Character Analysis: The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

The Outsiders is a very popular book, written by: S.E Hinton, published April 27th, 1967. It’s s story about two social classes really but they call them gangs, they go the Greasers and the Socs, the Greasers are the lower class, more poor, the Socs (so-shs) are upper class, more rich. They despise each other, they have rumbles which are modified gang fights, and various other ways to show the hatred they show for each other. The story is more centered on the Greasers, they talk a little about the Socs but the Greasers is the main focus is on the more poorer class, Greasers. They’re called “Greasers” because they use a lot of grease in their hair, the “Soc” is short for social because they’re higher up on the social class. The gangs are

They live on their own because their parents died in a car accident. “Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck.”Darry is the “man of the household” since he’s the oldest, that puts him in charge and taking care of Soda and Pony. They don’t want to get split up by Child Services so they try their best to avoid them. Soda, he’s Pony’s favorite brother, he’s fun, handsome, charming, and funny. Darry is a very rough and somewhat blunt brother, that’s why Soda is his favorite, Darry is probably stressed so he might be unfair to Pony by hitting him sometimes. This is why Pony ran away from home, he eventually came back and Darry was very remorseful. He became a better father to Soda and Pony and overall a better

“Are you alright, Ponyboy?” “They didn’t hurt you too bad, did they?” these direct quotes from the story show that he’s caring and loving, other times, “Darry love me?” “Darry doesn’t love anyone, except maybe Soda.” It also shows he’s not the greatest at showing his feelings and caringness. Pony doesn’t think Darry doesn’t care about him, which shows that he’s not the most loving at times. He’s an overall good brother but he turns into a better brother later