Book Report: The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

Everyone has their own unique traits and personalities which define who you are in life. Ponyboy Curtis, a 15 year old teenager and the main character in the novel “The Outsiders” written by S.E. Hinton shows his many traits throughout the story in which define him. He is the youngest Curtis and a Greaser who narrates the story. He lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop because his parents died in a car accident. Throughout the novel Ponyboy shows his own unique traits such as his struggles with understanding social classes, his loyalty to others, and finally the importance of a strong family bond.

One characteristic Ponyboy shares most in The Outsiders is his intelligence. In the beginning of the book, S.E. Hinton states, ¨I'm supposed to be smart; I make good grades and have a high IQ and everything, but I don't use my head. Besides, I like walking.¨ The author explains in this quote how Ponyboy is both smart and has common sense. After Johnny killed Bob, Ponyboy and Johnny use their intelligence to decide to go to Dally for help getting the items they need while on the run.

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

In the beginning of “The Outsiders”, Ponyboy only likes a few people but in the end, he realizes that he judged people unfairly. In the beginning, he only appreciated Johnny (the second youngest gang member), Soda (the middle child in his family) and Two-Bit (a wisecracking member of the gang). He dislikes Dallas (the most criminal of the gang) and Steve and thinks that his oldest brother, Darry, dislikes him. He also believes that all Socs are bad. His judgments are first brought into question when he meets Cherry Valence, a female Soc. Ponyboy, referring to her and her friend wrote, “It seemed funny to me that Socs -if these girls were any example - were just like us.” (37) Pony’s views on the Socs evolve again when he talks to Randy. After talking to Randy, Pony thinks, “Socs are just guys after all. Things are rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too." (118) By the end of the novel, Pony does not think all Socs are good because there are Socs like Bob, who jumped Johnny and Pony, but he realizes that people should be

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.

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.

In fact, Ponyboy has done this countless times. In other words, Ponyboy would be surprised by what he learns about someone just by looking at their actions or face expressions. For example, on page 86 it states,“It was hard to believe a Soc would help us, even a Soc that dug sunsets.” Ponyboy now realizes it doesn’t matter who you are financially or your complexion. To repeat, on page 88 it says,“He meant it when he said he didn’t care about his parents. But he and the rest of the gang knew Johnny cared and did everything they could to make it up to him. I don’t know what it was about Johnny-maybe that lost-puppy look or those big scared eyes… made everyone his big brother.” Ponyboy clarifies that Johnny still cares about his parents even if they beat him up, however, Dally is upset and told Johnny to forget about them. Ponyboy comprehends Dally really cares for Johnny. To enumerate, lastly on page 162 it mentions,“A real person, the best buddy a guy ever had… Did he have a kid brother that idolized him? Maybe a big brother who kept bugging him not to be so wild? His parents let him run wild-because they loved him too much or too little?Did they hate us now?” Ponyboy doesn’t understand why a Soc would come and talk to him normally and tries to put the pieces of the puzzle together. With this in mind, Ponyboy is intellectual, a deep

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".

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’s book, The Outsiders was a very good book about this group of people called the Greasers who go up against the higher class of society, called the Soc’s. However there was a movie that came out in March 25, 1983. There were some similarities and differences and that is what we are going to talk about today. Both the movie and the book are both similar and yet they are different. Lets see some similarities and differences.

Heroes are everywhere is our daily lives,anyone can become a hero even the least expected person. Everyone has a different definition to define what a hero is. I think that a hero is someone that is admired and has done some sort of act courage. Or they helped someone in anyway like saving peoples lives. A hero can also be someone who has achieved the impossible,also can be someone who left their life to help others.

In Mrs. J’s class, we read a variety of books. The books varied from the 1960’s to segregation time periods. All the books I read were all interesting.

Currently, we are reading the book called The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Ponyboy, the main character, begins talking with a girl named Cherry Valance in the second chapter. What makes Cherry unique from the other girls is that she was apart of the Socs. The Socs are the rivals of the Greasers, in which Ponyboy is apart of. The Socs are known for their wealthy and high - class background.

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