station • Ponyboy – youngest brother‚ 14‚ good grades‚ runs track 2. How are Greasers different from Socs? • the way they dress • money • how they express their emotions 3. Who were other members of Pony’s gang? • Two-Bit Matthews – 20‚ wisecracker of the bunch • Steve Randall – 17‚ Soda’s best friend‚ works part-time at gas station • Johnny Cade – 16‚ beaten up by Socs before beginning of novel‚ idolizes Dally • Dallas (Dally) Winston – 17‚ street tough‚ in/out
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Resilience Theory: A Literature Review with special chapters on deployment resilience in military families & resilience theory in social work by Adrian DuPlessis VanBreda October 2001 RESILIENCE THEORY: A LITERATURE REVIEW Author: Title: Date: Report No: Institution: Adrian DuPlessis VanBreda Resilience Theory: A Literature Review October 2001 MPI/R/104/12/1/4‚ dd October 2001 South African Military Health Service‚ Military Psychological Institute‚ Social Work Research & Development City: E-mail:
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The first example shown is when Johnny comforts Ponyboy after Johnny stabs Bob the Soc: “Johnny jumped up and dragged me by my sweat shirt. He shook me. “Calm down‚ Ponyboy. Get ahold of yourself.”” (57) Johnny is comforting Ponyboy because he is screaming out of fear. It should be the other way around‚ since Johnny will be getting
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be characters who don’t fit in either of the groups. The outsiders. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton there are two groups‚ the Greasers and the Socs. Characters fit in these two categories‚ but there is also a hidden category‚ the outsiders. This is a category where characters who don’t truly fit in the groups of the Greasers and the Socs go. However‚ there are rarely any outsiders‚ they are special characters. I believe Ponyboy Curtis‚ Sherri Valance‚ and Johnny Cade all lie in this secret
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the Outsiders‚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
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novel‚ The Outsiders. Effect the storyline and characters? To begin‚ the setting in this book effects the story quite a bit. For example‚ if they didn’t have the divide of Socs and greasers‚ then the story would be different. In the book‚ they have two groups on two sides of town‚ The greasers on the East side‚ and the Socs on the West side. The groups don’t get along at all! But‚ if they did‚ wouldn’t the story be way different? Another example is this
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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 always “looked down on them” because of the rumors they heard; like when the Soc girl
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about him and he has been beating up really bad by the Soc’s. He is also the Greaser who in the story who stabs and kills a Socs in self defense. The final main character of the story is Dallas “Dally” Winston. He is the meanest and scariest of the Greasers and spent time in jail already but he is the one that Johnny and Ponyboy go to for help after Johnny kills the Socs. He is also the one that really loves Johnny and takes care of him and they have a special bond. This bond is what carries
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instance‚ many things could make you an outsider‚ including your appearance‚ your family‚ the way you live‚ and how you perform with other people. But why was it so critical for Hinton to use the word “outsider” when she could’ve used “greasers” or “socs”? Perhaps‚ Hinton preferred to use the word “outsider” because of the greaser characters in the books. The greasers weren’t rich‚ they didn’t have the right clothes or wore their hair the right way.
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high and low social classes. The Socs are the typical protagonist to a group like the Greasers. The Socs are rich in good moral standing to the public eye‚ while the Greasers are hoods. Ponyboy states that: “And you can’t win against them‚ no matter how hard you try‚ because they’ve got all the breaks and even whipping them isn’t going to change that fact.” (Hinton 11) The public is always going to look down on the Greasers‚ and that give the Socs an advantage over them. Although
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