Adulthood In S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton’s the Outsiders takes place in a little town in Oklahoma where the town is divided in two by the Socs and Greasers. This book is mainly about Ponyboy Curtis who is the youngest of the member of the Greasers and always hang around his brother Sodapop and doesn’t believe his oldest brother Darry cares for him.

The book “The Outsiders” written by S.E. Hinton, unfolds a story brotherhood with a twist. Living on the East side of town are the Greasers, the poor juvenile delinquents representing the lower class. Whereas the Socials or better known as Socs are the spoilt rich kids living on the West side of town. These two gangs are very different from each other. Subsequently, there is a brotherhood type relationship between the Greasers. Whereas there is none for the Socs. Darry Curtis the unofficial leader of the Greasers shows leadership as he brings his gang and family together. Furthermore, in “The Outsiders”, Darry is portrayed as a sensitive, caring, and a very loyal young man.

One of the ways Darry shows his heroism is when he takes over as Ponyboy and Sodapop's parents. Darry is the oldest of the three brothers, so he felt that is was his duty to raise his brothers since his parents were killed in a car accident. "...Darry's gone through

In the book the Outsiders, Ponyboy faces many conflicts, some had carried more significance than others. The author of this novel is S.E. Hinton. The main characters of this novel are Ponyboy Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, and Darrel Curtis (Darry). The Outsiders is novel about the wars between the two social classes formally known as Socs (The higher class/richer people) and the Greasers (The lower class/poorer blue collar workers.) This novel however is told from the perspective of the Greasers, more specifically a young boy at the bottom of a small gang or family of greasers. In the novel The Outsiders the character Ponyboy experience multiple conflicts with his family, his friends, and the law.

The Outsiders is a wonderful novel to read in the classroom because of its conflicts with one another. During this novel, the Curtis brothers realize that they are the only family they have left, and they make the best out of that. Throughout this novel, Darry, Soda, and Pony have changed dramatically throughout this

The Outsiders is a young adult novel written by S.E. Hinton. The book was first published in 1967 by The Viking Press. Today, the book is published under Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group. The book has a total of a hundred and eighty pages. The Outsiders fits in the genre of young-adult fiction because it relates to teens on emotional levels. Like Ponyboy, the teen protagonist of the story, teens relate to his emotional growth as he tries to piece his life together. The story follows a rivalry in a socially divided community. The Greasers are a gang of teenage boys who live on the east side of town; the wrong side of town. Their rivals, the Socials, better known as the Socs; come from the wealthier side of town. The two groups are always head to head with one another, seeking a fight. Ponyboy belongs to the Greasers. He is the youngest out of the three brothers in his family. Apart from his brothers, Ponyboy hangs out with Johnny, Dallas, Two-Bit and others who are also Greasers. The rivalry between the two groups heightens when Johnny kills Bob, a Soc, in an attempt to save Ponyboy from drowning. In this book report, I will go through the meaning of this book and my opinion on the story itself.

The 1967 novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is about the social outcasts; the Greasers and their rivalry against the high class Socs. In the beginning of the book the characters values and attitudes are revealed to the reader through the point of view of Ponyboy. As the book progresses and the lives of the characters take a turn for the worse there is a significant impact on the characters resulting in an alteration of their values and attitudes. Ponyboy, Dally and Johnny experience these changes due to the death of Bob the Soc and the chain of events that follow.

The novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton is an obvious example of the struggles of coping with life and maturity. The novel is mainly about two small groups (the socials and the greasers) and the physical and emotional battles between them. The book follows Ponyboy and his small gang which consists of 7 boys; Sodapop and Darrel, Ponyboy's brothers, Johnny, Ponyboy's best friend, Dallas, the worst member of the gang (worst in the sense that he breaks law for fun and gets into the most trouble), Keith/ Two-Bit, the joker of the group, and Steve, Sodapops longtime best friend. Certain members of this gang are showing obvious signs that maturing is difficult, such as Ponyboy acting tough around people but in his thoughts and small indications we can see he is not the same Pony. Another obvious sign is that the entire Curtis family (Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darrel) seems to act older and more mature than really are. The most prominent form of Pony specifically is that he is completely different at the beginning then he is at the end of the book.

After the tragic death of Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darrel Curtis “Darry” parents, Darry takes their role and starts being responsible for them. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Darry plays the role of the older brother of Sodapop and Ponyboy. In this book Darry can be described as very hardworking, loyal, and muscular/strong.

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 by S.E Hinton is about two gangs trying to kill each other in Oklahoma in the 1960’s. The story’s theme is about growing up. One character who stands out in the story is Dally because he was a static character. The character can be described as loyal, hard and brave. Dally was a Greaser.

Even though Darry, a character from The Outsiders seems like my exact opposite in every way, deep down, we are a lot more alike than you would have guessed. The Outsiders is a novel about the hard life of a group of boys and how they live it out. These boys are the less fortunate and live on the wrong side of town, which causes them to have to be put through a lot that kids should never have to experience. Darry is the groups “undecided leader” who lost both parents way too young and had to become the parent of his two brothers, and in ways a parent to all of the boys in the group. There are many differences between Darry and I but there are also many similarities.

S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders based on her high school experience. In The Outsiders two gangs The Greasers and The Socs have conflict with each other throughout the story. The main character Ponyboy and his brothers Darry and Sodapop have to look out for each other after the death of their parents. A Generation Struggling: Rich kids are Losing, The Allure of Gangs, and Alarming Number of Teenagers are Quitting School to Go to Work are articles that relate to The

Darrel “Darry” Curtis was a 20 year old boy who took responsibility and parented his brothers while keeping two jobs. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Darry was a grown up boy, smart and brawn, who was the leader of a gang called the Greasers and was a guardian for his brothers. Darry took this role as a guardian or father of his brothers Sodapop and Ponyboy Curtis after the death of their parents. The Greasers were in a heated rivalry with another gang called the Socs. Darry took responsibility for his family and gang members while working two jobs. Through the ups and downs Darry protected his brothers. Darry, as a 20 year old boy, had enough responsibility to parent his

To begin with, Darry and Sodapop are Pony’s older brothers. They both have a very strong and loving bond with him. Is Darry a good enough guardian or not? Their actions towards him are affectionate and warmhearted. “I don’t know if you ought to be in this rumble, Ponyboy”… “You fight real good for a kid your size. But you were in shape before. You’ve lost weight and you don’t look so great, kid. You’re tensed up to much.”(Hinton, 133-134) As shown above, Darry