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    Most individuals think they have the worst life but the truth is we all are going through something Some people might be going through harder things but we are all going through something. Throughout S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders Bad decisions lead to regret later on. In The Outsiders‚ There are two gangs The Socs‚ and The Greasers‚ neither groups get along. The Socs are rich‚ and they drive nice cars‚ the greasers are opposite they are poor‚ and drive beat up old cars. One night two Greasers Johnny

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    Introduction In “The Outsiders” S.E Hinton creates a realistic theme and a protagonist that will intrigue young readers. The Theme Mclean (2011) states that young readers experience real life situations by reading about them. Division by socioeconomic status is a theme that all teenagers can relate to. According to Hinton (1967) there is a clear social division between the teenagers that live on the West- and East-side of the town. This division is caused by socioeconomic status. Hinton (1967)

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    Darry is a character on the Outsiders‚ a book by S.E. Hinton. The outsiders is about two gangs‚ the Socs and the Greasers. It focuses on the many challenges between the two gangs. Darrel‚ aka Darry is a strong and responsible young man. Darry is a twenty year old brother of Ponyboy and Sodapop. “Darry is six-feet-two‚ and broad-shouldered and muscular” (6). Darry has cold green-blue eyes‚ and dark brown hair like his dad. He also looks like his father. “He doesn’t understand anything that is not

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    In our world‚ there are many groups. For example‚ there are groups in school‚ groups in sports‚ and there are also gangs. This book‚ “The Outsiders” written by S.E.Hinton is about a gang called Greasers and the narrator‚ “Ponyboy” tells us about what happened the year before telling us the story of everyday life as a Greaser. In this book‚the author uses different types of techniques to contradict the characters to their gang. However‚ the author also does not connect the characters to the gang.

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    "Things are rough all over"‚ think the greasers and Socs based on their situation.Mostly‚ the Greasers.The main character and narrator‚ Ponyboy thinks that the greasers have it rough. Because‚ they are poor. And based on Ponyboy’s conversation with cherry from the Socs‚ cherry said "we have troubles you’ve never even heard of "Which seems like the Socs have "problems" too. Based on Cherry’s talk with ponyboy about each others gang‚the story starts to unfold and prove each others reasoning.This Fiction

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    TEENS TURN HEROES Juvenile delinquents save children from burning church by: Sidney McGill Around lunch time in the late spring three juvenile delinquents saved five children from a fiery blaze up on J mountain in Windrixville. “The blond haired one went in first.” a witness said‚ “Then the smaller lookin’ one‚ followed by the bigger guy.” She paused‚ “They saved the children‚ their heroes!” The first one to enter the church is named Ponyboy Curtis (14)‚ he has suffered from smoke inhalation

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    Few Americans can understand the elaborate and superlative language of the Constitution or Declaration of Independence. his results from a lack in English education in all academic tiers. Dropping English composition from the requirements for Associate degrees would further decimate the form. Between the devil and the deep blue sea. I am sure this rather common idiom rings a bell in your heads. Even if it doesn~{!/~}t‚ its meaning can be easily inferred. For the benefit of those who cannot be classified

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    circumstances where people have to give up what they once were to belong to a group. So in the process of trying 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

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    In my class we are reading the book‚ The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton. We also read the poem‚” Nothing Gold Can Stay “ written by Robert Frost. The book has two groups‚ the greasers and Soc’s and between them there is a lot of conflict. In the poem it means things can’t stay forever. Chapter four of The Outsiders talks about how Johnny kills Bob one of the Soc’s‚ and they run away‚ and the poem‚” Nothing Gold Can Stay” is about everything changes overtime. The theme of chapter four would

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    In S.E. Hilton’s short story “The outsiders” is about a boy named Ponyboy Curtis life in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma. Ponyboy lives with his two older brothers‚ Darrel and Sodapop. His parents died when he was younger from a wreck. Throughout the book‚ the author talked about the towns two rival gangs‚ the Greasers and the Socs. The Greasers are the lower class white people who are considered hoods or juvenile delinquents by society and the Socs are the higher class white people who are the rich kids from the

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