Adulthood In S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders

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.

The Outsiders Comparison The Outsiders is a novel that follows a greaser from the mid-1900’s named Ponyboy. He has 2 brothers, Darry and Sodapop. He lost his parents at a young age and now lives with his brothers. They are in a gang that is very close.

Due to the love of his brothers he is very overprotective. He makes it clear that he protects them and worries about them when he stats this, “I reckon it didn’t occur to you that that your brothers might be worrying their heads off and afraid to call the police because something like that could get you two boys thrown in a boys’ home so quick it’d make your head spin.” (_pg.50_) No matter what happened to his parents he will always be sad, but he doesn’t let that stop him, he still stands up for his brothers. He worries were they are and decides what slides. He watches out for them even if they are mean to him. Darry says a statement that only parents that are caring say which is, “ Yeah, since it ain’t a school night.” (_pg.14_) He wants him to get his rest and have fun like any other parent would and worries about how he does in school. With these two examples from the novel everyone should know he is protective of his younger brothers. He’s changing for the good throughout the novel and that’s a good

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Ponyboy is looking up to his brothers bc his mom or dad isn't there for him to look up too. Darry is the one who is taking over his father's spot. He works all day to help ponyboy and his brothers. He wants his brother to graduate and get a scholarship. ”I love soda more than i have loved anyone, even my mom and dad”(2).

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.

When Ponyboy was in Windrixville, hiding with johnny, Sodapop sent a letter with Dally, Sodapop states “Darry and me ran nuts when you ran out like that, Darry is awful sorry hit you. You know he didn’t mean it.”(81) Although Darry had not written the letter he was clearly sensitive about his feelings towards his brother Ponyboy. In addition for him being the strong and tough guy everybody knows, showing his emotions for his brother clearly proves that Darry is sensitive. To add onto that fact, he demonstrates that he truly is sensitive to his brother because he truly regrets his actions and he feels very repentant for Ponyboy. Furthermore, Darry portrayed the characteristic trait of being sensitive was when Ponyboy came back from Windrixville, Ponyboy states “ Suddenly I realized, horrified, that Darry was crying. He didn’t make a sound, but tears were running down his cheeks.” Crying is one way to show that someone is sensitive because sensitive is basically when you get emotional sometimes or take things way too seriously and crying demonstrates that very well. Darry shows that he is sensitive because he really was sorry for Ponyboy and he was so sensitive that he started crying. Darry also shows sensitivity when Pony came back, Darry states, “Oh Pony, I thought I lost you… Like we did mom and dad.”(98) This statement strongly shows that