The Outsiders : The Story Of The Outsiders And The Greasers

“For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it’s what helps you survive.” The Socs and the Greasers were two gangs in The Outsiders. Throughout the novel these two gangs had a continuous rivalry. Society viewed these two gangs differently. The Socs as rich kids and the Greasers as poor kids.

After running for a while they stopped in another parking lot with a fountain in the middle. While in the parking lot a blue mustang that belonged to the Socs that beat up Johnny a long time ago pulled up. They stepped out and started to insult Johnny and Ponyboy, Ponyboy snapped back and they grabbed him and shoved his head in the found as stated, “They grabbed my arm and twisted it behind my back, and shoved my face into the fountain. I fought, but the hand at the back of my neck was strong and I had to hold my breath. I’m dying, I thought, and wondered what was happening to Johnny.” This showed that those Socs were even going to kill them just because they talked back, but they were also drunk which also shows how dangerous drunk Socs are. To save Ponyboy Johnny had to kill the Soc and afterwards they both had to run out of town to avoid being arrested. This changed Ponyboys identity into a outlaw.

This story is about a guy names Ponyboy who is a “greaser”, a member of a group of lower-class youths who wear their hair long and greasy, wear jeans and ripped-up T-shirt, and are at odds with the rich-kid bullies known as the “Socs”, shorter name for socials. One day, as Ponyboy is walking home from a movie, he is jumper and beaten by a gang of Socs. At the last minute, his gang of greasers (including his brothers Darry and Sodapop, who raised Ponyboy now that their parents are dead,) the hardened hood Dally

To begin, Johnny is innocent for the murder of Bob concidering that Bob was killing Johnny’s third party Ponyboy, leaving Johnny to use self defence. “ ‘I had

Later, Johnny conveys his guilt to Ponyboy when he says: “‘There sure is a lot of blood in people.’”(Hinton 74), nearly quoting Shakespeare in Macbeth. In a later conversation with Johnny, Ponyboy gets thinking about this new world he has been thrust into. In the text he says: “I liked my books and clouds and sunsets. Dally was so real he scared me.”(Hinton 76) This shows how Ponyboy likes when the hero can beat the villain and get a pretty sunset at the end. But now Ponyboy has to deal with the real-world effects of violence, and he doesn’t like it. This marks one of Ponyboy’s first major changes of his mindset on violence.

Ponyboy and Johnny had spent the night with two Soc girls, Cherry and Marcia, until their boyfriends, Bob and Randy, came and picked them up in the blue Mustang. Ponyboy goes home and Darry, Pony’s older brother who is like a parent figure to him ever since their parents died, gets mad about Pony being out late at night and hits him. Pony runs back to the park and finds Johnny. Soon after, the blue Mustang showed up with Bob and his group inside. In the text, Ponyboy states “When a sudden blast from a car horn made us both jump.

“For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it’s what helps you survive.” The Socs and the Greasers were two gangs in The Outsiders. Throughout the novel these two gangs had a continuous rivalry. These two gangs were viewed differently by society. The Socs as rich kids and the Greasers as poor kids.

In contrast to the removed Johnny shown early on, after the realization that he endangered several children, he boldly rushed to assist. After killing Bob in self-defense, Johnny bolts with Ponyboy to an abandoned church in the countryside. However, after presumably dropping a lighted cigarette, the church ignites in a blaze of fumes. Realizing there are children in the flaming church, Johnny and Ponyboy dart to aid. During the calamity, Ponyboy realizes that, “Johnny had been right behind me all the way” as he slips through a broken window and into the fiery church and notes that, “Johnny wasn’t behaving at all like his old self...That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that defeated, suspicious look in his eyes” (92).

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.

In the story The Outsiders, there is many life lessons that could help many people. Ranging from the people you hang out with, to people who need your help. You should always treat people how you want to be treated,even if that means giving something up. The main character, Ponyboy, experiences certain events in the story that makes you realize that these kind of conflicts are a reality. Ponyboy lives with his two brothers, Darry and Soda. Their parents died in a car crash. Ponyboy never realized how much his parents did for him. There is a “Gang” that Ponyboy is involved in called the Greasers. Their rival “Gang” is called the Socs. The Socs are kids that have a better upbringing and are more of rich kids. The Greasers are basically the opposite. The theme of this story is don’t take the things you have for granted.

“The Outsiders” is about two rival gangs: the upper class, socs, and the lower class, greasers. The movie was released in 1983, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Throughout the movie there is tension, fights and even death. The “greasers” consisted of a group of boys named: Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darrel, and a few other low-income teens. The “socs” are Bob and Randy and some of their girlfriends.

Johnny got severely injured and rushed to the hospital where, “ The pillow seemed to sink a little and Johnny died¨ (148). This choice impacted Ponyboy because he loses his very close friend. He now feels as though he can't move on in his life, but later learns to appreciate what is most important to him while it is still in his

During a confrontation with the Socs, one of the Socs tried to drown Ponyboy in a nearby fountain. In retaliation, he fatally stabbed one of the Socs, thus scaring away the others and saving Ponyboy. This is crucial as Johnny basically saved Ponyboy from death. Another point is that it strengthened the bond between Johnny and Ponyboy; This can be seen when both of them are hiding out at an abandoned church. Also, this event represents how Johnny has lost his innocence considering he killed someone.

Johnny and Ponyboy went to Dally, one of their gang members, for help. The police were after them and they had to get away. Dally told the boys to run away into the country and stay in an abandoned church he knew about. Ponyboy knew if they never turned themselves in, he would have to leave his old life behind. It was the first time he was involved in a huge crime, his name was involved with a murder.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about the conflict between a group of greasers and a gang of rich kids called socs. The greasers are do not belong to the socs and this sparks conflicts between the two. One question that is recurring in this book is who has the harder life the greasers or the socs? The Greasers have it worse because most have broken families, they are rejects of society, and they are poor.