Struggles In The Outsiders

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.

"The Outsiders" is a seminal coming-of-age novel authored by S.E. Hinton and originally published in 1967. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis, a member of a gang called the Greasers, who perpetually finds himself at odds with the affluent and privileged Socs. The central premise of the novel involves the significance of learning from mistakes and overcoming challenges. Hinton employs the literary technique of characterisation to effectively communicate this message to the reader. Ponyboy Curtis is a young and impressionable protagonist who confronts various challenges throughout the narrative.

At the beginning of the book some of the socs jumped Ponyboy. When they jumped him they said, "you want a hair cut greaser?" Greasers are called greasers because of their long greasy hair and live on the other end of town. They jumped him because he isn't a soc and his looks. If they all got to actually talk to each other then they would understand that they aren't so bad of people especially Ponyboy.

As the book goes on, Ponyboy realizes that everyone has problems. Even the Socs, who most greasers view as arrogantly “perfect,” Cherry brings it obvious to Pony that this is not true. This is especially true when Pony tells Cherry that “you don't feel anything and we feel too

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a fictional young adult book with many conflicts covering themes such as: don’t judge a book by its cover, leave the past behind, you never know what someone’s going through, and more. It stars a group/gang called the Greasers, the main character and narrator being Ponyboy. This gang is a group of teenage boys/young adults who are on the poor side of this area. The members of the Greasers are Ponyboy, Johnny, Sodapop, Dally, Darry, Two-Bit, and Steve. There’re also the Socs which are the “rich and spoiled” kids in the book.

After the conversation, both boys see each other as people and not as Greasers or Socs. As the story comes to an end, the Greasers end up winning the rumble, but Ponyboy had to spend a week in bed to recover from the rumble that ended in the deaths of both Johnny and Dallas. Looking through Soda's old yearbooks to pass the time, he stumbles across a picture of Robert Sheldon–the Soc Johnny killed in the park. “I looked at Bob’s picture and I could begin to see the person we had killed. A reckless, hot-tempered boy, cocky and scared stiff at the same time…

At the beginning of the story, Dally is tough, cold, and mean. He was neglected as a child and left to his own accords where he was on the streets at a young age making him grow up fast. He got in gang fights, he's robbed people, robbed stores, concealed weapons, he was incarcerated, and just not a good person to be around. Ponyboy tells the reader this when he said, “He was tougher than the rest of us tougher colder meaner.” (pg10)

Similarly, he realized that Dally wasn’t so different from the Socs, so maybe all the Socs weren’t so bad. In conclusion, Pony talked to Cherry and Bob, and he realized that not all Socs are bad and some Greasers are just like

One night Ponyboy goes out with his buddies Johnny and Dally were they sneak into a drive in movie, where they see 2 girls. Ponyboy starts talking to one of the girls cherry who tells him”things are rough all over. ”(35) Ponyboy doesn't believe this though because he thinks money can solve all their problems. Cherry was trying to tell ponyboy that everyone has problems even ones he has never heard of before.

The book, The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton is about brother hood and friendship. Is also about two gangs called the Greasers and the Soc's constantly arguing and fighting. Constantly fighting about their gangs placement in their cities, girls, and where they can and can't go. In the first chapter, fighting comes up right away. Ponyboy was walking home from the movies when about 5 Soc's drove up to him and jumped him.

As they are walking to grab snacks, Cherry is telling Ponyboy that not all Socs are bad; Just like not all greasers are bad. “‘That’s like saying all you greasers are like Dallas Winston. I’ll Bet he’s jumped a few people.’ I digested that. It was true.

When Cherry and Ponyboy get popcorn during the movie, Ponyboy tells Cherry all the bad things that have happened to him. Cherry says to him, "All socs aren't like that. You have to believe me Ponyboy. Not all of us are like that." (pg 34).

However, Ponyboy still feels like an outsider in many ways and struggles with his identity in and out of the greaser gang. In the outsiders written by S.E. Hinton the reader learns that self-identity vs. group identity.

Ponyboy lived with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop after his parents were killed in a car accident. Ponyboy had some friends in the gang: Steve, Two-Bit, Dally but his best friend was a boy named Johnny who was considered the gang`s mascot. Ponyboy was a boy who always wanted to be tough but an accident that happened in the story might make him change of mind on what he wanted to be. He also finds a way of how to finish the gang that was taking place from many tima.

Cherry’s recognition of Ponyboy being “more than just a greaser” leaves Ponyboy thinking about how the two gangs aren 't so different, “We aren 't in the same class. Just don’t forget that some of us watch the sunset too” (pg 46 S.E. Hinton). Ponyboy’s conversation with Cherry fulfills him briefly until he realizes they are in different gangs and cannot stay