The Outsiders Theme Analysis

When writing The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton built her story around several key themes that readers could identify. After reading this book, I'm confident I have found a few of them. Stick with your people and uniqueness conquers wealth were probably lesser themes Hinton included for us to become conscious of. There is a bigger theme though. I believe stand in the shoes of people who are different is the most worthy overall theme for this book, and is supported with three examples from the text. First, when Ponyboy undergoes a revelation while talking to Cherry, also when (example 2 here), and finally when (example 3 here).

The main theme of The Outsiders is violence does not solve social conflict. In the beginning of the book Ponyboy thinks that violence is the solution to the Socs, but later through Johnny stabbing Bob, and finally making amends with Darry, Ponyboy figures out that you can’t solve social conflict with violence. This theme was relevant to the real world in Hinton’s time and still is today.

As a young adult, it is difficult to grow up without parents and still be tough and brave. In addition, teens can be emotional and overreact at times. In the novel The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, a fourteen-year-old kid named Ponyboy Curtis feels different emotions that make him stand out from other Greasers, or “hoodlums”. Ponyboy, the youngest of all the Greasers, is a great example of a teen who feels isolated, brave, and emotional throughout the novel.

The Outsiders is about the Greasers and the Socs seeing their differences in a new way and learning that they aren’t as different as they think. The theme of “The Outsiders” is ‘crossing over the gap between the rich and the poor’. The author conveys this through character, symbols and events. S.E. Hinton shows the theme by everyone having their own personal suffering.

The Outsiders is a novel written by Susan Eloise Hinton, also known as S.E Hinton. The setting of the story takes place in the 1960s. The Outsiders is written in first person view, by Ponyboy Curtis. The story revolves around the greasers and Socs. The Socs are the west side rich kids, they wrecked houses and “threw beer blasts for kicks”. While the Greasers were the east side kids, they “drove old souped-up cars, held up gas stations and had gang fights once in a while.” One of the conflicts the characters face is man vs man, which is because the greasers and Socs don’t get along, this is because they feel superior to each other. They both had different ways of lives, they did different things for fun, and they did not understand each other. This conflict was later resolved towards the end of the story when Ponyboy speaks to Randy about no longer fighting after Bob’s death.

Bob gets killed while trying to drown Ponyboy in the park and Johnny gets scared and stabs Bob. Johnny also dies from getting burnt in the church. My first theme for the Outsiders by S.E Hinton is Family because Ponyboy, Johnny, Darry, Dally Sodapop, Two Bit, Tim and Steven are all from different families but they treat each other like family and always have each others back. They all have trust in each other and even though they have their ups and downs they always snap right back. When Johnny kills Bob, Ponyboy and Johnny know that they will be executed and straight to the shock chair.

Fracis Ford Coppola’s “The Outsiders” (1983) is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by E.Hinton published in 1967. There are many theories that can be found throughout the movie, victim precipitation theory, differential association theory, strain theory and labeling theory are the most prevalent. The story takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma and revolves around the story of a 14 year old Greaser named Ponyboy Curtis. The town is split into two conflicting adolescent groups, the Greasers and the Socs. The Greasers are of lower class standings with harsh upbringings, poor kids from the wrong side of town (north) and are considered delinquents. The Socs, are privileged kids living on the south side who have an easy life where everything

The theme really shows on (page 62) when Johnny got in a big fight and killed someone and pony boy had the guts to go hide with him. The reason that is showing always surround yourself with friends that always believe in you is because

In The Outsiders the main theme is family does not need to be connected by blood, it needs to be connected by love. This is shown in several places like when Ponyboy says how he always leaves his door open so that any greasers can come in whenever they want. Also when Ponyboy talks about how in their daily routine they always find time to hangout with all of the greasers. Finally, when Ponyboy talks about how him and the greasers might not survive without Johnny. The greasers show that they are a family when Ponyboy describes how they keep their door unlocked, so that if one of their friends is having a rough night they can spend the night at Ponyboys house.

All greasers will stick together do do anything to get them out of trouble or just to get a girl. I think the theme of Outsiders is family stick together. The book Outsiders is written by S.E. Hinton, it is about these groups of people called Greasers and Socs, that are basically a small gang group. All of these details I am showing you have to do with family sticking together. For example some of the things that I am going to talk about are the fire at the church, the Rumble, and the time when Dally robbed the gas station. Hopefully you will see why I think this is the theme.

The Outsiders message is about “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” It explains that nothing good can go on forever and nothing young can last forever. It tells you about how and why we should enjoy what we have and keep and cherish everything we have to its maximum limit. Why shouldn’t we cherish what we have? Why do we need more? Why can't we be equally treated with same amount of things such as money and houses? That is the real question. We have that to this very day. In The Outsiders, their lives are exactly like this. They have their awesome rich people lives and the poor have unhappy lives. Some of each gang just want to be normal, the same, or similar at least. But their money splits them up. All because of a little extra

The outsiders is an outstanding book It’s probably one of my favorites. There are Greasers and Socs and they are different groups but their is only one thing that makes them different. The one thing that makes the Greasers and Socs different is money. The Socs have a lot but the Greaser don’t so they have to learn how to survive without a lot of money. Johnny is Ponyboy’s best friend they do everything together. Everyone in this book learns something and at the end of the book Ponyboy learns lesson. Johnny encourages Ponyboy with everything that he does. I think Ponyboy learned the biggest lesson in the last couple pages of the story.

I think that this theme relates a lot to the book. When Ponyboy was being dunked into the water and Johnny was there to help him in the trouble and punch/defend himself so that the Soc’s mainly Bob wouldn’t come for him (Hinton 92-93.) When Johnny was in the hospital his closest friends Dally, Ponyboy, and Sodapop came to visit him and talk

In S.E Hinton The Outsiders The theme of the books is To do the right thing even tho you may get in trouble or get hurt the Author uses Conflict,Plot and Characters to show the theme throughout the story The first way S.E Hinton showed the Theme is through the Characters.The main characters of The Outsiders are Ponyboy Curtis ,Sodapop Curtis,Dallas Winston(Dally),Keith Mathews(Two-Bit) , Darrel Curtis(Darry) Johnny Cade.After Johnny Died from burns saving children in a burning church Dally was broken and then Robbed and Store and was Shot by Police . Ponyboy Says “Don't Think of Dally Breaking Up in the hospital,crumpling under the street light.” Even tho Dally didn't want to help the kids he help then Johnny died from the burns which Emotionally

Imagine being dumb, stealing and carrying blades everywhere you go, and being unable to feel deeply, those words would make people think of Greasers. A character in S.E. Hinton's book The Outsiders, that does support the claims that Greasers are dumb, delinquents, unfeeling is Dally. It can be inferred that Dally is not smart because Ponyboy says “I'm not like them. “Nobody in our gang digs movies and books the way I do (Hinton 2)” which would state that he is not one for books. He also has a reputation for not obeying the law, and he would care less if the kids in the burning church died. The statement that Greaser's dumb, criminals, and unfeeling may not be true, Ponyboy, the main character in S.E. Hinton’s book The Outsiders, opposes all of those statements.