Book Report On The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

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The Outsiders is a novel that represents many themes such as honour, the innocence of childhood and the value of appearances through the characters’ dialogue and behaviour that feature in this book. The author, S. E. Hinton writes about a character in her novel by the name of Dallas Winston, a hardened young man that has seen and done too many things for his age. His loyalty to his gang, criminal record and his stand out looks are just some of the characteristics represented to the reader. This is conveyed through Dallas’ description, conversation and actions but also through the main character’s and his friends’ thoughts of him. Dallas’ attributes play a major role in the development of the outstanding themes in this story and help to give the novel depth and a story that almost 50 years on is still able to relate to teenagers of today.

The novel and movie The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, is about a boy, Ponyboy Curtis, and his struggles. Hinton writes about two gangs: the Socs and greasers. Ponyboy is labeled a greaser because of his lack of wealth and popularity. When his friend, Johnny, murders a Soc to save Ponyboy’s life, they flee from town and hide in an abandoned church. This event brings many stereotypes that greasers are cruel people and hoods. There are many themes in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, although one is stronger than the rest: injustice is caused by money, status, and circumstance.

Ponyboy’s goal is to return home and face the consequences of his and Johnny’s actions (killing Bob, running away…) “I had thought of turning ourselves in lots of times.” (page 87) “I was glad we were going back.” (page 89)

S.E. Hinton wrote, “ Dally raised the gun and I thought: You blasted fool.[...] He was jerked half around by the impact of the bullets, then slowly crumpled with a look of triumph on his face and was dead before he hit the ground.” In the book, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, Dallas Winston is a teenager who fights for what he wants until he gets his way. When something is taken away from him, he is beyond frightened and does not know how to handle his emotions. He then forms a plan to have the police kill him so he can be with the special someone who died later that day. If Dally had not killed himself, he would have lived a life of distress and regret.

The novel and film, The Outsiders by S. E Hinton, can be composed based on symbols, imagery, characters, and chronology. The Outsiders is a novel and a movie. The novel was written by Susan Eloise Hinton, in 1965, where it took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After the book was published the movie, The Outsiders was produced in 1983 directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The author has a great sense of imagery. Ponyboy the narrator of the story used much imagery in chapter one in the novel to bring his brother and friends who are also Greasers to life. Ponyboy 's big brother, Darry who "had eyes that are like two pieces of pale blue green ice" letting the reader know that Darry is the serious and determined person. In addition with "broad shoulders", "muscular" and "six two feet height", from the description, the reader can picture Darry as an athlete from the physical appearance. Ponyboy uses imagery on his second older brother Sodapop "His eyes are dark brown lively, dancing recklessly laughing eyes that can be gentle and sympathetic one moment and blazing with anger the next". The descriptions gave Sodapop an image that signified effervescent and a slight of anger but kind. Dally one of Ponyboy friends and a member of the Greasers, has eyes that are "blue, blazing ice, and cold let the reader know that Dallas heart if filled with rage".

The city of Tulsa is the biggest city in Oklahoma today. However, it wasn’t always like that, especially in the 1960’s where Tulsa had barely started to expand its physical limits. The writer, S. E. Hinton wrote the book, The Outsiders in 1967, which was set in Tulsa, Oklahoma and depicted many details about the city. While some of the details are a little far fetched, a fair amount of the are true. One similarity is that of Dairy Queen the restaurant, which used to be a restaurant called Tastee Freez, which many people in Tulsa loved. Another detail of the city that relates to the book is the amount of crime in Tulsa. In the 1960’s, there was a total of forty-four thousand five hundred ninety-four crimes which included burglary, robbery, automobile

Stereotyping plays a large role in the events of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders. The two main opposing groups, the Socs and Greasers, constantly face problems because of the stereotypes associated with their social groups. As seen in the novel, stereotypes and prejudice cause extreme and unnecessary conflicts. Both groups have predetermined opinions of the other, but as the story progresses, many of the characters begin to realize how similar the groups can be. The stereotypes observed in the novel can easily be compared to those in real life. Both the Greasers and the Socs share many of their opinions with the other members of their groups, and this leads to many misunderstandings. In fact, most of the conflicts in the novel are caused

The outsiders by S.E. Hinton is an action thrilling book that’s about a gang of greasers. The main character is a 14-year-old boy named ponyboy his two brother darry and soda are raising him because his parents were in an auto wreck. In this book there is a rival between the richer boy named socs and the lower class called greasers. One night ponyboy falls asleep in a parking lot with johnny his friend from his gang and when they wake up it’s really late so pony runs home and his oldest brother darry was worried sick and yelled at ponyboy and ponyboy snaps and get johnny to run with him they plan to run away but they change their minds and go to a park and while they are there a drunk group of soc come and start to fight the boys and the ponyboy

The book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Ponyboy forms a different identity throughout the book.

This book showed the struggle between rich and poor. The two main groups of the story were the Socs and the greasers. The Socs are in the upper class while the greasers are the poor ones that dislike the Socs because they have more money, better cars, and act like they are better than the greasers. The Outsiders is a good story by S.E. Hinton that shows the struggles of growing up Hinton did a fine job with the character development, the plot, and the theme with a few flaws.

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The Outsiders is one of my favorite books now, the theme of this book is so great, and the reasons why the author wrote this book are so surreal. Ponyboy, Sodapop, Johnny, and Cherry are my favorite characters. Cherry likes to think of others, like when the greasers were talking about how all the Socs were bad, and Cherry explained that they aren’t all horrible mean bullies. Cherry explained to Ponyboy that Bob was a nice guy, he wasn’t when he got drunk and wanted to hurt people, but he payed attention to Cherry and made her happy. Johnny was so soft and innocent. The whole gang kept up with him and made sure nobody tried to hurt his feelings. He was like the middle of a puzzle, it kept the whole gang at a normal calm place. When Johnny died, the whole gang started going crazy.

Ponyboy Curtis - The novel's fourteen-year-old narrator and protagonist, and the youngest of the greasers. Ponyboy's literary interests and academic accomplishments set him apart from the rest of his gang. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense, but Ponyboy is a reliable and observant narrator. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love. He matures over the course of the novel, eventually realizing the importance of strength in the face of class bias.

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.