The Outsiders By Susan Eloise Hinton

At the end of the book Ponyboy finally comes to terms with the deaths of Johnny and Dally, and he finally realizes that violence is not the answer when he makes up with Darry. Darry and Ponyboy are shouting at each other, and Ponyboy asks Sodapop to take his side. This causes Sodapop to rush out of the house, and Ponyboy and Darry chase after him. When they finally catch up Sodapop tells them he feels sick of being pulled apart by their fights. Ponyboy sympathizes with Sodapop as he says in the text: “Darry and I did play tug of war with him, with never a thought to how much it was hurting him.” Ponyboy suddenly understands what his fighting with Darry has done to Sodapop, and later in their conversation Ponyboy realizes why he never got along with Darry: “I saw that I had expected Darry to do all the understanding without even trying to

The novel, The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, should be put on the banned book list and remain in its spot for reasons such as uses of foul language, gang violence, rivalries, dysfunctional families, underage drinking, and drug abuse at a young age. This book should not be open to kids at a young age, such as middle schoolers, to read. At such a youthful age, teens are exposed to such violence they are taught about among this novel. Children should not be reading books that promote such terrible things and instead read a more age appropriate book.

English teachers in middle schools and high schools have been through many debates over the years on whether or not a certain book should be taught to students in United States public schooling systems. The Outsiders, is a book that should not be on the list of banned books. Believe it or not the book has been banned from schools and libraries. The Outsiders should not be banned because it provides valuable life lessons involving loyalty. Books like this one, that involve gang members, fighting, shooting, stabbing and other gory incidents, should be portrayed to kids in middle school and beyond. This generation that people are growing up in nowadays is a weak, soft generation who need to realize that the world is not always going to be kind to them. The neighborhoods that a lot of kids live in are safe environments, which is not a bad thing, but they are unaware of the horrible things that go on in the ghettos or other places in our nation. Books are a great way to reach out to kids and show them valuable life lessons while also giving them learning experiences through that English class they are enrolled in.

A major conflict in this novel is between the greasers and the Socs. These two gangs are made up of complete opposites. The two rivals fall into conflict because of how they view each other and their roles in society. Greasers are poor hoods from the East side that “wear our hair long and dress in t-shirts and blue jeans… and wear leather jackets

The theme of the novel is that your culture and background does defy you. In other words, being in a gang or group doesn’t mean you're not unique. For example, Ponyboy is in a gang/hood group “The Greasers” and does things like mug and snatch like the other members of the group, but this doesn't mean he doesn't have a different personality than the others. Another theme in the novel is the power of brotherhood. This is a sub-theme because it not confronted to the readers until the end of the novel. On page 176, Sodapop Curtis said, “ We ought to be able to stick together against everything if we don't have each other we don't have anything.” This quote struck out to me because throughout the

“‘I killed him,’ he said slowly. ‘I killed that boy’” (Hinton 56). In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, they talk about a boy named Johnny that killed a boy, and the growth of a child named Ponyboy. Johhnny Cade has many names. To live on the rundown section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the 1960’s you are not expected to be wealthy or to have an emotional attachment to things. That is what the Greaser’s were; they jumped, stole, and went to jail. People would never expect them to be educated or that somebody loves them. The Greasers were all there for each other, they loved one another like family. This boy, his family is the gang. From the backgrounds that Johnny grows up in, you can see why the names given to him. These titles are not just words. They explain who he is. Suspicious, damaged, and a hero are all labels to describe Johnny Cade.

Have you ever read a very hard hitting and the phenomenal story about rival gangs and the effect it has on the lives of the people and the society. In The Outsiders, is a story of 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis and his two older brothers, Soda and Darry. The boys are orphans and struggle to stick together in their lower-class neighborhood, known as the East Side. They and their friends are part of a gang of tough street boys called the Greasers. Even though other people might think you're unimportant and below them. You will always have your friends and family. In The Outsiders, we see the idea of the difference in the society based on the economic level of the characters, honor among the lawless and violence among the youth.

This is him telling Ponyboy to stay true to himself and continue to seek beyond their social

Theme Analysis of The Outsiders In S.E. Hinton’s teenage realistic fiction novel, The Outsiders, Ponyboy and Johnny get into some trouble with a few Socs that ends in murder. They are on the run and stay up in an old abandoned church for a week that catches fire and has a few kids trapped in it. Which leads to the death of two main characters. Throughout S.E. Hinton’s book she implies through multiple characters that everybody has their own problems, and that just because someone has a wealthy lifestyle doesn't mean that they don't struggle.

At the beginning of the book, Ponyboy is in intelligent, young teen, but he lacks the perspective to understand the environment around him. He can only see his side of the story and fails to understand why others act the way they do. The first example of this is his oldest brother Darry. He thinks Darry hates him because he is always giving Ponyboy a hard time about his lack of common sense, his grades,...

The book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Ponyboy forms a different identity throughout the book.

SE Hinton’s “The Outsiders” teaches the responder about various themes through a range of language techniques and through characterization. Through the characters there are many important themes such as love, violence, isolation, society class and loyalty. Loyalty stands out the most because it being portrayed the most through text it being shown through the greasers relationship it is all ways family first in there eyes. The author shows in the text how two rival gangs that are born into different social situations and the only way to change the fact are to work hard. These themes and techniques constantly keep showing up through text to make the story interesting. Some other novels relate because they might have the same themes just like

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.

S.E. Hinton, the author of “The Outsiders,” wished to emphasize a certain concept or idea in the book. Many important concepts were discussed, such as loyalty and the search for personal identity. The most important concept in the “The Outsiders” was the concept of class conflict. Class conflict is the conflict between two or more classes, in this case the Greasers and Socials, in a community. This conflict was going on because the Socials, or Socs, were rich and lived on the West Side of town. On the other hand, the Greasers lived on the East Side of the town, and were mostly poor. The public perceived them in different ways, which fed this class conflict.

“When a rule is enforced, the person who is supposed to have broken it may be seen as a special kind of person, one who cannot be trusted to live by the rules agreed on by the group. He is regarded as an outsider.