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 fraternize with one from another. These feelings of group superiority, or ethnocentrism, seem to be unshakable from parties in each faction, until the death of Bob occurs. After this earth-shattering event, members of both the greasers and the socs" start to question their behaviors. They start to come to the realization that fighting is not going to solve anything; however, at the same time they realize that no matter what "a soc will still be a soc, and a greaser will still be a greaser." .
Conformity is the process of maintaining or changing ones behavior to comply with the norms established by society or a group. Pressure to conform is a powerful thing, as demonstrated in Solomon Asch's research (1955, 1956). In Asch's experiment, his subjects were willing to contradict their own best judgment if the rest of the group disagreed with them. In discussing the experiment afterwards, most of the subjects who gave incorrect responses indicated that they had 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 Johnny at the drive in theatre. Cherry and her friend, Marcia, start talking to Pony and Johnny, and start to realize that they are nice boys, at one point in the evening Cherry refers to Pony as "dreamy". As the group is walking home from the drive in, some soc boys drive up next to Cherry, Marcia, Pony, Johnny, and 2bit and a fight begins to ensue amongst the boys. Cherry, who hates fighting, agrees to go with the soc boys in order to prevent any one getting hurt. As she is leaving the company of Pony, she pulls him aside and says "If I see you in school and I don't say "Hi", please don't take it personal I mean, you"re a real nice boy and everything .
The outsider wants to or doesn't want to always stay alone. ... This literary work is very similar to the outsider of my definition with my experience such as being made the outsider by people around. ... This outsider is that doesn't chose by herself. ... I also experience outsider that isn't willfully. ... You can see easily people who called the outsider. ...
Outsiders All of the people in "Of mice and men" are outsiders in there own right, they have all been disallowed, or to a certain extent not wanted to have certain rights because of things such a sex, race and different disabilities. ... The language used to talk to Crooks for example "Nigger", is offensive; it also labels him in to a different group from them making him an outsider. Curley's wife is an outsider because she is a woman; there are no other women on the ranch so she is an outsider. ... Because he is crippled (he has no right hand) he cannot work like the other men, he ...
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton S.E. Hinton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the age of sixteen she wrote her First novel, The Outsiders. I t was this book that allowed Hinton to attend the University Of Tulsa. While attending the University of Tulsa, Hinton fell in love...
The Outsiders "The Outsiders" by S. ... I chose the novel "The Outsiders" as a text for year 10 for the following reasons: It is a novel which draws the reader in and allows the reader to understand a lifestyle alien to them. ... I believe "The Outsiders" is a relevant novel to study as in today's society the concept of violence is an ever present theme. ...
The Outsiders takes place in a rough city that consists of two sections. ... The Outsider moved around a young murderer Johnny. ... I believe the main conflict in The Outsiders is "Greaser" versus "Socs." ... I also believe the climax of The Outsiders occurs when Johnny dies. ...
In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Ponyboy Curtis is perceived as an "outsider" or someone who does not belong within the group. In the novel 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. ... Even though he was a greaser; an outsider he was always thinking and knew that some of the things he did were not right and would get him in trouble. ... He knows...
"Outsiders- The movie. After viewing the movie "The Outsiders- I will discuss character development. ... The Outsiders is about a gang. ... Setting In this part of the movie analysis about the "The Outsiders- I will discuss the setting. ... I think "The Outsiders- is an average movie. ...
The Outsiders is an outstanding novel by S.E Hinton about two gangs, the Greasers and the Socs. ... In The Outsiders the Greasers made belonging very clear to both Pony and Johnny. ... In The Outsiders novel, the Greasers show responsibility towards Ponyboy and Johnny. ... Johnny showed responsibility when he told Dally and Pony that he was going to turn himself in to the fuzz so that no one else had to suffer anymore à said we're going to turn ourselves in-, Johnny repeated - (page 95) The Greasers showed responsibility to Johnny when the Greasers were going to go all the w...
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 second reason that the "The Outsiders" should be taught in school is that the book teaches you the true friendship and family love between people. ... The book of " The Outsiders" should be taught in school for many good reasons. ...
