Gangs In The Outsiders

“For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it’s what helps you survive.” The Socs and the Greasers were two gangs in The Outsiders. Throughout the novel these two gangs had a continuous rivalry. Society viewed these two gangs differently. The Socs as rich kids and the Greasers as poor kids.

The book outsiders is a amazing and interesting novel.In the book their are two gangs named Socs and Greasers.The socs are the upper class with money ,cars, and nice houses in a good area.The greasers are lower class and all they have is their hair, the bond of other each, and they live in a type of hood.They are complete different people but they still share lots of things in common.They also have lots of differences.

“For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it’s what helps you survive.” The Socs and the Greasers were two gangs in The Outsiders. Throughout the novel these two gangs had a continuous rivalry. These two gangs were viewed differently by society. The Socs as rich kids and the Greasers as poor kids.

Gangs originated naturally during the adolescent years of a child. They started from small play groups that eventually found themselves in conflict with other small groups of youth. Due to the conflict between the two small groups of youth it became a part of a child’s mind set to come together as a gang and protect their rights and satisfy the needs that their environment and families couldn’t provide. There are about 24,500 gangs in the U.S and out of those gangs 40% of them are juveniles (Hess, Orthmann, Wright, 2013). There are numerous reason why a child would join a gang, and the

The Outsiders, made in 1983, is based on the original book made in 1967, The Outsiders. The movie copied the same plot of the book heavily, as it still portrays the same main character, Ponyboy Curtis (played by Thomas C. Howell), a fourteen year old boy living with his two brothers. This one and a half hour film shows Ponyboy’s life as a greaser, as he experiences the positive and negative sides of his family life style, and questions the benefits of the greaser’s biggest enemy; the Socials.

“Bob, the handsome Soc, was lying there in the moonlight, doubled up and still. A dark pool was growing from him, spreading slowly over the blue white cement. I looked at Johnny's hand. He was clutching his switchblade, and it was dark to the hilt. My stomach gave a violent jump and my blood turned icy.” Imagine that you did something, something that you thought wasn’t that bad at the time, but you regretted it later. Something bad that caused your best friend to kill a member of a rival gang, and all of the aftermath that follows. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, this nightmare becomes a reality. In The Outsiders there are two rival gangs: the Greasers; the poor hoodlums that live on the east side of town, and the Socs; the rich kids with more stress in their lives than you would think. The novel is told by the perspective of Ponyboy, a Greaser. There is constant conflict between these two gangs, but

As stated in the text, Hinton writes “Things were rough all over”(Hinton 35). This explains that everyone has problems no matter who you are or where you came from, everyone has issues no matter how big or small. Therefore, Greasers and Socs are very much alike. In addition, the article “The Allure of Gangs” clarifies that “Being in a gang may also satisfy their need for attention and provide someone who will listen to and care about them”(“The Allure of Gangs” on page 40). Given that, majority of the kids that are in the gangs, come from difficult homes, so they tend to be closer to their gang members than their family

Have you ever been so into a book you couldn't put it down? Well, if you enjoy a good book I suggest The Outsiders by S.E Hinton. The Outsiders starts in a small town, in this town there were two gangs the socs and the greasers. The socs were rich and lived on the north side, they all had nice cars and lots of money. On the other hand there was the greasers, they weren't as rich as the socs and didn't have as nice of cars, or houses, or even clothes.”Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it’s the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs”(Hinton, ch. 7) Gangs are a huge problem in the US and in this book it shows it.

Which group in the Outsiders are the real outsiders? If you were wondering what an outsider is, outsiders are basically a group/person that doesn't have all the thing a everyday Joe would have. They aren't as privileged and don't have many expectations. In this book, the outsiders to choose from are the Greasers and Socs and/or individuals.

different gangs, The Greasers and The Socs, fight all the time in order to see who is tougher, but

The Greasers and the Socs are two different social classes in the neighborhood that have their differences and take up their problems with violence. Socs versus Greasers beef gets heated when Bob the head Socs gets killed. Greasers mourn the loss of two loved members when they die. In the book, The Outsiders, Hinton uses conflict, dynamic characters, and static characters to show that violence is not always the answer. Hinton uses conflict to show that being tough and violent doesn’t always get you where you want to be.

Ever thought that there could be something worth more in a person than the things they have? In the realistic fiction novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, gangs are a major role in the aspect of high and low in the society. The Socs are considered elite because of their wealth and the Greasers are considered lessened. The two gangs are always looking for a good fight especially the Socs. In a result to this, it remains rare for a Soc to get along with a Greaser. Cherry finds herself drawn to the fact that she can express herself more conversing with the Greasers. Cherry has a boyfriend Bob because as a Soc that is the type of Boyfriend expected of her to have. She adds that she could fall in love with Dally, she is attracted to his out take on life and his bad boy personality. She admires that he does not have to pretend to be someone else.

Many people think that Gangs are bad, but are they? No, this is proved by the book The Outsiders. In this book there are two gang the Socs’ which is short for socials and the Greasers. The Socs are a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up Greasers. The Greasers are classified as the hood and poor kids on the East side. The reason why the Greasers are not a criminal gang because they will not hurt anyone on purpose, they will help people when they are in trouble, and once you get to know them they will support and help you out until the very end.

Imagine you lived in a place where you always had to watch your back and there was always another brutal enemy. The only way to survive was through violence, as if you were born with a knife. S.E. Hinton depicted this world in her novel The Outsiders. She wrote about two feuding teenage gangs; the Socs, who were “the West-side rich kids” (page 2), and the Greasers, who were poor. The rivalry between the two groups ran deep and the question surfaces: who is to blame for the conflict? Although the book is written from the perspective of the Greasers, and the Socs are shown as the bad guys, there is a case to be made that the conflicts in the book started with the Greasers.

I think she named the book The Outsiders because how ponyboys gang is different from everyone else. They were not in a gang when they were born they created one. There is a young smart boy in there gang and in other gangs your not normally 14, or in ap classes. Another thing is that in a gang you don’t get put in the news paper as hero. They got beaten up because they were not Soc, and they didn’t really get along with the other ganges. I also think she named the book that because they didn't have any parents. I think the author used it because it was the best word to describe them. All of the characters are different from each other. Dally and Two-bit are kinda like each other like Johnny and Ponyboy are like each other. Their still all different