Book Review : The Poor Greasers And The Rich Socs

In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton there is two groups. There is the socs with lots of money and wealthy,then we have the greasers with greasy hair and they are pretty poor. In the book The Outsiders it takes place in a small town in the 1960’s in Oklahoma.The setting is affected by the characters in a lot of different ways.

They were on their way to turn themselves in when they reached the top of Jay Mountain and realized the church that they were staying in was in flames. There were kids surrounding the church and they noticed screams coming from inside, Ponyboy and Johnny had a feeling it was their

After running for a while they stopped in another parking lot with a fountain in the middle. While in the parking lot a blue mustang that belonged to the Socs that beat up Johnny a long time ago pulled up. They stepped out and started to insult Johnny and Ponyboy, Ponyboy snapped back and they grabbed him and shoved his head in the found as stated, “They grabbed my arm and twisted it behind my back, and shoved my face into the fountain. I fought, but the hand at the back of my neck was strong and I had to hold my breath. I’m dying, I thought, and wondered what was happening to Johnny.” This showed that those Socs were even going to kill them just because they talked back, but they were also drunk which also shows how dangerous drunk Socs are. To save Ponyboy Johnny had to kill the Soc and afterwards they both had to run out of town to avoid being arrested. This changed Ponyboys identity into a outlaw.

Then Ponyboy runs out the door, finds Johnny, and goes to the park. There, however, the two young greasers run into randy and bob, with a huge group of their Socs friends. One of the Socs friends hold pony boy’s head under a cold water fountain, and Ponyboy blacks out. When he comes to, he is lying on the ground next to Johnny. The bloody corps of bob is next to them. To save Ponyboy, Johnny had to kill bob.

To begin, Johnny is innocent for the murder of Bob concidering that Bob was killing Johnny’s third party Ponyboy, leaving Johnny to use self defence. “ ‘I had

Right off the bat you know the two groups the Socs and the Greasers and you know the Socs have lots of wealth and the Greasers do not. “People know Greasers are like hoods.”(3) The Greasers steal things and drive old souped up cars. “Since Greasers have no money some have dropped out of school to get a job.”(43) Darry dropped out to get money to

Ponyboy and Johnny had spent the night with two Soc girls, Cherry and Marcia, until their boyfriends, Bob and Randy, came and picked them up in the blue Mustang. Ponyboy goes home and Darry, Pony’s older brother who is like a parent figure to him ever since their parents died, gets mad about Pony being out late at night and hits him. Pony runs back to the park and finds Johnny. Soon after, the blue Mustang showed up with Bob and his group inside. In the text, Ponyboy states “When a sudden blast from a car horn made us both jump.

The Greasers and the Socs' Are two rival gangs who try to claim there place in a small town. Throughout the book and movie an interesting twist occurs, Ponyboy runs away and meets with Johnny Cade, they walk throughout a vacant lot and didn't expect to see the Socs' and their blue Mustang . This is when the interesting twist occurs one of the greasers called Bob had tried to drown Ponyboy and Johnny having no choice, killed him with a switch blade. The movie had quite a turn as it included different details.

Have you ever read a very hard hitting and the phenomenal story about rival gangs and the effect it has on the lives of the people and the society. In The Outsiders, is a story of 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis and his two older brothers, Soda and Darry. The boys are orphans and struggle to stick together in their lower-class neighborhood, known as the East Side. They and their friends are part of a gang of tough street boys called the Greasers. Even though other people might think you're unimportant and below them. You will always have your friends and family. In The Outsiders, we see the idea of the difference in the society based on the economic level of the characters, honor among the lawless and violence among the youth.

A greaser is really a hood “gang” that no one really cares about but they get into a lot of trouble and go to jail a lot. A soc is in a higher class and are very smart and talented yet are very mean and brutal to the greasers. I would personally be a mean tuff greaser than the little rich kids that lose fights. The greasers and the socs have a war between them, neither of them like each other. The greasers get jumped by the socs all the time, and they are more scared of them because they are older, at least most of them. Quite a ways through the book, towards the end, the greasers and socs have a “rumble” it is kinda like a HUGE fight between everyone! All though the greasers won that doesn’t make any less of the socs. The greasers are all

Towards the middle of the story, a boy named Johnny had killed a Soc that was drowning Ponyboy. He and Ponyboy fled the city to another town, and hid in an abandon church there for a week. When they were going to leave, they realized the church was on fire and there was kids trapped inside. Johnny and Pony were good friends and they decided to go help the children. After they rescued the children, they had to escape the burning, ravaged building. A flaming, steaming hot beam from the ceiling fell on Johnny. After this happened, Pony passed out, “ I leaped out the window and heard timber crashing and the flames roaring right behind me. I staggered, almost

To begin with, Johnny stabs Bob, the Soc, with his switchblade because Bob was about to brutally beat Johnny up with his rings on his bare hands and his hurtful words from his crude, deceptive mouth. Johnny also stabs Bob because Bob’s gang was trying to drown Ponyboy, so if he was able to stab Bob then his nasty and cruel gang would leave Ponyboy alone. When Johnny stabs Bob, his plan ends up working and the other socs runaway because they got frightened at the sight of Johnny stabbing and killing their what used to be alive friend. “ I killed him, he said slowly. I killed that boy. (56)” Johnny says this to Ponyboy as he awakens; coughing up water from nearly being drowned by Bob’s gang. When the socs runaway they go and try to find police. Because of this, Johnny and Ponyboy now have to run away in order for them not to be caught and punished by

Later after they killed the Socs they went to darry Darry for help. Darry helped theme cause he new what it was like to be put in prison for a bad crime so he gave theme a loaded gun, a dry t-shirt for Pony who is still wet, and $50 hooked up with a place to stay till the heat dies down they jumped a train to get there. They lived in a church for a bit till Darry showed up to get theme info on what's going on but when Darry did it was the day everything went wrong the church caught fire so the boys ran in the burning flames like the heros from “Gone With The Wind” that Pony loved this was the only moment Johnny felt important due to his parents not caring about him. Pony, Darry, Johnny saved the kids inside of it Johnny died from his injuries but Darry went so crazy from Johnny's death that he pointed a gun at cops and was shot to

“The Outsiders”, written by S. E. Hinton, is the story of the conflict between two social groups: “The Socs”, and the “Greasers”; set in a small Oklahoma town during the 1950s. The Socs are considered the upper class while the Greasers are the poorer, less educated, and more impoverished people of the town. The main character, Ponyboy, is a Greaser, though he is a smart kid. He has two older brothers, Sodapop, and Darry, who are both Greasers as well. They have a number of fellow Greasers: Johnny, who acts as the "pet" since he's younger than practically everyone, and Dallas, or Dally, the toughest Greaser, who is almost the leader of the group.

As they tried to relax at the park they watch as a blue Mustang full of Socs approaches them. Ponyboy and Johnny plan to run away but are too late, and watch five drunk Socs come out of the Mustang. As they surround Ponyboy, he tries to make a run for it but is pulled back and dunked into a fountain. Ponyboy tried pulling away and out of the fountain but the arm around his neck was too strong. Ponyboy starts to drown and again tries to fight back, knowing he couldn't a red haze filled his mind and he is slowly relaxing. Afterwards he is laying in the floor gasping for air and coughing out water. After a moment of silence Johnny speaks up saying that he killed Bob, the handsome Soc. Worried they begin to think the cops are already on their way