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Book Summary: The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

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The Outsiders In the book I read called The Outsiders By S.E Hinton. The characters mentioned in this book intently are Ponyboy, Sodapop, and darrel. These three boys are brothers. Two other main characters are Johnny and steve. In this book they are considered greasers on the other side of town. In my understanding there are two kinds of boys they’re are greasers and socials. The socials are the rich kids that act all that and have the courage to bully others for how they look, they think they are better than them. On the other hand ponyboy and his squad are greasers they are the boys from the hood with the slim hair, black jacket. In the beginning of the story the greasers were walking and socials came behind them and attacked them
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In S.E Hinton's book The Outsiders, If there wasn’t a difference moneywise between the greasers and the socs they might be friends. Money separated the socs are higher class and are treated differently. For example, if Bob and Johnny were friends then Bob might not be dead as well as Johnny and Dally. Because then there wouldn’t be a reason for Ponyboy and Johnny to run away. So that would save at least three lives just with a change in money.

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The chapters 1-5 of the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, is about two gangs the greasers and the Socs, who are always causing trouble. In the greaser gang, the protagonist, Ponyboy, is always getting good grades and is the smartest in the gang. Dally is one of the members in the gang, Ponyboy 's brother, has been in jail multiple times. Sodapop is also Ponyboy’s brother. He works at a gas station.

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FINAL EDIT: In my eighth grade English class, we are reading a YA novel titled, “The Outsiders. ” I am amazed by this text because the author, SE Hinton, uses dramatic wording to create tension and imagination in her writing.. When I read this book, it feels like I am in the story, and that every event is the climax of the book.

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In the story The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton, there are two rival groups/ gangs, the greasers and the Socs. A young boy named Ponyboy explained his journey being a greaser and the sacrifices, consequences, and decisions he had to manage with. This story reminds me of William Shakespeare's story Romeo and Juliet of their similarities which are they gangs, fights, and loyalty and differences that are the wealthiness, behaviors, and between the two books. One of the similarities of the two books is the groups/ gangs, because in Romeo and Juliet there are the Montague and Capulets and in The Outsiders there are the greasers and the Socs. They are both enemies and try to sabotage and fight each other when every they have the chance to.

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Jonny Cade and Ponyboy Curtis, the two main characters in S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," share similar struggles but differ in their personalities and worldviews. Despite their different personalities, Jonny and Ponyboy share several similarities. Firstly, both characters come from difficult family backgrounds. Ponyboy's parents have passed away, and he lives with his two older brothers who struggle to provide for him.

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Rebekah Bommel A Ward English 11 10 May 2023 The Theologian of the Cross and the Theologian of Glory can be seen in many different ways. There is a difference between many people's lives, including mine. The book The Outsiders definitely focuses on aspects of the theology of glory. S.E. Hinton tried to come up with what the kids' lives were like in the book, but they are not the cross.

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Wiles The Outsiders is a novel about a boy whose life is in chaos and he is caught between rival gangs. Ponyboy’s life is in chaos due to the recent death of his parents and the almost constant tension between his gang, the Greasers, and the wealthy west-side Socs. While some believe that ponyboy always hated the Socs, his interactions with Cherry, Randy and the death of Bob reveal to ponyboy that the Socs are human. At first Bob and Ponyboy appear to be opposites, with vast differences in breeding….,socioeconomic

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Ponyboys Personal Realizations What is your most important personal realization? In the fiction novel, The Outsiders, author S.E. Hinton creates a story in 1st person, about a boy that has a hard life. Ponyboy has some personal realization in his life like how Darry loves and cares about him, Nothing Gold can Stay, and that it is okay to be a greaser. The first personal realization Ponyboy had was that Darry loves and cares about him. When Ponyboy found out that Darry loves him and cares about him.

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In this book report I will talk about the book “The outsiders” written by S.E. Hinton, I will do a review of the story, the point of view, theme, symbols and my opinion about this book I really liked to read for the English class. The story is about a boy named Ponyboy who lived in a small town in Texas with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop were a gang war was taking place between two different social class people: The Socs and the Greasers. Ponyboy will learn the consequences bad acts can bring to your life in the middle of a gang war. The greasers were a middle class and not so social kind of people who liked to get in trouble and The other gang The Socs were a most of them a high class or middle-high class group of people who where they went they will always go in groups of like three or four people.

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“Running away won 't help.” Johnny was right. Ponyboy had people that loved and cared for him... they just didn 't know how to show it!” In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, proves that no matter what type of Social class you are; Greaser or Socs, family is most important and will help you get through the difficult parts in life.

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Have you ever experience the loneliness? Have you ever be an outsider? Do you care about other people feeling? The book “The Outsiders” written by S.E. Hinton’s novel, is about a boy named Ponyboy, which is on the greaser side. There are two main gangs of people.

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Patrick Granfors Mrs. Collins English 9 22 January 2015 Analytical Essay for The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton In The Outsiders, by S.E. Hilton, we go to a time where gangs remain dominant and run the streets. S.E. Hinton tells us about two enemy gangs. The Socs, one of the many provocative gang groups, kids who live lavish lives and get away with the crimes they commit because they look clean cut and look like good innocent kids on the outside.

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How “The Outsiders” written by S.E Hinton is coming of age novel During life, people will go through tragic experiences, difficult period of time and pressured by the society around them that eventually their innocence will fade with age. This can be clearly shown in the novel “The Outsiders” (written by S.E Hinton) in which the characters who are living in an area (East side of Oklahoma) full of gang society and violence;….Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade and the rest of his friends and siblings are forced to mature and grow up quicker and earlier than most of the average people due to the traumatic/tragic experiences that they had to face during their everyday conflict between “The Socs” (their rival social group). First of all, before Ponyboy Curtis had met the two girl Socs in the cinema (Sherry Valance and Marcia), he had thought that every person who are a member of their rival’s social group were very wealthy, but very threatening towards The Greasers.

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When you think of family you might think of adults and their children, or kids who lost their parents but are still related to each other. The Outsiders by S.E Hinton tells otherwise. It shows that even if you are not related, you can still be family; you can still have love and affection for each other. In the book, there is a contradiction between the gang’s biological family and their “family”. There is connection shown between the greasers from the Socs in the blue Mustang to Johnny dying in the hospital not wanting to see his mother.

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