The novel ‘The Outsiders’ includes two gangs, The Greasers and The Soc’s. Throughout this novel, readers are shown key ideas such as, people can be heroic and villainous, family and how teenagers can face being adults. While reading this novel, the author S.E Hinton displays that not everyone is good or bad and all people make unscrupulous decisions. Ponyboy, Johnny and Randy are perfect examples of how people can be heroic, and villainous. Johnny demonstrates to us that everyone has a good and bad side. After Johnny was beaten half to death by the Soc’s and abused by his parents, he displayed to us how he can stay strong and fight through his difficulties. Johnny also shows us his ability to make good decisions when he sacrifices himself to save the children in the church fire and follows Ponyboy into the church, “I hadn’t realized Johnny had been behind me …show more content…
all the way” said Ponyboy, which shows us that Johnny was keen to save the children. Also while Ponyboy and Johnny were in the church saving the children, Johnny sacrifices himself to save Ponyboy by propelling Ponyboy towards the window “Johnny shoved me towards the window to ‘get out’ I leaped towards the window and I heard timber crashing”. Everyone can be good but they can also be bad. Events of Johnny being immoral are when he killed Bob, Johnny whispered “I killed him, I killed that boy”. There are many corrupt decisions that Johnny has committed, for example he’s an underage smoker and he carries a switchblade in his back pocket “to kill the next person that jumps him”. It is clear that Johnny is a person who shows both heroic and villainous characteristics. Randy is a part of the Soc’s gang and he can be both heroic and a villainous. After Bob's death, Randy stops Ponyboy and tells him that fighting between ‘The Greasers’ and ‘The Soc’s’ is pointless. Randy also refuses to fight in the rumble because "Greasers will still be Greasers and Soc’s will still be Soc’s". In addition, Randy comes to visit Ponyboy when he was sick and apologies to Ponyboy about everything that had happened in the last few weeks. This proves that Soc’s aren’t always immoral and they do have some heroic qualities in them. Randy can be the villain as well, for an example when he helped the other Soc’s beat up Johnny and Ponyboy. Obviously Randy has both good and bad qualities. Ponyboy has made many good decisions and also made some bad decisions in his lifetime.
Ponyboy has been heroic when he defends Sherry and Marcia at the drive-in theater when Dallas was harassing them. He also shows that he is heroic when he saves the children from the church fire. Ponyboy demonstrations how he can be a good friend by staying by Johnny’s bed side while he was sick. There are numerous amounts of heroic decisions that Ponyboy committed but he can also be the villain at some stages. Ponyboy smokes a packet of cigarettes a day which is bad for his health. Ponyboy fights a lot with Darry, Soda says, “I can’t stand to hearing y’all fight anymore.” After Johnny died Ponyboy’s grades went down and he wanted to drop out of school, Ponyboy announces, “I’ll have to get a job as soon as I get out of school anyway. Look at Soda. He’s doing okay, and he dropped out. You can just lay off”. Ponyboy listens to Randy even though he’s a Soc’s. “I swear you three are the bravest kids I’ve seen in a long time” said Randy. S.E Hinton has cleverly used Ponyboy to show that all people can be heroic and
villainous. The above arguments demonstrate that people aren’t always heroic or villainous. S.E Hinton has shown that even though people can make bad decisions in life it doesn’t mean they are just purely immoral, everyone can also be heroic. Ponyboy, Johnny and Randy are a perfect examples of heroic and villainous people.
Pony and Johnny do not hesitate and jump in to save the children, Pony gets out ok but Johnny is hit with a piece of falling wood and serious burnt. The boys appear in the news as heroes, even though they are still wanted for murdering the Soc. Pony is fine, but Johnny is badly hurt. After a while, there is a big fight between the Greasers and the Socs.
...t like the rest of the Greasers he wouldn’t kill or nothing no matter what. They could of said Johnny not no killer but don’t push him because he will go off but instead they made it seem like he was a kid that lived in a household that didn’t care about him and that he was a punk and never stood up for himself.
He is smart, and gets good grades in school. This is purposefully mentioned several times within the story, and people tend to be surprised to learn that he is a Greaser. In addition, some Greasers are nicer than people tend to think. When the church burned down, Ponyboy and Johnny run in to save the children without a second thought. They acted with selflessness, putting the safety of the children above their own. In the ambulance on the way to the hospital, Ponyboy is asked if he and Johnny are "professional heroes". He responds by telling the entire story of how they're Greasers and Johnny is wanted for murder, shocking the man in the ambulance. It is difficult for him to believe that a group of Greasers would do something so heroic. Johnny dies as a direct result of their actions, but neither Ponyboy nor Johnny regretted what they
Boom! Johnny drops to the floor. Kids are screaming. This is when Johnny is a hero for the second time in the story, The Outsiders. Johnny is a hero because he saved kids from a fire and Johnny saved Pony from dying.
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
Could a person live in a world without people who love and care for them? Could people survive in a world where they were judged by how they were presented on the outside? S.E. Hinton, the author of The Outsiders, discusses many universal themes, such as friendship, stereotyping, and change. In The Outsiders, two rival groups, the socs and the greasers, are separated by social class. The friendship between the greasers will be tested when an unexpected event changes everything. The greasers must learn that people experience many tragic events, no matter who the person is. Based on the universal themes, the readers will begin to understand how the characters in the novel grow and change, and how friendship and family help along the way.
To save Ponyboy from the Socs, he kill the Socs Bob though he is really scared and terrified by them. He can take the consequence of killing a man because he needs to save his friend. Another example is that when the church is on fire Johnny not only saves school children but saves Ponyboy by pushing Ponyboy out of the church leaving himself in great danger of being crushed by the building’s falling timbers. He can die for his friend. So it is really sad that such a heroic character died after the church fire incident.
The Outsiders, an enthralling novel by S.E Hinton, is an excellent story about the hardships and triumphs experienced by the Greasers and the Socs two rival gangs. S.E Hinton tells a thrilling tale about the Socs and the Greasers that are two gangs and she characterize how they live. Ponyboy, his brother and his friends have to deal with the challenges relating to their environment. The three most important topics of The Outsiders are survival, social class and family support.
If Johnny would’ve never killed Bob, Ponyboy would’ve died from drowning. Johnny will put others before him. “Johnny shoved me toward the window ‘Get out!’ “ (pg. 93) Johnny could’ve taken that time to get himself out instead of telling Ponyboy to get out. What resulted from this was Johnny got third-degree burns and his back was broken from the piece of timber that fell upon him. He could’ve let Ponyboy get severely hurt and saved himself, but no he didn’t he let himself get hurt which shows he will put others before him. Johnny will risk his life to save friends or people he doesn’t even know. “It was a wonder I didn’t cut myself to death, now that I think about it. ‘Hey Ponyboy.’ I looked around, startled. I hadn’t realized Johnny had been right behind me all the way.” (pg 91) Johnny followed Ponyboy inside the burning church just to save a couple of children. He risked his life to save children he didn’t even know and after the saving the children he got injured which followed up to death. This shows that Johnny will put his life at risk and will save
In the book The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy, along with his brothers and friends, has to face the daily struggles of being a greaser among the Socs. This fiction book focused on Ponyboy’s life and the problems he ran into with the Socs. He and his gang of friends had fights with the Socs that happened often, and had to deal with a Soc being killed by one of the Greasers, though it was an act of self defense. The three topics addressed in this intriguing novel are the fight between rich and poor, the power of friendship, and what it means to be a hero.
In S.E. Hinton’s book, The Outsiders, children born on the wrong side of town grow up to be juvenile, teenage hoods. In this book, these teenage delinquents are the Greasers, whose only "rival" is the Socials, or "Socs," as an abbreviation. The characters within The Outsiders unmistakably choose a remote. lifestyle of juvenile delinquency and crime. Ilanna Sharon Mandel wrote an article called, "What Causes Juvenile Delinquency?" This editorial presents many circumstances that can be applied to the main character, or protagonist, Ponyboy Michael Curtis and his brothers, friends, and neighbors. Their behavior may not always lead them to the right side of the law, but it is the cause of juvenile delinquency that gets them in. trouble.
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…
Ponyboy Curtis struggles growing up as a poor youth with his two brothers. One night while he is out with Johnny, Ponyboy is attacked by the Socs. Johnny ends up killing one of the Socs. They both flee from the scene before the news gets out. They are caught in a fire and Johnny and Ponyboy become heroes for saving some children. The story has a tragic end for Johnny but Ponyboy realises that he is fortunate, having family and friends that love him
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.
Dear Johnny, I miss him, he was so important to me and all of his friends, he did not care what people thought about him he just lived his life, I'm sorry for his parents you never even got to know him, you did not even tried to, but that's ok it never really bother him. He was like the puppy of the gang, other people would call it a gang, but it is not, it is a family we are members of this family and Johnny was in the center of it we would not let anything bad happen to him if we saw the social club guys beating up Johnny we would stick up for Johnny we loved him. He never really had a wonderful life he had bad parents he got beat up more than any of us, but he did have some nice moments in his short life, he stood up for what was right, he hated fights and anger he did not want to kill that socs he did it for me that other socs was trying to kill me and drown me in that fountain and I would not. here if it was not for Johnny. He was a greaser but he also stood for human rights if a greaser was being mean to a socs girl he would stick up for the girl even though he meant no harm for the greaser or the socs