Many of the kids are struggling these days. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ the main character Ponyboy Curtis is in a gang called Greasers who lives on the Eastside‚ and all they do is drink and smoke. Then there are Socs which are a group of rich‚ snobby kids who live on the West side and they also smoke and drink. In their society and in gangs‚ many underaged kids smoke and drink. In this society‚ underaged kids do the same. Also in the article‚” The Allure of Gangs” it talks about why
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base any merit on the skills of their old lives. The two boys are fighting to be the leader‚ fighting to have power over the children. A similar power struggle can be seen in the novel “The Outsiders”. In this novel‚ there are two rival gangs‚ The Greasers and The Socs. They generally fight to show and
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popular because it has an interesting theme and characters as well. The book was set in the 1960’s in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ America. This book is about a boy named Ponyboy Curtis and his brothers and his gang. Ponyboy is from a gang called the greasers. The greasers are enemies with the socs who are the rich kids. Ponyboy is good friends with Johnny Cade‚ who is also part of the gang. They get involved in a fight with the socs and murder one of them. Dally helps them to run away. They go to a place called
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The author of The Outsiders is S.E Hinton. Ponyboy is a sweet‚ caring 14 year old boy who is in a gang called The Greasers. He lives with his two brothers Sodapop and Darrel. The Greasers live on the East side and the Socs live on the West side. Johnny‚ Pony‚ Darry fight for something they believe in that brings purpose to their lives. Johnny had killed Bob in the park one night and Ponyboy was with him Ponyboy sticks with everyone no matter what he is very dependable.‚ they were going
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of fairness is self-centered” (Tony Warrick). The Outsiders‚ by S. E. Hinton‚ is a novel about the bond between the rich eastside Socials and the poor Greasers. Although many themes are portrayed throughout the novel‚ the theme of unfairness is the most consistent theme. First‚ unfairness is portrayed through the Greasers. Johnny‚ one of the Greasers‚ had been treated unfairly his whole life. The narrator states‚ “ If it hadn’t been for the gang‚ Johnny would never have known what love and affection
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directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The story is about a group of 7 greasers set in the 1960’s. Basically the greasers are in constant rival with the socs‚ the upper class kids from the west side. Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade are the youngest in the group. They go threw some very difficult times after Johnny kills a soc‚ then dies. Ponyboy must learn how to cope with all that has happened.Together they makes up one of the gangs of greasers that live on the East side of town. Both the book and the movie
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The Outsiders - Sadie Meyer Questions: Describe each of the Greasers. Darry: He was particularly strong‚ and extremely resilient . “Darry is six-feet-two‚ and broad-shouldered and muscular…….....He’s got eyes that are like two pieces of pale blue-green ice. They’ve got a determined set to them‚ like the rest of him” (Hinton 6). Darry was the head of the Curtis family. Every since their parents passed away in a car accident‚ he was the legal guardian of Ponyboy and Soda. So he yelled at them to
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shows true friendship. Loyalty is also a big topic in The Outsiders. The Greasers are loyal to their own; they are willing to pay virtually any cost to protect those they consider family‚ including other members of their gangs. Because of their loyalty‚ Greasers are willing to be ostracized by others‚ especially the Socs. Members of Greaser gangs refuse to accept any compromise that might threaten their status as a Greaser; they are usually proud to be recognized as members of their group.
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year old greaser‚ with long greasy hair. He wears jeans‚ t-shirts and a leather jacket. Ponyboy liked his gang ‚ school ‚ sunsets ‚ movies ‚ reading and his best friend johnny. He hated the Socs because they were the rich kids with all the breaks and his brother Darry because he bossed him around after his parents died. Greasers were the tough poor kids. Ponyboy changed in many ways throughout the book. Ponyboy was no longer young and innocent after a stabbing took place between the greasers and the
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that gangs are like. S.E Hinton was 16 when she wrote this novel and so i’m assuming that she was surrounded by the same thing the character Pony Boy was brought up in. "Greaser… greaser… greaser… Oh victim of environment‚ underprivileged‚ rotten no-count hood." is just some of the things that people used to describe the ‘greasers’‚ nowadays names like that are still used to describe the underprivileged people that may not be as well off as the upper or middle classed people. I feel like these names
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