The Outsiders Persuasive Essay

Death, the one thing every person will eventually face, could be seen as an end or an entrance. What is your extent of a friendship? How far are you willing to go to help the person you care for? For many reasons, the majority of people think murder is immoral—especially if it was your own best friend. But sometimes we may have to go to the extreme, as long as we know it was the right thing to do from the heart because that’s how much you know you care. In the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, I strongly believe that George was right to kill Lennie.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, written by John Boyne, displays the importance of never letting a holocaust happen again, and he puts this into words in a sarcastic way. John Boyne’s story is a good teaching tool for the Holocaust, because he displays the overall theme, which is millions of Jews being put into concentration camps, and killed. He adds details of how Jewish people were treated horribly, which is what happened in the Holocaust. However what John Boyne fails to do is elaborate on the little details. For instance, the fence would have been barbed wire and it is not in the story. Despite the minor details, the story is a good teaching tool for the Holocaust, because it fulfills what

In the book the outsiders the character Johnny not only a victim of violence he is also capable of inflicting violence seen in one major part of the book. Pony boy describes Johnny as a “lost puppy that has been kicked too many times”. This is a metaphor to compare the treatment of Johnny over his life to an abused puppy. Eventually abused puppies learn to fight back this is the same situation with Johnny and the Socs. This allows the reader to see he is largely affected by bullying

The Outsiders display how adversity can help people find the real meaning of actions. Ponyboy thinks that Darry doesn’t care about him and believes he’s too strict as said in this passage “Me and Darry just don't dig each other. I could never please him… He never hollered at Sodapop, even when Soda dropped out of school or got tickets for speeding.

“‘And tonight… people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I’m sick of it because it doesn’t do any good. You can’t win, you know that, don’t you?’ And when I remained silent he went on: ‘You can’t win, even if you whip us. You’ll still be where you were before-at the bottom. And we’ll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn’t do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn’t prove a thing. We’ll forget it if you win, or if you don’t. Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it’s the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs…’” (Hinton 116-117). Social groups have identified people for years, in good ways and bad ways, not just the 1960s but also today. In the book the Outsiders

Acceptance and security. These are the two things that every human being wants. How they gain those two things varies from person to person.But most of us are privileged enough to not worry about these two very important necessities.However there are people in the world who are not so lucky. Those are the people who are failed to be understood by the rest of the world. However a lot of us are asleep to those people and their problems.Sometimes it takes a piece of art or literature to wake us up to those problems and a piece of literature that can do that is the novel written by S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders.In her novel Hinton, writes about two socioeconomic classes, the greasers and the Socs, who live their lives on the two ends of social status, near-poverty and full on rich, respectively.The cloak of money shields both sides to understand the others problems and the society is unable to take off the cloak as well. The novel is also a good eye-opener to how social,emotional,and economic forces can shape a person’s life and how if one can truly understand a person for what they are the world might just be a better place.

In our society today there are still groups in which people are divided just as it was in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s. The only dissimilarity now is the names and uniforms, according to the author of ‘the outsiders’, S.E. Hinton. However, the remained question is ‘who are the real outsiders’. The real outsiders are those who seek beyond the society and their social aggregation.

In this novel, Johnny Cade is represented as sensitive. As Ponyboy is describing Johnny to the reader, he says, “His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him…” (12). Johnny’s parents could care less about his well-being. He despises his parents and doesn’t allow his mother to see him in the hospital for that reason. The gang also hates Johnny’s parents for how they treat Johnny. Johnny’s home life contributes to his sensitivity. Another example is when Cherry is talking with Ponyboy at the movies and she says, “Johnny…he’s been hurt bad sometime, hasn’t he?” (31). Cherry asks this question during her conversation with Ponyboy. Ponyboy’s response is the story of the time Johnny was jumped and severely injured by the Socs. While Johnny and Ponyboy are around Cherry and Marcia, Johnny tenses up because they are Socs. Talking to or being around Socs is a sensitive subject for Johnny as a result of his horrible experience with them. A final example of Johnny’s sensitivity would be when

It’s easier to brave if you don’t know how dangerous a situation is, Bruno shows this in the fable, “Boy in the striped Pajamas.” By John Boyne. This story shows that Bruno ,a nine year old boy, was brave but he could be cowardly sometimes. An example would be when he gave Shmuel food and talked to him. Then when the officer asked him if he knew Shmuel he denied it. Which showed him being cowardly.

I strongly believe that Ponyboy, a character from The Outsiders, should have to go into foster care for some variety of reasons. Some reasons are: he will have a better life, health, and would be paid more attention to than his brothers. It is important that Ponyboy has a good life ,and he does something special with his life.

Thank you proposition team and thank you sixth grade for making this debate possible. It is a question that deserves answers. It is a question worth asking.If you are living in a life with suffering were eliminated, do you think life would improve or not? We, the opposition team says, strongly say, no. We should not live in a world with suffering eliminated. Even in the world of The Giver, in the supposed utopia of the Community, there was pain and suffering. When it is supposed to be a utopian community. There are several reasons why, if suffering were eliminated life would be not improve. If you have no pain you wouldn't experience real life and things will always come easy to you. You get knowledge from painful memories you, suffering, or emotional pain, often goes with feelings of love, and You get knowledge from painful memories you.

Think of Captain America, Ironman, and even Batman in their world they are the most popular superheroes, yet they have conflicts with themselves as well as super villains. Why? Why are those amazing people saving people only to lead themselves to suffering. This concept comes to show in the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton it is the story based on 2 teenaged gangs, the Socials, and the Greasers, who are determined through wealth and social place in the late 1950’s in Oklahoma. Ponyboy Curtis the novel's narrator, has difficulty with fitting in with the world he lives in, as he struggles, reality unravels in front of him as he and his older brother Darry do not get along keeping his other

How do the choices you make affect you in life?In the outsiders there is a group of friends that are called the greasers,threw all of them they all face decisions.Pony and Johnny are part of the greasers but are affected the most.The two boys are reckless and quick to make a decision.They decide to run away, kill bob and jump into the burning church.

Would anyone want to be told they’re an Outsider? The answer is no. Therefore, you should never ever call someone an Outsider. Why? you may ask because Outsider means they have a rough life, stand out as well as they don’t fit in, are excluded, furthermore they’re treated poorly. Outsiders should be comforted, not mistreated the way they are because obviously they are going through hard times. You could hurt someone’s feelings very badly by telling them they’re different. Like when the Greasers were called “Greases” ( Someone will come by and scream “Greaser!” at them, which doesn’t make you feel too hot ⁽⁴⁾). If feel you are mistreated along with considering you may be an Outsider think again. Life was rough, particularly for the Greasers who were all Outsiders. Baggy clothes, long hair, also getting into fights almost every five seconds, these boys stuck out like a sore thumb. Always excluded from Soc groups, treated poorly, the Greasers rebelled while Johnny Cade killed a guy.Outsiders were only included in groups of their own kind. Watching Outsiders get overlooked by the Socs is a terrible sight to see(All Socs aren’t like that⁽³¹⁾). In fact, now I come to think of it, all Greasers are close to being the definition of Outsider. Poor, standing out, mistreated, in other words they are overlooked by everyone. Outsiders truly wanted to fit in. But still, standing out, Outsiders were never talked to by Socs(, unless the Socs were jumping them). Outsiders were excluded.

I understand why many people hate this book. Catherine and Heathcliff are monstrous. Monstrous. You won't like them because they are unlikable. They are irrational, self-absorbed, malicious and pretty much any negative quality you can think a person is capable of possessing without imploding. They seek and destroy and act with no thought to consequence. And I find it fascinating that Emily Bronte chose them to be her central protagonists.