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    temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.” Fighting is a growing problem, especially in the book The Outsiders. Violence does not help solve any problems and has many side effects. If anything, it creates more problems than actually solving any. In The Outsiders, there is a lot of fighting between the Socs and the Greasers, which leads to physical effects. When Ponyboy is walking home after watching a movie, he is jumped by five

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    Socs In The Outsiders

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    The Outsiders Essay TYPE YOUR ESSAY HERE In The Outsiders by S.E it is indicative that the socs and the greasers are constantly fighting each other and trying to make the other gang suffer. Throughout the book the socs and the greasers realize and accept who each other are. At the end of the book the socs and the greasers end up getting along a lot more than they were in the beginning of the book. Ponyboys feeling towards Randy shows the direct correlation between the socs and the greasers. Ponyboy’s

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    Hope In The Outsiders

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    The Outsiders is a book written by S.E. Hinton, and is a fictional book about the life of Greasers, and Socs. The book features a character named Ponyboy who hopes that the differences of the two groups can be settled out. The theme in The Outsiders, hope, is shown in the characters, setting, and plot. To begin, the characters show many ideas of hope. Such as during the rumble, the Greasers and the Soc’s both have hope that the rumble will settle their differences, as well as Ponyboy and Johnny

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    The Outsiders which is set in 1967 in a greaser neighborhood in Tulsa Oklahoma is a novel written by one protagonist who’s the main character, Ponyboy Curtis. On the other hand, The Breakfast Club set in 1985 in the Sherman High school library Chicago is a film with not one but five characters who tell the story of their lives as particular stereotypes.The Outsiders live in a world where the only places they can really feel that they fit in are the Drive in,The lot and the Park but with The breakfast

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    Soda In The Outsiders

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    To start, I chose to write about Soda in S. E. Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders, because he is the character that seems to pull the Curtis family together. In addition, his attitude towards his share in life inspired me. Even though Soda grew up with so little, he still enjoys life and what he has. In fact, another reason I chose Soda is because I can relate to some of his many traits. A few of them being adventurous and outgoing. Soda’s free-spirited, understanding, and dependable characteristics

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    Chapters 1 Ponyboy Curtis is walking home one afternoon after watching a film, and his mind starts to wander. Ponyboy steps back from his wandering imagination to explain that walking alone is unsafe for greasers, the East Side gang of friends to which he belongs. When they walk by themselves, greasers attract the harassment of Socials, or Socs, the rich West Side crowd. Ponyboy says greasers are poorer and wilder than the Socs, whom the newspapers condemn one day for throwing parties and praise

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    The Outsiders Analysis

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    S.E. Hinton, the author of The Outsiders, is considered one of the most influential writers for young adults. Susan Eloise Hinton was born on July 22, 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the 1960’s, she found a way to pass time by reading and writing since there were few extracurricular activities for girls at her local high school. She did not like to read the typical “girl meets guy” romance novels that were popular. She decided to write more realistic stories about teen relationships. Even

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    “Violence is the last refuge of incompetent”-Isaac Asinoy foundation. In the Outsiders by S.E Hinton Ponyboy is in a gang and they got called the Greasers. There is this group of people named the Soc’s that are very different from the Greasers. They do not really get alone and they never will. One theme evident in the Outsiders is violence is not always taken seriously until something bad happens. In the beginning of the novel, violence is seen as something that is a joke. In chapter 3, Ponyboy says

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    People stereotype each other all around the world. In The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, the author shows how when people stereotype it can greatly impact society for many people. The book begins with a big problem between two groups of society called Greasers and Socs. Greasers are very poor. On the other hand Soc’s are very rich. Ponyboy is a Greaser. Each group stereotypes each other. In her book The Outsiders ,Hinton reveals through her indirect characterization of Ponyboy that he illustrates the

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    Family In The Outsiders

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    “Us Greasers need to stick together.” (page 16) One of the themes for The Outsider is family as shown with Johnny and the Curtis brothers that real family stick together if they are blood. If they are not blood the can still be family, and your real family doesn’t have to be your true family because of blood. The Outsiders is about a 14 year old boy, Ponyboy, that is a Greaser. This book says about his life, family, how he runs away, and many other amazing things. The theme of family is shown by

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