In the outsiders‚ violence was a commonly occurring theme. The Socs‚ the highest social class‚ and the greasers‚ the lowest class‚ are always going at it. It is a common thing in their everyday life for them to be at each others throat. Johny gets jumped‚ and Pony too. Most is ok‚ until the night someone takes it to far. Violence is never the answer. Early on‚ one night after Pony ran away‚ because Darry hit him‚ Pony and Johny ran to the park. When they get there‚ they come to find the Socs
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Throughout The Outsiders‚ violence is depicted in numerous ways. The Greasers and Socials use violence towards one another regularly in the story. For instance‚ the story begins with a group of Socials jumping a Greaser. However‚ the author tries to convey to the reader why violence is never the answer. In the text‚ she attempts to get through to the reader that violence does not resolve anything for both groups. By trying to explicate this through the text‚ she conveys to the reader how violence is the
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In the U.S alone there are over 24‚500 gangs and over 750‚000 gang members. The outsiders explores the lives of gang members and how each of their lives are affected by this constant never ending conflict. How being part of either one of these brings the breath of death ever so closer. Susan Eloise Hinton was born on july‚ 22‚ 1950 in the town of tulsa in oklahoma this later became the setting which the outsiders is story unfolds. ¨ there was little to do for a child growing up in Tulsa¨ stated
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Outsiders theme Essay The outsiders is a book with an amazing theme which is to stay gold. The title is one way to show how to stay gold. The title shows that by being someone different you can stay gold. Another way the theme goes out is through the conflict. The conflict in the story was that the two rival gangs go up against each other but one gang goes to far. That shows how to stay gold because you have to look past all of the mayhem and keep moving forward. Lastly the way the the theme expresses
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The theme of "the Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton is you can depend on friends. "the Outsiders" is about two teenage groups that are constantly fighting over there differences. One of those two groups are called the Socs‚ these are the rich and popular kids at the school. The other group the Greasers are what you would call the not so popular kids that are always getting in trouble‚ or so everyone assumes. My first reason that you can depend on friends is a purposeful claim is‚ because when Bob( a Soc)
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My Outsiders Theme Overtime‚ I have noticed some kids are supposed to grow up too fast. There is going to be one time in your life where you are going to have to make some big decisions. You have to know right from wrong because you do not want to end up being in a horrible position. Some kids are already using drugs or drinking things they aren’t supposed to. I believe that you shouldn’t follow others mistakes and crimes while you should follow someone’s success and hard work. Sometimes I
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Dylan refers to hardship as rain and “the deepest dark forest”. In the book‚ The Outsiders‚ the conflict between the Greasers and Socs create hardships that characters have to face. The theme of Bob Dylan’s “Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” and S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders is Facing hardship/obstacles can shape one’s identity‚ and this is expressed through the characters‚ their experiences‚ and lyrics. To begin with‚ the theme of facing hardships and obstacles appears in Bob Dylan’s “Hard Rain’s A-Gonna
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feeling very well and is not in very good shape (pg.131-145). It could have been easy for Ponyboy to change any of the decisions he made‚ but he did not. So in the end the decisions Ponyboy ultimately made define him as the hero that he is. In The Outsiders Ponyboy overcomes social boundaries. Ponyboy comes to the realization that everybody is not so different. Even though somebody might appear different we are all alike were just human. Ponyboy’s relationship with Cherry Valance proves that even though
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John Green once said “Just remember that sometimes the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”They seem to be a different person on the outer side but they are completely different from within.The theme of Outsiders is that Don’t judge the book by it’s cover. To begin with‚we learn that many life-challenging events that occur in this story is that you should not judge people by their appearances.Cherry(Sherri) Valance‚the soc‚ says “We are so sophisticated-cool to the point
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In the novel‚ The Outsiders‚ appearance is a very important theme to the book. One example of this in the book is when the Greasers thought that the Socs had everything going great because of what they owned. Some things that made the Greasers think this was the fact that the Socs had really nice cars and they had nice clothes. The Greasers didn’t know that the Socs had some of the same problems that they did and they went through hard times just like them. Another example of appearance being an
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