The Outsiders Character Analysis

The word hero has a variety of meanings in the book, The Outsiders. Readers may view Johnny and Ponyboy as heroes for their bravery to save the children from the burning church, while others may view Dallas Winston as fearless for all of the dangerous stunts he pulled throughout his reckless life. Although being physically tough and courageous are heroic traits to most audiences, many people often overlook the importance of being tough and courageous within the mind, and through words spoken. Cherry Valance is looked up to by the students at her school, her friends, and even greasers, like Pony. Sherri, who is also known as Cherry, is not afraid to speak her mind to anyone, but she is still able to control her emotions during times of despair. There is something about Valance’s personality that is admired by versatile groups.

You make up your character traits and your character traits make you. Cherry was able to make her own choices without anyone else influencing her. The novel The Outsiders is about a rivalry between two different gangs. One of the gangs are called the Socs, this is a group of teenagers who are the rich, spoiled kids who feel that they are the best thing that has ever happened to this world. Cherry is a member of the Socs but doesn't want to live her life the way the Socs do.

When readers read, The Outsiders, there are many diverse characters that they can either be obsessed with or utterly hate. When this book, the Greaser, Ponyboy Curtis is by far if not least one of the best characters in this book and be a readers BFF. On another note, Cherry would be the perfect example as frenemy. Cherry was not loyal whatsoever as a Social, she was confused and betrayed her group, although, it did benefit a better cause. A character who would be a readers enemy is Bob. He threatened Johnny and Ponyboy when he encountered them on Greaser territory.

The novel, The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton, was a fictional story told by a fourteen-year old boy who was struggling with right from wrong in a society which he believed he did not fit in, leaving him an outsider. The book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Hinton was originally from. Overall, the book was for teenagers, about teenagers and written by a teenager. The Outsiders was first published in 1967, when Hinton was seventeen years old. It was filmed in 1983 and was directed by Francis Ford, had millions of views and was “the most recognized film of the decade.” The book became an immediate hit, reaching the best-selling young-adult novel of all times.

If you were in the book the outsiders, you would be a part of one group, either the ‘greasers’ or the ‘socs’. The ‘socs’ came from a rich background and the ‘greasers’ came from a poor one. In the book The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, Johnny and Ponyboy run away after Johnny kills a soc. Then tension rises between the two gangs, and the church that Johnny and Ponyboy were staying at sets fire! Johnny and Ponyboy save the kids from the fire and become heroes. The greasers win the rumble and Johnny dies from his injuries in the fire. Finally Ponyboy writes The Outsiders as an English paper. The Outsiders is about how Ponyboy grows up with a rivalry between gangs in the mid-1960s in Tulsa, Oklahoma. One person who stands out in this story is Johnny, a round and dynamic character whose father abused him and his mother ignores him. Johnny wouldn’t know what love and affection is, if it wasn’t for the gang. Johnny can be described as shy, caring and mature.

The book The Outsiders is about a gang member that kills a rival gang’s member. The story takes place during the mid 1960s in Tulsa a city in Oklahoma. The plot involves two gangs, the Greasers, and the Socials ( also called Socs). The Greasers were people part of the working class or below. They tended to be portrayed as the poor, and dirty people who didn’t have any future or destiny. Also known as, the scums of the society. The Socs on the other hand, were the people of the upper class, the kings and queens of the society. They were portrayed as the emotionally stable, pampered, and spoiled brats who did what they want, and tended to get away with wrong doings.

Two characters that are really similar but so different. If there's a way to do something illegal Dally will do it, whereas Johnny never breaks the law. While Dally was living in New York he blew off steam by getting into fights, but johnny is like a puppy on the side of a street. But they are also similar because they both have neglectful and or abusive parents. Also, they both place In the book, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Johnny and Dally are both different at first but when you learn more about the characters the more examples there are of them being similar.little value on their lives.

I was instantly hooked by The Outsiders, an action-packed, absorbing realistic fiction book about friendship by S.E. Hinton. The subject I researched was gang wars based on social class differences and this relates to this book because the main character of this book, Ponyboy, is in a gang that is primarily made up of his friends and family and their gang is frequently getting into fights with the Socials, another gang due to their socioeconomic differences. Ponyboy’s gang is called the Greasers, and the Greasers are underprivileged teens from the East Side, while the Socs are wealthy kids from the West Side. This is an important topic because your socioeconomic status affects your well-being, wealth, and the way others see you. The author presents this topic by tactfully weaving this theme into an entertaining story, and she wrote this story to show that conflict based on social status and wealth is dangerous and pointless because in the end we’re all human.

In the book “The Outsiders,” written by S.E. Hinton, the characters were divided by how rich or poor their family was. The rich children were called the Socs, which is short for Socials, and also known as the “West Side Kids.” The poor children were called the Greasers, mostly because they always had greasy hair and never bothered to get a haircut. The Greasers live on the hood side, the East side, which is where they get into gang fights. The main character and narrator of this book is Ponyboy, he is a greaser. Ponyboy’s parents died in an auto wreck so he lives with his two older brothers, Soda and Darry. Whether it’s going to a Catholic school or public school, the way you dress, or the car you drive, people in our world today are divided the same way the Greasers and the Socs were.

“Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.” This is what Ponyboy thinks to himself as him and Cherry were walking and talking together after the movies. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the mid 1960’s. All of the main characters face many conflicts, which are mainly about their social statuses, about the rich and about the poor. In the story, Johnny kills Bob, who is Cherry’s boyfriend at the time, this causes Johnny and Ponyboy to run away and hide out at an abandoned church. Then, there is a fire at the church, and Johnny and Ponyboy save multiples kids, but injuring themselves in the process. Johnny is hospitalized and Cherry refuses to see him because she cannot see the person that killed her boyfriend. Eventually, Johnny dies and there is a trial about the murder case, causing Cherry and Ponyboy to testify. Although Cherry Valance may not be one of the main characters, she still stands out quite a bit. Her character, in literary terms, is described as round and static. To describe her in nonliterary terms, she is described as an emotional, fiery, and snobby Soc. The fiery, red headed teen comes from a wealthy family that lives on the West side of Tulsa, which is why she is classified as a Soc. In the social hierarchy at school, she is on top; she is a cheerleader, has one of the most popular boys as her boyfriend, and is extremely popular herself. She has many different conflicts, mainly man

Have you ever had to sacrifice something, step up, and be the responsible one? A book written by S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, is about a teen gang in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the mid-1960s who are at odds with a rival gang. You are either a soc in which you are rich or a greaser and are poor. The main theme of this story is that you should not judge a book by its cover. For instance, many greasers think that socs have it easy and get everything handed to them, but they realize that socs have problems just as greasers do. Darry Curtis really sticks out in this story because he could have had a life as a soc. He could have taken a football scholarship and went to school for a well-paying job, but instead he gave that all up to raise his brothers after his parents’ death. He is round in which he is strict, but also likes to have fun when raising his brothers. His dynamic side comes out when he has to take new approaches when raising Ponyboy and Sodapop. We will find out Darry has many different sides, and struggles with man vs self, giving up his scholarship, and man vs man, raising the boys. Three adjectives can describe Darrel Curtis: proud, hardworking, and overprotective.

In the midst of the dismal streets of the urban city, there lays the anxious boy Johnny. In these lanes is a burning conflict between two rival gangs, where Johnny finds himself in its center. After killing an oppressor, he rushes into the country, where he finds himself darting to save several kids and sacrifices their lives for his. Although he begins as a calm and quiet young teenager, his situation brings him to learn and embrace courage, eventually causing him to die for the lives of several children and showing how only valor brings change.

To begin, In The Outsiders Ponyboy has a complicated life between finding time to do school work, being able to hang out with his gang and dealing with all of his relationships. One of the relationships that Pony struggles with is the one with his brother, Darry because they do not get along very well. When Ponyboy fell asleep outside in a parking lot and came home late because he lost track of time, Darry was furious and eventually hit Ponyboy. Darry did not handle the conflict well, if he did not hit Ponyboy, he may have never ran away. “Suddenly it was deathly quiet. We had all froze. Nobody in my family had ever hit me. Nobody. [...] I turned and ran out the door and down the street as fast as I could” (Hinton 50). Ponyboy would not have ran away from home that night until Darry hit him. The way Ponyboy handles his conflict greatly impacts of how he Comes of Age physically, mentally and emotionally. Later on in the story, Pony and Johnny decide to run away. They are in a park hanging out until they come across a Social, or a ‘Soc’ a kid from the popular group in town. Then the Soc’s leader, Bob comes to the park and starts to drown Ponyboy in a fountain, Johnny goes into defense mode. Johnny is trying to protect himself and Pony from Bob. He ends up killing Bob. If Johnny did handle the conflict differently, than he and Pony would have not ran away and matured. “Bob the handsome Soc, was lying there in the moonlight, doubled up and still. A dark pool was growing from

While most teens do not accomplish much by the end of their high school journey, Susan Eloise Hinton outranked most teens by publishing her first novel by the age of seventeen. Born in 1950, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hinton had always been one for reading. Although, as an article from Contemporary Literary Criticism Select clarified, Hinton had little to no options of novels to read for young adults. This helped to inspire her to write her first story in that she would then have something to read that contrasted from the “Mary Jane-Goes-to-the-Prom junk,” as Hinton had described many of the popular books for her age. She wrote numerous stories throughout her writing career, such as The Outsiders, That Was Then, This Is Now, and Rumble Fish, among others. Many of these novels were later created into film to further spread the phenomenal works of Hinton. Her story of a gang rivalry quickly became a success. Krischer from the New York Times, states that since the novel had first been published, over fifteen million copies have been sold. The Outsiders follows the perspective of a young teen, Ponyboy (Pony) Curtis, as he tells his story of brotherly love within the gang, as well as recognizing the similarities between the rival gangs within the town. Hinton portrays these strong themes through her beautiful character development and intriguing plot that resulted in a timeless classic, The Outsiders.

Have you ever had a friend that stands out from others or is tougher than an average kid is? The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton takes place in the mid 1960’s in Tulsa Oklahoma. In the story, there is a tension between two groups of people. Greasers are the lower class people and the Soc’s are the higher-class people in the story. One of the characters in the story who stand out is Dallas Winston, or Dally. Dally is a part of the Greasers. He is a very brave and tough individual, but he is known for causing trouble. Dally is very ornery and mischievous. Consequently, he has one big internal conflict with himself: he does not care what he does with his life and he does not think he can change to become a better person. This essay is about Dallas Winston and how he is a criminal, tough, and brave.