The Theme Of Honor In S. E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders'

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Francis Ford Coppola and S.E Hinton. I watched The Outsiders, the producer of the movie was Francis Ford Coppola. It was based off of S.E Hinton’s book The Outsiders. The movie is about is about two social groups: Socs and Greasers. One of the main themes of the movie is “we’re not so different after all”. The meaning of theme and why it’s important, is that people need to realise that even though not everyone had nice cars, clean clothes, and big houses. We all came from the same place and all have the same basic and inalienable rights life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The movie doesn’t support the book, because some

Stereotyping plays a large role in the events of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders. The two main opposing groups, the Socs and Greasers, constantly face problems because of the stereotypes associated with their social groups. As seen in the novel, stereotypes and prejudice cause extreme and unnecessary conflicts. Both groups have predetermined opinions of the other, but as the story progresses, many of the characters begin to realize how similar the groups can be. The stereotypes observed in the novel can easily be compared to those in real life. Both the Greasers and the Socs share many of their opinions with the other members of their groups, and this leads to many misunderstandings. In fact, most of the conflicts in the novel are caused

In S.E Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, the main character Ponyboy and the rest of the greasers not only face conflicts with their rival gang: the Socs, but also against each other and even as society as a whole. These obstacles were created due the fact that people don't realize that everyone has problems, this is a theme that Ponyboy learns throughout this story. Just like in real life, some conflicts will never be resolved as they are beyond their control. Over the course of the novel some conflicts will be settled, while some will stay the same or even become worse.

“Bob, the handsome Soc, was lying there in the moonlight, doubled up and still. A dark pool was growing from him, spreading slowly over the blue white cement. I looked at Johnny's hand. He was clutching his switchblade, and it was dark to the hilt. My stomach gave a violent jump and my blood turned icy.” Imagine that you did something, something that you thought wasn’t that bad at the time, but you regretted it later. Something bad that caused your best friend to kill a member of a rival gang, and all of the aftermath that follows. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, this nightmare becomes a reality. In The Outsiders there are two rival gangs: the Greasers; the poor hoodlums that live on the east side of town, and the Socs; the rich kids with more stress in their lives than you would think. The novel is told by the perspective of Ponyboy, a Greaser. There is constant conflict between these two gangs, but

Last but not least, Ponyboy faces the society’s impression of the greasers. Everybody thinks that they are hoods and that nothing good can come out of them. The greasers are judged strongly because of their economic status and face judgment from everyone. Nobody cares to understand their life and what experience on a daily basis. He also finds out when he was in Windrixville, that people don’t judge them like they do in their city. The whole conflict of the story is the Greasers and the Socs. The characters in the story have gone about their own ways to at least try to fix the problem. Many chose fighting and violence in general, but Ponyboy choose to write a book for a writing assignment. He discovers that there is no difference between them

The Outsiders, a novel by S.E. Hinton, shares moralities that encourage themes of brotherhood and heroism with literary elements - which includes setting, point of view, characterization, conflict, plot, and theme. Each element influences the big idea of flawed heroes and friendships to readers. With her powerful novel, Hinton is able to express the necessity of unity and brotherhood within a community, despite differences in classes, ages, or ideals.

Everything that happens in someone's life will affect how they react and how they move past it. This is what shapes core values of a person. It makes them stronger, it makes some weaker but it shapes who they are. This lesson is shown everywhere, movies, books, commercials, etc. Two great books are excellent examples of shaping core values: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and The Outsiders by S.E Hinton. Both of these famous stories hold great examples of how core values shape everyday lives.

In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there are negative effects that impact everyone in society. The three main negative effects in the story were violence, peer pressure, and stereotyping. These three effects still occur today and affect people all around the world. The novel helps us understand the consequences of these effects and how we can overcome these problems in society.

“The Outsiders”, written by SE Hinton outlines the division of rich and poor, honor and individual identity. An important character in the novel is Dallas Winston who his friends call Dally. At the beginning of the book, Ponyboy dislikes him and refers to him as “tougher, colder and meaner”. Slowly throughout the book, you see Dally’s other side and he is soft underneath the hard shell of his body. The division of the rich and poor is the key idea in the book, the Soc’s being the rich and the Greaser’s being the poor. Dally fits into the greasers and he is “tuff”, loyal and caring towards his gang.

In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton the author used three main points such as characters, loyalty and violence. The main character of the story, Ponyboy, is fourteen years old. He along with his brothers and his best friend joins a gang on the east side called the greasers, who are poor and wild and also reckless because they have nobody who will take care of them and show them the right way to do things so they have to do everything by themselves (Hinton 24).

Honor Among the Lawless In the novel “The Outsiders” it is shown that although considered delinquents by society , the greasers still have honor. The Outsiders tells the story of two groups of teenagers whose bitter rivalry stems from socioeconomic differences. However, Hinton suggests, these differences in social class do not necessarily make natural enemies of the two groups. The members of the group share some things in common as showed by Pony and Cherry by relating to their shared love of literature, popular music, and sunsets.

The Outsiders is an action packed novel that envelopes the themes of class conflict and alienation. The idea of social opposition drives the plot of the book between the opulent Socs and poor Greasers. This idea of social difference establishes the feeling of estrangement within some characters of this book, persuading them to find their true identity. The author, S. E. Hinton, further contributes to the idea of estrangement by creating a society that is based upon the idea of cliques. The book pivots on the fact of self-preservation, which the characters achieve by banding together as one to form gangs. Within this novel, the foundation of gangs plays a major role by offering the characters a sense of realistic family love, protection, & friendship in their dangerous and sometimes deadly community.

To Begin, the greasers are honorable because they care for other people. For instance, the part when Johnny and Ponyboy saved the kids in the burning church. For example, Ponyboy said, “I picked up a kid…I leaned out the window and dropped him as gently as possible” (93). This quote shows how Ponyboy is rescuing the kids by taking them out of the church and separating them from the fire. This shows honor because Johnny and ponyboy risked their own lives for others that were younger and still have a long life to live. This event shows that the greasers are voluntary, which means that it was their own decision rather than because of Someone forcing them to. Hence, the greasers can be very heroic by putting their lives in danger

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The novel, The Outsiders was written by S. E. Hinton, it was first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel, but did most of the work when she was 16 and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published. The book follows two rival groups, the Greasers and the Socs, who are divided by their socioeconomic status. The story is told in first-person narrative by protagonist Ponyboy Curtis. One of the main, eye catching characters is Ponyboy. Ponyboy is a 14 year old boy. He is humble, confused and lacking common sense.