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Story Analysis: The Outsiders

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In the story The Outsiders, Cherry Valance said "things are rough all over".By this she means that the greasers aren't the only ones who have it hard.The Socs have more wealth but they have problems that money can't solve.The greasers don't have much money and think that money will solve their problems when it wont. The Socs have it hard because they don't want to be good and act nice all the time like they are expected to.They want to act like greaser but they aren't supposed to or expected to but they still fight and do stuff they shouldn't.Finally,they have good grades and fast cars and the Greasers dont have that.but,they are rich and the greasers don't have much money so they have it better than the greasers in that aspect. The Greasers have it hard because they are all portrayed as bad people who are poor and can't do anything legal.They wish they had money like the Socs,but they envy the Socs because they have something they wish they had,money.Also,some of …show more content…

Also,if you think your the only one that has it hard, other people have it as hard or harder than you.I can relate to this when my internet went off and i was mad,but then i remembered that people out in the world have it harder than me because they might not have power or worse.Finally,I also can relate to this when I was downloading a new game and my internet was going 100 kilobytes per second,But then i realized that other people have slower internet than that. In conclusion, The quote "Things are rough all over" can apply to everyone,what ever it may be the Socs or the Greasers or even everyday people.Also that this quote can apply to everyone and that not everyone has it easy.Finally, people most likely have it harder than you whatever it maybe so it's not best to complain about some things as people might have it worse than you

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None of the Greasers seemed to have had many or any positive influences in their lives. Although the Soc’s generally come from much better off backgrounds than many of the Greasers, they still lack positive role models. For example, the death of Bob, a Soc, was due to him trying to jump Johnny and Ponyboy and trying to drown Ponyboy in a fountain. Bob obviously didn’t have any real need to be in the Soc gang, and doing this behaviour, as he was well off and presumably had a much more comfortable life at home as compared to many of the Greasers, but his parents didn’t set many boundaries or have much interest in what he got up to, as told by Randy. This is an example of the lack of a positive role model regardless of the parental or financial situation of a character.

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These particular conflicts and the other emotions that Cherry has throughout the story are caused mainly by the rivalry between the greasers and Socs, as it is evident that each group dislikes each

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I think a hero is someone who saves someones life without thinking about themselves. Also, I think it means being a role model. Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally do fit the definition. For example, in the story it states "I'll get them, don't worry! " I started at a dead run for the church.

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Within the novel, “The Outsiders”, written by S.E Hinton, it conveys the rivalry between the two gangs, the Socs and the Greasers. They constantly encounter conflict since the Socs are wealthy, living on the West side of town unlike the Greasers who are lower class, living on the opposite side of town. Each gang consists of multiple members, however, for the Greasers, particularly one member stands out from the crowd, Sodapop. His personality reveals that he is someone who endlessly provides comfort while keeping the peace but still maintaining a happy-go-lucky attitude.

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This is injustice as the Greasers can never move up in society because of the group they associate

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The Differences Between The Greasers And The Socs Are you a Greaser from the book The Outsiders, or a Socs? Do you know the difference? They think they are very different from each other but, they are actually very similar. Even though they don’t live in the same part of town, and have different lifestyles, they still are humans and go to the same school together.

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When the Socs and Greasers find themselves actually getting along a few times it show that the hope of one day they wouldn’t have to fight anymore. They’d see that they are all pretty alike and there would be no need for everyone to be judged one way. Like when Ponyboy meets Cherry and finds that, as Cherry puts it “Things are rough all over” (S.E. Hinton. The Outsiders.

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The Outsiders Have you ever wished you could be rich? Or have a bigger house? Do you think that those who are not rich are a menace? Well in the book The Oustiders by S.E Hinton, The socs are more of a menace than the greasers because of the money they have, their parents mindset, and the society’s popular choice.

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We were as good as they were; it wasn't our fault we were greasers... I felt the tension growing inside of me and I knew something had to happen or I would explode.” It wasn’t fair for Greasers because they were good but had no money. Greasers were good and got treated bad for being poor.

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When Ponyboy was thinking about what the people in the gang do what they do, he assumed that Greasers and Socs are divergent. Ponyboy thinks to himself, “We deserve a lot of our trouble...both of them have too much energy, too much feeling, with no way to blow it off.” (Hinton 16) This quote has a deep meaning because it shows that the Socs choices are more narrow, displaying that when a Soc does something wrong, they could lose their fame and their luxury. On the other hand, the greasers have boundless choices because they have nothing to lose. They are already at the bottom, so most of the things they do, won’t really change what they already have.

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Like Cherry said “It’s not just the money. Part of it is, but not all. You greasers have a different set of values..(38)” meaning that Socs and greasers were different because of how they were raised. There have been many examples of the importance of good parents, this is

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Picture being so scared walking home alone that you had to carry a switchblade around. In The Outsiders Ponyboy, and his friends who are called the greasers, live in a violent, bad neighborhood without their parents. They are against a group called Socs who are a higher class, in a much better neighborhood and they jump the greasers all the time out of nowhere. The setting causes the characters to be tense and anxious, for example, Johnny and Darry who can never calm down and loosen up. They always have to look behind their back everywhere they go.

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For instance, they have money, and money can buy whatever they want. Similarly, Pony expressed: “I really couldn’t see what the Socs would have to worry about - good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs - Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I’d consider myself lucky.” Assuming that the Socs have no problems, Pony comes to the conclusion that it’s only the Greasers that have all the rough breaks. Next, Pony thinks that the Socs aren’t fair because they jump Greasers for fun and don’t think about the effect that it has on the Greasers. Furthermore, the Socs don’t fight fair, they gang up on the Greasers and they intimidate them.

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The greasers are lower class and are the protagonists in The Outsiders consisting of the main characters (Ponyboy, Johnny, Dallas, sodapop and more) and the Socs which are a group of rich teenagers who have no boundaries and are the rivals of the greasers (Cherry, Bob, Randy, Marcia and more). In their society they have grown to there being two paths in life that you are born into and have no say in the matter. In the novel Ponyboy questions their lives and why that cannot change that. The overall theme of The Outsiders is self identity and group identity and that is what makes this my favorite novel.

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