Who Is Johnny's Struggle In The Outsiders

Synapsis: The Outsiders is about two gangs who never get along, the greasers and the socs. The greasers are poor and are always blamed for what goes wrong, while the socs are the rich kids that can get away with anything. One night a greaser kills a soc and now all eyes are on Ponyboy and Johnny as they try to escape their mistake and guilt.

Could you live with fights, girls, people smoking, and getting drunk? In the novel, The Outsiders By S.E Hinton, you will find out how two gangs, in 1960’s Oklahoma survive. These two groups are the Greasers and the Soc’s. The Greasers do not have any nice clothes and cars.

In this story Socs are seen as rich and snotty kids. They come from wealthy families that spoil them and never discipline them, we know this from Bob’s story. We see the Soc’s as kids that get good grades, wear nice clothes, and have the perfect life with no struggles. However Socs are really a big threat in this story, at the beginning Ponyboy says he got jumped by a group of Socs who threatened to cut off his hair. This is a regular type of thing where Socs go around jumping and beating up Greasers because of how they dress and look.

In this first paragraph, what will be discussed is why the Greasers and the Socs are all in gangs. In “The Allure of Gangs” it states, “Often, kids who join kids feel alienated by their parents, and have lost the connection with them that they might have had when they were small. ”(The Allure of Gangs,Paragraph 3). This shows that maybe Ponyboy, Dally, and Sodapop didn’t have a strong connection with their parents.

In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy tells the story about his life being a greaser and the conflicts he has had to face with the Socs. His parents had died in a car crash when he was young so he lives with his two brothers. He and another greaser, Johnny, save a few kids in a fire which changes their lives forever. The three major themes addressed in this outstanding book are the journey from youth to adulthood, the fight between rich and poor, and the power of friendship.

On page 3 S.E Hinton writes, “We’re poorer than socs and the middle class” said Ponyboy which meant they couldn’t get everything what they needed or wanted. Ponyboy meant that Greasers couldn’t live like the Socs and the middle class because they were poor. Being poor also meant that Greasers had to ditch school to get a job to support their families and themselves. “It wasn't fair for the Socs to have everything.

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 murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.” (The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton). ‘Greaser’ was a popular term used in the 1950’s to describe “a rough young man, especially one who greases his hair back and is a member of a motorcycle gang” (Greaser, Oxford Dictionaries) and although the term is not used as often as it was in the 50’s, the idea behind teenage rebellious gangs/ groups still exists among us much like they did in Hinton’s famous novel back

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.

Patrick Granfors Mrs. Collins English 9 22 January 2015 Analytical Essay for The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton In The Outsiders, by S.E. Hilton, we go to a time where gangs remain dominant and run the streets. S.E. Hinton tells us about two enemy gangs. The Socs, one of the many provocative gang groups, kids who live lavish lives and get away with the crimes they commit because they look clean cut and look like good innocent kids on the outside.

S.E. Hinton shows the Greasers' pride in the rumble as they chant "I am a greaser, a JD, a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city... a menace to society... victim of environment, underprivileged, rotten, no-count hood" (136). The Greasers' lives go around in a cycle: the boys do something illegal, they get caught, and then they receive resentment from society which only makes them want to do something illegal again. The reality of proper resolution is not apparent to the Greasers, and the boys continue to act in violence. Michelle Inderbitzen's article attempts to provide an understanding of their society: "Being labeled a greaser put in motion a process by which all Ponyboy's behavior would subsequently be judged, whether he consented to it or not" (Outsiders and Justice Consciousness 3).

They know they can do what they want, and then gain back their respect for simply nothing. They can beat up the greasers because society cares nothing for them, and would side with the socs instead. The cops also see good in the socs more than the greasers, they are threatened by the the money of the socs. They aren't threatened by what they see to be poor teens, that steel and smoke. In general everyone in society is threatened by their money, they feel helpless against their money.

An Outsiders Look on The Gangs of S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders We Begin with a rivalry between two gangs the Socials and the Greasers. In S.E Hinton’s book The Outsiders these two gangs have their own unique circumstances and opinion that dictate how they make decisions in certain situations and depending on how they act in those situations will dictate how society views them. The community considers one of the gangs a menace to their town. They are considered having no contributing factors to society but in reality they contributed and sacrificed more than the other gang.

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice- no power currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.” John Burroughs. One of the points he is making is that getting anything of value accomplished or done requires sacrifice. Making sacrifices requires one to get out of their comfort zone. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the characters make sacrifices and get out of their comfort zones for each other.

Like Cherry said “It’s not just the money. Part of it is, but not all. You greasers have a different set of values..(38)” meaning that Socs and greasers were different because of how they were raised. There have been many examples of the importance of good parents, this is