"The Outsiders," by S.E. Hinton, narrates the story of Ponyboy Curtis, a teenager whose world has been turns upside down. The novel was written in first person by the fictitious main character who is ... reader feels like is real and she get in touch with the audience. While you are reading you can make a whole world in your mind and imagine the scenes. The Outsiders is a wonderful and emotional book perfect for teenager. The book can teach a lot of teenagers to not get involved in wrong things. Also to stand for the things they think ... understand more their child. The adolescence a compl...

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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" by S.E Hinton we are introduced to a boy and his life in a gang. Ponyboy Curtis is 14 years old with longish brown reddish hair, squared off at the end, greyish green eyes, a bit to green for his liking. "I wish they were more grey, because I hate most guys that have green eyes." ...

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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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... gangs for difficulties in their life. They feel that they need a group of people to understand and support them through the rough stage of their life. In the novel, The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton Ponyboy is a fourteen-year-old boy who is a part of the gang called the greasers. His whole remaining family are greasers. Gang life can lead to death and ... trouble. In The Outsiders, Ponyboy is in a gang with all of the people he grew up with in the neighborhood, including his two brothers, Sodapop and Darry. In a fight against the socials, the enemy ... ...

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... feel as if they don't belong simply due to racial profiling. They feel that they are being rejected by Canadian society and feel that they are and always will be outsiders. People from other countries escape from undesirable living conditions and come to Canada in hopes to be treated fairly, equally, and to live a just life. A black woman by the name ... ...

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... does a deviant act they are then labeled by society and separated from the normal people. Such labels in today's society are whore, abuser, loser, and etc. These people are then outsiders and associate with other people who have been cast out of society. When more and more people think of these people as deviant they, themselves think they are too. The ... ...

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... love of a mother or a father, they can likely be influenced by bad people and could lead them into participating criminal activities. Children at a young age can be easily manipulated by outsiders and this will increase the chance for children to get involved into crime such as theft, shoplifting, and murder. A child can blame both of the parents for not properly raises ... ...

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... important then the actual success itself. The admiration of successful criminals not only exists in the community but extends to public officials as well. Consequently, they are not regarded as outsiders, but people with whom business can be done. American "mobsters", as a result, have been able to influence political campaigns and lawmaking decisions at a greater degree than similar figures in other ... ...

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Prisons in America reflect very poorly on our criminal justice system. Outsiders look at our country as though we've got it all together. And although we may have it more together than other countries, our prisons are in need of some ... ...

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