... 16 years old, in the 1950s. The book was successful, and it was sold in many copies as a young adults novel. This movie made about it. The Outsiders is about a gang. They live in a city in Oklahoma. Ponyboy Curtis, a 14 year old greaser, tells the story. Other characters include Sodapop and Darry, ... plot. The characters are believable and they enhance the feeling of realism in the story. Setting In this part of the movie analysis about the "The Outsiders- I will discuss the setting. The setting is appropriate to the plot "the streets in the wrong side of town. The descriptions are deep...

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... group" is a group in which that same person does not belong and toward which the person may feel a sense of competitiveness or hostility. In "The Outsiders," each group clearly views the opposing group as its out-group. It was considered a more in this teenage world for a member of one group to ... known the answers were wrong but decided to go along with the group in order to avoid ridicule or ostracism. This idea is prevalent in "The Outsiders" when a popular soc girl, Sherri Valence, who is known as "Cherry" because of her red hair, is seated next to Pony Boy and ... be deviant by one ...

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... SE Hinton The Book I have chosen is the "The Outsiders- by SE Hinton. The author wrote the story when she was just 16 years old, in the 1950s. The book was successful, and it was sold, and still being sold, ... as a young adult's novel. There was a movie and plays made about it, and today there are still many high schools that use this book for English classes. The Outsiders is about a gang. They live in a city in Oklahoma. Ponyboy Curtis, a 14 year old greaser, tells the story. Other characters include Sodapop and Darry, Ponyboy's brothers, Johnny, Dallas, and Two ... when Johnny gets...

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... always been some problems such as fighting, stealing, doing drugs, dropping out of school and youth violence between the teenage gang, and it's never been solved. The book of "The Outsiders" is taught in school for students to learn the diversity between different groups, it teaches true friendship & family love, and the book tells the negatives of dropping out of school ... the book progresses, it shows the Socs are richer, and living in a "fancy world", but the Greasers could live happily without being so rich. The second reason that the "The Outsiders" should be taught in school is t...

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... function much like the brainless herds of sheep found wandering on rural roads without clear direction or purpose. They band together for protection and view all outsiders as either below them, or a threat. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton the Greasers strive to be part of this society but instead always seem to be on the bottom end of the ladder. The Socs ... rules of society and therefore should be a part of moral society. But societies prejudices prevail and the Socs remain on the top and the Greasers on the bottom. Overall The Outsiders is based around a group of boys from "the wrong...

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The Outsiders The Outsiders, tells a story about the innate differences between socially different groups of people, that could never get along. The groups being the Socials and the Greasers. Not only are the greasers ... ...

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Johnny from The Outsiders was a tragic hero. His role in the movie was the little gentle boy from a broken home. The Greasers consisted of Ponyboy, Dallas, Soda Pop, Darrell, Two Bit, Johnny, and others. ... ...

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S.E. Hinton's first novel, "the Outsiders," is set on the cruel, harsh streets of a Texan city in the 1960's. On the surface, the book seems like a tale of mindless violence, brutality and belligerence, but if you ... ...

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In The Outsiders, Ponyboy Curtis has to deal with many problems and dilemmas. It begins with Pony and Johnny going to the movie house with Dally. They meet a girl named Cherry Valence, a local soc. She respects Pony, but knows she can't ever be friends with him since he is a greaser. After g...

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... To remedy this oversight, the young author began to write about teens in a setting she felt would be familiar to her contemporaries. Ms Hinton's The Outsiders was loosely based on a gang-oriented life- style of her fellow high school classmates. In reviewing the book, a critic for the New York Times ... a similar view, noting that The Outsider is "written with distinctive style by a teen-ager who is sensitive, honest and observant .""(CB 104). Summary The Outsiders, an enthralling tale by S.E. Hinton, is an excellent story about the hardships and triumphs experienced by the Greasers and ...

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... as people who share a common Identity, usually through a gang name and individually or collectively engage in criminal activity. A good example of this is The Outsiders. Criminal street gangs have become one of the most serious crime problems all over the world. Gang violence, particularly assaults, drive-by shootings, homicides, and ... brutal home-invasion robberies, accounts for one of the largest, single, personal threats to public safety. In the outsiders there are many assaults between the Socs and the Greasers. A gang is also a group of persons having informal and close relations....

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The Outsiders takes place in a rough city that consists of two sections. The upper half was the "soc" territory or the rich socialites. The lower half was the poor, bad part of ... was Pony's twenty-four year old brother. Cherry and Randy were secondary characters also. They were "Socs" 's member who were friends of the gang. I believe the main conflict in The Outsiders is "Greaser" versus "Socs." They were always trying to get back at each other by fighting or hurting each other. There were also many minor conflicts in this story both ... one of them, Johnny's thinking about death, etc. T...

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... , Ponyboy is very lucky to have Sodapop Curtis as a brother. Similarly, Ponyboy is very smart. Finally, Ponyboy is very brave. Therefore, Ponyboy is the best character in the book "The Outsiders". First of all, Pony boy is the best character in the book because he is a Greaser, a member of a gang formed by teenage boys. All the Greasers are friends, they share ... others like the kids in the church fire. As a result, Ponyboy is brave. At this stage, you can clearly see that Ponyboy is the best character in the book " The Outsiders". First of all, Ponyboy is a greaser, Plus, Ponyboy is ve...

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Literary Analysis Language Arts- 8th Grade: Kovach Alisha Rush May 20,2002 THE OUTSIDERS SETTING: The Outsiders is about a group of gang members in a rival for the simple fact of that it's been that way. The Socs are the rich form the west side of town, and ... ...

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This story is about a young man, named ponyboy. He is 14 years of age. He is a piece of a hood gathering called Greasers on the east piece of town a gathering of lower-class teens who wear their hair long and oily, wear pants and tore T-shirts, and are inconsistent with the rich-kid spooks known as the "Socs". This gathering of hoods are naturally introduced to rich families from the west side of town, are of a high "social" class, drive around in Mustangs and Corvairs, and as a rule wear checkered coats with a madras on them. One day, as Ponyboy is strolling home from a film, he is bounced by...

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