Ponyboy's Loss Of Innocence In The Greasers

This part talks about who the Greasers and the Soc’s are, and what they do. The Greaser gang members are Johnny who comes from an abusive home, where his parents are always beating him, Dally came from New York and was in jail when he was 10, Darry is Ponyboy and Sodapop’s oldest brother, Ponyboy is the youngest between his 2 brothers.Sodapop is the middle child in his family, Steve is Sodapop’s best friend, Two-Bit is always getting drunk and always has energy. Those are the Greaser gang members.

In the Outsiders by SE Hinton Ponyboy, Darry, Sodapop, Two-Bit Mathews, and Dallas are all greasers, who are known as young men on the East Side, which is the poor side of their town. The greasers enemies are the Socs, short for Socials, who are known as the West Side rich kids. The competition between the Greasers and the Socs is based on class quality. The Socs are rich and they have power in their community. They get special treatment, even when they break the laws. The Greasers, are poor and powerless. They have no social standing. This assessment will focus on two of the characters in the Greasers and how their actions affected their lives both positively and negatively.

Greasers are poor, "rough around the edges" kind of people. They love in rough neighborhoods, have little money, and with proof from the book, it shows that most drop out of school around high school. Though to outsiders they act rough and tough, they have sensitive sides for each other, even Dally is kind and caring towards Johnny, and he is a major criminal. Most don't like to have too much confrontation, for example Johnny only killed Bob in self defense, and he was killing

Ponyboy Curtis is 14 and also the youngest of the greaser gang. His parents have died in a car accident and live with his brothers Darry and Sodapop. He is also interested in literary and academic accomplishments which set him apart from the rest of his gang.

On page 4 in the book the outsiders Ponyboy says “Greasers are almost like hoods;we steal things and drive old souped up cars and hold up gas stations and have gang fights once in

Socs are expected to be rich and to have things like “... money, cars and futures.” says Ponyboy. They’re expected to have big houses, wear nice clothes, talk nice, they were basically expected to be perfect, but at the same time heartless and mean. Greasers were expected to be tough, mean, and poor. They were expected to be the exact opposite of the Socs, they didn’t even live on the West Side, where Socs lived. They were accused of stealing and some Greasers get treated differently

He finishes the list by describing the lives of his brothers, Sodapop and Darry, who work very hard to support themselves and Ponyboy (Hinton 38). Clearly, Ponyboy knows his fellow gang members very well since he is able to precisely pinpoint not only their current struggles, but how their upbringing and past experiences shaped them. The overwhelming effect created by this long list is achieved by the constant repetition of the conjunction and interrupted by the ellipses used as a technique to show where Ponyboy catches his breath. This device also allows Hinton to reveal that Pony truly worries about his friends and brothers because it is their struggles, and not his own, is what makes him so

One night Ponyboy, and another boy from the gang, Johnny, were in the park alone. Some Socs pulled up in a fancy car. When the Socs came after Johnny and Ponyboy, Bob, a big time Soc, said “You know what a Greaser is...White trash with long hair.” This makes Ponyboy mad, “I felt the blood draining from my face. I 've been cussed out and sworn at, but nothing ever hit me like that did. Johnnycake made a kind of gasp and his eyes were smoldering.” This is used to explain what Socs really think of all of the Greasers. This is why it hurt Ponyboy so much. The Socs don’t think twice about who they really. They only know them as how they want to know them, dirt. Socs don’t understand how hard life is for them, and how some of them have to live. Most of the Greasers parents don’t even care about them. When Socs beat up Greasers, they think it makes them cool, however they don’t think about how it will

The Socs may have had much nicer clothes and cars than the Greasers, but the Socs didn’t have as many good values like the Greasers have. The Socs are the rich kids of the town, but they’re more of a disgrace and menace to society. The Greasers are the poor kids of the town, known for greasing their hair, and live on the bad side of town. Both groups smoke tobacco and drink

Ponyboy: How's Sodapop? Are the fuzz after us? Is Darry all right? Do the boys know where we are? What…

Pony curtis is a 14 year old boy whose world has been turned upside down,his parents were killed.he lives with his oldest brother,darry who is 20 years old and has legal custody of him and his other favourite brother,sodapop who is 16.ponyboy has light brown,almost red hair and green-ish gray eyes and wears his hair “longer then a lot of boys wears theirs,squared off in the back and long at the front and sides

Within Hinton's novel, the Greasers are continually clashing with the Socs due to the Socs being rich. They consider the Greasers “low-brow” and then jump and generally look down on them. “Most of my friends at school come from good homes, not filthy-rich like the Socs, but middle-class, anyway (Hinton 163).”

In the beginning of the book Ponyboy shows how Sodapop is his favorite brother. Then he shows that Darry hates him. In the middle of the book Ponyboy starts to notice that Darry may or may not care about him. In the end of the book Ponyboy realizes how much Darry really cares about him. Sodapop is the middle brother who has all the good looks.

The Socials and Greasers are two social classes that are portrayed as enemies. ‘The Socials’ is an abbreviation of ‘the Socials’. They are portrayed as wealthy, nicely clothed, popular teenagers who live on the West side. Alternatively, the Greasers are described as poor, messy, underprivileged people that live on the East side. We know that the Greasers have a rivalry with the Socials, which is narrated in the quote, “Most [girls] looked at us like we were dirt - gave us the same kind of look that the Socials did when they came by in their Mustangs and Corsairs and yelled “Grease!” at us,” on page 15.

Soda is a sixteen year old Greaser. In the story, Pony Boy describes him as a handsome, slim boy with a finely drawn, sensitive face, dark eyes, and dark gold hair. He lives on the lower-class east side of Tulsa, Oklahoma with his brothers, Darry and Soda and works at gas station. Pony Boy mentions