Improven Stereotypes In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy Curtis, the narrator of the story, meets a girl named Cherry Valance. Through Ponyboy’s observations of her the reader learns that Cherry is a confident young woman. During chapter two, the way in which Cherry reacts to Dally showcases her personality. “She gives him an incredulous look; and then she threw her Coke in his face” (24). This bold move made by Cherry shows that she will not stand for harassment or mistreatment of her from anybody. She will talk back and protect herself and her friend. This line, said by Cherry, displays how she thinks of herself. “’It’s not my idea of a good time to sit in a drive-in and watch people get drunk’” (27). Cherry holds herself at a high standard, and

Death. Not something many people want. Violence. Another thing one does not want. Stereotyping leads to death. Didn’t expect that. In The Outsiders by SE Hinton there is little to expect. Based in Oklahoma in the 1960’s the book goes through the battle between two teenage gangs, the underprivileged Greasers, and the rich Socs. Ponyboy Curtis a member of the Greasers gets too caught up in this meaningless feud of stereotyping. Him along with other members of his gang- his brothers Darry and Sodapop, and friends Johnny, Dallas, Two-bit, and Steve. On the other side of town the rich Socs, Bob and Randy, And their gang jump, beat up, and stereotype the Greasers. Some of these kids got too caught up in the stereotyping and it leads to their deaths,including Johnny, Dallas, and Bob. SE Hinton clearly demonstrates the theme that stereotyping leads to violence through the deaths of Johnny,Dallas, and Bob.

Your thesis statement Topic sentence with evidence notes underneath 1 fully paragraph Introduction: Throughout the course of the book the outsiders the reader gets a much greater understanding as to what the book is about, the novel the outsiders by S.E Hinton has many hidden messages within the text which are clever and make the reader want to read on more and think about the text they are reading. In this book, there is a distinct line of poverty between the soc’s and the greasers with the main characters. Cherry one of the soc’s states that “Things are rough all over.” because she thinks her life and all the soc’s life is hard too.

In the beginning of the book Cherry and Ponyboy are saying their goodbyes after a movie and Cherry informes Ponyboy that she will not acknowledge him the following day in school. This illustrates that Cherry is loyal to the socs and her group of friends. Also that Cherry really cares about her appearance on herself and how people look at her. Cherry also demonstrates acts of being disloyal. Towards the end of the book she becomes a spy for the Greasers and is extremely disloyal to the soc. This exemplifies Cherry's difficulty of being loyal because she chooses to go against her social class when she sees all the harm they have made. Ultimately, the decisions she made led her to lose some friends but along the way makes some new

The novel and film, The Outsiders by S. E Hinton, can be composed based on symbols, imagery, characters, and chronology. The Outsiders is a novel and a movie. The novel was written by Susan Eloise Hinton, in 1965, where it took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After the book was published the movie, The Outsiders was produced in 1983 directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The author has a great sense of imagery. Ponyboy the narrator of the story used much imagery in chapter one in the novel to bring his brother and friends who are also Greasers to life. Ponyboy 's big brother, Darry who "had eyes that are like two pieces of pale blue green ice" letting the reader know that Darry is the serious and determined person. In addition with "broad shoulders", "muscular" and "six two feet height", from the description, the reader can picture Darry as an athlete from the physical appearance. Ponyboy uses imagery on his second older brother Sodapop "His eyes are dark brown lively, dancing recklessly laughing eyes that can be gentle and sympathetic one moment and blazing with anger the next". The descriptions gave Sodapop an image that signified effervescent and a slight of anger but kind. Dally one of Ponyboy friends and a member of the Greasers, has eyes that are "blue, blazing ice, and cold let the reader know that Dallas heart if filled with rage".

Stereotyping plays a large role in the events of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders. The two main opposing groups, the Socs and Greasers, constantly face problems because of the stereotypes associated with their social groups. As seen in the novel, stereotypes and prejudice cause extreme and unnecessary conflicts. Both groups have predetermined opinions of the other, but as the story progresses, many of the characters begin to realize how similar the groups can be. The stereotypes observed in the novel can easily be compared to those in real life. Both the Greasers and the Socs share many of their opinions with the other members of their groups, and this leads to many misunderstandings. In fact, most of the conflicts in the novel are caused

The book The Outsiders is about two groups of kids who are separated by wealth. They always seem to get into trouble whether it has to do with money, stealing, or fighting. Throughout their lives they struggle with the question: are things really tough all over? S.E. Hinton´s Outsiders shows that prejudice leads to wrong conclusions,violence, and oppression she shows this through the characters, feelings and events that happen throughout the book. One of the main groups of characters, the greasers, have many struggles that go on in their lives.

In the 1960´s society made it seem bad if you were a soc and friends with a greaser. This makes Ponyboy feel rejected and betrayed because cherry made him believe that socs and greasers were the same which made him feel more confident in being a greaser.. ¨ If I see you in the hall at school or someplace and don´t say hi , well, it's not personal or anything but . . .¨ This makes POnyboy stand there with his mouth wide opened as big as an elephant because he feels betrayed and stunned as he thought Cherry looked to him as a friends.

To start, stereotypes are deceptive because people place others into cliques based on their appearances. People assume everyone in a clique are the same, even though their true personality may differ from that clique. The first example from The Outsiders in which somebody doesn’t fit in with the stereotype they are given is Ponyboy. Ponyboy doesn’t quite fit in with his clique, the greasers. After Ponyboy is jumped, Darry has a fight with Pony. Darry yells at Ponyboy to think on the streets and to stay alert. Darry is concerned about Ponyboy’s safety: ‘“You must think at school with all those good grades you bring home, and you’ve always got your nose in a book, but do you ever use your head for common sense?”’ (13). Meaning, Ponyboy isn’t like the greaser stereotype. Compared to all the other greasers, Pony is book smart and not street smart. The greasers are smart where it really matters like on the streets. They carry blades to defend themselves, travel as gangs, and know how to get themselves out of a dangerous situation, if they get stuck in one. Ponyboy, however, is book smart. He succeeds at an outstanding level at school and in his academics. Once he is on the street his intelligence doesn’t follow him. He doesn’t use his common sense and he can’t find his way out of dangerous situations. As a result of this Pony gets jumped by the Socs which

This book showed the struggle between rich and poor. The two main groups of the story were the Socs and the greasers. The Socs are in the upper class while the greasers are the poor ones that dislike the Socs because they have more money, better cars, and act like they are better than the greasers. The Outsiders is a good story by S.E. Hinton that shows the struggles of growing up Hinton did a fine job with the character development, the plot, and the theme with a few flaws.

The outsiders makes the readers think about if it is right to judge people because of social class, their family and how they look. The further you get into the book the more you think of the hardships of people judging you. There are three ways people judge you that are shown in the book family/friends and social class/ income. This reminds the reader about a the civil rights movements which were around the same time. At the end of the book you get the message that being prejudice is not the right thing.

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In our community stereotypes play a part in life, but in The Outsiders it is the core theme of the story combining with teenage struggles. In The Outsiders the main character Ponyboy Curtis conforms to the image

In the beginning of the novel, Ponyboy develops feeling for Cherry who he met at a movie. But due to the fact that Ponyboy is a Greaser and Cherry is a Soc, society states that “you don’t see a grease and a Socy cheerleader together that often.” (Hinton 30) Ponyboy being greaser is set apart from the rest of society because of his cloths, hair and financial status.”Our hair labeled us greasers, too- it was our trademark. The one thing we were proud of.”(Hinton 71) This barrier was created because society labels people based on their appearance. Though they both have feelings for eachother, society thinks that they can’t be together because of their different social party. This obstacle was not resolved, though Ponyboy and Cherry may see more in each other then Socs and greasers, society as a whole still separates them. Ponyboy and Cherry learn from each other that everyone has problems, “Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.” (Hinton

Thesis: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, a novel which tells the story of conflict between the "greasers" and the "Socs," captures the voice of ponyboy and his friends in a realistic way that relates to boys and their gangs even today.