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    became curious and soon found it to be a pastime of mine. Whether they were books about tying shoes or how babies were made, I never stopped reading. One book in particular will always be close to me. In fourth grade I started reading the book, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. A few word description could not even illustrate the feelings that ran through me as I scanned the text in front of me. I soon found myself completely zoned out from the rest of the world as I read the stories of Ponyboy Curtis and

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    The Outsiders Have you ever felt like an outsider? S. E. Hinton wrote the book called “The Outsiders” Taking place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1960. (Doc A) She was still in high school when she wrote the book. The reason she wrote the book, because she was mad about the social situation that was happening in her school and every other school. The outsiders are people that are separated from their own groups or so called social groups. In “The Outsiders” they had the greasers, Socs, and other social groups

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    In films, film-makers make deliberate use of certain techniques to influence views to make a certain viewpoint. In the film ‘The Outsiders’, the director Francis Ford Coppola believes nothing gold can stay when it comes to teenagers. He believes that the strength and beauty in teenagers can never stay concrete because it is ruined by adulthood. In the film Coppola shows and represents two groups, the "socs" and the "greasers". "Soc" is pronounced like society, and means just that: money, nice cars

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    The Outsiders Analysis

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    S.E. Hinton’s realistic fiction novel, The Outsiders, takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma-where social divisions is the cause of all their problems. Ponyboy, a Greaser, lives in a society where you’re either socially accepted or not. He isn’t as privileged or lucky as the Socs and isn’t socially accepted. Ponyboy and his gang have to endure rude treatment, beatings, and being outcasted. One lesson the story suggests is to stay gold. While some readers believe this means to be who you are and not let others

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    The Outsiders Literary Analysis Are things really rough all over? S.E. Hinton shows in her young adult novel The Outsiders that people's prejudice leads to violence and oppression. S.E. Hinton shows this through events that take place and the characters such as Ponyboy, Johnny, Dally and others. In the book The Outsiders, Ponyboy lives with his two brothers Sodapop and Darry. His parents died when he was young. Ponyboy enjoys reading and going to see movies. He was walking back from the movies and

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    like an outsider? In Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 1960’s S.E Hilton wrote a book called “The Outsiders”. The outsiders is about two group of teens called the Greasers and the Socs. These two groups are known to be very different from each other, but are they really? Who are the outsiders? While both the Greasers and the Socs feel like outsiders, the real outsiders are the ones who don’t divide themselves into any of these groups in society. In this novel, the Greasers feel like the true outsiders. When

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    “Stay gold Ponyboy,”S.E Hinton 1967 classic novel The Outsider. The book was transformed into a movie 16 years later in 1983. The movie introduced several young movie stars including Tom Cruise and director Francis Ford Coppola. The movie and book, both deal with the hardships of High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The movie may be based off of the novel but there are several differences that change the experience for viewers. The movie of the story stays with the major plot lines but leaves out several

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    alike and that they don’t. You can also experience what they are mainly about. Take a book and a movie describing the Outsiders for example. The book has all the parts explained and the movie can either have everything exactly the same or have some things different. What the book and the movie have in common is that the they both have the allusion of the poem “Nothing gold can stay,” by Robert Frost.This poem is important to Ponyboy having him view about the beauty of life. Johnny discovered that

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    home", the first and last line in the movie The Outsiders and one I have memorized. I first remember watching this movie over fifteen years ago, it has easily become a favorite and left a lasting impression. As soon as the movie begins you are thrown into an action-packed crime drama, that follows the life of Ponyboy Curtis and his group of friends, the Greasers, who find trouble with the rich kids in town, the Socs. From start to finish, The Outsiders takes you on a whirlwind ride through the struggles

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    The Outsiders Dbq

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    The Outsiders Have you ever felt like an outsider? In Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1960’s, Susan Eloise Hinton was in high school, when she decided to write about the groups in her town. At 17 years old the book “The Outsiders” was published, under the name S. E. Hinton so That nobody would pre judge a book about boys written by a girl. How are the social groups related to the outsiders? The titles of the outsiders can be refer to several groups of people, the greasers, the Soc, but mostly the

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