The Family In John Hinton's The Outsiders

Growing up can be very difficult, whether you live in Minnetonka in 2017 or in Oklahoma in the 1950s. It is sometimes easy to lose your own identity and become just another member in a group. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton tells the story of a group of young men growing up in a town that is divided based upon wealth. Hinton describes the wealthy kids as “Socs” and the poor kids “Greasers”. While perhaps not as extreme as in the book, MME also has these divisions such as “popular” and “unpopular”. The message behind The Outsiders is the importance of finding the individual within the group which is just as true in Minnetonka as in the book.

The lives of many are affected due to teenage social issues, which may cause death, mental health issues, and several more. In the young adult fiction novel, The Outsiders, the author, S.E. Hinton, conveys multiple teenage issues and how it affected their lives. These issues may cause them to lead lives of irresponsibility and wasted potential. The novel is basically about two loosely organized teen groups, the Greasers and the Socs. The greasers are the bad, violent gang, while the Socs are the privileged, wealthy teens. It is basically about a main character, Ponyboy Curtis, as an accessory to the murder of a Soc, with his best friend, Johnny Cade. They escape as the author conveys the several complications they face as teens, showing how they try to survive. Thus, Hinton depicts several teenage issues throughout the novel, however, the most important are poor parenting, peer pressure, depression, and suicide.

The main theme of 'The Outsiders' is that friends are your chosen family. In other words, the people in your inner circle along with your family, are the friends you choose to have there. This is present with many characters in the book, in fact, the only three 'Greasers' that did not seem to have their friends closer than their family were Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry. However, these three boys had many people in their lives who loved their friends more than their family, such as Johnny, who's dad beat him, and mom neglected him, and Dally who had no relation with his parents, then there is Darry, who loves his friends like family, and he is one of the only ones that knows what true family love feels like.

Darry, the oldest brother have had many conflicts with Soda and Pony, which made him change during this novel. First, one event that made Darry change was when he slapped his little brother, Pony when he came home late. Pony ran away for a few days because he thought that Darry didn’t want him as a brother anymore. Darry was so sorry, sad, and mad at himself for slapping Pony.

In S.E Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, the main character Ponyboy and the rest of the greasers not only face conflicts with their rival gang: the Socs, but also against each other and even as society as a whole. These obstacles were created due the fact that people don't realize that everyone has problems, this is a theme that Ponyboy learns throughout this story. Just like in real life, some conflicts will never be resolved as they are beyond their control. Over the course of the novel some conflicts will be settled, while some will stay the same or even become worse.

For instance when one of them is in danger they come and help each other.They will hurt anyone who is bullying ponyboy.then again if their parents was alive they will be impressed with what they are doing for ponyboy.as much as they loved

In the outsiders, the first chapter introduces the main character, Ponyboy and gives a short history about him and his family. He designates the difference between the relationships between the members in his gang, and the relationship between both of his brothers. His parents were killed in a car accident, so that’s why he was just left alone to live with his older 2 brothers.

To start, Ponyboy the protagonist in The Outsiders, Jonas the main character in The Giver, and Brian the lonely boy in Hatchet, all have to overcome hardships in their life. When ponyboy, [the main character in the book] was little, his parents' passed away in a car crash.He and his brothers, Dally and Sodapop, had to learn to take care of themselves after this devastation occurred. Ponyboy explains how his parent's death affected him and his brothers:“Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave. So Soda and I stay out of trouble as much as we can, and we’re careful not to get caught when we can’t” (Hinton 3). Because of his parents’ death, Ponyboy and Soda try not to be bad

One reason Ponyboy should not be living with his brothers is that he was running away from the police, charged with murder. Ponyboy was with a friend in the park when he gets jumped by Socs, the group of rich kids. When he is getting drowned in a fountain his friend kills the Soc. He then goes on the run where he has to hide in an abandoned church for a long time. Children should not be running away from the police. If he had a responsible parent, was with adults that looked after him and didn't let him get into trouble, it wouldn't have happened.

He worries what will become of his brothers if they keep fighting. Soda wants to help and finally does something about it. “Darry yells to much and tries too hard and takes everything to seriously, and Ponyboy, you don’t think to much, you don’t realize all Darry’s giving up is just to give you a chance he missed out on.” Sodapop said, on page 175 & 176 in chapter 12. This explains how Soda hates to hear his brothers fight. He doesn’t want to listen to them bicker and argue all day. He finally says something and Darry and Pony about how annoying and stressful it is to try not to listen to them. So, Soda explains to them what they do because no one can know what they act like until someone tells them. They listen to what he is saying, understanding what they appear and act like. After Soda is done talking, Darry and Ponyboy feel bad about what their brother has to listen to everyday. So in the end, Darry and Ponyboy accept what their brother is saying and agree to try to stop fighting. If it wasn't for Soda, he would still be listening to them argue. And because he cared enough to make them stop, he did something to change the way his brothers think. Which was a good

Johnny and Dally both come from broken homes. Homes where they have abusive and neglectful parents. When they decided to leave their homes for a while, the only people they had were the greasers. Dally and Johnny were both hurt in the hospital and the only ones that was there was Pony, Sodapop and Darry. “Now there were three of us sitting in the room,waiting to hear how Dally and Johnny were” (100).

I think she named the book The Outsiders because how ponyboys gang is different from everyone else. They were not in a gang when they were born they created one. There is a young smart boy in there gang and in other gangs your not normally 14, or in ap classes. Another thing is that in a gang you don’t get put in the news paper as hero. They got beaten up because they were not Soc, and they didn’t really get along with the other ganges. I also think she named the book that because they didn't have any parents. I think the author used it because it was the best word to describe them. All of the characters are different from each other. Dally and Two-bit are kinda like each other like Johnny and Ponyboy are like each other. Their still all different

Theme Analysis of “The Outsiders” S.E. Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders, takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma where Ponyboy Curtis is walking alone and gets jumped by rival gang members, his friends the greasers save him from getting stabbed by a knife. The Outsiders conveys the theme “Family is the thickest source, even family. ”,because when Pony and Johnny fell asleep in a lot, Darry got scared and thought he was killed but couldn’t call the cops or the brothers would be separated. One lesson in this story is that family and friends are forever even through the bad and good and that family is everything because family is and usually everyone around you.

Franklin 1Caitlin FranklinCaldwellEnglish Honors 112/4/17Divided Communities in The OutsidersS.E. Hinton’s realistic novel, The Outsiders, takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1950’s. The main character, Ponyboy Curtis, struggles to see past the divided social classes. All the time, he sees his social class, the Greasers, getting picked on, bullied, and beatup by the higher social class, the Socs. Not only does he see it, but he lives it. While some believe the strongest theme of The Outsiders is family, I argue that the strongest theme is divided communities, supported by Hinton’s use of conflict, characterization and description.From the very beginning, Hinton shows the division of the Socs and Greasers when the Socs threaten and beat up Ponyboy. Hinton describes how “It occurred to me then that they could kill me,” (Hinton 5). This shows how the Socs gang up on the Greasers and how violent the situations get. Another detail that shows conflict is that even though the Greasers get beat up, they fight back. The Greasers VS. Socs fight towards the end of the book really highlights how serious the conflict of division was. After the fight, the

Darry truly does care about Ponyboy because