Inderbitzen's 'The Outsiders And Justice Consciousness'

The Soc’s have nice clothes and cars, but both groups commit crimes. Johnny Cade has big black eyes and a darkly tanned face with jet-black, heavily greased hair and a nervous, suspicious look in his eyes. Johnny Cade is a Greaser and he is very nervous. Johnny Cade is very scared and he is a Greaser. “ He had big black eyes in a darkly tanned face; hi hair was jet-black and heavily greased and combed to the side. . .”(11).

Director of The Outsiders (1983), Francis Coppola, used the relationships among gang members and between gangs to explore causes of delinquency and criticize the stereotypes surrounding lower class gang members. Like Coppola, Robert Agnew understood that middle and upper classes commit crimes as well, therefore his theory claims that external stressors, such as unmet expectations or negative stimuli, cause delinquency. Over the course of the movie, both the affluent “Socs” and the underprivileged “Greasers” experience aggravations that provoke criminal behavior. Two of the main characters, Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade, show that despite outside stressors and labels, a “delinquent” can still be considered a hero.

This is injustice as the Greasers can never move up in society because of the group they associate

Intro: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, there is a very visible theme of death. The Outsiders is about two different gangs, the greasers and the Socs. The greasers are from the east side of town who steal things, wear leather jackets and put grease in their hair. The Socs are from the west side, they wear madras shirts, they are rich, and they own mustangs.

The Greasers aren’t very wealthy and they also are young but not innocent. They do bad things and they killed someone and they steal and are looked for by the cops a lot. Eventually you will grow to be old and will not be as active as you were in younger in your older days. “They ran when I stabbed him.

The book has many themes such as the gap between the rich and poor, honour among the lawless and the retention of innocence. To society, The Greasers were looked down on, yet they we honourable and looked after one another and stood together when it came to their enemies. Their loyalty and devotion to each other in the gang was admirable because society would not have expected them as Greasers to have these quality traits. They took the blame for crimes they did not commit to save their friends and risked their lives to save children from burning to death in a fire in a

“ ...while the Socs had so much spare time and money that they jumped us and each other for kicks, had beer blasts and river bottom parties because they didn’t know what else to do” (Hinton 43). This shows that Greasers have problems with wealth and why they are in groups such as gangs. This also shows that they do not have anything what the Socs have as they come from poor families with parents that neglect them or they passed away. Moreover, in the article “The Allure of Gangs,” “Feelings of being caught in a trap in a hopeless situation, in a poor neighborhood with no way out…,” (para 7). This shows that kids in poverty are and why they join gangs.

What Ponyboy knows and learns about them really affects how he views the Socs, along with his economic status, and where he lives with his family and friends. Ponyboy and his brothers live on the East side of Tulsa, a town in Oklahoma state in the U.S. The Greasers are mainly targeted by the Socials (Socs for

We read the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, and the poem “Nothing Gold can stay” by Robert Frost. The Outsiders is about two groups of people that fight a lot, and “Nothing Gold can Stay” is about life. The theme of The Outsiders is divided community, and the theme of the poem is that nothing good can stay forever. The theme of chapter one is divided community. The soc’s like to jump the greasers.

Greasers have problems with things such as Money, which causes them to do illegal things for personal reasons. Despite the difference in privilege between the two, they act pretty similarly. Both like to do illegal things, get drunk, drive cars, and a lot more. This could mean that if all the members of the gang grew up in the same environment, they could get

When Ponyboy was thinking about what the people in the gang do what they do, he assumed that Greasers and Socs are divergent. Ponyboy thinks to himself, “We deserve a lot of our trouble...both of them have too much energy, too much feeling, with no way to blow it off.” (Hinton 16) This quote has a deep meaning because it shows that the Socs choices are more narrow, displaying that when a Soc does something wrong, they could lose their fame and their luxury. On the other hand, the greasers have boundless choices because they have nothing to lose. They are already at the bottom, so most of the things they do, won’t really change what they already have.

The Outsiders Final 5 Paragraph Essay In S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, two different gangs, the Greasers and the Socs detested each other. Using Ponyboy Curtis, the author demonstrates a Greaser’s opinion of the Socs. Ponyboy had an evolving conception of the Socs. At the beginning, he disliked the Socs because they are rich and he thinks they have no problems.

The Outsiders Essay Why all the fighting? It doesn't solve anything. It just causes more problems necessary. There's always so much of it, it's hard to make it go away. When the Greasers and Soc's fight, have you ever noticed how no one ever wins?

The factor of socioeconomic status is so influencing that Ponyboy believes that it is the key factor that decides every situation. In addition, Ponyboy explains his perception of Socs’ behavior by blaming it on the fact that they have a good economic background. “The Socs had so much spare time and money that they jumped on us and each other for kicks, had beer and blasts and river-bottom parties because they didn’t know what else to do” (Ponyboy, pg.43). At this point, Ponyboy is concluding that Socs jumps on Greasers because they are looking for things to sort out their boredom. Why would the Socs be bored and look for troubles even though they have all the breaks?

In a stereotypical view, society labels greasers as hoods who commit crimes, rob stores, have violent behaviors and are looked down upon with a lower social