Hoods And The Hoodhoods Case Study

In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, two gangs clash and deal with their own personal conflicts. Told through the outlook of Ponyboy, a fourteen-year-old greaser, the novel is set in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 1960s. This expository essay analyzes many characteristics of three gang members in the story. Dally, Steve, and Johnny are three characters that will be described in much detail on their characteristics.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a novel about two neighborhoods separated because of classes in society. In these two neighborhoods, teenagers are separated into two different gangs, the lower-class Greasers and the upper-class Socs. Ponyboy, a greaser comes from a hard life. His parents died and he is left being raised by his older brother Darry. After both his brothers failed at accomplishing their dreams in life, Pony is left feeling like he will only be a greaser. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy realizes he has many traits making him have an outstanding future, such as his intelligence instincts and heroic skills.

On April 24, 1967, S.E. Hinton published the book The Outsiders. Then sixteen years later director Francis Ford Coppola’s movie version of The Outsiders was released on March 23, 1983. The book is about a young boy named Ponyboy who lives with his two older brothers because his parents were killed in a automobile accident. Ponyboy goes through a lot of tough times because he is a part of this group known as the Greasers. The Greasers are a group that are known for being from the poor side of town and the Socs are the rich kids on the other side of town. Throughout the entire book the two groups kept fighting and then something terrible happened that changed Ponyboy’s life forever. The movie and book have many differences

“The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton, is centered around Ponyboy’s path to maturity and the life lessons he learns along the way. The novel follows Ponyboy, a greaser, and his gang’s conflict with the Socials, a rival gang. In it, he learns to not judge people hastily and reject gang mentality. Ponyboy also loses his innocence. The following paragraphs will explore his growth throughout “The Outsiders”.

The 1967 novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is about the social outcasts; the Greasers and their rivalry against the high class Socs. In the beginning of the book the characters values and attitudes are revealed to the reader through the point of view of Ponyboy. As the book progresses and the lives of the characters take a turn for the worse there is a significant impact on the characters resulting in an alteration of their values and attitudes. Ponyboy, Dally and Johnny experience these changes due to the death of Bob the Soc and the chain of events that follow.

Holling who thinks miss baker hates hates him is forced to spend each wednesday afternoon alone with miss baker while his classmates, attend church or the temple Holling a presbyterian is instead asked to do chores and read about shakesphere.However mrs baker starts to see that he is a genius. and she begins teaching him shakespeare, Hoodhood begins to understand there is more to the world that he enitailly realized thanks to shakesphere.

It was only two gangs, three deaths, and many injuries, but the bloody, death defying, life changing brawl is what ended all of the chaos.In book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton Ponyboy learns a lot about being caring. In this novel two groups called the Socs and the Greasers fight each other continuously. This leads them to unexpected fights and deaths, causing things to not go as planned.Ponyboy is caring because he is thoughtful, trustworthy, and brave.

Have you ever wondered how the 1960’s was like? Would you have been fearful, jovial, or melancholy? In the book, The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton the main character Ponyboy Curtis lives with his two brothers, Sodapop and Darry, and is involved in a gang called the “greasers.” Ponyboy realizes what it is to be a kind person instead of being violent, he is always on top of his studies and is very observant of others.

There are numerous attributes that cause Holling and Ponyboy’s relationships with their families to be alike. When Holling says “To ask your sister to be your ally is like asking Nova Scotia to go into battle with you.”, before asking his sister to help him deal with Mrs. Baker whom he

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.

The book, and the movie, “the Outsiders” is about a conflict between greasers and socs. Up until the point where Johnny kills a soc, there are mostly only small fights and arguments between the two. The story “the Outsiders” takes place in the 1960’s, when there were two main lifestyles. Greasers and Socs. Greasers are known for greasing their hair. Socs are rich kids who have good clothes, drive mustangs, and always have an argument against the greasers. The main character in S. E. Hinton’s book “the Outsiders” is Ponyboy Curtis. He has two older brothers Darry and Soda. Pony is 14 years old and his best friend, Johnny, is 16 years old. S. E. Hinton wrote “the Outsiders” when she was 17 years old. Her book was published in 1967. The

The people are divided between catholic and Jews. Every Wednesday Holling is left with his teacher, Mrs. Baker because he has no religion class to attend. Mrs. Baker begins to make Holling read Shakespeare. Throughout the year Holling start to understand the difficulty of life through Shakespeare but understands to try and find the beauty of life. Holling learns also that Mrs. Baker husband is in Vietnam.

Have you ever looked at a bug funny, or walked right passed a homeless dog? Hm, well I’m pretty sure you’re an evil person who deserves to die in a hole, or at least that's what people who don't agree with being immoral say. Those people are called…. Uhhhh, well they are people like us. They just don't like violence or anything. You know what I think. Violence is unavoidable.

The Outsiders by Susan E. Hinton is about how a group of teenage boys are trying to get by in a society that marks them as Outsiders. In this book, we find that Dally, Ponyboy, and Johnny are all heroes in their own fashion. Dally can be viewed as a hero because he saved Johnny from a burning church on Jay Mountain and he gave Johnny and Ponyboy items they needed and put himself in a position where he can go to jail. Johnny can be viewed as a hero because he saved Ponyboy from drowning in a water fountain at the local park and he saved the lives of multiple children in a church that was about to burn down. Finally, Ponyboy can be viewed as a hero because he saved children from a burning church and he acts tough in an environment that is hard for anyone to grow up in, saving others from having to constantly worry about him.

Times are constantly changing and the people who live during that time period change, too. In the 1960’s is when two books, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt, take place. The main characters of these novels, Ponyboy and Holling, are vastly different in personality traits at first glance, but if you analyze their characteristics, they seem to have a lot in common. These stories are dissimilar, but they both result in changes within the characters. Even though they grew up in very different environments, Ponyboy and Holling are still similar; they have loyal friends and they both don’t fit in with their families.