Loss Of Innocence In The Outsiders

Delilah Dias Mr. Bennet ELA D Block April 9th, 2023 S.E Hinton's 1967 young adult novel The Outsiders features a boy named Ponyboy Curtis. It describes his life as a Greaser; the stereotype of a greaser is seen as a gangster who lives in poverty, is not smart or well-educated, and does not work hard. Greasers are constantly harassed by Socs, the rich kids from the west side of town; they are known as being more intelligent and harder working. The novel also depicts his older brothers, Sodapop and Darry.

Greasers have a rival game which are the socials or socs. These gangs are always fighting. Ponyboy always says that fighting is bad and useless. All the greasers and the socials learn that the hard way. Dally, Johnny, and Ponyboys actions reveal who they really are as people.

Hinton shows Ponyboy’s denial from Johnny doing anything wrong, and how Pony also denies Johnnys death at all. This shows most when Randy has an encounter with Pony short after Johnnys death. As Randy restates Johnny was the one with the knife, Pony says “I had the knife. I killed Bob” (Hinton 165). By attempting to pretend that Johnny is still alive and Johnny never killed anyone, it causes him to live in hatred of the people he blames (the Socs) and himself rather than to believe the truth.

Ponyboy’s best friend and fellow Greaser is Johnny Cade, who has had a very hard upbringing. Ponyboy is a Greaser that does not exactly fit the stereotype, yet he will do anything to stand up for and protect anyone in the Greaser gang. The Greasers have an enemy gang called The Socs who are rich

Ponyboy’s journey teaches us that it’s better to be a conformist than to be an individual. Do you agree? Ponyboy is the protagonist of a book called the Outsiders. The book is about a 14 year old boy (Ponyboy), and how rough life is for the people who live in the East side of town, Greasers, and how they would always compete with the Socs, who are the rich that live on the West side of town. Greasers and Socs hate each other.

Ponyboy, despite his young age, possesses an acute sense of introspection and a love for literature. His loyalty to his gang, the Greasers, drives much of the plot, as he navigates the challenges of growing up in a world that often discriminates against those who are

The Outsiders is a young adult novel written by S.E. Hinton that explores the hardships faced by both the poor and the rich. The Greasers walk in groups of gangs to protect each other from the Socs, while the socs beat the Greasers up and gang up on the greasers. The main character, Ponyboy, has his own gang and has a journey with Johnny and Dally when they kill a kid in self-defense. When they save kids from the church, they get injured and have to go to the hospital, where Johnny takes his last breath.

According to Mandel, “the survey reveals that over 47% of boys who are sexually assaulted will go on to commit delinquent acts, almost 20% of girls who are sexually assaulted go on to commit delinquent acts, 46% of boys who have been physically assaulted commit delinquent acts, and almost 30% of girls who are physically assaulted will commit an act of delinquency.” (page 5, paragraph 4) This startling statistic proves that Johnny’s abusive father and mother are the leading factor in his friend choices and his addiction to smoking. This also confirms why Ponyboy ran away when his fatherly figure, Darry, slapped him. Running away is an act of delinquent behavior, so when Ponyboy felt abused, he committed a delinquent act of running away.

In the beginning the book ponyboy grows up hating the Socs. The Socs have have all the power and money and ponyboy hates them for this and also hates them because they are always picking on and fighting greasers. They do this because they think that they they’re better than the greasers. He hates them even more after he gets jumped. “I fought to get

The chapters 1-5 of the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, is about two gangs the greasers and the Socs, who are always causing trouble. In the greaser gang, the protagonist, Ponyboy, is always getting good grades and is the smartest in the gang. Dally is one of the members in the gang, Ponyboy 's brother, has been in jail multiple times. Sodapop is also Ponyboy’s brother. He works at a gas station.

On page 11/12 Ponyboy says “He had a nervous, suspicious look in his eyes, and the beating he got from the Socs didnt help matters.” and Pony also says on page 12 “His father was always - beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except she was hacked off at something and

At the beginning of the story, Ponyboy comes home after curfew, making Ponyboy’s brother “Darry” pretty mad, causing them to start fighting and out of mixed emotion, Darry slaps Ponyboy. Next, Ponyboy and another Greaser, “Johnny,” are by a fountain when a couple of Socs attack, and start to drown Ponyboy. Johnny, after being beaten to near death by Socs on an earlier date, kills a Soc named “Bob” with a switchblade, scaring off the other Socs. In the end, Ponyboy is asked to write a composition based on a theme for school and ends up telling his own story (Hinton). Within the novel, the Socs get all the breaks and the Greasers get

Throughout the novel we see the Greasers and the Soc in constant conflict, fighting and rumbling for gang dominance. Ponyboy is greatly affected by this and is already questioning the point of violence. Close to the end of the text the Greasers and the Socs plan a rumble to occur one night. Before the fight, Ponyboy meets Randy Anderson (a Soc) at the Tasty Freeze Diner where they have a conversation. Ponyboy realises that Randy is, “not going to show at the rumble” and that he is, “sick of rumbles because they don't do any good.”

The Outsiders Character Essay Most teenagers in today’s world are stereotyped to be “unhappy”, some because of family or money and sometimes even certain relationships. But Darry and Randy are both unhappy because of other people’s decisions. The main character Ponyboy, which is Darry’s younger brother, made some bad choices that led to worse outcomes. Both Darry and Randy had to also suffer because of Ponyboy’s choices.

In the novel, “The Outsiders” that was written by S.E Hinton, one of the characters within the book that has changed a lot was Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy Curtis’ change was a slow process, but a lot happened to him throughout the novel. He goes through many events at the start, middle and at the end of the novel too. At the start of the novel, Ponyboy was just an innocent and smart kid who lived with the gang known as, “The Greasers”, but by the end of the novel, Ponyboy is a different person compared to how he was in the beginning. The events that took place in the middle of the novel has some key events that make him change his personality and opinion on life, and that the reader learns that his personality and opinion changes because of the dramatic events he goes through like how Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston’s death.