how he stays out of trouble most of the time because Darry would get extremely upset with him because it might jeopardize their ability to live together. These boy are living on the poor‚ east side where they are a part of a group of boys called greasers who come from poor‚ rough backgrounds. The three brothers are handed an unfortunate situation in life where they are completely on their own to go about life‚ as long as they stay out of trouble. Response and Analysis: This sentence gives
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way the characters were described and the relationships between them was off in the movie. In the book Dally and Soda were blonds‚ but in the movie all the greasers were brunettes. You don’t get to know the characters very well in the movie and the tention between Darry and Ponyboy are only slightly suggested. Also‚ in the book‚ the greasers are always swearing‚ but in the movie‚ they hardly swear at all. The change in the movie kinda ruins how you get to know the characters. A couple scenes were
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Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. This book is about the rivalry between the two groups which are the Greasers VS. Soc’s. The main characters in this story are Ponyboy‚ Johnny‚ Dallas‚ Darry‚ Sodapop‚ and Two-bit. The Soc’s puts Ponyboy Curtis and his best friend Johnny in a bad and dangerous spot. One night at the movies‚ Ponyboy and Johnny fall in love with Sherri and Marcia after they got Dally‚ the toughest of the Greasers to stop attempting to get with the girls. Sherri and Marcia are from the snobbish and
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“Your gold when you’re a kid‚ like green. everything’s new‚ like dawn” (Hinton‚ 1967‚Pg. that was what Johnny told Ponyboy in his note in Gone With The Wind explaining what he meant by telling him “stay gold”. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Ponyboy Curtis is a dreamy boy who has problems with social classes which cause him to run away from home. By the end of the story‚ he learns to deal with loss and becomes an understanding‚ tuff boy. “When I stepped out of the bright sunlight of the dark
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I quite enjoyed reading Mrs. Hinton’s The Outsiders I forgot how emotionally charged it could be. While I enjoyed reading The Outsiders I must disagree with the authors and here’s why. Firstly Mrs. Hinton’s choice of the main character‚ while I understand her choosing to write about a young man doomed to repeat his mistakes. I just do not agree with this assumption. The main character Ponyboy Curtis was an immature fourteen-year-old who caused much tension in his family and ultimately the death of
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The Outsiders is an interesting book.The book is about a gang called greasers and another gang called the Socio. The greaser Pony boy has to be either kept with his family ‚or sent away to a foster care. Many people say he should stay with his family‚ but me I say he should go to a foster care. Foster cares are a place for children should relax and forget all there problems. Foster cares treat students with respect and dignity. They worry great of the students care. Foster cares give the
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hair looked funny‚ scattered over the floor in tuft.”Ponyboy’s Long hair makes him feel he is going to be a greaser his whole life‚ and he isn’t going to make anything of himself. Pony’s short hair makes him feel nicer and smarter. He helped save the kids in the church when it was burning down‚ its is helping him think better. His short hair is making him release he doesn’t want to be a greaser all his life‚
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A boy with no parents and in a bad neighborhood with bad influences as friends and is a minor that smokes and his older brother lets him do that and have those friends ‚ which also doesn’t give him a curfew and lets him go to places alone ‚ should be in the system. Ponyboy has an older brother Darry‚ but Darry doesn’t really take care of ponyboy like he should or gives him as much as attention as he should get for a teenager. Ponyboy should be in the system because he is a young boy that has bad
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The Outsiders “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house‚ I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home” (Hinton 1). This was the sentence that started the craziest week of Ponyboy’s life. Ponyboy is a 14 year old kid who lived a normal life just like everybody else. He went to school‚ watch movies‚ and disliked the Socs. However one night after getting in a fight with his older brother Darry‚ he ran of with Johnny‚ his best friend‚ and got
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to belong you lose a sense of your own individuality. S.E. Hinton explores a similar concept of belonging to a group in the novel ‘The Outsiders’. The novel presents two different groups separated by social barriers‚ and how they are labelled ‘Greasers’ and ‘Socs.’ The novel shows both the external benefits of belonging to a group or a ‘hood’ or ‘gang’ as referred to in the novel but as the plot unfolds it shows the inner sacrifices people have to make to belong to a group. There are two main
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