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Teen Angst In The Outsiders

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As an adolescent, have you ever had the feeling that you were filled with anxiety, stress, and misjudgments? This is a result of teen angst. Teen angst can be caused by numerous things such as insecurities, issues within a family unit, and expectations. Teen angst can have a major impact on a person’s life by leading to numerous problems such as depression, social anxiety disorders, and in some cases, suicide. This can cause a person to choose the wrong path in life. Teen angst is a stage that most teenagers go through in which they feel overwhelmed and stressed out. I have previously observed a case of teen angst in the book, “The Outsiders”. This story depicts the reality of how people are often grouped and separated from others based on their social class. In this story, there was an ongoing rivalry between two main groups who were the Socs, a rich and powerful group, and the Greasers, a group that was considered to be uneducated and poor. One member of the Greasers, Dally, was a reticent person who did not seem to care about anyone or anything. However, after seeing Johnny, the only person he truly cared for, put in a life or death situation, Dally …show more content…

Sometimes you may feel as if there is no other escape. However, where there is a will there is a way, you just have to find a way to deal with the obstacles in your life even if it may seem impossible. The story, “The Catcher in the Rye” shows us how it is normal for teenagers to feel as if they’re misunderstood and underestimated. At the end of the day, life is not a walk in the park and there will be difficulties and obstacles no matter what. However, it is important to know that you should always keep trying even if the world around you is telling you to stop. In order to get through teen angst, remember to always love yourself and never let another person’s opinions define who you are or what you think of

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Johnny lives a couple more days before his depressing death. And Dally, the only thing keeping him alive was Johnny. Once Johnny was dead, Dally felt as though he had no point in being alive anymore. He robbed a grocery store and just let the cops chase him. He eventually turned around and held up a gun.

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Furthermore Dally is Johnny’s hero, so Johnny felt that he would be able to rely on him for help. Later in the text on page

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This novel by S.E Hinton, The Outsiders shows a crucial point that everybody is special in some way and should be known as who they are individuality not as a group. The Outsiders is a book that describes 2 gangs , the luxurious Socs, and the hoodlum Greasers. While they have conflicts with each other, the protaganist, Ponyboy, finds his identity outside of the gang. The important message of the story is that everyone has a unique personality that are developed by being in a group of people away from home, this identity can shape anyone’s way of life and the path they may take in the future. First of all, Socs and greasers have a trademark that showed who was part of their gang, Socs are know for Mustangs, Madras, and leather jackets;

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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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12 Extended Essay The Complexity of Innocence in S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders Word count: 3,661 S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders uses allusion to its advantage, specifically through the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay, written by Robert Frost. The novel highlights Ponyboy Curtis and the other greasers he associates himself with; among these are Dallas “Dally” Winston and Johnny Cade. The allusion to Robert Frost’s poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay, shows the complexity of the retention and loss of innocence in specific characters in The Outsiders by relating lines of the poem with three of the main boys highlighted in the novel:

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his father clobbered him around a lot” (Hinton, 32). “Dally hated doing things the legal way. He liked to show he didn’t care if there was a law or not (Hinton, 20). Johnny and Dally are both members of the Greasers and have different reasons to be part of it. Johnny wants to escape his bad home life, and

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The amount of power the social classes play in the society in the book The Outsiders is crucial. The social classes divided the society into two main parts, the Socs and the Greasers. The coming of age and development of the characters has really created a bond between them. While it has created trust, it has also created distrust among the two gangs. The gangs were raised to hate and distrust each other.

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At around the end of the novel Dally shows his true feelings when he says, “Dammit Johnny I'm begging. “ (pg 149) He says that when the only person he cares about is dying and he's begging for them not to die because without them he has nothing left. But when Johnny dies he finally loses everything he loves and decides to suicide by cop because he has nothing left to live for This shows how much he truly changed throughout the story cuz he finally broke he finally showed his true emotions but only after he lost the one thing he cared about.

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However, the opposite is true; Dally cares a lot for Johnny. His true emotions about Johnny are revealed when Johnny goes to save children from a fire. Dally’s response is, ”’ For Pete’s sake, get outa there! That roof’s gonna cave in any minute.

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When Johnny dies, Dallas goes mad and robs a grocery store with the intent for the police to see his gun and shoot him because they deemed him dangerous. He ends up being shot and killed by police. He could not bear living without Johnny, and sacrificed his life so he would not have to live without him. He would have been devoid of any happyness if he would have lived. Also, when Johnny kills Bob, him and Ponyboy go immediately to Dally.

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Violence was much more powerful than we imagine not only because it led tremendous dis- aster, but also due to the deep impact on individuals. In the book of the Outsiders, the violence of Johnny’s family, the other greasers, and their opposing gangs, the Socials, strongly affected Johnny. The Violence of Johnny’s family impacts Johny’s natural instincts, which means that some of his characteristics were already fixed since he was born, and influenced him in daily life. Johnny grew up in a family without care, love, and understanding.

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“It wasn’t suppose to happen like this!” he was sobbing now. “Why couldn’t it have been me, why did Johnny have to be the one to leave?” I was surprised to see Dally act this way. I had always seen Dally as someone who didn’t care about anyone.

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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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(1.48) After Johnny died, Dally makes an enormous sacrifice that took away his life. He loved Johnny so much that he couldn't take the fact he was gone. Dally was known to be the most cold-blooded member of the gang but after Johnny's death, he was the one who showed the most affection. Dally wouldn’t have been shot if he didn’t love Johnny so much, and sacrificed himself.

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