This book showed the struggle between rich and poor. The two main groups of the story were the Socs and the greasers. The Socs are in the upper class while the greasers are the poor ones that dislike the Socs because they have more money, better cars, and act like they are better than the greasers. The Outsiders is a good story by S.E. Hinton that shows the struggles of growing up Hinton did a fine job with the character development, the plot, and the theme with a few flaws. The Outsiders is a book that changed the style of young adult writers because it went off from the genre that young adult writer were using during that time period. The reader sees the everyday problems that teenagers were going through, “I can’t take much more …show more content…
The fact that all three boys were still moving on without their parents showed that they had a lot of heart. The two main divisions were between the Greasers and the Socs, and this rivalry led to many conflicts in the book. Hinton illustrates the divisions and fighting in this quote, “They caught him and one of them had a lot of rings on his hand that’s what had cut Johnny up so badly” (Hinton 33). Johnny was attacked by four Socs when he was playing with a football at the park. There are many times in the book where Socs attacked Greasers that were walking alone. Howard explains the divisions and violence of the gangs in this quote, “Tulsa was one of many American cities that had seen an increasing division between social classes since World War II, and the animosity between Greasers and Socs gangs illustrated the extent to which this division between social classes had permeated society” (Howard 28). The Greasers were seen as the poor outcast while the Socs were the popular one with all the money. The Socs provoke the Greasers by saying hurtful things and attacking them so both gangs feel the need to fight to prove that they are better. Hinton did a good job of portraying the violence and building up to these points and this keeps the reader interested in the book. There are many critics and parents who were outraged about the violence that takes place in the book. This quote by Hinton demonstrates the harsh violence, “I ducked and
The Outsiders was about the greasers and the Socs. The Socs always jump the greasers, one day Johnny fights back, he ends up killing Bob. Johnny and Ponyboy run away to a church and hide until Dally comes and gets them. They then see the church was burning, Ponyboy and Johnny run into it to save the kids inside. Johnny and Dally get injured, Ponyboy is okay. The greasers win the rumble, the Socs will stay out of the greasers territory, Johnny passes away from his injuries, Dally robs a store, the police shoot him, and he does not survive the shots. In the end Ponyboy decides to regather his life and he starts with writing his theme for his ELA class. The book The Outsiders book, the better version, was published in 1964 and written by S.E.
S.E Hinton’s realistic fiction young adult novel, The Outsiders, takes place in a small Midwestern town. Ponyboy, his two brothers, and friends that stick together through tough times. Throughout the novel, the reader sees how two groups of teenagers, the Greasers and Socs, from different sides of town; eventually getting into a rumble or a fight. The characters learn to get through these troubles with the help of each other. Hinton teaches through her novel that when times are down, get back up and the love of friends and family can help anyone work through problems.
The outsiders is a book by Susan Eloise Hinton that is about a group of high school from Oklahoma called greasers and another group called the socs. These greasers are named ponyboy steve two-bit darry dally soda and johnny. The other group, the socs, are basically the rich kids that get kicks out of jumping others because they don't have as much money as they do or do it out of jealousy. These are the kids that throw parties and take things that aren't theirs when they know they won't get into trouble by the police. The group that i think that has it harder off is the greasers.
“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. This gang also has a lot of confrontation with the cops and the rival gang “The Socs”. The novel is set in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965. The city is 106 miles out of Oklahoma City or 1 and a half hours away.
The Outsiders, a novel written by S.E. Hinton, takes places in the mid 60’s in the south. It is a story of a 14 year old boy, Ponyboy, and his struggles in a society with two major social classes - greasers and socs. Greasers are kids who have had tough lives and have never had anything handed to them. On the other hand, there are the socs, socs are rich spoiled kids who are not grateful for their fancy cars, clothes, or food. Throughout the story there are many significant quotes which describe life through a greasers view.
The Outsiders is about a couple traumatic weeks in a life of a teenage boy. This novel spins a tale of fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis and his problem in the society he lives in which he believes he is an outcast. Ponyboy lives with his two brothers, Darry, who is twenty, and Sodapop, who is sixteen, since his parents died in a car crash a few years ago. Ponyboy and Sodapop are allowed to live with Darry as long as they behave properly. The three brothers, as well as their friends, are called “greasers”, an expression that refers to the people who live in the East side, the poor side of the town. The greasers’ rivals are the rich, popular socialists, or Socs, who live on the West side of town.
he book “The Outsiders” was written by S.E. Hinton and was published in April of 1967. This book was written by a young 15 year old female whose book was published by her last year of high school when she was 18. Her book gives a good example of how young adults live through a hard time of appearance vs. reality.
Outsiders is a pretty good book compared to the other books i have read.The main plot of the story is about hoodlums trying to get through life in a society were rich do better, the main character is Ponyboy curtis a hoodlum who lives with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop. The main setting of the book is a neighborhood separated by social classes known as the Socs and the greaser,The socs are the rich kids from the east who are said to have no problems at all but in reality the do. The greasers are the poor kids from the west said who have all the problems.
The Outsiders is a fantastic novel by S.E Hinton that was published in April of 1967. This novel is about a 14 year old boy named Ponyboy Curtis who lives with his older brothers Sodapop and Darry since their parents died in a car crash years back. Ponyboy is a part of the greasers, a gang of boys and girls who grew up on the east side of town and don’t have too much money so they have fun getting into trouble and are by far, the coolest kids on the block. Even though he is a part of this gang, Ponyboy is a little bit different than the rest of the greasers. He loves to read, go to movies, and watch sunsets which are things that are almost taboo to everyone else. The greasers are not the only people living in Tulsa, Oklahoma though. They are
The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton is about social class conflict, the tension which exists in society between people of different classes due to different interests and desires. The main character, Pony Boy Curtis is a 14 year old boy, who is the narrator and main character of the book, he was named by his that dad died in an auto wreck when he was younger. He has to live with his two older brothers Darry and Sodapop. It is a struggle to live without any parents around. Ponyboy says“We’re poorer than the Socs and the middle class” . Ponyboy's gang the greasers come from the struggling east side, while their rival gang the Socs come from the wealthy west side and also known as the rich snobby rits because the Socs get spoiled and live a luxurious
Could you imagine living in a place that was always divided, and the blame for problems always being thrown around everywhere? The Outsiders, a novel by S. E. Hinton is the story of two groups of people: The Socs, which is short for Socials, and the Greasers. In the story both of the groups are surrounded in conflict between each other and soon leads to many bad decisions made by the groups. The character who is telling the story is a Greaser named Ponyboy whose life is very challenging as he goes through the rivalry between his gang and the Socs. Both groups face life and death situations as they encounter many battles between each other, while one or the other always end up on the top. In the novel, The Outsiders, the Socials are the cause for all the brawls and hostile attitude between each other.
The Outsiders book is about two different social groups, the Greasers and the Socs. The main greaser characters are Darry, Two-bit, Pony boy, Johnny, Steve, and Dally. Darry, Two-bit and Pony boy are brothers and lost their parents due to a car accident a while ago, since then Darry, the oldest has had to look after and take care of Two-bit and Pony Boy. The greasers have it rough, they don’t have much money, while the Socs are wealthy. Throughout this story Greasers and Socs do not get along, resolving to deaths on both sides. The theme The Outsiders is if friends and family have each other they can get through anything.
The outsiders, written by S. E. Hinton, is a story about a group of friends and family, from the perspective of ponyboy, who struggle with being a Greaser living with many problems. Greasers are a group of people who live on the west side, where they aren't treated the best and basically live in the slums. Most of the greasers are considered hoodlums and crooks, while they steal cigarettes from tasty freezes. Greasers normally wear black leather jackets over their white shirts and blue jeans, they slick their hair back with tons of grease to keep it back. That is after all where they got their name. The greasers get picked on by the Socs, they are considered the wealthy, spoiled rich kids who wear Madras shirts and khakis. They normally come
The Outsiders, written by S. E. Hinton, is a realistic fiction novel set in the mid 20th century in the USA in which people of different socio-economic status are pitted against each other. Greasers, who were the poorer people of a town, are being constantly preyed upon by the rich kids, the Socs. The Socs are brutal, violent, and intimidating.
Johnny is terrified and don’t know what to do.(S.E. Hinton 142). Then, when Johnny and Ponyboy saved some little kids from a burning church they are able to be excused from stabbing the Soc in the side. The Socs and the Greasers are not being as mean to each other anymore. After the fire and everything Darry has been being nicer to Ponyboy and wouldn’t be mean to him at all.Certainly, it could be said that the lesson from this novel is not to have divided communities and not have segregation. While this is a good point because there is certainly divided communities it fails to account for how much people need family. It was never meant to be this way but it did. This shows how bad it was in Tulsa, Oklahoma and why their was divided communities. After they saved the children everybody was happy mostly until Johnny died and then Dally also. Everybody was devastated and Ponyboy was broken hearted, Johnny was Ponyboy best friend and they went through everything together.Through S.E Hinton’s of descriptive language, dialogue, and sentence structure it is evidence used that the Greasers were hurt and all they knew about was fighting and