Stereotypes In The Outsiders

In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, there are groups called the Socs, who are rich kids, and Greasers, who are hoods, just like the main character Ponyboy Curtis. The story takes place in a town called Tulsa in Oklahoma, where Ponyboy lives. He lives with his older brothers Sodapop Curtis and Darry Curtis, and is part of a gang of consisting of Johnny, Dallas Winston (Dally), Steve, and Two-Bit. One night when Johnny goes too far and kills a Soc named Bob, him and Pony are forced to run away to avoid capture from the authorities. There are many events, quotes, and author choices that show a common theme, which is Stereotypes are often judged by other people, but aren’t always true. This is proven time and time again after people are beaten up, injured, and even killed through the span of this book.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton was a fantastic novel that was popular among many teens, and it still is. The story revolves around two groups of teens: the Socs, who were the rich kids that live in the west side of the city, and the greasers, who are the tough, poorer kids that live in the east side of the city. The protagonist, Ponyboy Curtis, is a greaser. In the beginning of the story, he narrates that all Socs are cruel to Ponyboy and his friends and family. He thinks that only greasers have problems to deal with, not the Socs, but throughout the story Ponyboy learns an important lesson. He learns that people may appear to act in a way, but in reality they act differently. With his interactions with his greaser friends

Do soceital expectations and living conditions affect how people view someone? Ponyboy Curtis, Cherry, and Johnny are all people who are affected by soceital expectations because people expect them to conform to what they think of similar people, since they do have similar living conditions. Ponyboy and Johnny are part of a social group called the Greasers, who are the poor people in the town, and since many others think of poor people as people who steal, are thugs, and are parts of gangs, as Dally does, Ponyboy and Johnny are not. The Socs are the rich kids of the town, and most people expect them to be snobs who do not care about anything, but Cherry is not. Ponyboy, Johnny, and Cherry are Outsiders

In the 1960’s, many people were placed into categories. The main protagonist in The Outsiders is a young boy named Ponyboy, who has had a rough life and gone through traumatic events. In the book, The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton uses the actions and attitude of Ponyboy to reflect the turmoil of the 1960’s.

When people first see me, they make assumptions about be because I am a girl, and because I am Jewish and they relate me to all the negative stereotypes without even getting to know me. First of all, since I wear a bow every day, people assume that I am a girly girl and that i’m not allowed to like anything that boys like, and that I can't throw a ball. Another stereotype that I am associated with is Jews. Just because I am a Jew, and I go to a Jewish day school, people assume that I go to shul every saturday morning and pray, or that I wear long skirts every day. All of these stereotypes are false, but people don’t know that because they don’t know me, they have only seen what I look like. This reminds me of the book The Outsiders, in chapter

The Outsiders Ponyboy has demonstrated maturity and responsibility in the book ‘The Outsiders’ by S.E.hinton by becoming a hero, learning to become self-sufficient, and realizing your socioeconomic background doesn’t determine who you are. Ponyboy shows that he can be mature by being a hero, self-sufficient and by being socio-economic. Ponyboy demonstrates that whoever you are it doesn’t matter what you are called you can be different. The book Outsiders was written in 1967 about two gangs. In the book, The Outsiders the Greasers the gang that lives on the east side of a town in New York live in broken down homes with not as much education and the Socs the west side rich kids with lots of money that make them never go broke and have lots of education.

In the “Out Siders” written by SE Hinton, set in the 1960’s, is a novel focused on Two Stereotypical youth gangs, the greasers (east side people who are poor), and the Socs (Westside people who are rich). SE Hinton has included many themes throughout the novel, as the story develops around youth conflict between these two stereotypical youth sides, and how a death could mean so much to both. This is shown as SE Hinton communicates the themes, Stereotypes, family, and empathy throughout “The Outsiders”.

The Outsiders is a novel by S. E. Hinton that takes place in the 1960s. The narrator of The Outsiders, Ponyboy Curtis is a teenage boy living in Oklahoma. He and his two older brothers are part of a tightly knit group of boys. There's Sodapop Curtis, Steve Randall, Johnny Cade, “Two-Bit” Matthews, Darrel Curtis, and Dallas Winston. At the start of the story Ponyboy is not particularly fond of Dally Winston. He is tough, gets in fights, and and his wild personality gets him into trouble. After Dally and Ponyboy experienced murder, fights, and deadly fires, his judgment shifts. Ponyboy's opinion of Dally changed and they became close.

Stereotypes are not only rude, they are hurtful. They are massively spread out, from gender to race to even weight. They can be extremely hard to get around. So what should you do? In the face of mockery and prejudice, the best you can do is persevere, ignore it, or correct stereotypes when you can.

Written by S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders is a fantastic book, exploring all ideas of person vs. person, person vs. self, and person vs. higher power. The main character, Ponyboy faces challenges dealing with lost, family, law, the higher class (known as the soc’s) and his innerself. The book starts with Ponyboy walking out of a movie theater only thinking about a ride home. When he finally gets to his house Darry, his older brother yells at him for walking by himself. Throughout the book Ponyboy has arguments with Darry, whom after their parents passed away becomes ponyboy and his other brother, sodapops gardien. The arguments get so bad that one day Ponyboy decides to run away. Ponyboy meets with his friend Johnny, sense Johnny already had problems

Imagine this- you are poor, wear hair grease, and can’t afford nice clothes. Everyone you know, besides your closest friends, thinks that you are an evil criminal, but you in fact are are very kind person. How would you feel? The Outsiders by S.E Hinton addresses this problem head-on as you follow Ponyboy as he battles stereotypes against his friends and himself. The theme of this book is to never judge a book by it’s cover which is demonstrated through the two main groups: the Soc’s and the Greaser’s. It is also demonstrated through another character who is the group of Soc’s but is a spy for the Greasers, Cherry Valance.

Stereotyping has been around for a long time, it relates to people in the 60’s and people now, in 2016. You probably see it happen on a daily basis at your school, infact you probably also fit into a stereotype. In The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, there are a lot of stereotypes that might not be correct, once you get to know the person being stereotyped you might think of them differently.

Throughout the book you realize this is not a story you read to make you feel better. The Outsiders is a book of pain. The Outsiders is a narrative of hardship and struggle of a teenager named Ponyboy, and his gang. Made up of his two brothers, and his tight-knit group of friends. You follow them as they grow and change.

The outsiders is a book about a 14 year-old boy, Ponyboy and his brothers, Sodapop and Darry which belong to a group of poor teenagers named “Greasers”. They are tough, mad, and unforgiving. Their enemy is a group of rich and privileged boys named the “Socs”. The theme of this book is friendship and loyalty. Friendship because the book talks about how the Greasers were always there for each other and there was barely a time that any of the Greasers were alone. Although Ponyboy was seen as a greaser, he wasn’t affiliated with them. He was the smartest kid in the family and he kept his head inside of books all the time. The theme is also loyalty because they never switched on each other. They always kept it real with each other, in other words, they never did each other wrong. They were loyal to each other as if being loyal would get them paid.

Often in society, stereotypes govern the way that people think about one another. People don't always take the time to get to know one another and, instead, let their uninformed thoughts about each other rule their way of communication. When people do this, however, they are not thinking about the other person's feelings and what their thoughts can lead to. Similarly, in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the Greasers and the Socs use unproven stereotypes to guide their feelings against each other, causing them to think they are different but in the end they realize they are more similar than they thought. Stereotyping causes conflict that leads to prejudicial thoughts, hurt feeling, and violent fights.