Analysis Of S. E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders'

Ponyboy’s Change of a Lifetime The world changes through time, along with all its people. You could be having a great time, then, you’re mourning the loss of your best friend. In The Outsiders, a story written by author S.E. Hinton, the main character named Ponyboy Curtis has to undergo plenty of change throughout a short period of time. Ponyboy changes his view of the socs, he changes emotionally- through countless deaths, and academically- which was a result of his emotions. In chapter two, when

Up Too Fast S.E. Hinton’s realistic fiction novel, The Outsiders, takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma- a place divided in half. Ponyboy Curtis, a Greaser, lives with the constant fear of not knowing when he might get jumped by a Social. Ponyboy longs for a life where there are no Socs and Greasers, but just regular old people. One lesson the novel suggests is to stick together and fight for what you love. While some readers may believe that this means that the central theme of Hinton’s novel is loyalty

There are greasers and socs. The socs hate the greasers. But here's my question why do the socs the hate the greasers so much. The novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton there was a family but they were brothers and they were greasers. And there is a group of rich kids called the socs. And then will change everything. S.E Hinton theme “things are rough all over” is evident in the struggles greasers and socs face. However, the greasers faced more struggles than the socs because the socs are more richer

of hardship. Proof of this fact can be seen all throughout the contemporary, historical, and ancient pasts when the stories of a diverse human species are thoroughly scrutinized and examined through literature. One such written story called “The Outsiders,” a novella authored in 1967 by a woman known as Susan Eloise (S.E.) Hinton, perfectly captures this moral in detail. In fact, the big message the story was wishing to convey was that running away from your problems won’t make you feel any better

Social Class and Identity The disparity between the social classes in The Outsiders is one of the central themes and the driving force of the plot. Hinton sought to depict teen life in a more accurate light as she saw it occur from day to day (“S. E. Hinton Biography,” 2014). Class distinction is the issue that incites the conflict in the novel, and that conflict causes much of the action. Hinton’s fourteen-year-old narrator and his gang are locked in a battle with their rival, the Socials (socs)

Christine Berndt Ms. Granger English Comp 1A 29 November 2016 A Greasy Turnaround In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s short story “Greasy Lake”, the reader is brought into an intense situation that occurs on one of the first nights during the young adult boy’s summer vacation. The narrator, whose name is never revealed, is out on an adventurous night with his friends Digby and Jeff. While out, they find themselves discovering whether or not the idea of who they thought they wanted to be and, associate themselves

Gina Cabano Eng-150 Whetstine Literary Analysis 05/04/15 Inside The Outsiders The Outsiders, a coming-of-age novel, written by S.E. Hinton who was a teenager at the time of writing is firmly based upon groups of teenagers divided amongst their social classes. The novel takes on the rival battles of the Socials and the Greasers. Susan Eloise Hinton as known as, S.E. Hinton was born July 22, 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She had grown up as a voluntary tom boy in love with horses. Susan could not write

of you hide on a unfamiliar place, you fought with another gang, and later your best buddy dies. This strongly connects to one of S. E. Hinton’s famous novels, The Outsiders. This complex novel it’s about how two gangs, the Greasers and the Socs hate each other. It contains challenges that both gangs faced, including some death situations. In the novel, The Outsiders, the gang that had caused all of the turmoil and conflict in the community are the Socials. The Socs are liable for all of the melee

The Outsiders literary analysis Are things tough all over? The book The Outsiders written by S. E. Hinton, translates prejudice leads to wrong conclusions, violence, and oppression by using strong characters, symbolism, and compelling events. The Outsiders is a book about and narrated by a fourteen year old, greaser named Ponyboy Curtis, who lives with his two brothers Sodapop and Darry after their parents that died in a car accident. This book takes the reader through the world of a teenage “hoodlum”

Provocations: Who’s Really Guilty in S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders? Imagine you lived in a place where you always had to watch your back and there was always another brutal enemy. The only way to survive was through violence, as if you were born with a knife. S.E. Hinton depicted this world in her novel The Outsiders. She wrote about two feuding teenage gangs; the Socs, who were “the West-side rich kids” (page 2), and the Greasers, who were poor. The rivalry between the two groups ran deep and the