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    The Outsider Analysis

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    How does it feel to be an outsider? Ponyboy knows what it is like to be one for sure. S.E. Hinton writes The Outsiders. The Outsiders takes place in the mid 1960’s in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In The Outsiders, the theme of the story is not to judge people based on their appearance. A teen gang in Tulsa, the Greasers, are always on bad terms with the Socs. When one of the fights turns into a bad situation, involving Johnny killing a Soc. Ponyboy, and Johnny take off to live in a church in Windrixville. Dally

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    When readers read, The Outsiders, there are many diverse characters that they can either be obsessed with or utterly hate. When this book, the Greaser, Ponyboy Curtis is by far if not least one of the best characters in this book and be a readers BFF. On another note, Cherry would be the perfect example as frenemy. Cherry was not loyal whatsoever as a Social, she was confused and betrayed her group, although, it did benefit a better cause. A character who would be a readers enemy is Bob. He threatened

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    What Does Stay Gold Mean

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    Stay gold, that is a famous poem written by Robert Frost, this poem is also used in the book The Outsiders. The poem is a big part in the book and kinda a cliffhanger because it doesn't directly say what Johnny mean when he says, “stay gold” to the main character, Ponyboy. There are a lot of thought/theories on what he meant when he said it but heres mine, I think when he said to stay gold me was telling pony to be good, don't let the streets he lives in suck him into this black hole of stereotypes

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    Inside The Outsiders Social divide represents unfairness. However, social divide still brings some benefits. Merely, we do not realize it. But, we can not deny the fact that social divide has its advantages to benefit our mental or physical ways. In the outsiders, there is an obvious social divide. Although the social divide brings about some negative conflicts in the story, it is not completely bad because it strength the relationship between the greasers, it let the characters in the story

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    Tyranny In The Outsiders

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    Over ten million copies of The Outsiders have been sold all over the world. S.E Hinton wrote The Outsiders when she was just sixteen. She gave the main character the character the name of Ponyboy. Through the book Ponyboys learns more and more about life. Pony Learns more from everyone that there is much more to life, family, and friends. Ponyboy was taught many things he never knew about his brothers. Some example of this is how Ponyboy truly learned that Darry loves him. Pony learned this from

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    blue mustang approaches him. Or was it, a young boy is writing about a random topic then walks around with his two friends causing trouble? Books and movies do not always line up completely. However, The Outsiders is one example of a book and movie that have same and different aspects.The Outsiders was originally a book written in the 1960’s by a fifteen year old girl, S.E. Hinton and later turned into a movie around the year 1980. The story is placed in the 1960’s about a group of greasers who take

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    The Outsiders "Maybe the two different worlds we live in weren't so different, We saw the same sunset." In 1967 S.E Hinton wrote the Outsiders about how different people lives are. the Outsiders are about a group of boys facing difficulties against life. Two different worlds collied making a huge mess. Stereotypes is a big problem in the world. Social class isn't fair because doesn't define who you are as a person. Bad stuff doesn't always happen to bad people it also happens to good people. Life

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    The Outsiders For my Foundations of Sociology class, we were required to do the film assignment for Foundations of Sociology class. I selected the film called “The Outsiders” because this film has so many things that is connected to society. The film has many characteristics that would make it a successful movie that has discrimination, violence, fights, action, and drama. This makes the film a very interesting plot. The reason why I watched the film because it brought me attention that the film

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    The Outsiders “Stay gold ponyboy stay gold,” Johnny said as he was dying in the hospital bed. This story was about how greasers and socs hated each other. It was also about how three boys that lost their parents, live and survive each day on the EAST side of town. There are many differences and similarities between the movie and the book “The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton, Many elements were similar while some of the characters relationships and scenes were different. The characters in the book and

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    The Real Outsider Do you stereotype people by their race, gender, or social class? S.E. Hinton is an author that grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She decided to write the book, “The Outsiders”, because she thought it was “idiocy” that people were socially grouped. “The Outsiders” compares two extreme groups in her high school. The greasers, which are poor and treated as outcasts, and the Socs, which are rich and privileged. While most people put greasers and Socs in the outsider’s category, the real

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