In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy, the young protagonist is a member of the greaser gang along with his older brother Darry; both brothers have a difficult life, but are able to rise above that and perform noble deeds. Ponyboy, a kind, fourteen-year-old orphan with light brown hair and greenish-grey eyes, has to deal with many obstacles. His parents die in a car crash and he lives with only his two older brothers, Darry and Sodapop. Darry is constantly pressuring Ponyboy to do well in school so he can get a scholarship. Since he is a greaser, he is at great risk of being jumped by the Socs, another gang in his town. Ponyboy does not enjoy being a greaser because he does not believe fighting, stealing, or perpetrating terrible crimes …show more content…
Ponyboy saves up money to try to buy back Sodapop's horse, Mickey Mouse. However, his most noble act is saving little children from a burning, abandoned church with the assistance of Johnny and Dally, two other members of the gang. After all the dreadful experiences Ponyboy endures, he feels he must tell his story to help people like him. Like Ponyboy, Darry suffers from having to live a very rough life, but still manages to produce acts of nobleness. Darry, a strict, 20-year-old muscular man with dark hair and brown eyes, has to deal with many hardships. Since both his parents die, Darry becomes the caretaker of his two younger brothers. He gives up his chance to go to college and instead must work excessively hard to support the family. Although Darry has to endure these hardships, he is still able to execute bighearted acts. Darry manages to always be the father figure of the greaser gang. He also overworks himself so he can help the family and give his little brothers their greatest shot in life. Both Darry and Pony could prosper from programs. Darry and Ponyboy, constantly have arguments and disagreements so maybe group therapy could be beneficial to …show more content…
Cherry, a cheerleader with long red hair from the west side of town deals with problems. She is put under pressure by the other Socs and does not feel free to be herself, because of the divide between the greasers and Socs. When Bob is drunk and tries to pick a fight with Ponyboy and Johnny, she forces herself to go home with him so Pony and Johnny do not get hurt. Cherry even has to confront the grief that follows the murdering of Bob. Although Cherry has to face a lot, she still performs honorable deeds. Cherry accepts Ponyboy and Johnny for who they are rather than treat them like the rest of the Socs do, when she meets them at the movies. She also agrees to be a spy for the greasers, and risks her reputation in the town to assist the greasers because she strives to see the kindness in everyone. Cherry is not the only Soc that faces troubles in their life, but manages to complete acts of big-heartedness. Randy, a rich kid from the west side encounters strenuous times, yet he performs acts of kindness. Randy is constantly afraid of what his pals, and the town will think of him if he does what he would like to do. He wants to not go to the rumble, but he is scared of what people might think. Randy even have to witness his best friend Bob being brutally murdered, and bleeding to death. Although Randy, suffers from these tough
In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton a teenage boy named Ponyboy lives with his two older brothers named Soda and Darry, and there is some controversy on whether or not his brothers are able to take proper care of Ponyboy. All three of the brothers are apart of the neighborhood gang called “The Greasers”, which is more like a brotherhood of underprivileged boys that have eachother’s backs rather than a gang. Ponyboy finds himself involved with the murder of an egotistical “Soc” named Bob, and is at risk of being taken away from his family and friends. Ponyboy should be able to stay with his brothers, because he is a well-rounded student that obeys the law for the most part, and his brothers are able to provide financial and emotional
“Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave (2).” This explains why Ponyboy, Dally and Sodapop did not have parents. In the novel, this really effected their life and character. "…It was Darry. He hit me. I don't know what happened, but I couldn't take him hollering at me and hitting me too... He didn't use to be like that... we used to get along okay... before Mom and Dad died. Now he just can't stand me (2)." This shows that not having their parents anymore effected Darry’s character and how he treated Ponyboy, which in return effected how Ponyboy felt about himself in comparison to how he was treated. This illustrates that Ponyboy believes that Darry picks on him all the time. This shows that Darry was like a caring parent in a tough way,
Have you ever felt judged or marginalized only because of the situation you were born in?Having to walk on the street wondering if you’re safe. Have you ever been the one that gets made fun of? The laughing stock? The uncool one? The one with the bad luck? In S.E Hinton's The Outsiders, the Greasers are all of those things. It’s a dark world they live in but they have no choice. Although the narrator, Ponyboy, may not lead the best life, he still tries to make the most of it. Heroism, social class and survival are some of the most transcendent themes demonstrated in S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders.
After the church fire Ponyboy comes to the realization of many things. Two-Bit and Ponyboy are eating at a restaurant known as Tasty Freeze when Randy asks to speak with him. Ponyboy tells Randy, ¨Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn’t have. It’s the individual¨(115). He finds out that you cannot define someone based on of they are part of the Socs or the greasers. Furthermore, he finds out that every one is a individual and that means that just because he is a part of a certain group it does not mean that they are all going to react or perceive a situation in the same exact way. In addition, he say this to Randy because when there was a fire in the church Dally was not willing to risk his life to save someone else's when Johnny and Ponyboy were more than willing to help the kids. This shows event shows how all Greasers and Socs are not the same. In the beginning of the novel Ponyboy believed Darry disliked him and thought he was a nuisance. However, later on at the hospital Ponyboy tells Darry, “I’m sorry” (98). Ponyboy’s words expose how he feels bad for thinking Darry disliked him all along when in truth he loved him more than words could describe. He realizes that Darry fears losing another family member that is why he is so overprotective of Ponyboy. Hence, proving Ponyboy is clearly a dynamic character.
But they spend almost the entire story neck and neck. They spend all of their time focusing on what is going on in their own lives. For the greasers those things are, living with little money, not having family members to rely on, and having to deal with the Socs. For the Socs, it's wanting their family to discipline them more to show them they care, keeping up their reputation, and having to deal with the neglect of their parents. Both sides have so many thing going on in their lives that they don't even think about the reason they are fighting or what's so wrong about the other side. It takes them quite a while until they finally come to the conclusion about both sides, as Cherry Valance said, “‘Things are rough all over’” (Hinton
Ponyboy is a character in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Ponyboy is a smart greaser, and isn't like the others. He is 14 and lives with his two brothers because his parents died. PonyBoy isn't your stereotypical gang member. He likes school and gets great grades. He is always reading a book. He is the narrator in the story, and writes the book for his friend.
Pony boy and his two brothers are members of a Greaser gang,meaning they are considered delinquents by others in their town.The Greaser's main problem was getting jumped by another gang called "the Socs."
At sixteen years of age, S. E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders, a fictional novel set in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the year 1965. The story is told from the perspective of fourteen year old Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy, along with his two older brothers, and other friends, are Greasers. Greasers is a nickname directed towards people in the low-social class region. Those classified in the high-class category are called Socs, short for socials. The two groups tend to bear a great deal of clashing whenever they interact; Socs attack Greasers, Greasers fight back. One day, Ponyboy and a friend of his, Johnny Cade, are approached by a clique of Socs. During the brawl, someone attempts to drown Ponyboy. Johnny retaliates by stabbing a particular
The Outsiders Is a novel written by S. E. Hinton is about a gang of friends living in the ghetto and they are called Greasers. The main character is Ponyboy, a 14 year old boy who is living with his brothers Darry, who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 17. At a young age Ponys parents died and he’s living with his older brothers. Greasers have always had problems with Socs, the rich kids on the west side. Socs always jump the Greasers until one day Johnny Ponys best friend gets jumped and he’s had enough. I believe the theme of this story is “Once you learn about somebody the diversity between you goes away.”
In the novel, “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, it illustrates a story about a fourteen year old boy named Ponyboy that lives with his brothers, Darry and Sodapop, after losing both of his parents. Darry and Sodapop have to make sure that Ponyboy doesn’t get in trouble and ends up being sent to a boy’s home. Darry, Sodapop, and Johnny are in a gang known as the Greasers meaning that they are known as juveniles. They live in a society where the Socs, the rich,fancy kids, jump the Greasers and always end up in fights. Ponyboy and his brothers cannot be separated after because they need each other. It is better for him to be with his family than with other strangers. He would be disciplined well and prepared to be independent with his good grades and character.
The Outsiders is a novel by S.E Hinton, that follows a young boy named Ponyboy who grows up in a gang. Johnny, Sodapop and Darry help him find how he fits into the world and without them he would have a hard time finding his own identity. Without having a close group of friends he would have a tough way of life, especially with the Socs. Being in a group that you associate with, that have different values to yourself can lead you to disregard your own ethics and do things you wouldn’t normally do, but at the same time this can assist and reinforce your own values…
The “Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton, is a novel about a young boys journey through life after a horrible tragedy. When Ponyboy's parents died, he struggled with living alongside his two older brothers. Darry, Ponyboy’s older brother, was his legal guardian. Pony should stay with his older brothers, Sodapop and Darry, because they are all each other have. The only family Pony has left is his older brothers and the greasers. Taking him away from his family when he needs it most is wrong.
In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, a young boy named Ponyboy faces a problem of being taken away from his two brothers, one who is his legal guardian. If he is taken away he will be put into the foster system. His parents are dead, so he does not want to be separated from his only living family, his two brothers Sodapop and Darry, and his gang called the Greasers. He needs to stay with his brothers because his gang is like his family, his brothers can support him financially, and he does not want to lose the closest thing he has to a family.
Even from the beginning Ponyboy recognised the different social classes and the struggles that the Greasers face. ‘I'm not sure how you spell it, but Socs is the abbreviation for Socials, the West-side rich kids. It's like the term greaser that's used to class all us boys on the East Side’ (chapter 1 p.3). ‘And you can't win against them no matter how hard you try, because they've got all the breaks and even whipping them isn't going to change that fact.’ Despite the death of his friends and a Soc as a result of the warfare between the gangs Ponyboy never truly acknowledges that something should be done, nor does he try to resolve this. Ponyboys character as well as many other characters do not progress or mature through the book and never try to positively solve their problems
In the Outsiders written by S.E Hinton one of the main characters is Ponyboy. He is stereotyped as a greaser (a poor boy from the east side of town). Ponyboy accepts being a greaser and it affects him positively. Some people might stereotype Ponyboy as a hero and not a greaser.