The Outsiders represents many forms of how emotions may alter you. How emotions alter you is a very popular theme in The Outsiders. Emotions can change how you act in two ways, one of the two ways is letting your feelings out on someone, the other way is ignoring everyone and go away privately. A outrageous event happened last year in Marysville, WA that represented a boy who shot 4 teens and himself. This relates to my theme that states how emotions can affect you because Jaylen Fryberg, the kid who shot 4 teens, suffered bullying and depression, which are emotions that can compose you to do terrible things such as that. The Outsiders presents how emotions can change you many times. Darry gets in an argument with Ponyboy, then he gets madder and madder until he can’t take it anymore, “Darry wheeled around and slapped my so hard that it knocked me against the door” (44). This explains how …show more content…
emotions can modify you as a result to Darry slapped Ponyboy right across the face. Another event occurred when someone let their emotions out on someone else. It was late at night, about 2am, Ponyboy and Johnny were at the park, when suddenly the socs jumped them. One Soc started drowning Ponyboy in the fountain, “I ducked and tried to run for it, but the Soc caught my arm and twisted it behind my back, and shoved my face into the fountain… I'm drowning, I thought, they've gone too far… A red haze filled my mind and I slowly relaxed. The next thing I knew I was lying the pavement beside, the fountain… Then I saw Johnny… ‘I killed him,’ he said slowly. ‘I killed that boy’” (49). Johnny was very mad at those socs. So he decided to stab one that was drowning Ponyboy. Emotions can truly change you based on this gruesome event. Another form of emotions changing you, is when you go away from the person/thing that affected your emotions.
This was a very prominent thing that happened within this story. Darry suddenly slaps Ponyboy directly in the face. Ponyboy was infuriated. “I turned and ran out the door and down the street as fast as I could” (44). Ponyboy was so mad at Darry for punching him in the face, so he bolted out of the door and that was the last of Ponyboy, Darry and Sodapop saw for a while. This part in the book, lead to another part when Johnny was fighting for his life as a result to them running away. Dally and Ponyboy went to see Johnny in the hospital when he was in critical condition. As they were talking to him, they could tell he had very little energy, “‘Damnit Johnny…’ He begged, slamming one fist against the wall, hammering it to make it obey his will, ‘Oh, damnit, Johnny, don't die, please don't die… ‘ He suddenly bolted through the door and down the hall” (126-127). This displays how some people will act regarding something very bad that has happened to
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All in all, the permeating theme of S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders is Your personal decisions can always affect the people closest to you. I Picked this Theme because I think i fits the best with the book Many people Kill and get killed because of one dumb decision/
Dally did something to save one of his gang members too. It was Dally who pulled Johnny out from the burning church. Johnny would have died instantly if Dally did not get Johnny out of the church. When Dally was shot, Ponyboy remembered the things Dally had done for them.
Once, a wise soul has spoken, “Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful”. Adversity means having troubles and difficulties. It’s what you need to persevere through in order to do something you’ve wanted to do for a long time. If you want to pass that test, you’ve gotta conquer your fears and fight through all the troubles that arrive in front of you. Become your own hero. Adversity is a situation that took place in the novel “The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton.
The Outsiders is about how you choose to view people and how you think of certain social groups.
In The Outsiders, the Socs and Greasers are in a constant turf war between the East and West side of town, and this causes lots of verbal and physical altercations. Randy an emotionally distraught Soc pointed out, “You can't win, even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before--- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing.” Randy is trying to say that no matter how hard they try no matter how bad someone gets beat it will still be the same after the fight as before the fight. Another example of violence within the gang was Dallas Winston, “Dally had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age often. He was tougher than the rest of us--- tougher, colder, meaner...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he Wanted.” Even though Dally was one tough guy, after so much exposure to violence and fighting, there came a breaking point for Dally where he could just not take it anymore. After Ponyboy walked home from the lot and a verbal argument began, “Darry wheeled around and slapped me so hard that it knocked me against the door...I turned and ran out the door and down the street as fast as I could.” When siblings fight, especially when it gets physical the consequences only get worse and
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton is about two gangs, the Socs and Greasers, who do not get along and are fighting each other as well as society. Both of the gangs are judged by their appearance, social status, and where they are from. One character that stands out in the story is Ponyboy because he is dynamic with many sides to his personality, and he is the protagonist of the story. Ponyboy can be described as sensitive, smart, and brave.
Johnny saw that Pony was unhappy because he missed his brothers that were back home. Johnny thought that the only reason Pony was still there in the church with him was because he was the one who wanted to run away in the first place . Johnny finally decided to turn himself in because Pony hadn’t committed a crime and Johnny would be let of easy for saving the kids . Johnny would do anything for his buddies but he has a limit and I think that limit is girls. I don’t think that Johnny would of yelled at Dally if he wouldn’t of disrespected those girls the way he did. Although he yelled at his buddy he was the hero of those two Socs that Dally was disrespecting and he got a complement from them and they let him and Pony sit with
The movie, The Outsiders, starts with the Curtis parents on their weekly, Saturday evening drive to the baking store to buy some ingredients for their boys’ favorite Sunday morning, breakfast treat: chocolate cake. The Curtis boys love their chocolate cake for Sunday breakfast not only because they love it, but also because they appreciate how hard their parents have to work to save the monies necessary for the morsels that put smiles on their faces!
”Because most people identify as separate from other people, they have what we call some "concept" of themselves. Self-concept refers to how people “think about, evaluate, or perceive” themselves.” Self-concept can be split into categories that make people who they are. Throughout “The Outsiders”, Ponyboy the protagonist, describes his brother and his friends in relation to him, giving insight on what makes each of them who they are. After reading an article on this topic “Self-Concept “by Saul McLeod (1), and reading chapters 1-3 of the novel “The Outsiders” (2). One can see the major reasons that make people who they are: self-image and self-esteem/self-worth.
Determination and a strong connection with the natural world can uphold a person's sense of hope. Throughout the book The Outsiders it is demonstrated that through being confronted with arduous situations Ponyboy and the gang using determination and courage establish a sense of hope through each other. As shown in “no rival gangs only socs and you can't win against them no matter how hard you try” it displays that Ponyboy at the opening of the story does not believe anything can change therefore he has disbelief in hope. However after encountering two socials Cherry and Marcia they
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…
This situation occurs when Darry states,“ ‘I don’t know if you ought to be in this rumble, Pony,’ ”(134). Although what Darry says is in concern of his little brother, for PonyBoy, the fight is more important than his health at the moment. When Ponyboy ends up passing out for three days from the fight with the Socs, it may show that this risk did not go well(157). But, in a sense, it helped Ponyboy get his anger out and free his mind for some time. Overall, it did not hurt Ponyboy to get knocked out. Johnny says this after he killed someone instinctively, “ ‘I killed him,’ he said slowly. ‘I killed that boy’ ”(56). Shortly after Johnny kills Bob the Soc to protect Ponyboy, he realizes what he has done. Whether or not this was a good decision, in the end he saved his friend from dying. In any case, this was self defense. To add on to events that were risks, these two were great
Throughout life individuals face many challenges testing their values and personality one situation at a time. In the evocative novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton themes of growing up and innocence are shown. Ponyboy is not your average 14 year old he is part of a gang known to many as the Greasers. He encounters many situations testing his values and beliefs. Having lost both his parents recently he and his brothers stick together like a true family but this relationship is tested when Darry hits Ponyboy. He also experiences the loss several close friends in a very short period of time. Throughout this novel, Ponyboy encounters many life changing experiences that prove he is a dynamic character.
Darry immediately regrets his action, but the damage is done. Ponyboy bolts out of the house. He’s angry at Darry, scared, and humiliated all at the same time. Ponyboy goes and gets Johnny and announces that they are running away.
Defining a person is not as easy as looking through a dictionary. Inferring, thinking, and a thoughtful mind are all required in illustrating the true person. The shaping of one’s identity is all based on events that happen to a person. Many sources of literature prove that the major aspect in shaping one’s identity is memories. In literature, they include the fundamentals of memories in their morals. The importance of memories is significantly shown in The Outsiders when Johnny acts differently because of his abusive childhood; in S.E. Hinton’s Letter, when she talks about how her wish of becoming a writer became her future and her true identity; and Julian Baggini’s lecture, where he directly said that memories shape who “you” are. Johnny’s abusive past and S.E.’s longing for a life away from social struggles all shaped who they later became. The uniqueness of a person’s personality is determined mainly on one’s memories.