Are greasers the actual outsiders in the story The Outsiders? An outsider is a person that does not belong in a specific group. The story “The Outsiders” is about two groups that are both gangs but much different; one gang is rich and fancy and the other is poor and uneducated. Johnny and Ponyboy are the two outsiders in the story. Johnny is the greasers pet everyone in the greasers gang loves Johnny. Johnny is a devastated hero and loves to help people but does not like to hurt people. The personality
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the cities in Oklahoma where there is discrimination against rich and poor. The Outsiders takes place during this time. Although the book and the movie are both very similar, there are many differences to them. In the movie many things are not included. However there are no scenes that were not in the book. While there are some similarities in The Outsiders book and movie the differences are much more clear. The Outsiders is a very good book. It has very good wording and is very easy to understand
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Do you ever think about how different social groups are the same and different? The outsiders is based on two social groups the Socs also known as the high class rich kids and the Greasers the low class poor kids. This paper is going to be comparing the similarities and differences and the good and the bad between both of them. The similarities between the Socs and the Greasers. One similarity is they are both trapped in these two social classes and both don’t really look outside of their social
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The Outsiders A person could be recognized as a hero if they were to do something like save someone In a car accident if they couldn't get out of the car. In S.E. Hinton's book The Outsiders many of the characters did heroic acts and became heroes. Johnny, Dally, and Ponyboy are all heroes in different ways. Johnny, Dally, and Ponyboy are all heroes but they are heroes in different ways. Johnny is a hero because he is brave. Some reasons why he is brave is when he saved Ponyboy from getting killed
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Did you know that The Outsiders was written by a 16 year old girl who was inspired to write the book because she was experiencing rival gangs beating each other up and she wanted to change the interaction between them? S.E Hinton writes in a way to change the reader's evaluation on topics that troubled her throughout high school. One of the most important topics that S.E Hinton emphasizes in the book The Outsiders, is how characters exit the world, and how they will be remembered. Simon Sinek once
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In the story, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the main group is called the Greasers. These Greaser are misinterpreted as criminals and childish, but some are good and heros. One of the Greasers who many of the characteristics of a hero. He is Darry, Ponyboy’s brother and guardian. Darry was sacrificial, skilled, and one of the most important, destined for something. Over the course of the story, Darry has sacrificed or risk many things he loved and cared for. It shows when Ponyboy talked about
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the community but on the other hand, he showed loyalty, helpfulness and kindness to his gang and most importantly, his community. Dally is a delinquent which means someone who breaks the law and doesn’t care about the rules. In the novel, ‘THE OUTSIDERS’, Dally displays this character. “In New York, dally blew off steam in gang fights but organised gangs are rarities”. They have a file on him, down at the police station. He had been arrested, got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, stole, cheated, rolled
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bright future ahead of him Mr popular at school, captain of the football team and even won a scholarship to college but because he is a Greaser and therefore does not have much money he could not go to college, lost friends and became stuck as an outsider of society as a Greaser. This is particularly apparent when he
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In the novel The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, the entire story is driven by relationships. It’s plot is centered around the crippled relationship between the Socs and the Greasers. This relationship is what sparks most of the conflicts. For example, Johnny killed Bob out of self-defense because Bob and some other Socs were looking to hurt him and Ponyboy. The relationship between Johnny and Dally is an important and unique one. Johnny is 16 and has already been taken by life’s cruelty. Before the
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The outsiders SE Hinton is the author of this novel The Outsiders. She draws us into the novel through using colloquial language that we understand as well as using characters our own age. The novel is full of emotional times as well as violent ones and the themes of the novel are of interest to us. The plot of the novel is full of conflict and tension which keeps us interested and the setting is vague about time and place to appeal to as many people as possible. The characters in the novel are
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After growing up rough and being in a poor town, many don’t want to or have ever even seen a sunset. In the novel, The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, There is a gang in the south side of the big city. There are many members ranging from Dallas Winston, the tough, unemotional man to Johnny Cade the shy and quiet little boy. However, they manage to stay as a family and they take care of each other, mainly demonstrated after Johnny kills a Soc and Dallas helps him and Ponyboy skip town and evade the police
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First published on April 24th, 1967, S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, highlights a growing issue in the United States and other first world countries -- the gradual increase of the gap between the rich and the poor. Quite often, the value of education is overlooked in poorer families; in this case, a prime example of said family is the Curtis family, along with the Curtis boys’ gang, the greasers. Due to the Curtis family’s poor economic state, the main character, Ponyboy’s two older brothers, Darrel
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Text Evidence Assessment Name: Quelissa Stephen Class: 8B Lexile level: _________ Title of Book: The Outsiders Author: S.E. Hinton In the book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, there are two rival gangs living in a small town in America. The main character, Ponyboy, struggles with survival and success while dealing with the conflict that the rivalry creates. Ponyboy is a member of the Greasers. The rival gang is called the socs. The rivalry and Ponyboy’s
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Being an outsider can end up happening to anyone really,take for example my friend Jack Grogan he played football and he usually wasn’t a huge playmaker and wasn’t too involved with the “popular” group of players.One day we decided to try him at cornerback and he became a very important part of our defense which in return got him a starting position and more respect from the team.Grogan’s experience demonstrates that being an outsider is part of the human experience because individuals are usually
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The Outsiders New Chapter Period: 9-10 Language Arts Miller Chapter 13 “After 10 Years it seems like I’m still so young”, Ponyboy thought to himself. He was 24 now. He was however still the youngest of the gang. The gang was now older. It consisted of Ponyboy, Darry, Sodapop, Two-Bit, and Steve. So now it was them. Sitting in his house, Pony was wondering what could he do now? He lived all alone in his little two-story house on the East side. Being a Greaser all his life gave him strength
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Altogether The Outsiders had a rough life full of violence and prejudice. They lost so much in a short period of time, but they they will always have each other during these rough times. They stayed tough and unafraid when they faced prejudiced people who said terrible things about them. The Outsiders made it through one of the toughest places to grow up in, even though they have lost many things along that way the learned what true friendship is.
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The Outsiders contains strong ideas relating to gangs which causes people to think that the characters will negatively influence the readers. In reality, the gang references make the reader aware of what went on between the Socs and the Greasers like a history lesson. There is not a part in the book where either gang tries to convince someone to join their side, therefore not negatively influencing other characters. If anything, the aspect of the gangs represents teamwork and is a good example for
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Did you know that there are 1.4 million active gang members in the U.S. In the book “The outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, the Greasers and the Socs are two gangs that involve many issues in their lives in terrible neighborhoods. The Greasers and the Socs are enemies but share things in common. Both the Socs and Greasers deal with parenting issues, money problems, and they both struggle with bad health decisions. The Greasers and the Socs struggle with issues from their parents. “ They may feel as though
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In The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton’s, there are two main gangs that you author mentions. The Socs that are the more accepted of the two rivalry gangs. They have money, social ranking, and privilege. There are also the greasers, they aren’t the wise ones of the gangs. They are mostly drop outs, fighters, and low lives. They also don’t get along together. In my opinion the greasers are the ones that aren’t as accepted by society, this is because of class, privilege, publicity. Class is something that
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of an “outsider”? Well there’s a novel written by S.E Hinton based on her growing up and the categories teens placed themselves in her hometown located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The book is called “The Outsiders”, where the teens were divided by “Socs” and “greasers”. While both could be outsiders, the true outsiders are the ones who have a better understanding of life and think beyond the division and differences of Socs and Greasers. It’s a big possibility that greasers can be seen as outsiders. The reason
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In photography, the outsider position is considered the negative view, which produces an alienated and voyeuristic relationship. This in turn separates the subject and the object, which is opposed to the inside position which implies a positive view, knowledge, and engagement (Solomon-Godeau). Both photographers of Tereska Draws Her Home and Tank Man execute their photography as outsiders through perspective and angles, however their photos differ in range of space, which in turn affects the two
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“Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another” (OED). In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Johnny is accountable for the murder of Bob. Johnny is a “greaser,” he is lower than the middle class and from the Eastern side. Bob is a “Socs,” he is the high class, and rich kid from the Western side.First of all, Johnny was in his senses when he took the action of pulling out his six inch switchblade. “Johnny’s hand went back [to grab] his switchblade” (p.54). This
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liked you at all? An outsider is a person who does not belong to a specific group or place. Everyone is different in terms of appearance and life circumstances. Lennie in “Of Mice and Men” is treated more like an outsider than anyone in the book. Everyone in the book treats Lennie differently than others because of how disabled he is. The treatment that the others are giving to Lennie, they feel like they’re smarter than him, but not stronger. Lennie has to be the biggest outsider because he gets treated
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The Outsiders Compare and Contrast Many books and movies are not very indistinguishable. Often times movies leave out big parts from the book, and add in other things to make it “better”. The two versions of The Outsiders are very similar. Ponyboy, Soda, and Darry Curtis are brothers, they are Greasers along with Steve Randall, Two-Bit, Dally, and Johnny. Greasers were family you could always rely on a “brother” to help you out, unlike the Socs. Greasers and Socs were at war, the two social groups
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In The Sneetches, Dr. Seuss deals with discrimination and transcending barriers somewhat similar to S.E Hinton in The Outsiders. In The Sneetches, they discriminate against the Sneetches without stars. They do this by, not inviting them to the parties and Marshmallow roasts. Also, they avoid the Sneetches and are snobby towards them. In The Outsiders, the Socs and the Greasers constantly discriminate each other. They do things like attacking them or sometimes even killing an opposing gang member
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In the book The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, embarks on the stereotypes of social groups. Hinton shows the readers about the stereotypes of a greasers and socs;Ponyboy, Hinton’s main character, is in the social group of a greaser and Bob who is a Soc. The main stereotype of a Greaser are that they are criminals that have long greasy hair and often carry around knives. Although Ponyboy Curtis shows that stereotype because he’s not a criminal. Ponyboy is a sweet fourteen year old boy that doesn’t
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Imagine a world without care? Based on the novel, The Outsiders, S.E Hinton conveyed various themes. She proved that family and friends are always there during good and bad times, through the characters and their actions. The Greasers are always there to help their friends and family. This becomes clear when the events that took place in the novel The Outsiders are examined and viewed. For example, bonding with the family, being their for friends or gang members, taking care of siblings, and sacrificing
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A book that has helped me understand bullying and why someone would do this is The Outsiders by H.E. Hinton. The Outsiders is based on two separate groups around the same age that hate each other because of how they were raised. This novel has made me understand that some children who bully others have grown up being bullied and that’s their life now. For example, in the book, the teenagers fought each other because they grew up differently and dress differently so they feel they are better than
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or for superiority in the same field of activity:”This rings true in the novel, “The Outsiders”, by S.E Hinton. There are two rival gang called “Greasers”, and , “Socials but it's short version is socs.” There are conflicts throughout the novel that result in real world situations like death. The perspective of the story is told by Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy Curtis is in the Greasers gang. In the novel, The Outsiders, many conflicts in the community are caused by the Socials.
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you ever felt like an outcast? Well in the book “The Outsiders” it seem as if anyone could be an “outsider” depending on perspective. Set in Oklahoma and written in 1967, “The Outsiders” tells a story two different groups; The Socs (Socials) and Greasers. The outsiders could be anyone from the Socs to the Greasers and even the rest of society. While the Greasers may feel like the “outsiders”, the Socs could actually be considered “outsiders” since they aren’t apart of that group. As Cherry mentions
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