A Comparison Of The Tuesday Wars And The Outsiders

The book and the movie of the Outsiders are two very different stories. The book has so much more detail then the movie. The movie is not the most detailed but it does get its point across. There are may similarities and also many differences between the two the book is by far more interesting and more detailed then the movie. I enjoyed the book a lot and the movies a lot but the movie was missing a lot.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a novel about two neighborhoods separated because of classes in society. In these two neighborhoods, teenagers are separated into two different gangs, the lower-class Greasers and the upper-class Socs. Ponyboy, a greaser comes from a hard life. His parents died and he is left being raised by his older brother Darry. After both his brothers failed at accomplishing their dreams in life, Pony is left feeling like he will only be a greaser. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy realizes he has many traits making him have an outstanding future, such as his intelligence instincts and heroic skills.

The book and the film were both simular, and yet different in many ways. An example would be, in the film, Ponyboy was walking to the drive-in and meeting Cherri and Marcia. Although in the book, Ponyboy began his journey by telling the readers about his experience about being jumped by the Socs and being threatened. The director probably had some options to pick from to leave out from the movie, and the director chosed this to leave out. Leaving out the part where Ponyboy was jumped was an effective move because without the experience Ponyboy was lost and helpless because he did not know what to do when he and Johnny got cornered in the park by Bob and other Socs.

Thesis: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, a novel which tells the story of conflict between the "greasers" and the "Socs," captures the voice of ponyboy and his friends in a realistic way that relates to boys and their gangs even today.

The Outsiders is a young adult novel written by S.E. Hinton. The book was first published in 1967 by The Viking Press. Today, the book is published under Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group. The book has a total of a hundred and eighty pages. The Outsiders fits in the genre of young-adult fiction because it relates to teens on emotional levels. Like Ponyboy, the teen protagonist of the story, teens relate to his emotional growth as he tries to piece his life together. The story follows a rivalry in a socially divided community. The Greasers are a gang of teenage boys who live on the east side of town; the wrong side of town. Their rivals, the Socials, better known as the Socs; come from the wealthier side of town. The two groups are always head to head with one another, seeking a fight. Ponyboy belongs to the Greasers. He is the youngest out of the three brothers in his family. Apart from his brothers, Ponyboy hangs out with Johnny, Dallas, Two-Bit and others who are also Greasers. The rivalry between the two groups heightens when Johnny kills Bob, a Soc, in an attempt to save Ponyboy from drowning. In this book report, I will go through the meaning of this book and my opinion on the story itself.

It was only two gangs, three deaths, and many injuries, but the bloody, death defying, life changing brawl is what ended all of the chaos.In book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton Ponyboy learns a lot about being caring. In this novel two groups called the Socs and the Greasers fight each other continuously. This leads them to unexpected fights and deaths, causing things to not go as planned.Ponyboy is caring because he is thoughtful, trustworthy, and brave.

While growing up we learn that all families are definitely not identical, but each family is in fact unique and comes with its own pros and cons. Readers can learn this important lesson by comparing the two families, the Hoodhoods, from Wednesday Wars and the Curtiss from The Outsiders. Wednesday Wars was written by the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author, Gary D. Schmidt, while the author of The Outsiders was S.E. Hinton. The Outsiders takes place in a remote town in Oklahoma, where there are two sides, the east and the west. If you lived on the east, you were labeled as the greasers, which were low privileged people. The other side was home to the wealthy, also known as the socials. Ponyboy Curtis (14) and his two older brother happen

Two very different books can have similar if not identical skeletons. The Outsiders and The Wednesday Wars are very similar. The Outsiders was written by S.E. Hinton, and The Wednesday Wars was written by Gary D. Schmidt. The main character in The Outsiders is Ponyboy Curtis, and the main character in The Wednesday Wars is Holling Hoodhood. In The Outsiders, Ponyboy lives in a place where two groups hate each other and fight each other, and Ponyboy realizes the people in these groups are very similar. In The Wednesday Wars, Holling Hoodhood, who lives at the same time as Ponyboy, goes to school and grows as a person to stand up to his father and help his sister return home, among other things. In

The book, and the movie, “the Outsiders” is about a conflict between greasers and socs. Up until the point where Johnny kills a soc, there are mostly only small fights and arguments between the two. The story “the Outsiders” takes place in the 1960’s, when there were two main lifestyles. Greasers and Socs. Greasers are known for greasing their hair. Socs are rich kids who have good clothes, drive mustangs, and always have an argument against the greasers. The main character in S. E. Hinton’s book “the Outsiders” is Ponyboy Curtis. He has two older brothers Darry and Soda. Pony is 14 years old and his best friend, Johnny, is 16 years old. S. E. Hinton wrote “the Outsiders” when she was 17 years old. Her book was published in 1967. The

Two books set in the 1960s differ so greatly that it seems they are not even happening at the same time. “The Outsiders” and “The Wednesday Wars” are both set in this time, however, the background and conflicts in the story are definitely not the same. S. E. Hinton, the author of “The Outsiders”, seldom uses references from the time, unlike Gary D. Schmidt, the author of “The Wednesday Wars”, who uses the political status of the 1960s as a sort of basis for some of the conflicts in the book. Both of the main characters in these books, Ponyboy Curtis and Holling Hoodhood, are greatly impacted by the changes around them and to them. “The Wednesday Wars” is about a boy in the 1960s named Holling Hoodhood who has to spend every Wednesday with his teacher while his friends are either at Hebrew School or Catechism. He believes that his teacher “hates his guts”. This teacher, Mrs. Baker, makes him read Shakespeare as an out of school assignment. However, as the school year progresses, he starts to realize that everything is not what it seems.The Vietnam War

“Need a haircut, greaser?’” “’How’d you like that haircut to begin just below the chin?”(Hinton, pg.5) A Soc says, as Ponyboy gets jumped by a few Socs. There is a colossal rivalry between the Socs and the greasers, and it has always been that way. The two gangs cannot see each other and put aside their differences, thus the greasers, the poorer gang, on occasion, experience “jumps”, or in other words gets injured by a couple of Socs. This goes the same for West Side Story, a movie created in 1961. In West Side Story, two gangs, the Sharks (Puerto Ricans), and the Jets (White), are rivals, and one gang is thought of a lesser group of people. Slowly but surely, both gangs in both The Outsiders and West Side Story and eventually put aside their differences. In both West Side Story, and The Outsiders, the gangs learn a very important theme: “I should do what is right, even if it means crashing the stereotypes.”

Have you ever felt neglected by your family? Have you ever felt that they have your back and they are always there for you? The Outsiders and The Wednesday Wars are two very different books, and their sense of family are very different aspects. The Outsiders is the story of a teen gang in 1967 rural Oklahoma, the Greasers, who are constantly at odds with the Socials, a rival group. When Greasers Ponyboy and Johnny get into a fight that ends in the death of a Social member, the boys go into hiding and Ponyboy and Johnny must face the consequences. The Wednesday Wars is the story of 7th grader Holling Hoodhood, who stays in Mrs. Baker’s classroom every Wednesday afternoon during the 1967 school year, where they have many adventures and learn value of the world they live in. Ponyboy has a family member who mistreats him, and Holling is uncared for and neglected by his family. However, Ponyboy’s brother and friends are always there for him and Holling’s family is not. The last point is that Ponyboy lives in a very poor neighborhood and he is underprivileged, and Holling is living a beneficial, perfect life. To this extent, the family situations of both Ponyboy and Holling have similarities and differences.

The Outsiders message is about “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” It explains that nothing good can go on forever and nothing young can last forever. It tells you about how and why we should enjoy what we have and keep and cherish everything we have to its maximum limit. Why shouldn’t we cherish what we have? Why do we need more? Why can't we be equally treated with same amount of things such as money and houses? That is the real question. We have that to this very day. In The Outsiders, their lives are exactly like this. They have their awesome rich people lives and the poor have unhappy lives. Some of each gang just want to be normal, the same, or similar at least. But their money splits them up. All because of a little extra

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are extremely influential novels that can teach great lessons to teenagers and adults. One of The Outsider’s main themes is; everybody has different problems, but everybody is still the same. This theme is shown throughout the entire novel and explains it well. There are two different groups in the setting of The Outsiders, the socs and the greasers. The socs are the rich kids that drive nice cars and get into a lot of trouble without being punished by their parents, and the greasers are the less wealthy kids that fight with the socs and wear greased back hair and leather jackets. Both of these groups are completely different people, but they still live in the same city and see the same environment. As Ponyboy states “Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset” (Hinton).

People with normal names live a privileged life. If your first name is something like James or Emma and your last name is something like Jones or Williams then you have no idea what it’s like to have a name that is unusual or “original.” However, the main characters from the novels The Outsiders and The Wednesday Wars know this feeling too well. Imagine having the name Ponyboy Curtis, or Holling Hoodhood because you could definitely have some trouble fitting in being called by a name like that. The Wednesday Wars is about a 13 year old boy growing up in Long Island during the late 1960’s living through all the politics and opinions in the year but also dealing with small middle schooler problems like having to wear tights in a play and getting bullied by the “big kids”. The outsiders is about a 14 year old boy growing up in Tesla, Oklahoma also during the late 1960’s. However, in this story the kid doesn’t talk about politics at all, instead he talks about his life struggles and real problems like the death of his parents, living a poor life where his two big brothers have to work jobs and not go to school to support them, and his brotherhood with the boys in their gang called the greasers. However, these two boys, despite having very different upbringings definitely have a few things in common, starting with their unique names.