“Sometimes the toughest are the most broken.” (Anonymous) In the novel The Outsiders‚ Dally Winston‚ a poor seventeen year-old with a tarnished past‚ played an influential role in the lives of his fellow friends‚ the Greasers‚ and mostly over Ponyboy. Dally was both the toughness and the anger that existed and held back the Greasers and Ponyboy. Known as the toughest of the Greaser gang‚ with no family‚ Dally felt he could take violent risks. While Dally’s death seemed tragic‚ if Dally had continued
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explored and investigated in the text‚ The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton. A coming of age novel where the character encounters the effect of their decisions and experiences both negative and positive circumstances. This is clear from the content as the experience of fleeing to the country‚ being in a gang‚ facing violence and poverty can shape the concept we develop about ourselves. Life experiences helped shape the way the primary character and narrator‚ Ponyboy Curtis‚ and his friend‚ Johnny Cade‚ distinguish
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“Spider-Man.” They might say that they have to be born with powers. In reality a hero helps many people in need and always cares for others. In the novel‚ “The Outsiders‚” by S.E Hinton there is one particular character that is a hero not just because he is brave‚ but because he never gave up. The people that are heros are Dally‚ Ponyboy‚ and Darry. Ponyboy is a hero because he shows courage during the time the church was on fire. He and Johnny decided to save the little kids from the burning church
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Text Response Option 2- “The Outsiders” S.E. Hinton What are the lessons that S.E. Hinton wants to teach us through the story of “The Outsiders’? A number of lessons can be learnt from reading S.E. Hinton’s debut novel “The Outsiders”. By naming the novel “The Outsiders” yet writing it from the greasers perspective‚ we feel more like an insider in this group society seem to be pushing out. We identify with the underdog from the opening page. We find ourselves seeing life through the eyes of the greasers
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novel‚ The Outsiders‚ by S.E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade‚ lose innocence by experiencing death. Hinton proves that losing innocence mentally at a young age has terrible effect through both Ponyboy and Johnny. Ponyboy’s experiences in life shows the devastating effects of losing innocence at a young age. He has to live without his parents for the rest of his life. As Ponyboy is talking to Randy‚ a Soc‚ at his house‚ he tells Randy‚ “‘My parents are dead. I live here with just Darry and Soda
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Johnny Cade suffered a lifetime of feeling neglected and unwanted by his abusive parents. At the beginning of this story‚ Ponyboy Curtis‚ a fellow gang member‚ begins by introducing all of his close friends to the readers. Johnny’s backstory is given at this point which mentions Johnny’s rough home life. “His mother ignored him... you could hear her yelling clean down at our house.” ( Hinton‚ 12) Johnny takes his parent’s hatred towards him personally‚ causing him to change his view of the world
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In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ the Socs are the ones to blame for all of the problems. After all they are the cause of the rumble. The Socs are no good drunk 24/7 idiots who need to turn their ego down‚ and intelligence up. They screw up MANY times in the book. Yah yah‚ greasers are not perfect‚ but at least they have some common sense. And I’ll tell you why the greasers are innocent and the Socs are not. First of all‚ Johnny was justified in killing Bob. It was in self-defense‚ the
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Darry At twenty‚ Darry is the oldest in the gang and the oldest of the Curtis brothers. Darry is extremely intelligent and very athletic. Additionally ‚ he does all the cooking and housework. He is very strong‚ principled and grumpy. Pony tells us that before their parents died‚ Darry “had been real popular in high school; he was captain of the football team and he had been voted Boy of the Year”. Darry could have been a Soc any day. Darry had sacrificed going to college and working to make sure
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“Ponyboy‚ listen don’t get tough. You’re not like the rest of us and don’t try to be…”-Two-bit Matthews Page 171. The Outsiders is a novel written by S.E Hinton in the 1960’s‚ the novel is based on a true story. The story is about Ponyboy‚ a teenager that belongs in the gang called Greasers. There is another gang that opposes the Greasers called the Socs. The two gangs live in two sides of Oklahoma‚ the Greasers being in the east‚ and the Socs being in the west. The Socs and the Greasers often fight
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Loyalty. The word itself brings to mind heroes and knights in shining armor who fight out of loyalty for others‚ like kings or commanders. However‚ in the novel‚ The Outsiders‚ by S.E. Hinton‚ loyalty comes in a different form. In a town of greasers and Socs‚ poor hoodlums and privileged rich kids‚ the loyalty of the different groups is tested in struggles between right and wrong as discriminatory attacks on greasers lead up to the murder of a popular Soc. The conflict between the groups was always
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