Examples Of Honor In The Outsiders

This indicates that Ponyboy has not permanently changed from his old self, he is still the kind, caring, thoughtful and innocent person like he has always been back to his normal self. The last point to help with showing how the book suggests this is is how the starting line and the ending line are the same. Johnny doesn’t want Ponyboy to change one little bit, he wants to stay the way his has always been, to ‘stay gold’. The starting line and the ending don’t mean much but they help us to understand that Ponyboy hasn’t changed.

The Outsiders is a novel written by a then 15 year-old by the name of S.E. Hinton. The tale of social divides revolves around a group of six teenage “greasers”. One of these greasers is Dallas “Dally” Winston. The greasers are the poor and underprivileged in society. The greasers as a group are in a constant struggle against the socialites, the high point of society, who are referred to as “socs”. Dally Winston is among the worst of them in terms of respect for the law. “He had quite a reputation. They have a file on him down at the police station. He had been arrested, he got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids--he did everything.”(11). Dally is said to have lived in New York for three years and had been arrested at the young age of 10. His behavior seems wild and unexplainable, but it can be deciphered through the means of Erikson’s theory on the stages of development, and Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs.

Johnny’s last words to Ponyboy were, “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold…”. I found this in Chapter 9, on pg. 148. Johnny is referring to the poem that can be found in Chapter 5, on pg. 78. When Johnny tells Ponyboy to stay gold, he is referring to the fact that Ponyboy was innocent when Johnny killed Bob. In the poem, gold is the first hue of nature, the hardest to hold, which also symbolizes children’s innocence.

Survival instincts allow individuals to persevere during times of hardship and struggle. Unfortunately, many families in America are struggling lower-middle class or live in poverty. It’s nice to think a person can easily go from being dirt poor to filthy rich, but it doesn’t usually work that way. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton depicts the hardships and struggles experienced by two rival gangs, “The Greasers” from the lower middle class and “The Socs” from the upper class. Thesis: In The Outsiders, the Greasers experience disenfranchisement mostly due to socioeconomic class and appearance. However, other types of disenfranchisement such as drug, alcohol use and gang participation are also present in the novel.

Among those who do not follow laws, is there still honor? There is, at least amongst the greasers in the classic novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. In The Outsiders, there are two main rival gangs, the greasers, who are the poor kids, and the Socs, the rich. Even though the greasers are considered delinquents in their society, which they are, to a certain degree, and they don’t always make the right choices, throughout the book they display feats that show that they have honor in abundance. In spite of the fact that the greasers are hoodlums, they stick up for each other, they make sacrifices to save a friend, and they stand together, no matter what happens.

In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. HINTON the main character Ponyboy’s identity changes multiple times over the text. In the beginning of the story Ponyboy was introduced as a greaser, a greaser is someone who is usually poorer than the middle class and like to screw around and start gang fights and they are considered hoods as stated on pages 2-3, “We’re poorer than the Socs and the middle class. I reckon we’re wilder, too. Not like the Socs, who jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace almost like hoods.” this shows that even though the Socs are much more wild the greasers are still considered the bad crazy hood people. Ponyboy didn’t like being a greaser

Ponyboy and Johnny had very good relationship to each other. They were like brothers to one another and loved each other. Johnny wants ponyboy to stay gold, as in stay the same because he doesn’t want ponyboy to change. He doesn’t want ponyboy to change because ponyboy is perfect in Johnny’s eyes. So in Robert Frost's poem “nothing gold can stay “ he is explaining nothing perfect will stay forever.

Ponyboy has experienced many deaths in his life. Johnny is one of the deaths that he has experienced. Dally and Ponyboy run into Johnny’s hospital room thinking he is dead, but he is still alive. They start telling Johnny how they won the rumble. Johnny is still being written about in the newspapers. Ponyboy comes closer to Johnny and he says his last words, “‘Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold…,’” (148). Staying gold means when you are young everything goes the way you want it to be but as you grow older not everything is going to go the way you want it to be. You grow older thinking you can do anything you want, but sometimes death can come along, making you reconsider.

When Johnny tells Ponyboy to “stay gold”, he means that he wants Ponyboy to be positive and live a good, honest life. Particularly because Johnny knows that he himself cannot. Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” conveys Johnny’s hopes for Pony as the poem describes the idea that all that is good and light is fleeting. There are many examples of this concept in the world.

Then Ponyboy runs out the door, finds Johnny, and goes to the park. There, however, the two young greasers run into randy and bob, with a huge group of their Socs friends. One of the Socs friends hold pony boy’s head under a cold water fountain, and Ponyboy blacks out. When he comes to, he is lying on the ground next to Johnny. The bloody corps of bob is next to them. To save Ponyboy, Johnny had to kill bob.

Johnny leaves a note in his copy of Gone With the Wind. He also tells Ponyboy to “Stay gold”. Johnny is communicating advice to Ponyboy in his last words and his note. He is trying to tell Ponyboy to become the person he wants to be. He still has his “golden time”, and he has the potential to become the person he wants to be. Ponyboy’s “dawn” is still in its’ prime and has a long while to go before it starts to fade. Nothing gold can stay, but Johnny is saying that Ponyboy can still make use out of all the time he has and escape the social stigma that has been placed on him. This message inspires Ponyboy once more. Ponyboy starts working hard on his school work again. “And I finally began like this: When I stepped out from the darkness of

In The Outsiders, a book written by S.E. Hinton, there are two polar opposite gangs, the socs and the greasers. The socs, who are high class, have mustangs and “tuff” cars and wear plaid clothing called madras. The Greasers, who are lower class, are known for their long and greasy hair, wearing leather jackets and being hoods. They only have each other and always have everyone’s back. No matter the situation like leaving a door open in case they need to run away from home because of an abusive dad , they can count on one another. Ponyboy, a 14 year old Greaser, who is also the protagonist, along with other characters lose themselves while trying to be someone else they’re not. Hinton teaches us that it is important to remember that individual

Towards the middle of the story, a boy named Johnny had killed a Soc that was drowning Ponyboy. He and Ponyboy fled the city to another town, and hid in an abandon church there for a week. When they were going to leave, they realized the church was on fire and there was kids trapped inside. Johnny and Pony were good friends and they decided to go help the children. After they rescued the children, they had to escape the burning, ravaged building. A flaming, steaming hot beam from the ceiling fell on Johnny. After this happened, Pony passed out, “ I leaped out the window and heard timber crashing and the flames roaring right behind me. I staggered, almost

In S.E Hinton's novel, The Outsiders, there are many themes represented in the book, but one of the main themes is social ostracism, or the conflict between the economic classes. There are two rival gangs within The Outsiders:  the Socs and the Greasers.  The Socs represent the upper class while the Greasers represent the lower class.  The Socs, "jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next." The Greasers, who are on the low social economic side, "steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations and have a gang fight once in

In The Outsiders, we see the respect and honor among the lawless. The Greasers develop honor among one another due to the struggles they face not being treated equally to those like the Socs, that hold a place in the upper level in society treated equally in the law”(Adamson, 58). The Greasers don’t have many people there for them, the rest of society, but they now have to stick together (Hinton, 176). According to The Outsiders, some of the boys in the Greaser face different problems. Darry became responsible for his little brothers, Ponyboy and SodaPop since their parents died, they fight all the time, and throughout the story try to reconcile and come to an understanding of knowing they need one another. (Hinton, 176). Even though the Greasers are stereotyped, and face different problems, they all share a bond of honor that holds innocence and love. Johnny may seem to be a horrible person for killing Bob, but he saves the children in the burning church, which meant he still had