I believe the Outsiders are representation sped up by the greasers like Ponyboy, Dally, Soda, and the others. They are extracted from others and are people that don’t fit in with the crowd. The factor is they are poor and are unnoticed unless they make trouble. These are boys who don’t care they smoke and act like a family. Unlike the other gangs this has no leader and have individual leaders. Like for these examples to use Outsider it needs to be defined. Outsider or an Outsider is a man or woman
The Outsiders Analysis 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
The book The Outsiders is about a gang member that kills a rival gang’s member. The story takes place during the mid 1960s in Tulsa a city in Oklahoma. The plot involves two gangs, the Greasers, and the Socials ( also called Socs). The Greasers were people part of the working class or below. They tended to be portrayed as the poor, and dirty people who didn’t have any future or destiny. Also known as, the scums of the society. The Socs on the other hand, were the people of the upper class, the kings
Heros in Grease It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No it’s… a Greaser? The Outsiders is a book written by S.E. Hilton about a boy named Ponyboy Curtis that is a Greaser who is involved with a murder of a Socs along with his friend Johnny Cade. While it was under self defence, the cops would never believe them so they flee the town. Ponyboy is faced with many challenges along the way that involve his brother's (Sodapop and Darry), his safety, a church fire, and Johnny and Dally Winston death. During
According to a study conducted at Sam Houston State University, nearly 1.5 million youth in the U.S. are gang members. This shows that the book, The Outsiders, written by S. E. Hinton is more relevant to modern society than one may think. The story takes place in the 1960s and is about Ponyboy Curtis, a member of a low class gang of kids from age 14 to around 20 who call themselves the Greasers, and their struggles with the upper class gang who calls themselves the Socs. After Pony's friend, Johnny
Letting Go of the Things you Love One of the hardest things to do in life is to get over the loss of someone else's life. In “The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton, Ponyboy and the rest of the gang experience the loss of close family and friends, and even enemies regularly. Weather that be through death or a simple goodbye. It can make being stuck in the past is a tremendous problem, especially when you're close to someone that passes away. Nevertheless the Greasers do an Unbelievably adequate job getting
As a young adult, it is difficult to grow up without parents and still be tough and brave. In addition, teens can be emotional and overreact at times. In the novel The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, a fourteen-year-old kid named Ponyboy Curtis feels different emotions that make him stand out from other Greasers, or “hoodlums”. Ponyboy, the youngest of all the Greasers, is a great example of a teen who feels isolated, brave, and emotional throughout the novel. In the beginning of the novel, Ponyboy is
S.E. Hinton, the author of The Outsiders, is considered one of the most influential writers for young adults. Susan Eloise Hinton was born on July 22, 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the 1960’s, she found a way to pass time by reading and writing since there were few extracurricular activities for girls at her local high school. She did not like to read the typical “girl meets guy” romance novels that were popular. She decided to write more realistic stories about teen relationships. Even
The novel “The Outsiders” written by S.E Hinton, was a fictional story told by a fourteen-year old boy struggling with right and wrong in a society which he believes he doesn’t fit, leaving him an outsider. The book takes place in Tulsa Oklahoma, where Hinton was originally from. In that aspect, the book was for teenagers, about teenagers written by a teenager. The Outsiders was first published in 1967 when she was seventeen then a filmed in 1983 directed by Francis Ford which had millions of views
Stupid, Delinquent, Unfeeling Imagine being dumb, stealing and carrying blades everywhere you go, and being unable to feel deeply, those words would make people think of Greasers. A character in S.E. Hinton's book The Outsiders, that does support the claims that Greasers are dumb, delinquents, unfeeling is Dally. It can be inferred that Dally is not smart because Ponyboy says “I'm not like them. “Nobody in our gang digs movies and books the way I do (Hinton 2)” which would state that he is not one