Book Report on the Outsiders

Sherry Valance, a 16 year-old Soc, who goes by the name Cherry, influenced Ponyboy not just a little, but caused him to ponder about the meaning behind all the rivalry between the Socs and the Greasers. Hate between the Socs, the rich kids of the west side, and the Greasers, the poor kids from the east side, has always existed. Beforehand, Ponyboy greatly disliked the Socs, for they continually jumped and attacked Greasers. He always regarded them as an enemy. However, that one night when Ponyboy Curtis clashed with Sherry Valance, she demonstrated that not all Socs were malevolent and self-centered. While conversing with Cherry, Ponyboy felt her empathy and understanding and softened towards her. She talked about her boyfriend, Bob, and how he

In the book, The Outsiders, Ponyboy Curtis is part of the Greaser’s, a gang of boys who are in the lower class in 1965. Their arch rival, the Socs, are the more privileged, upper class boys from across town. Throughout the book, the two gang have many conflicts. Darry, Ponyboy’s oldest brother acts as a parent figure for him since both of his parents were killed in a car crash. Other member of the Greasers are Dally, Two-Bit, Steve, Sodapop, and Johnny. After getting in a fight with his brother, Ponyboy flees to the park where he runs into a group of Socs. The Socs attack Ponyboy and hold his head under the water in the fountain, trying to kill him. Ponyboy blacks out, and later wakes up to see on the Soc boys dead body next to him. Johnny then tells Ponyboy that he killed the boys because they were trying to kill Ponyboy. The boys are afraid, and desperately try to find Dally Winston, who gives them a gun and sends them to the abandoned church to hide. The two boys stay at the church for a while until they decide to go back into town. As they are leaving

Ponyboy Curtis in the fourteen-year-old boy that explains the story in both the book and the movie, and also the youngest of the greasers. Ponyboy is very intelligent compared to the rest of the gang he is most defenatly the smartest to them all. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop in both the book and movie. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense in the book more so then in the movie, but Ponyboy is a much brighter then his brother takes him for. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love but in the movie they dont focus on his school as much. He matures over the course of the book and the movie both.

The biggest influence in shaping ponyboy’s identity was his quest to find where he belonged, because throughout the book readers learn ,along with him, how he is different than the other greasers and how he doesn’t act or think like they do. The first example of this is in the first chapter when the readers meet Ponyboy and he tells them about the gang and his friends and family and then he says, “For a while there, I thought I was the only person in the world that did,” after explaining how he has different interests than the people around him (Hinton 2). This leads him to feel like an outsider and makes him feel like he doesn’t belong and that he is different from the socs and the greasers. In chapter 5, Johnny tells ponyboy how he couldn’t talk about things like sunsets around the rest of the gang, and he also tells Johnny, “You ain’t like any of the gang (78).” This shows how Ponyboy is not alone in feeling like an

She realizes that Ponyboy is not like other Greasers such as Dally. This develops their friendship over the course of the novel because they have so much in common. Immediately after she encounters Dally, she says to Ponyboy “What’s a nice, smart kid like you running around with trash like that for?” (Hinton 23). Ponyboy is the exact opposite of how Greasers are supposed to appear.

Not to mention, protection is also an important and fundamental, and Sodapop and Darrel effectively take care of the young Ponyboy. In any situation they will protect the minor, even if there are gang conflicts outside of their neighborhood, the minor will be protected by his oldest brothers, and as a matter of fact, Ponyboy is in good hands with his brothers. As said in their neighborhood, "they have each others back"

After Johnny died, the greasers and socs had a large-scale gang fighting. Before joining this fighting, Ponyboy had a heart to heart talk with Randy: ‘ You can’t win, even if you whip us. You’ll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn’t do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn’t prove a thing. We’ll forget if you win, or if you don’t. Greasers will still be greasers and socs will still be socs.’ (Hinton 76) Ponyboy realized the truth. He was aware of fighting could only bring more conflicts and death. Therefore, Ponyboy was impacted by the gang rival because he realized the reality that the social class between greasers and socs could never be changed by

Ponyboy, which is what I thought was his nickname in chapter 1, but in chapter two, they reveal his name “Ponyboy Curtis.” On his way home, Ponyboy thought about how he wants good looks like Paul Newman, but he still likes his own greaser look. The thought of how he likes to go to the movies alone, but gets scared walking alone. Ponyboy realizes that walking alone is not safe for greasers because they attract the abuse of Socials, or Socs, the rich kids. Ponyboy says that greasers are poorer and crazier than the Socs.

Ponyboy Curtis is 14 and also the youngest of the greaser gang. His parents have died in a car accident and live with his brothers Darry and Sodapop. He is also interested in literary and academic accomplishments which set him apart from the rest of his gang.

The members on the Greaser’s gang starts with Ponyboy is a fourteen year old boy who lives with his older brother Sodapop, a high school dropout, and their oldest brother Darry. Darry is strained between Soda and Ponyboy since their parents have died and Darry has taken the responsibility of the family. Johnny is a 16 year old boy that only has the gang as his family because his parents neglect him and frequently argue with each other. Dally is a big troublemaker and the wildest

Stay Gold Ponyboy as Johnny to his last breaths. Ponyboy boy curtis and his brothers are a gang named the greasers because they have greasy hair and there enemies are the socs.

People should stop judging a book by its cover. Most people think that all greasers want to do it’s start trouble but that is not true. These greasers are great people that should not have to be judge everyday by the people who do not know them. Me and Ponyboy share a lot of the same characteristics. We are similar in many different ways. Some ways are good and some ways may not be so good. He is a nice person, he is smart in school, but sometimes doesn’t think properly out of school which leads him into trouble. Out of all of the characters in “The Outsiders”, I can relate most to ponyboy. If I knew Ponyboy in person, I would definitely be in his clique and I would fit right in.

Character Analysis Prewriting : Ponyboy Author: S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders Ponyboy Curtis is lonely now and he always have been like when his parents died and Darry (his oldest brother) not really caring for him and then Johnny (his best friend) died. Later Dally (another greaser) died and it was almost like Ponyboy lost many important things. Ponyboy is also lonely because he’s not as tough as the other greasers and he loves reading. Ponyboy loves reading!

The story unravels when Ponyboy walking home alone from the movies. As he’s walking along, a group of Socs corner him in a dark alley and repeatedly beat him up. The Socs badly injure and threaten to kill Ponyboy, but before they kill him, some of the members of his gang show up and save him from further damage. This fight sets up the setting for the rest of the tale, since it reveals to the readers that the rivals will never stop fighting, even if it gets to death.

“My hair is longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in the back and long at the front and sides, but I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood rarely bothers to get a haircut” (Hinton 1). Ponyboy Curtis (yes, that is his real name) is a greaser (someone in a lower social class or a someone who “comes from the wrong side of the tracks”). Ponyboy Curtis is interesting character. Ponyboy enjoys being alone, is a pleaser by nature, but he lacks common sense. All those traits wrapped into one does not make Ponyboy a steriotpical gangbander.