The Outsiders Analysis

In The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, the main character Ponyboy faces a lot of problems and learns new things along the way. He tends to feel different from all groups which makes him feel like and outsider.

The greasers are a group of “low class,” they are the delinquents known to be the worst of the bunch. They’re known to like fighting, having street smarts, dropping out of school, and just being the “bad guys.” Pony thinks he’s different from the greasers like an “Outsider,” yet Pony seems to associate with that group the most, but he still has his reasons on feeling different from his group. My first reason on why Pony feels different from the greasers is that Pony enjoys reading and watching movies, most greasers aren’t like
The greasers see something different in them, the socs should be the worst of the worst, they are the ones who causes all the fights. Pony and most other greasers feel like outsiders compared to the socs, in my opinion, the greasers and socs can be so different and yet can also be fairly similar. My first reason on why Pony feels like an outsider from the Socs, is how he has long greasy hair, most greasers have long greasy hair, it’s kind of their thing, but Socs are the ones with short blond hair. “It was my pride. It was long and silky, just like Soda’s only a little redder. Our hair was tuff - we didn’t have to use much grease on it. (71),” Pony really cared about his hair, it was his image, it was his hair that made him different from the socs. My second reason is that people assume he’s a criminal, most greasers are know to be the worst, the ones who start fight and the ones who get in trouble with the police, yet most of the soc are the ones that cause trouble and never gets caught. In my opinion, they don't have to worry about getting in trouble, because they know that can get out of it, but the greasers are the ones who are targeted, because they seem like the “real criminals.” “On the front page of the second section was the headline: JUVENILE DELINQUENTS TURN HEROES. (107),” on the newspaper, they called Pony a “Juvenile Delinquent,” assuming that Pony is bad, and they say he turns a hero, as if being a “Juvenile Delinquent” turning good is different or new. Say if it was a socs doing that, it wouldn’t need to be on the news, the socs are the so called, “Good KIds,” so it’s “Normal” for them, but it’s different for the greasers. The last reason on why Pony feels like an outsider from the socs, is how different Pony dresses from other socs. Both of their senses of style are completely different, “I only mean that most greasers do things like that, just like we wear our