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    The Outsiders Essay The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about two groups of kids the greasers and the Socs. The Socs are the rich kids who drive expensive cars and wear expensive clothes and the greasers are considered the bums. They don’t have money and they don’t get whatever they want, they also have to work extra hard to get to where they want to be. If you are considered a greaser you are a muffin and the Socs are the cupcakes. Everybody would prefer a cupcake over a muffin, but in this story

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    Firstly, in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton multiple characters must learn how to make critical decisions to help them mature. In a town in Oklahoma, Ponyboy and his friends stick together like family- as Greasers. The label “Greasers” is mostly used to distinguish the rich from the poor in the town, while “Socs” is used for the snobby, rich people in the town. There is a rivalry between the two groups; Socs and Greasers are always fighting and harassing each other. Johnny had killed the Soc

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    Essay On The Outsiders

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    Serious events can cause change in a person's life. S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders tells a story about a teenage boy, Ponyboy, that lives with his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. Pony and his gang are all poor Greasers so they are constantly mugged by the privileged Socs. Since the Socs and Greasers do not get along and are constantly fighting each other, the kids are almost always injured. In The Outsiders, Ponyboy learns a lot of important lessons because of the events that take place. Pony learns

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    Dbq The Outsiders

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    The Outsiders What exactly is an outsider? Does it apply to an individual or does it apply to the world? Is the principle a positive or a negative concept? An outsider is an individual who does not “fit” into society or isolates themselves from the rest. “The Outsiders” is a novel written based on the author, S.E Hinton’s, high school years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The book is mainly about the division between the greasers and the Soc. The Soc is higher class and rich, but the greasers are the opposite

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    The Outsiders Analysis

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    Stupid, Delinquent, Unfeeling 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

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    The Outsiders Analysis

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    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. Dally Winston shows that some people act tough, so life won’t hurt. “You get tough like me and you don’t get hurt. You look out

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    In 1967, Viking Press first published the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. S.E. Hinton began to write her book at the age of fifteen, and published it when she was just 17 years old. The Outsiders is a young adult fiction book following two rival gangs — ‘The Greasers’ and ‘The Socs’. The story is told as a first-person narrative through the voice of Ponyboy Curtis, the youngest member of The Greasers, and dwells into a life changing incident that occurs, and the tragic events that follow. Ponyboy

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    fictional novel The Outsiders by multiple characters in groups in the book. These include the social classes, Ponyboy Curtis, and lastly Johnny Cade. When a person's mind tells them they are different, than they can be classified as an outsider, which means that feeling of being original is all in the mind. To begin, an outsider is someone who seems left out, whether it is an opinion of themselves or that of others. In The Outsiders, two social classes; greasers and Socs show that outsiders can be both

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    that’ll bring harm to you and to your group, who you consider family. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, two different gangs, the Socials, or Socs for short, is a group of wealthy teenagers, and the Greasers, a group of very poor teenagers, are rivals who always mess with each other. A lot has gone by in the novel, and all of this is told by one of the Greasers gang, Ponyboy Curtis. In the novel, The Outsiders, much of the turmoil and conflict in the community is caused by the Socials.

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    Loyalty In The Outsiders

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    Ernie Banks once said “ Loyalty and friendship, which to me is the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have”. In the realistic fiction novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and Randy Anderson show different levels of loyalty. In the beginning of the book Johnny murdered a Soc named Bob. He was forced to run away, Ponyboy decided to go with him to a church in Windrixville. One day there was a fire in the church and Johnny was badly injured and eventually

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