Themes Of The Outsiders

Firstly, in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton multiple characters must learn how to make critical decisions to help them mature. In a town in Oklahoma, Ponyboy and his friends stick together like family- as Greasers. The label “Greasers” is mostly used to distinguish the rich from the poor in the town, while “Socs” is used for the snobby, rich people in the town. There is a rivalry between the two groups; Socs and Greasers are always fighting and harassing each other. Johnny had killed the Soc, Bob, in defense of Ponyboy that was being drowned in a fountain.

In the novel The Outsiders, one of the many thematic statements that could be made on The Outsiders that sometimes on both sides of the fight or argument isn't really all that black and white. These pages are all examples of when Ponyboy changes his view bit by bit. Page 29-34, page 115-118, page 163-165, and page 129 and 130

The theme of The Outsiders is violence doesn’t solve everything. In this book it’s the classic conflict between the socs—short for socials—and the greasers who have been having a conflict for ages and still today. After coming back from the drive In Ponyboy accidentally fell asleep with his friend Johnny in ‘the lot’ after he woke up he ran back home to his brothers Darry and Sodapop got mad and Darry pushed Ponyboy and out of fear Ponyboy ran away, he went back to the lot to find Johnny and went to walk to the park and back, but when they got to the park a group of socs pulled up in their car and got out and started chasing Ponyboy and Johnny and caught them and started drowning Ponyboy while Johnny took out his blade – that he started to carry around out of fear when a previous accouter with the same group of socs – and stabbed Bob, the head soc to death.

From the very beginning of The Outsiders, the detail shows how the greasers are family. Pony and Johnny told their friend Dally what happened and asked for help, he gave them a loaded pistol and $50 to take care of themselves this is a moment of how much they care for each other. One quote that SE Hinton used that sticked throughout the novel was, “Nothing Gold can Stay”(77), an example is when Johnny was hurt from getting burnt in a church that took fire from them smoking, Dally really cared about Johnny and loved him the most and couldn’t live without him. \ 2 In the second half of the novel, Johnny’s mom comes to the hospital to see him, Johnny’s says he doesn’t want to see

In The Outsiders, Johnny, a sixteen year-old boy who lives in an abusive, alcoholic home, learns the value of living on his deathbed. During the short time he lives, he fails to understand what life is worth. “‘I can’t take much more.’ Johnny spoke my own feelings. ‘I’ll kill myself or something.’ ‘Don’t’ I said, sitting up in alarm. ‘You can’t kill yourself Johnny.’ ‘Well, I won’t. But I gotta do something. It seems like there’s gotta be someplace without greasers or Socs, with just people. Plain ordinary people’” (Hinton 47-48). Johnny has nothing much of his own to live for, so he thinks that why should he be living at all? His abusive parents, don’t care about him and on top of that greasers are underestimated in front of Socs; Johnny just wants to live in an ordinary world with ordinary people, and an ordinary family. Despite his longing, he knows he will never be able to achieve this happy life so he doesn’t know what it is like to live happily without much difficulties. Because of this, he doesn’t want to live at

Look around at your close friends. You stick together just like a family. Your friends support and know you. Like a family, friends know each other, like each other, and relate to each other. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, my theme, friends are family, is very present. S.E. Hinton shows that Friends are family like when the greasers stick together because they really know each other and don’t really have family. The theme at the beginning is friends are family.

Bob Dylan, an American singer and songwriter, once declared, “A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” In the fictional novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Ponyboy tests the bounds of his world, freeing himself from the limitations and prejudices that had been foisted upon him. As he does so, though, he comes to understand his great responsibility to others. Ponyboy’s heroism perfectly illustrates Dylan’s statement as he defines a hero as one who understands the needs of others and prioritizes those needs over one’s own. Similarly, Ponyboy’s empathy and selflessness demonstrate his heroism, as his understanding of his world expands.

Many teens have been feeling left out and lonely. In the novel entitled The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, she often mentions the differences between Socs and Greasers and the conflicts the happen. The few main reasons Socs and Greasers do not get along are because of money, personal problems, and the worries each of them have to deal with.

The character that I had chosen to analyze was Ponyboy Curtis in the movie, The Outsiders (Coppola, 1983). I chose this character because the movie revealed how Ponyboy got to where he is mentally and everything that had occurred to get him to that point. I will analyze the adolescent phase of Ponyboy’s life. The theme of The Outsiders is how love can affect the relationships of close friends. The theories and theorists that support my analysis are Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial theory, Albert Bandura’s Observational Learning, Lev Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Perspective and Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Systems theory: Microsystem (Sigelman, 2015). From those theories and theorists the following points will be analyzed: identity, peer pressure, self-worth, and dependence.

We live in a small town, we go to small schools and we have a small population, that being said, would we have more, or less social classes? The Outsiders written by the  author S.E Hinton  talks  about  the consequences of separation in society. As we grow up we begin to learn more about ourselves and we begin to socialize with others, we begin making friends, and forming cliques. The novel is about young boys who are in the lowest class of society and one of the main character's name was Ponyboy Curtis, he is the youngest of his group of friends that are referred as the “Greasers”. He can only rely on his two brothers Darry and Sodapop and his friends but no one else.  There was a lot of conflict because of social classes,  greasers were used to the Socs always giving them a hard time until Johnny took things too far.

The main theme of 'The Outsiders' is that friends are your chosen family. In other words, the people in your inner circle along with your family, are the friends you choose to have there. This is present with many characters in the book, in fact, the only three 'Greasers' that did not seem to have their friends closer than their family were Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry. However, these three boys had many people in their lives who loved their friends more than their family, such as Johnny, who's dad beat him, and mom neglected him, and Dally who had no relation with his parents, then there is Darry, who loves his friends like family, and he is one of the only ones that knows what true family love feels like.

The main theme of The Outsiders is violence does not solve social conflict. In the beginning of the book Ponyboy thinks that violence is the solution to the Socs, but later through Johnny stabbing Bob, and finally making amends with Darry, Ponyboy figures out that you can’t solve social conflict with violence. This theme was relevant to the real world in Hinton’s time and still is today.

We live in a small town, we go to small schools and we have a small population that being said, would we have more, or less social classes? The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton talks about the consequences of separation in society. As we grow up we begin to learn more about ourselves and we begin to socialize with others, we begin making friends, and forming cliques. This novel is about young boys who are in the lowest class of society. One of the main character's name was Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy was the youngest of his group of friends that are referred as the “Greasers”. He can only rely on his two brothers Darry and Sodapop and also his Greaser friends. There was a lot of conflict because of social classes, Greasers were used to the Socs always giving them a hard time until Johnny took things too far.

The Outsiders, a novel by S.E. Hinton, shares moralities that encourage themes of brotherhood and heroism with literary elements - which includes setting, point of view, characterization, conflict, plot, and theme. Each element influences the big idea of flawed heroes and friendships to readers. With her powerful novel, Hinton is able to express the necessity of unity and brotherhood within a community, despite differences in classes, ages, or ideals.

“The Outsiders” identifies the 60’s, illustrating the violence between groups, often involving a group’s social class. For instance, the violent tensions between the Socs and Greasers lead to Bob’s death, Johnny’s death, as well as many injuries throughout both gangs. The book “The Outsiders” is written by S.E. Hinton and is portrayed through the eyes of a high school student in Tulsa, OK where S.E. Hinton grew up. Hinton began writing “The Outsiders” in 1965 at the age of 17 and the book was finally published in 1967 when she was 19. The difference in perspective upon the society and social class creates issues throughout “The Outsiders” and since the Socs and Greasers assume the problems will be solved with violence, they take action.