... into a detailed description of himself or any other characters of the book. Therefore this one sentence tells you right away that there are big differences between the greasers and the Socs. " the West-side rich kids." (p.2). This is one very important sentence also mentioned in the second page. This difference of stature is ... . I believe that this is because the Socs think that they know what the greasers lives are like, poor, hard-working etc., and they are right. But they don't go into the depths of the greasers stature. The same with the greasers. They think they know what the Socs ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the only family that Johnny ever had. The family, especially Dallas, also felt the responsibility of protecting Johnny. The Greasers had a rival group that they would constantly fight with, the soc's. Johnny has a terrible night when he runs into two socs after a movie. The ... boys cared for themselves, and the only thing that mattered is if you were tough, somewhat of a highly masculine culture. The greasers wore plain white shirt with their hair slicked back, things the Greasers took pride in. The Socs on the other hand were all prep like, and they liked to set themselves apart from t...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , discovers Johnny, and strolls to the recreation center to make tracks in an opposite direction from things. There, on the other hand, the two youthful greasers run into Bob and Randy with a few their Soc companions. One of them holds Ponyboy's head under a super cold wellspring, and Ponyboy blacks out ... their depiction in the paper. After a week, Dally comes to reconnoiter them, and clarifies that due to Bob's passing, the debate between the Greasers and the Socs have ended up more terrible than any time in recent memory. He additionally let them know that thunder will be held to se...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . We are told of the division in society due to prosperity and class between "The Socs" (short for "Socials") from the West side and "the Greasers" from the East side by 14 year old Ponyboy Curtis. He gives his notions on life, wealth and society. It is a didactic and edifying novel which ... and I grew up with we consider as family. Our gang are almost as close as brothers." Most of the "Greasers," don't have loving families and so their gang is all they've got. The "Greasers," are known for their long, greasy hair and the "Socs" are known for their madras shirts and expensive cars. .....

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• Grade Level: High School

... (Hinton pg 2 and 3) ANTAGONIST: Pony's own antagonist is his position in life. He lives in the poor part of town ,and joins a group called the greasers. The are enemies with a rich group of boys called the Socs. The Soxs attack Johnny and Bobby for being too friendly worth Cherry. So Johnny ends up killing ... turning point of Pony's life to do better. (Hinton pg 178). THEMES: Major Theme: Pony resents the fact that the Socs have nicer things than the Greasers. To him it seems like everything comes to them easier and he always has to struggle. Since Pony's best friend was killed in gang a...

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• Grade Level: High School

... ". 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 the same feeling and think the same way about different things. Also, they are willing to help their friends whenever needed. Since they are friends ... and share the same feelings, they can talk to each other about problems they may have, making it easier for one to get over the problem. Greasers don't have to care what other people think about them unlike the Socs, another gang of teenage boys that's rich who the public...

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• Grade Level: High School

... just when things couldn't get worse, 5 socs come up and start taunting Ponyboy and Johnny, calling them white trash and what not. The socs start beating them up as the greasers are outnumbered. One of them tries to drown Pony in a fountain when Johnny remembers his blade in his pocket. Johnny grabs it and stabs the soc. Ponyboy wakes up, coughing ... they left and went to Texas. He also informs them that there will be a rumble between the all the socs and all the greasers in Southwest New York. Cherry would also act as a spy and report to the greasers what the socs were planning because...

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• Grade Level: High School

... teaches people to accept each other no matter how different they are. Then the book explains the diversity of different groups. It teaches the reader that even though the Socs & Greasers are different, they can get along. For example, Ponyboy and Cherry are in two different groups, but they became friends after they met. Also, this book makes people think that ... matter how different the groups are, they will always see the same sunset. As 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 sec...

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... , 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. Many reasons why adolescents and older aged groups join gangs are to get away from their every day problems ... when they get into trouble with another gang or the law they have their gangs backing them up. In The Outsiders there are many close relationships between members of the Greasers. Many gangs also use drugs to f...

• Word Count: 558
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School