The Greasers In S. E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders'

On page 8 it says,” Not unless you’re hurt like Johnny had been that day we found him. Compared to Johnny I wasn’t hurt at all.” This backs up Ponyboy living in a bad neighborhood. With this kind of neighborhood, Darry can’t protect him of every danger that comes his way. On page 131, it says ,’ The rumble was set for seven,...” This shouldn’t be the kind of Neighborhood Ponyboy should be living in. If Darry really cared about Ponyboy, he wouldn’t let Ponyboy be part of the rumble. Ponyboy will end up getting injured if he lives in this

This time Darry’s choice negatively impacted his relationship with his family. After Ponyboy got slapped, he never wanted to see Darry again, which certainly took a toll on their relationship. When Ponyboy ran away with Johnny, it resulted in them being confronted by the Socs and one of them almost drowning Ponyboy in a water fountain. Overall, Darry’s mindless choice of slapping Ponyboy across the face had a grave impact on his life and

In this quote it shows Darry working and Ponyboy saying things about what Darry do for Ponyboy, “There was another column about just Darry and Soda and me: how Darry worked on two jobs at once and made good at both of them, and about his outstanding record at school”(Hinton 108).This shows how much work Darry puts to taking care of Ponyboy and Sodapop.This also shows how qualified Darry is to take care of them and how he has outstanding records at school.Another quote of Darry working and Soda “I could have waited to go to the movies until Darry or Sodapop got off work.” ( Hinton 3).This shows that Darry always works and tries to make the time for Ponyboy. It also shows how Darry let’s him go to the movies and lets him do what he likes to do and doesn’t mind. In the story Darry always worked very hard and worked too hard with two jobs at a time and tried to make the best of it and made sure Ponyboy got a good education and had a chance like he had to go to college and didn’t mess it all up because of all this

Ponyboy once said, “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me”. The Outsiders, By S.E. Hinton, is an outstanding book, and movie, that tells about the rivalry between the less fortunate people, the Greasers, and the more wealthy people, the Socs. The Greasers are an inseparable group of tuff kids, that have gone through many hard times in their life. The Socs are a group of good looking and smart kids who came from a wealthy background.

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

Darry can be described as responsible for many reasons. Darry was a hard worker; he had to support himself and two other teenage boys. A quote from the novel, Ponyboy states, “Darry didn’t deserve to work like an old man when he was only twenty” (Hinton 16). He worked hard all day just to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. Darry wants Ponyboy to exceed excellence in life. He often yells at him because he cares and wants to make sure he has the best future he could possibly get. Ponyboy says, “I never could please him. He would have hollered at me for carrying a blade if I had carried one. If I brought home B’s he was A’s. If I had A’s, he wanted to make sure they stayed A’s. If I was playing football, I should be in studying, and if I was reading, I should be out playing football” (Hinton

In The Outsiders, the only reason Darry, Soda, and Pony were able to stay together is because Darry gave up his scholarship and picked up two jobs. He gave up everything to keep the family together after the Curtis parents died. He is a hero to Pony and Soda because without him they would not have had as good of a life, or be as happy as they were. On page one hundred twenty-eight Two-Bit says, “ You know, the only thing that keeps Darry from bein’ a Soc is us.” He gave up a chance at a life full of money and popularity to be with his brothers.

You can’t run away or give up on your problems because they will always follow you. The greasers never give up. The Outsiders is a book where it is mainly about a boy named ponyboy who has a pretty crazy life with some crazy people in it. People always look at the Greasers as a cold blooded Group, but really they also have feelings that can get hurt. They are not all they seem to be.

In the book, The Outsiders, Ponyboy Curtis is part of the Greaser’s, a gang of boys who are in the lower class in 1965. Their arch rival, the Socs, are the more privileged, upper class boys from across town. Throughout the book, the two gang have many conflicts. Darry, Ponyboy’s oldest brother acts as a parent figure for him since both of his parents were killed in a car crash. Other member of the Greasers are Dally, Two-Bit, Steve, Sodapop, and Johnny. After getting in a fight with his brother, Ponyboy flees to the park where he runs into a group of Socs. The Socs attack Ponyboy and hold his head under the water in the fountain, trying to kill him. Ponyboy blacks out, and later wakes up to see on the Soc boys dead body next to him. Johnny then tells Ponyboy that he killed the boys because they were trying to kill Ponyboy. The boys are afraid, and desperately try to find Dally Winston, who gives them a gun and sends them to the abandoned church to hide. The two boys stay at the church for a while until they decide to go back into town. As they are leaving

The Outsiders Many people do not understand or do not see how hard life is and was for the poor. S.E. Hinton, the author of The Outsiders, displays excitement, rivalry, and courage through its characters, living through the hardships of being poor in a dangerous city. Ponyboy Curtis, a quiet, smart young boy and his older brothers, Darry and Soda, struggle living as greasers, without their parents, who died in a car crash. Darry plays the role of the leader of the family, and pushes Ponyboy to work hard in school.

S.E Hinton's The Outsiders Characterize the Adulthood life of Darry, his gang, the greasers and his rival the socs. The 2 members of the greasers, Ponyboy, and Sodapop, becomes is kind of a conflict between the brothers weather they get to stay together. In the book of the outsiders, the character Darry portrays a determined, caring, Adulthood kind of person.

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.

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

Being an outsider is a horrible feeling, well that is how these people, the greasers, felt. Darry, Johnny, and Dally are all in this gang, they live in a poor small town on the east side. In the book, the setting is horribly affecting the characters because the setting, small poor town, leaves the greasers with getting jumped and maybe even killed. Darry, Johnny, and Dally are all in this gang, they live in a poor small town on the east side. These characters in The Outsiders are teased and jumped by the Socs.