The author S.E.Hinton uses extreme events to make the argument that given a chance; even those labelled ‘bad’ by society can do good. In the novel The Outsiders the characters that are labelled bad greasers who are placed in challenging situations. Those situations demonstrate that people are not always what they are labelled. S.E.Hinton uses her characters and their actions to persuade us that you cannot label someone until you know them and what they have been through. The novel demonstrates that
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wants there to be no fighting between the socs and the greasers. ponyboy likes sunsets‚ books and he also like poems which he always memorizes. He lones at the movie house‚ “ i had a long walk home and no company‚ but i usually lone it anyway‚ for no reason except that i like to watch movies” “ and nobody in our gang digs books and movies the way i do” ‚ Pony has a different attitude and behaviour than the others in his gang. “Greasers are almost like hoods‚ we steal things and drive old soupedup cars
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absolutely shocked how quick and drastically an event could change someone’s life. “I was trembling. A pain was growing in my throat and I wanted to cry‚ but greasers don’t cry in front of strangers. Some of us never cry at all. Like Dally and Two-Bit and Tim Shepard–they forgot how at an early age…” This explains how Greasers have to keep up a tough image in front of others. Even at depressing and heart-breaking moments‚ they’re expected to put up a façade and not shed any tears as it
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imagined that they would be going to school together when school started back in the fall. Not knowing that they went to school together‚ Sandy a Australian transfer who later became a member of the Pink Lady‘s. “Danny(John Travolta) is the coolest greaser at Rydell High‚ and a member of the T-Birds.” (Davis). They found each other and started to hang out again. Danny acting hard around Sandy and pushed her away. This is where all of the excitement went on in the movie. This movie is my favorite
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must have noticed their confusement‚ because he quickly went on. "One of those trashy greasers tried to rob a liquor store. Can you believe it? Those trash heaps never cease to amaze me." He grinned and leaned back in his chair. He almost looked pleased with himself and Cherry had to fight the urge to roll her eyes. "So?" She asked harshly. "So.." Bob leaned forward again‚ placing his hands on the table. "The greaser got shot by some cop. He’s dead." Marcia gasped and quickly smacked his arm. "Stop
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few blocks back to home. Everything was perfectly normal until I can hear a car engine driving towards my direction‚ I might be sacred but I just kept walking faster because I knew who were in the car - The Scos. The Socs always liked to attack The Greasers especially me. They got out of the car and I knew that I am going to be jumped by them. The Socs threaten me to cut my long greasy hair‚ I like my hair though. They pushed me down and so I was on the ground. One of them put a hand over my mouth
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and met up with Dally and we talked about some good things we done together‚ like when we went into the dinner and ate together. Some of other things that we did is when we saved the kids and the press called you a here they called a Greaser a hero and that Greaser was you Johnny. Johnny was a good man who had the most funny humor and had an amazing smile‚ even though he lived a rough life he was still a great man he was an amazing guy just like Dallas who loved you very much and he was very mad
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over the greasers. The socs use these cars to catch and ambush greasers on the run to jump them‚ as greasers travel mostly on foot. The cars are a sense of leverage or advantage over the greasers‚ as they don’t have much experience as the greasers on foot in combat. 3rd item is Bob’s rings. Bobs rings along with the socs cars a sign of wealth. The rings as a physical power along with wealth. Bob uses his rings as a weapon in combat as he uses it to show his superiority over the greaser. Bob uses
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two gangs- the greasers and the Socials or Socs. The greasers don’t usually have a whole lot of money‚ compared to the rich Socs. They both participate in crime‚ though Socs tend to be more vicious and attack for no reason other than for fun. The main purposes of the gangs for their members differ based on the kind of gang. The Socs stick together for social status‚ maybe for strength in numbers. The different Social gangs are not particularly friendly with each other. The greasers are often looked
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a car crash. These three brothers were part of a group called the Greasers. The Greasers were a lower class group of people in a town who didn’t have much money‚ nice cars or clothes. There was another group known as the Socials. They were known for having a fair amount of money‚ nice cars‚ houses and clothes. Throughout this story the Greasers and Socials have many conflicts because the Socials believe they are above the Greasers due to their way of life. After some time things start to change.
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