The Outsider Essay

In the book The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, Ponyboy the main character, thinks he has everything figured out in life, he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop and he can count on his friends too. But when it comes to the Soc’s who enjoys beating up Greasers like him and his friends, Ponyboy’s life starts to take a turn. Hinton uses character interactions to show the importance of loyalty. Ponyboy and his friends always protect and look out for each other. For example, friends always look out

In every book, movie, and televisions show, there are characters within the story that are similar to you and seem like that they could be your friend, be your friend/enemy and characters that can really bother or annoy you. In the book, The Outsiders, there is a variety of different characters you will see. There are characters you will like, you will dislike but still are ok with, and characters you would want to get rid of. In the story, there are characters that are very similar to this idea

In the Outsiders, people are split into two groups. The Greasers and the Soc. The Greasers are looked down upon because there poor and people think they're troublemakers just because of their neighborhood. The Soc are an elite class of people that are rich and never get in trouble with the law. My theme of this story is Depression is like an infection, so find good friends to surround yourself with.   Ponyboy is handling depression from Johnny dying and him feeling like it's his fault. When he went

Outsiders Essay Differences between two types of people can lead to serious problems. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton the Socs and the Greasers overgo many difficulties with each other leading to bad effects on their lives. Even though the Socs and Greasers may have different ways of living life, they are more alike than they think with stuff like family losses and mourning, and wanting to feel victorious. Even though Socs and Greasers have some things in common they are different

In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the book displays a lot of excitement, the characters change their lives to survive from the greasers taking the Socs girls, to Ponyboy’s brother slapping him for the first time, and murdering someone. Greasers and Socs have a rough history together. It all starts when, the Soc girls, Cherry and Marcia do not have a ride back home. Two-bit manages to persuade them to “letting us [Johnny, Two-bit and Ponyboy] drive them home in his [Two-Bit's] car” (37).

The film The Outsiders, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and released in 1983, recounts the story of Ponyboy Curtis, a lower-class "Greaser" from Oklahoma, who winds up in a very complicated situation following the murder of a member of the opposing 'Socs' gang. Many situations and aspects of the plot parallel the concepts of the psychology of human relations. Through film analysis, it is observed that the film implements the concepts of nature versus nurture, of personality, of communication filters

In The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton tells the story of several days during the life of Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy and Darry Curtis are two characters in the novel that show what family love can mean. Ponyboy and Darry Curtis are brothers who start the novel with a tense family relationship. Ponyboy and Darry are separated in age by six years. Darry is twenty years old and denied a full-ride scholarship to college so that he could work a few jobs to provide for his brothers (Hinton 16). At the beginning

In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there are two different gangs, the Socs and the Greasers. These rival gangs can be positive and negative. The members of gang take care of each other and are valuable friends. The downside to gangs is when they have fights. There can be bodily harm, damage to property and police will have to stop the fights. Within a large gang are smaller groups, such as Ponyboy and his brothers and friends or the Shepard gang. There are no adults in these juvenile clans

The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton was published in 1967. The Outsiders is about a fourteen year old named Ponyboy Curtis, the youngest member of a gang called the Greasers. The novel starts off with members of their rival gang, the Socs (short for socials), and they jump Ponyboy when he’s leaving a theater. Ponyboy’s brothers, Sodapop and Darry, and several other Greasers rescue Ponyboy and the Socs flee. The Socs are richer and they have a better impression than the Greasers. The main conflict

The outsiders. An astonishing book, written by S. E. Hinton in 1967. It shows how teenagers have to deal with change 50 years ago. And it is still very relatable today, the outsiders show many forms of bravery, Like physical bravery when people jump in to save someone, moral bravery; to do what's right. Even if it's unpopular. Moral courage. To do what's morally correct. And this book has some amazing examples of all of these. Darry is a Greaser and will defend his brothers from the socs that are