Rivalry In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a novel about a boy called Ponyboy who is involved in a rivalry between two gangs, the Greasers and the Socs. The Socs live in the West side of town; they look clean, have lots of money and drive blue Mustangs. The greasers live in the east side of town; they wear hair oil, t-shirts and jeans, and don’t have much money. Ponyboy is part of the Greasers, along with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop, his closest friend Johnny Cade, Two-Bit, Steve and Dallas Winston, the toughest of the gang... or at least that is what Ponyboy thinks about him in the beginning of the novel in chapter one “He was tougher than the rest of us- tougher, colder, and meaner.”

How can two people have so many similarities yet be vastly different? In S.E. Hinton’s, The Outsiders, Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston are two boys in a gang of greasers with both similarities and differences. Both Johnny and Dally have abusive parents and the love and care for eachother. On the other hand, Johnny is the most law-abiding while Dally is the least in the gang. Also, Johnny dies a dynamic character while Dally dies a static character.

Written by S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders is a fantastic book, exploring all ideas of person vs. person, person vs. self, and person vs. higher power. The main character, Ponyboy faces challenges dealing with lost, family, law, the higher class (known as the soc’s) and his innerself. The book starts with Ponyboy walking out of a movie theater only thinking about a ride home. When he finally gets to his house Darry, his older brother yells at him for walking by himself. Throughout the book Ponyboy has arguments with Darry, whom after their parents passed away becomes ponyboy and his other brother, sodapops gardien. The arguments get so bad that one day Ponyboy decides to run away. Ponyboy meets with his friend Johnny, sense Johnny already had problems

The Outsiders Ponyboy has demonstrated maturity and responsibility in the book ‘The Outsiders’ by S.E.hinton by becoming a hero, learning to become self-sufficient, and realizing your socioeconomic background doesn’t determine who you are. Ponyboy shows that he can be mature by being a hero, self-sufficient and by being socio-economic. Ponyboy demonstrates that whoever you are it doesn’t matter what you are called you can be different. The book Outsiders was written in 1967 about two gangs. In the book, The Outsiders the Greasers the gang that lives on the east side of a town in New York live in broken down homes with not as much education and the Socs the west side rich kids with lots of money that make them never go broke and have lots of education.

‘’The Outsiders’ by S.E Hinton, is a life based story on Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy Curtis, the main character the narrator. I enjoyed reading the book and watching the book both. It would’ve been better if the movie was a lot more detailed like the book was. And if we could’ve watched the whole movie.

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.

He was only 20, but he never really got to know what that was like. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the mid 1960’s. In addition, conflicts between two gangs were on the rise and the Curtis family was stuck in the middle of it. The main character Ponyboy Curtis had had two older brothers Sodapop and Darrel “Darry” Curtis. Darry happened to stand out because of his father figure presence in this novel. He had to grow up when he was only 20 years old. Both of Darry’s parents had died in a car wreck, forcing him to take on the responsibilities of his two younger brothers. Darry is a responsible, caring, and a prideful young man.

In the book The Outsiders, written by S. E. Hinton, the narrator, Ponyboy, talks about his life as a poor person and the fights, rich against the poor. The novel focused on how the rich and the poor people did not understand each other. According to Ponyboy this led in the two groups to hate each other. The three topics addressed in the engaging novel are the fight between rich and poor, the power of friendship, and what defines heroism.

The Outsiders is a novel written by Susan Eloise Hinton, also known as S.E Hinton. The setting of the story takes place in the 1960s. The Outsiders is written in first person view, by Ponyboy Curtis. The story revolves around the greasers and Socs. The Socs are the west side rich kids, they wrecked houses and “threw beer blasts for kicks”. While the Greasers were the east side kids, they “drove old souped-up cars, held up gas stations and had gang fights once in a while.” One of the conflicts the characters face is man vs man, which is because the greasers and Socs don’t get along, this is because they feel superior to each other. They both had different ways of lives, they did different things for fun, and they did not understand each other. This conflict was later resolved towards the end of the story when Ponyboy speaks to Randy about no longer fighting after Bob’s death.

“The Outsiders”, written by S. E. Hinton, is the story of the conflict between two social groups: “The Socs”, and the “Greasers”; set in a small Oklahoma town during the 1950s. The Socs are considered the upper class while the Greasers are the poorer, less educated, and more impoverished people of the town. The main character, Ponyboy, is a Greaser, though he is a smart kid. He has two older brothers, Sodapop, and Darry, who are both Greasers as well. They have a number of fellow Greasers: Johnny, who acts as the "pet" since he's younger than practically everyone, and Dallas, or Dally, the toughest Greaser, who is almost the leader of the group.

When S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders, conflicts between cultures were happening all over the world. The Outsiders is a book about the interactions between the Greasers and Socs, Greasers being the poor kids and Socs being the rich kids. The story is mainly based around a group of greasers that are unlike the others. They are less like a gang, and more like a family. Throughout the book, Ponyboy, the protagonist, goes through a change where he suddenly realizes that the Greasers and Socs are just people, that they aren’t so different.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in the 1960’s while in poverty in the midst of gang fights? The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a story is about a fourteen-year-old kid named Ponyboy who is in a gang called the greasers who get in a lot of trouble. They are always in fights with the greasers and they get in a lot of trouble and have to run away. The book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ponyboy stands out in the story because he is the protagonist of the story and he is also a dynamic character. Ponyboy can be described as smart, scared, and brave.

The ousiders, writen by S. E. Hinton is loved by teens and adults alike. The book features 14 yearold Ponyboy and his gang the greasers who fight aganist the Socs a gang of rich kids from the west side. The greasers are also fighting to stay alive because being poor is hard. The most important conflict in The Outsiders is Socs vs greasers because It is what makes the book go on and is the spark of most of the other conflicts while telling the theme of everyone has problems. They have rumbles to resolve some of the conflicts beetween them.

The Outsiders Children all over the world are struggling and need someone. The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton revolves around Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy lost his parents at a young age and now lives with his brothers, Soda and Darry. Without their parents or anyone to look up to, the brothers join a gang called the Greasers. The Greasers were wilder and poorer than their rival gang, the Socs.

In S.E Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, the main character Ponyboy and the rest of the greasers not only face conflicts with their rival gang: the Socs, but also against each other and even as society as a whole. These obstacles were created due the fact that people don't realize that everyone has problems, this is a theme that Ponyboy learns throughout this story. Just like in real life, some conflicts will never be resolved as they are beyond their control. Over the course of the novel some conflicts will be settled, while some will stay the same or even become worse.