Outsiders

Stereotype Threat in The Outsiders Does soceitical expectations and living conditions affect how people view someone? Ponyboy Curtis, Cherry, and Johnny are all people who are affected by soceitical expectations because people expect them to conform to what they think of similar people, since they do have similar living conditions. Ponyboy and Johnny are part of a social group called the Greasers, and since many others think of poor people as people who steal and are thugs who are parts of gangs

The arrival of an outsider into the town creates change which threatens the ambitious and the corrupted, as belonging and revenge are pursued. The Dressmaker is a film, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, which explores the idea of an outsider using multimodal texts, along with intertextual references, to further emphasise her message to the audience’s point of view. An outsider can either be defined as “a person who does not belong to an organisation or a competitor thought to have little chance of

“The Outsiders” is a book written by 16 year old S.E Hinton. “The Outsides” is a book about a family of three brothers whose mother and father have been killed in a car crash and the eldest (Darrel “Darry” Curtis) has to raise his 2 brothers (Ponyboy and Sodapop Curtis) all by himself in the poor part of town which has their gang (The Greasers).The setting for this book is a small gang in America that is poor and most of the gang members are orphans or they have parents that don't care about them

The author of The Outsiders is S.E Hinton. Johnny is a sad beat up kid who is not loved by his parents. His role model in life is Dallas Winston, He is his role model because Johnny thinks he is living proof that you can grow up without a family or anyone that loves you. He is the gang’s pet and everyone in the gang likes him. Johnny is caring. There are many examples of johnny being heroic. One of the big examples was when the socs jumped johnny and ponyboy. One of the socs grabs ponyboy and dunks

Literary Analysis We live in a small town, we go to small schools and we have a small population that being said, would we have more, or less social classes? The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton talks about the consequences of separation in society. As we grow up we begin to learn more about ourselves and we begin to socialize with others, we begin making friends, and forming cliques. This novel is about young boys who are in the lowest class of society. One of the main character's name was Ponyboy

Literary Analysis We live in a small town, we go to small schools and we have a small population, that being said, would we have more, or less social classes? In the book The Outsiders written by the author S.E hinton, it talks about what the consequences of separation of society are. As we grow up we begin to learn more about ourselves and we begin to socialize with others, we begin making friends, and forming cliques. The novel was about young boys who were in the lowest class of society and

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton is a book about Ponyboy and the Greasers. Ponyboy has two brothers Sodapop and Darry. Sodapop is a 16 year old dropout, and Darry is the oldest brother and doesn’t interact with Ponyboy. Ponyboy and his brothers enlist in a gang. The gang is the closest family to Ponyboy and his brother, even though they are not actually family by blood. But the Greasers live in the bad part of the town. The Socs however, are not like family to the Greasers. The Socs are people who

about the people that they are closest to. Like many scientific theories, these opinions can later be proven false. Since this is such a common aspect of life, it is illustrated in many novels. An example of a story that it is illustrated in is The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. In the novel Ponyboy, a naive 14 year old boy who has been misjudging his gang members which also happen to be his friends later on realizes that he was wrong about all of them. Ponyboy's perspective of Dally ,Darry, and Johnny

In the 1960s, social dynamics and cliques of teenage life were just as important as they are today. “The Outsiders” portrays a gang of Greasers struggling to understand others, their emotions, and how to overcome the obstacles that are a part of life. The novel describes in great and accurate detail their lifestyle, including the way they dressed and spoke, but glosses over much of the heavier aspects of life during the 1960s, such as the Antiwar Movement and the Civil Rights Movement. Though

The Outsiders Christopher Reeve once said “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to preserve and endure in spite of overwhelming overwhelming obstacles”. In my eyes a hero doesn't need a cape or superpowers to help people. All a hero needs to do is help someone up when they fall down, they don’t need to fight for the galaxy, they don’t need to save the planet from an invasion all they need to do is help others. In Fact, the dictionary definition of a hero is, “a person noted