his parents could care less about him. His parents didn’t care who Johnny hung out with, nor what happened to him. Later on, Johnny unfortunately, passes away. He had passed away a hero and a killer. Johnny had died feeling guilty about killing Bob. Bob was a soc that tried to…

The Outsiders The Outsiders is the story of two gangs, the Greasers and the Socs, that despise each other. Throughout the story, the Greasers learn the importance of sticking together all of the time. The Greasers strong friendship is shown when Johnny follows Ponyboy into the church fire, Dally helps Johnny and Ponyboy hide after committing murder, and when Ponyboy follows Johnny even though he didn't have any part of the murdering. The character Johnny stands by Ponyboy while trying to…

How Hinton develops the idea that life isn’t fair. - An analytical Essay about S.E Hinton’s “The Outsiders.” By B.E Kolasinac. Since the publication of The Outsiders, a statement has been looming over our heads; “Is it the rich but ignorant, or the poor but aware, that have more struggles.” Hinton dwells into each aspect of this question. The most prevailing theme in the story is that life is unfair, in the novel Hinton has intertwined both the socials and the greaser’s perspective on life.…