Book Report On The Outsiders

The title of the story is The Outsiders. S.E. Hinton wrote it. Dell Publishing published the book. The main characters include Ponyboy, Darry, Soadapop, Dally Winston, Johnny, Cherry, Two-Bit, and Marcia.

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.

There are two groups in this book, the lower income families on the east side called greasers and the higher income paid families who live on the West side of town called Socs. One night the protagonist, Ponyboy Curtis and friend Johnny Cade were making their way back from a movie, they decide to lay down and talk for a little bit before they go home. His older brother, Darry, is waiting when Pony walks in. They instantly start arguing and Darry smacks Ponyboy across the face. Ponyboy and Johnny runaway moments later and find themselves in a park with drunk Socs who attack Ponyboy. Ponyboy regains consciousness to find himself lying on the ground next to an Socs dead body. Johnny had stabbed a Soc in the back with his switchblade. They hang low at an abandon church for a long week. Then, Dally arrives to check up on them and takes them out to lunch. He

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.

Survival instincts allow individuals to persevere during times of hardship and struggle. Unfortunately, many families in America are struggling lower-middle class or live in poverty. It’s nice to think a person can easily go from being dirt poor to filthy rich, but it doesn’t usually work that way. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton depicts the hardships and struggles experienced by two rival gangs, “The Greasers” from the lower middle class and “The Socs” from the upper class. Thesis: In The Outsiders, the Greasers experience disenfranchisement mostly due to socioeconomic class and appearance. However, other types of disenfranchisement such as drug, alcohol use and gang participation are also present in the novel.

If you had a chance to go to college with an scholarship would you go even if it means leaving your only family behind? Darry is the oldest of the Curtis brothers. At twenty, Darry is the “old man” in The Outsiders a novel written by S.E. Hinton. He has two little brothers named Sodapop and Ponyboy. The brothers are greasers, a class term that refers to the people on the East Side, the poor side of town. They are known for their long, greased hair. Darry is devoted to try and be a parent figure for his brothers. He sacrifices everything and does everything he can for his little brothers, the only family he has left.

The book I choose to read was called the outsiders. This book was about a gang of greasers that live in Oklahoma without their parents. This gang of seven get into a “rumble” with another upperclass gang called the “socs” in this rumble one of the socs is killed by Johnny which was one of the greasers. Johnny flees with his best friend Ponyboy to a church outside of the city, this is when the crunch catches on fire and Johnny unfortunately is majorly injured. Johnny saves five other kids from the fire. Later Johnny is sent to the hospital and they were called heroes, but the police investigate them and find out they were the ones that killed the kid from socs. Since they saved a lot of people they easily won the trial, Johnny dies in the hospital and that's basically the book. So this is a little description of the book so you can get any idea.

a. The main theme of this story in my opinion is about Stereotyping people based on what they look like. Ponyboy was labeled a "greaser" just because he was poor and he lived on the east side of town. Although he enjoyed being a greaser, Ponyboy was not like the rest of them, because he enjoyed school and did not shoplift. Also, Cherry was labeled as a "soc" because she lived on the West side of town, and was rich. But Cherry wasn't like a Soc because she didn't enjoy beer blasts or getting drunk like the rest of the Socs. b. The author wants the reader to know not to judge a book by its cover. Ponyboy and Cherry were labeled rivals, but they were really not because they both enjoyed the same things, and they didn't hate each other. One was a Soc, who didn't enjoy all the things that the other

Ponyboy Curtis is walking home one afternoon after watching a film, and his mind starts to wander. Ponyboy steps back from his wandering imagination to explain that walking alone is unsafe for greasers, the East Side gang of friends to which he belongs. When they walk by themselves, greasers attract the harassment of Socials, or Socs, the rich West Side crowd. Ponyboy says greasers are poorer and wilder than the Socs, whom the newspapers condemn one day for throwing parties and praise the next day for good citizenship. Greasers wear their hair long and put grease in it. They dress tough, steal, and get into gang fights. They often carry switchblades, mainly to help them stand their ground against the Socs. Ponyboy says he does not participate in typical greaser mischief because his oldest brother, Darrel (known as “Darry”), would kill him if he got into trouble. Ponyboy’s parents died in a car crash, so the three Curtis brothers live together by themselves, an arrangement possible only as long as they stay out of trouble. Twenty-year-old Darry acts as head of the family. He is strict with Ponyboy and often yells at him. Despite his intelligence, Ponyboy lacks common sense, which frustrates Darry. Ponyboy feels great affection for his sixteen-year-old brother, Sodapop, whose charm and cheerfulness he admires. Ponyboy returns to the story of his solitary walk after the movies. As he walks, he notices a red Corvair trailing him. He quickens his pace as he remembers how badly the Socs beat his friend Johnny Cade. The Corvair pulls up beside Ponyboy and five Socs climb out and surround him. One of them asks, “Need a haircut, greaser?” and pulls out a blade. The Socs begin to beat up Ponyboy, who screams for help. Ponyboy’s brothers and the rest of their group appear on the scene and chase away the Socs. Darry starts to scold Ponyboy for walking home alone instead of calling for a ride, but Sodapop tells him to stop nagging.

The Outsiders describes a gang conflict between the Socs (rich kids) and the Greasers, the poorer people on earth. The novel is about two weeks in a life of a fourteen year old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy and his brawls with life.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton This novel takes place in Tulsa Oklahoma around the 1960’s. Many of the people in this novel have character traits that make them different and special.

Ponyboy, Johnny, Sodapop, Darry are all a part of the unruly gang, the Greasers. S.E Hinton is writing these characters as rebellious young men, with a harsh background, who takes their anger and hardship out on gang fighting. These roles play an important part in this book because it shows that even though they nothing physically, they have a heart stronger than gold for each other and others mentally. Hinton use these characters to show prejudice leads to wrong conclusions, violence and oppression because these “poor” young men are getting beat up by the rich Socs who have never felt the feeling of being in poverty. “ You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you’re in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don’t stick up for them, stick together, make

Themes in “The Outsiders” include society and class, loyalty, love, violence, isolation, appearances, education. Loyalty is the most shown theme in “The Outsiders”. Loyalty is used mainly by the greasers in the novel it is shown at various parts in the book one of the main parts is where Dally jumps through the window to pull Johnny out of the burning church. The second most used theme in “The Outsiders” Violence. Violence is used in every chapter much like loyalty. The main part in “The Outsiders” where violence is shown when Johnny stabs Bob near the fountain Ponyboy was getting drowned

The Greasers have broken families. Johnny’s dad beats him and his mom just ignores him. Dally’s parents don’t care about him, but atleast they have parents. Ponyboy and his brothers, Sodapop and Darry, lost their parents due to a car accident. All that they have is eachother. “Since

S.E. Hinton wrote her first book, The Outsiders, in 1967 at the age of 19. Before The Outsiders, she was pedestrian, but then became an eminent author; many of her books are still read today. An example of this is The Outsiders, which was an assigned book for me this year, almost 50 years after it was published. The Outsiders has themes like not judging by appearances and how people from different backgrounds are treated differently by society. It is about a boy named Ponyboy and follows a few months of his life.