In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the character Ponyboy’s opinion on the Socs changes throughout the book. When Ponyboy's parents passed, his older brother Darry took care of Ponyboy and Sods. They and a few other friends are all in a gang. They are also all greasers, which are like a lower class. The SOCS are the rich upper class.
Ponyboy from the novel “The outsiders” is very different from the Gang the Greasers In many ways. One example that Ponyboy is not like other greasers because he thinks deeper than the other members in his gang he notices the little things in life for example, “you know, Johnny said slowly, “I never noticed colors and clouds and stuff until you kept reminding me about them. It seems like they were never there before.” This means that when Ponyboy notices the little things he says them and has other People notice them too. Ponyboy has learned a lot throughout the story.
“Greasers can’t walk alone too much or they’ll get jumped.” Greasers walk in groups rather than being alone because the Socs will jump them. Greasers can be keeping to themselves and Socs will attack them for the fun of it. “And we don’t like to talk about it either- Johnny getting beat
Ponyboy feels that both gangs are actually very similar, but no one is able to accept each other for who they are so they judge each other on clothing, hair, smell, and even just the way they talk. The greasers live on the east side of Oklahoma. Their lifestyle is different because the greasers live outside of the town and don't have as much money
In the Outsiders, Ponyboy Curtis Learned 3 lessons over the course of the story. He learned about friendship,keeping family,and living life as life is short. He learned all these throughout the story the hard way when bad things happened to him. Ponyboy Curtis learned about friendship throughout the story starting with when johnny told him about dally. "They was gettin' him for breakin' out the windows in the school building, and it was Two-Bit who did that.
What I believe Hinton was meaning when she titled this book The Outsiders would be that Ponyboy and his group were an outsider to the society. Greasers in general were an outsider to society. Ponyboy and his group were their own people, different than everyone else, they would do what they wanted, even if it meant
The greasers are poor and don’t have much. Since Ponyboy’s parents died, they aren't able to have a whole lot. Darry has to work two jobs and Sodapop quit school so they could have a little bit more money. “We’re poorer than the Socs and the middle class.” (3) This proves that they don’t have a lot of money to buy what they want and it’s hard for them to pay bills and rent.
Ponyboy is only 14 years old in, “The Outsiders,” but has gone through many hardships and struggles most teenagers will never go through. Throughout the story, he has lost others and even himself. The cause of this is the division between Socs and Greasers. Throughout the story, the author builds up the theme that, everyone is human, no matter what social class, race, sex, or age. As readers we see this when Cherry Valance is first introduced, the relationship of the Curtis brothers, and the truth about Bob.
What makes someone an outsider? In Tulsa, S.E. Hinton went to a large high school and in all large high schools they would have different groups. Everyone would stay in their own groups as they grew up S.E. thought it was idiotic. She made the book The Outsiders which had the socs and the greasers S.E. would get letters from kids who told her they also had the two groups in there school but they had different names for them.
The Greasers are always getting put down and getting hurt by the Socs. In The Outsiders,Ponyboy states
The Greasers show loyalty to each other by standing up for one another. Ponyboy was walking alone from the movie house when a Corvair full of Socs pulled aside. They jumped him and when confronting him with a switchblade he yelled for were his brothers, Soda and Darry. Momentarily after, they were to run, from as if nowhere, along with the rest of their Greaser gang to stand up for Ponyboy. Most of the Greasers are outsiders in their own hidden ways.
Ponyboy lives in a neighborhood with other greasers, as well. “We steal things and drive
The narrator of the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy Curtis, is a complicated and emotional character. He goes through numerous changes in the book and you get a good idea of his feelings through actions towards others. He proves to be empathetic, caring, and a dreamer. He shows this during situations with his brothers and even with the other Greasers. During the story, Darry is always telling Ponyboy, although he is a intelligent kid, that he needs to use his head.
In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the youngest of the Greasers, Ponyboy, is presented as a weakling of the group and has a lack of common sense, as can be seen through his thoughts and actions. The Outsiders is a novel about a boy named Ponyboy and his experience with the greasers. Ponyboy has two brothers named Sodapop and Darry. Their parents died about a year ago so Ponyboy and his brothers had to take off on their own with the greasers. In the story, the Greasers are on the East side of town and there are the socs that lived on the west side.
Despite the way the Socs and the Greasers feud, they both are human and feel emotion just the same as one another; they don’t feel any less than the other, and they both can “see the same sunset”, as Ponyboy described it. For example, later in the story, Ponyboy and Johnny (Ponyboy’s
