The Outsiders vs. Conflict Characters from The Outsiders demonstrated different conflicts through situations with other characters, nature, and society. The greasers and the Socs expose their contrasting personalities throughout this book. The conflicts show that society has the capability of being a cruel thing. S.E. Hinton writes about how different people can cause different types of conflicts. In The Outsiders, she uses different characters and conflicts to reveal problems in society. Without
Conflicted What are conflicts everyone experiences? They could be horrible and terrifying. Or maybe extremely easy. The novel The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is about The Curtis brothers, Darrel ‘Darry’, Sodapop ‘Soda’, and Ponyboy ‘Pony’, Johnny and Dallas ‘Dally’. The Curtis brothers lose their parents in a car accident and Darry, The oldest, has to take care of his younger brothers, Soda and Pony. One night, after a drive in movie, Ponyboy and Johnny go to the lot. They both fall asleep and lose
choice, I have chosen The Outsiders by S.E.Hinton as my novel. The Outsiders is a classic dramatic novel that was first published in 1967 and was set in Oklahoma, USA. The novel is a coming-of-age story that focus around a gang of young boys called the greasers, and is narrated by Ponyboy Curtis, the main protagonist. The major conflicts that appeared in the novel were man vs man, man vs society and man vs self( internal conflict). One of the main vs man conflict in the Outsiders is the rival between
The quote “Conflict creates action, and action defines character” means how a simple conflict will lead to an action and depending on how the action is dealt with and is how people will “look” at the character. Conflict means a controversy between characters. The Outsiders is narrated by Ponyboy and his point of view, he is fourteen and apart of the Greasers. Darrel is 20, and Sodapop is 16, The three of them are brothers, they recently lost their parents in a car accident. In the beginning and in
Have you ever come across a conflict in your life or multiple conflicts that you had to face? In the novel The Outsiders by the author S.E Hinton, Johnny, Ponyboy, and Darry all have come across many conflicts. Ponyboy, Johnny,and Darry's parents died, and Darry was left to be in charge of the boys. Darry works all the time to be able to provide everything the boys need. Ponyboy faces many conflicts during the like, getting beat up by the Socs, when Ponyboy almost drowned, and when Darry slapped
“The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton, has stayed popular because of its relevant themes and empathetic characters. It follows a greaser named Ponyboy and his gang’s conflict with the Socials, a rival gang. 50 years after its publication it is still being read, partly due to its realistic teenage viewpoint and strong characters. Another reason that it is still read is its powerful themes. It is still relevant because of the gang activity we see today. The following paragraphs will explain and expand on
that would seem perplexing, but were reasonable for those taking them. But the outsiders in society failed in this conflict too. There was little change in their status in society, and the accusers even lost social status, as was shown in the Crucible. Meanwhile, the accused and the relatives of the executed were compensated by the government. In the end, the Salem Witch Trials did not result in a victory for outsiders in society, but only in further elite consolidation of power. The struggles of
savages in North America. One example of Franklin gives in this speech. When a white person comes to Indian area, Indian give him food, drink, a pipe and soft fur to sleep on. However, when one Indian comes to white person’s area, the white person would say “get out! Your Indian dog!” unless Indian pay for something (234-247). There is a direct example to help me know the confliction in initial period between native American and outsiders from Europe. It looks the acid conflict made by the colonialism
S.E. Hinton, the author of “The Outsiders,” wished to emphasize a certain concept or idea in the book. Many important concepts were discussed, such as loyalty and the search for personal identity. The most important concept in the “The Outsiders” was the concept of class conflict. Class conflict is the conflict between two or more classes, in this case the Greasers and Socials, in a community. This conflict was going on because the Socials, or Socs, were rich and lived on the West Side of town.
The Outsiders is a book about a boy named Ponyboy, who lives in a neighborhood for the lower class. As a result of this him and his family are labeled as Greasers, and the rich kids who live in another neighborhood are called Socs. The Greasers and Socs despise each other, the Socs are always jumping the Greasers, they get into fights with each other. All because they’re different. When Ponyboy encounters Cherry a Soc who really seems to understand him and doesn’t care about the invisible lines