Book Report On The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

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

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.

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.

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.

While reading The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, I felt as if I took a time travel to the 1960’s. The book clearly gives an insight to the past. Unlike other book, The Outsiders has its own unique meaning. The author created something different than a modern clique book that I read in my day to day life. Hinton’s word choice creates an interesting book where it felt as if it was non-fiction than young-adult fiction. I like this book because the author made something extraordinary by stating the past rather than another author’s writing twenty-first century book.

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 Outsiders is a novel written by Susan Eloise Hinton, also known as S.E Hinton. The setting of the story takes place in the 1960s. The Outsiders is written in first person view, by Ponyboy Curtis. The story revolves around the greasers and Socs. The Socs are the west side rich kids, they wrecked houses and “threw beer blasts for kicks”. While the Greasers were the east side kids, they “drove old souped-up cars, held up gas stations and had gang fights once in a while.” One of the conflicts the characters face is man vs man, which is because the greasers and Socs don’t get along, this is because they feel superior to each other. They both had different ways of lives, they did different things for fun, and they did not understand each other. This conflict was later resolved towards the end of the story when Ponyboy speaks to Randy about no longer fighting after Bob’s death.

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

One aspect people can relate to in The Outsiders is poor people in the book and rich people in real life. In the book, the Greasers are poor had has to work hard to provide food for their families / gang. They also need to work hard for things they need life. Rich people in real life can actually provide enough food for their families and also they can afford the things they need or want. Unlike poor people, they have to work hard for money. Money is nearly nothing to rich people. Another aspect is comparing The Greasers to real life gangs that's alive today. The Greasers cared for each other and is always there when other people needs help. They are not violent. They are a group of kind people. Also, they got each others backs. Compared to gangs in real life today, they are violent, and rude to each other. If someone in the gang doesn't like another person in the gang, the person that is being heated will get kicked out of the gang. The place where the Greasers lived is at the east end of Oklahoma. The Socs lived on the west side of town. The rich side. In Oklahoma city, the rich side is located on either side of the south. There are many more aspects people can relate to The Outsiders.

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.

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.

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)

How is it possible that two completely different people have the same background and live similar lives? In the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, two characters who are completely different are actually a lot alike. Johnny Cade and Dally Winston are similar because they care about each other and both have parents who don’t give them the attention they need. Although, they are similar they both have their differences. Johnny’s personality is very quiet and sensitive, while Dally is an aggressive cold hearted tough guy. Dally cannot do anything legal rather than Johnny who tries to follows the rules. Therefore, Johnny and Dally have more in common than some may think, given the fact that they are both so different from each other.

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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.