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    person? That sounds like the greasers‚ poor hoodlums. Even though they that’s what people assume automatically they are actually good hearted and caring. Then there’s the rude‚ rich‚ spoiled socs that have everything handed to them and they don’t care about anyone but themselves. The outsiders is a teen fiction novel written by S.E Hinton. The greasers struggle more than the socs because they don’t have alot of money and they feel unsafe everywhere they go. The greasers are known as the low class

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    and The Greasers. They are rival gangs. The Greasers have it worst off because they have to hideout from the police‚ they are poor‚ and they get jumped by The Socs. The boys‚ Johnny and Ponyboy‚ have to hide from the police because Johnny killed somebody to save Ponyboy’s life. “We gotta get outta here. Get somewhere. Run away. The police’ll be here soon‚” ( Hinton pg. 57). If it were The Socs that killed one of The Greasers‚ they could just buy their way out instead of hiding. The Greasers are very

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    hinton highlights the conflicts of both the greasers and socs to show that life is difficult for rich and poor kids. Through depicting their personal conflicts‚Hinton reveals that these young men‚seem so different but share similar needs. In the Outsiders‚ Hinton explains how we all have our problems and difficulties. In the following paragraphs I talk about what problems/challenges that people like greasers‚socs and both face. First off the people like greasers have a lot a problems and challenges that

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    class‚ poorer people‚ called the Greasers. The conflict between the two social groups occurs because the Socs are too real and too demanding for things. The Greasers are being jumped by the Socs and that creates conflict and hatred between the two groups who aren’t really that different‚ but Socs see Greasers differently and Greasers see Socs differently too. Pg42 “Things are rough all over.” Things are rough all over for the Socs‚ as the Greasers see that they seem to not have a

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    struggles with many common problems that a teenager encounters. One of these problems is when he struggles with remaining loyal to the Greasers and living a moral life. The Greasers don’t have many morals except for looking out for each other‚ and that is how most of them lose their innocence. This is the problem that Ponyboy must deal with. He strives to maintain the Greasers’ tough reputation while desiring to protect the innocence he has left from childhood. They will often lie‚ cheat‚ steal‚ and kill

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    in the 1960’s‚ the novel is based on a true story. The story is about Ponyboy‚ a teenager that belongs in the gang called Greasers. There is another gang that opposes the Greasers called the Socs. The two gangs live in two sides of Oklahoma‚ the Greasers being in the east‚ and the Socs being in the west. The Socs and the Greasers often fight each other. To society‚ the Greasers are low class and cause trouble‚ while the Socs are rich and can do no harm. Ponyboy dramatically changes throughout the

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    novel “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton there are two rival gangs‚ the Greasers and the Socs. The Greasers live on the Eastside of town and don’t have a lot of money. The Socs live on the Westside of town and are very wealthy. There are three problems that both gangs face: drinking and smoking‚ having parents who do not care about them‚ and rivalry with the opposing gang over a variety of issues. First of all‚ the Socs and the Greasers both drink and smoke‚ which leads them to do very bad things. Smoking

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    young children are constant of evil in a life of a young boy named pony boy. This research paper is going to be about S.E Hinton‚ background of the story‚ and the three brother. This story has emotional‚ happy and thrilling moments in this book. The greaser and socs do not get alone with each other. S.E. Hinton’s novel‚ the outsiders is the first a narrative of Ponyboy‚ a young outcast boy who later become a strong man filled with identify. S.E. Hinton was born and raises in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma. She

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    throughout the novel. The Outsiders tells the story of the greasers and Socs (Socials)‚ two loosely organised teen gangs in

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    this book about the differences between two unique teenage social groups: the greasers and the Soc (Doc A). She illustrates that the outsiders are the people who stand out from the rest of society by thought or action. Both the greasers and the Soc can be considered outsiders‚ but as the story goes on‚ we realize the real outsiders are the ones who can see each individual in the groups for who they really are. The greasers are definitely considered outsiders because they are “dumb and poor”. People

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