Reputation Depicted In S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton’s the Outsiders takes place in a little town in Oklahoma where the town is divided in two by the Socs and Greasers. This book is mainly about Ponyboy Curtis who is the youngest of the member of the Greasers and always hang around his brother Sodapop and doesn’t believe his oldest brother Darry cares for him.

The film The Outsiders takes place around 1960s Oklahoma in a small town separated by the Greases and Socs. The Greases gang being lower-class teens that include Ponyboy, Johnny Sodapop, and Dallas. Socs were the rival gang that are in a higher-class teens involve Bob,

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is meant to show the theme and stereotypes of the sixties. This book takes place in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The main character in this novel is Ponyboy, who is known to have a protective group of friends that would do anything for him. These group of friends are known to be Greasers. When Ponyboy and his friend Johnny do something they shouldn’t have, they are scared to go back to the way things were.

Who are the people who do not fit in? The novel The Outsiders takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s. This novel is about two social groups the socs who are in the higher class and the greasers who are in the lower class. The Outsiders can refer to several people like Cherry, Johnny, and Ponyboy.

Both the Socs and the Greasers believe their opinions of their rivals to be true, even though “…most reviews of stereotyping conclude that there is very little evidence regarding the validity of beliefs about groups” (Lee, Jussim, and McCauley 5). The opinions the characters have of their opposing gangs tend to take the focus off of individual personalities and instead lumps everyone who is different from them into large groups. For example, right before Cherry leaves Ponyboy after the movies, she tells him that she might not say “hi” to him at school. He knows this is

She is underestimated and shamed because no one there thinks or even realizes she is a scientist due to her skin color. She tries to ignore them, and her boss is on her side. She is very important to the operation and by the end of the movie she is accepted, even revered by her coworkers for playing a crucial part in putting a man on the moon. She put all the biases behind her and plowed through towards her goal. In the Outsiders, Randy tells Pony what it is like to be a soc, Bob the soc in particular. Bob was killed by Johnny because Johnny was trying to defend Pony, who Bob was drowning. Everybody thought that Bob was spoiled, which he was. But he did bad things to see if his parents would get mad at him, and they never did. His parents never really cared are even tried to punish him. Pony realizes he was stereotyping the socs right back, and that socs and greasers aren't that

Currently, we are reading the book called The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Ponyboy, the main character, begins talking with a girl named Cherry Valance in the second chapter. What makes Cherry unique from the other girls is that she was apart of the Socs. The Socs are the rivals of the Greasers, in which Ponyboy is apart of. The Socs are known for their wealthy and high - class background.

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 Outsiders is a novel written by Susan Eloise Hinton, also known as S.E Hinton. The setting of the story takes place in the 1960s. The Outsiders is written in first person view, by Ponyboy Curtis. The story revolves around the greasers and Socs. The Socs are the west side rich kids, they wrecked houses and “threw beer blasts for kicks”. While the Greasers were the east side kids, they “drove old souped-up cars, held up gas stations and had gang fights once in a while.” One of the conflicts the characters face is man vs man, which is because the greasers and Socs don’t get along, this is because they feel superior to each other. They both had different ways of lives, they did different things for fun, and they did not understand each other. This conflict was later resolved towards the end of the story when Ponyboy speaks to Randy about no longer fighting after Bob’s death.

The Outsiders was about the greasers and the Socs. The Socs always jump the greasers, one day Johnny fights back, he ends up killing Bob. Johnny and Ponyboy run away to a church and hide until Dally comes and gets them. They then see the church was burning, Ponyboy and Johnny run into it to save the kids inside. Johnny and Dally get injured, Ponyboy is okay. The greasers win the rumble, the Socs will stay out of the greasers territory, Johnny passes away from his injuries, Dally robs a store, the police shoot him, and he does not survive the shots. In the end Ponyboy decides to regather his life and he starts with writing his theme for his ELA class. The book The Outsiders book, the

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.

Greasers are the main stereotype in the book but also there is a small part played by the Socs. Although the book is about the life and times of a Greaser there is also a ‘Socs Story’ in there, as throughout the book you learn more and more about the Socs and how they live. But this all changes. When Bob dies Cherry and Randy, the main Socs characters, begin to see that there is no difference between Socs and Greasers. Randy, when he talks to Ponyboy in private doesn’t call

The outsiders takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. The story includes Ponyboy Curtis, the main character, and his two brothers Sodapop and Darry Curtis. Darry is the parent figure in their household due to the deaths of their parents eight months earlier. Even though Darry can sometimes seem harsh, Ponyboy’s friends, the greasers, always make him feel loved. Sodapop, Ponyboy’s brother, is the middle child of the Curtis family and can always make him smile. Sodapop’s best friend, Steve Randle, is part of the greasers and views Ponyboy as a kid and a tag-a-long. On the other hand, Johnny, also one of the greasers, is Ponyboy's best friend. Unfortunately Johnny is timid and afraid because of abuse at home and previously getting jumped and badly hurt. Two-bit, gets his name from his smart remarks, to everyone including the gang and always gets his two-bits worth of talking in every conversation. Dally, the real character of the gang is cold and hard but always seems to get through the toughest of times. Bob Sheldon, the main member of the socials, always seems to find trouble and longed for someone to enforce the rules. Cherry, Bob’s girlfriend, is friends with Ponyboy and helps him realize that “Things are tough all over.” Their city is divided into two social classes, the socials, know as the Socs, and the greasers, the lower class citizens. The conflict between the two classes is rich versus poor and no emotion verses too much emotion. The Socs show no

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.

There were conflicts between the Socs that conflicted with the greasers. They were two opposite groups that didn't get along. The Socs, "the jet-set...West-side rich kids, wear madras shirts, smell of English leather, and drive new sports cars..." (6). Socs were rich, while greasers were low class. "Soc" is an abbreviation of the Socials, which are the West-side rich kids. Socs had a better reputation than the greasers.