... . This story deals with two forms of social classes: the socs, the rich kids, and the greasers, the poor kids. The socs go around looking for trouble and greasers to beat up, and then the greasers are blamed for it, because they are poor and cannot influence the authorities. The plot is easy to ... IQ and everything..."". He is a bit naive sometimes, like in page 45 when he tried to convince himself that the only difference between socs and greasers is that greasers like Elvis and do not like the Beatles and socs like the Beatles and do not like Elvis. Sometimes, Ponyboy is daydreaming an...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... 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 the Socs, two rival gangs. This novel suggests the stories' content because the Greasers are a gang of social outcasts and misfits. This novel's theme is very specific; people, no matter what their social background, strive for the ... fire and taken to the hospital. They are hailed as heroes in the local paper. Dally breaks out of the hospital to fight in a rumble against the Socs. While the Greasers beat the Socs, John...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Hinton, takes Ponyboy one step further by showing different situations in which he is really shown as an outsider. The novel is about two different groups, the greasers which are more known as the outsiders and the Soc's which is short for Socials or the more popular crowd. These two groups do not get along ... the Wind." (Hinton, 79) Ponyboy was a smart teenager. He really concentrated on his studies but would never try hard in school because he was a greaser, and greasers weren't suppose to be smart, and they weren't suppose to do well in school. A major theme in this novel is the the...

• Word Count: 1365
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School