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    The Outsiders An outsider is defined as “a person who does not belong to a particular group.” In the book, The Outsiders, many of the characters can be described as being an outcast from the social society. Ponyboy, Johnny, and Cherry are outsiders in this novel because none of them really fit into the groups that they’re “supposed” to be in. In this novel, Ponyboy Curtis is an outsider from society and his gang. He feels as if he is an outsider from society because he is a part of the social class

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    upper class. What about back then? During the 1960’s in Tulsa, Oklahoma; high school student Susan Eloise Hinton (S.E Hinton) writes a book called The Outsiders about the diverse groups in her town. Between the Greasers and the Socs, who are the real outsiders of the story? Though the groups are separated into privileged and unfortunate, the outsiders are the ones who unintentionally disassociate themselves with their social clicks by socializing with the “opposite side” and treating them respectfully

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    over.” (Hinton 35) Ponyboy Curtis says this in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. An outsider is someone who is different or doesn’t fit in in a certain way, which is why Hinton never emphasizes who the outsiders are; readers can interpret this book and the outsiders in their own way because Hinton proves that everyone is an outsider in their own manner. While it can be argued that every character is an outsider, the main outsiders in this book are Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and Cherry Valance

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    The Outsiders Essay Sukhdip Singh The Outsiders by S.E Hinton follows the lives of two groups of young adult’s set in 1950’s America. The groups are the “Greasers” and the “Socs”. Greasers is a term used to class all the boys living on the East side, which was the poor side of the town they were mainly known for their long and greased hair. The rival gang, the Socs short for Socials, are "the jet set, the West-side rich kids," who are from upper-middle-class families. Ponyboy explains that the

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    The Outsiders Essay It’s difficult to be a hero when you do some bad things to get there. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton there are two completely different sides of town in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Socs are the rich kids who drive expensive cars and wear expensive clothes and the Greasers are seen as a good-for-nothing person. They don’t have money and they don’t get whatever they want, they also have to work additionally hard to get to where they want to be in life. If you are considered

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    “The outsider`s” Have you ever felt like an outsider? An Outsider is the people that feel more distance when it comes to groups of society. The novel “the Outsider`s” took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma 1697, that is based on two groups of society. The Socs and the Greasers. For example, Ponyboy. Ponyboy is in a group of society called the Greasers. But people believe he is more of an outsider than a Greaser. (DOC B). Like when he was in biology class and the class where dissecting worms and ponyboys

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    “The Outsiders” is one of the themes in the story. Looking at life as an outsider and the feeling of being treated as an outsider is a point of view. Someone who always feels like an outsider might believe that life is unfair. We as teenagers tend consider ourselves to be grown-ups already, but in reality we are still under the control of others and this loss of control leads to the feeling that life isn't fair. For example, Ponyboy understands that he is not safe walking the streets alone because

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    Everyone is an outsiders in some type of way, and it can be that you just don’t fit in. That’s Okay because there are a lot of people that don’t exactly fit in! The Outsiders was made in the 1960’s by H.E Hinton and was placed in Tulsa Oklahoma. H.E Hinton is girl who was 17 when she published her book, and she went under the name H.E. Hinton because she didn’t want nobody to judge her book by her gender she wanted them to judge the book by the book. Her real name is Susan Eloise Hinton. What characters

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    I believe the Outsiders are representation sped up by the greasers like Ponyboy, Dally, Soda, and the others. They are extracted from others and are people that don’t fit in with the crowd. The factor is they are poor and are unnoticed unless they make trouble. These are boys who don’t care they smoke and act like a family. Unlike the other gangs this has no leader and have individual leaders. Like for these examples to use Outsider it needs to be defined. Outsider or an Outsider is a man or woman

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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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