For my first topic related to the book The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, I chose loyalty. I believe that loyalty was a very strong theme in this book because no matter what happened among Ponyboys friends, the ‘greasers’, they always stuck together and had each others backs even when the odds seemed to be line up against them. In the article, Hundreds honor Ohio police dog killed protecting human partner, there is also a repeating theme of loyalty. In this article Police Officer Ryan Davis and
In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there are two different gangs, the Socs and the Greasers. These rival gangs can be positive and negative. The members of gang take care of each other and are valuable friends. The downside to gangs is when they have fights. There can be bodily harm, damage to property and police will have to stop the fights. Within a large gang are smaller groups, such as Ponyboy and his brothers and friends or the Shepard gang. There are no adults in these juvenile clans
The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton was published in 1967. The Outsiders is about a fourteen year old named Ponyboy Curtis, the youngest member of a gang called the Greasers. The novel starts off with members of their rival gang, the Socs (short for socials), and they jump Ponyboy when he’s leaving a theater. Ponyboy’s brothers, Sodapop and Darry, and several other Greasers rescue Ponyboy and the Socs flee. The Socs are richer and they have a better impression than the Greasers. The main conflict
The outsiders. An astonishing book, written by S. E. Hinton in 1967. It shows how teenagers have to deal with change 50 years ago. And it is still very relatable today, the outsiders show many forms of bravery, Like physical bravery when people jump in to save someone, moral bravery; to do what's right. Even if it's unpopular. Moral courage. To do what's morally correct. And this book has some amazing examples of all of these. Darry is a Greaser and will defend his brothers from the socs that are
In The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton tells the story of several days during the life of Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy and Darry Curtis are two characters in the novel that show what family love can mean. Ponyboy and Darry Curtis are brothers who start the novel with a tense family relationship. Ponyboy and Darry are separated in age by six years. Darry is twenty years old and denied a full-ride scholarship to college so that he could work a few jobs to provide for his brothers (Hinton 16). At the beginning
what to expect-until the night someone takes things too far” ―S.E. Hinton. In the book the “Outsiders” ponyboy and his gang the Greasers have to deal with a rival gang the Socs. The main characters are ponyboy and his gang the Greasers. They have to deal with a rival gang the Socs. The text emphasizes the understanding of the characters and their action or thoughts/what they say.In the book, The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton, the author uses connotation, plot, and characterization to show that friends
In the Outsiders there is a group of members that are called the greasers, they are known for being punk kids that break the law and slick their hair back with grease. In To kill a mockingbird there is diversity among the people of macomb, there are ordinary people, then there are people live in the dump, Negros, and people that that live in the woods. What I have noticed is that they are all part of a stereotype, but in reality we are all human and nothing can change that. In the first passage
The “outsiders” are people who don't fit in but who are they? The Outsiders takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960’s. The Outsider is a book about two groups of social classes, the Socs and the Greasers. The “outsiders” in the story are the Greasers, the Socs, and the people that see beyond division between the two social groups. One group of “outsiders” are the Greasers. To the Socs, the Greasers are the “outsiders” because they have emotion. Cherry said, “ It is, but not all. You greasers
The theme in the outsiders was all about differences and enemies. Differences between two people or two groups shouldn't make them natural born enemies. The socs, and the greasers were both very different and all hated each other for most of the book, because they were different. For example the socs were considered "the lucky one with all the breaks" and the greasers were the "unlucky ones" meaning the socs were born to rich family's and got whatever they wanted, automatically making them socs and
once said true friendship isn't about being inseparable it's being separated and nothing changes, meaning that no matter how far apart, or what happens, friends can still stick together and be there for each other. This idea emerges throughout the outsiders. In the beginning of the story, it starts off by making it clear that the “gang” always sticks together as close friends, because they help pony out when he is getting beaten up by the socs. Next, the gang goes to a drive in movie and meets two girls