Did you know that 40% of all gang members are under the age of 18?The Socs and the greasers are both rival gangs.The Socs are a rich kid gang in Tulsa,Oklahoma.The greasers are a poor gang that wear grease in their hair.Both the Socs and Greasers deal with struggles such as the opposing gang,bad health choices,and Parent problems. Both the Socs and the Greasers deal with the opposing gang.”He had a nervous,suspicious,look in his eyes, and the beating he got from the socs didn’t help either.”(Hinton 13).This shows that Johnny ,a greaser, had been brutally beaten up by a Soc. As a result, because of what the socs did, Johnny was not the same after the beating. “I killed him” said Johnny he said slowly.”I killed that boy.” Bob ,the handsome Soc was lying there dead”(Hinton 56).This statement shows that both gangs fight with each other.In other words the gangs are a really big threat and struggle for each other.The Socs and …show more content…
“The expectation is that high marks are to be given even with marginal effort as the child is labelled as “being from a good family”.Unfortunately, upon graduating from high school, a growing percentage of these affluent youth will discover the world is not circling around them.”(Carr, A generation struggling). This quote explains that kids with rich parents get put on high expectations and that could lead to bad choices.This quote also shows that even though they come from rich parents,they could still do bad things.A big struggle that the Greasers and Socs face is parent
In The Outsiders there are two rival gangs, one from the lower class, who are the Greasers and their rivals are from the upper class, they are the Socials. The story takes place in the mid 1960’s in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The story is set in a large town in the United States, The east side of the town is where the Greasers live and the west side is where the Socs live. The story is told in first person narration from Ponyboy Curtis’s point of view. The protagonist is Ponyboy Curtis and the other major characters are,
The Outsiders is a book about Greasers And Socs. The Greasers are the poor east side kids they would wear their hair long and greasy and they will dress in blue jeans, T-shirts, or wear they shirttails out and wear a leather jacket and tennis shoes or boots. The Socs are the rich west side kids that worn nice clothes, drove nice cars, and had all the pretty lady’s. They both was gangs in Oklahoma. The Socs they would jump Greasers, wreck houses, and throw beer blasts for kicks.
The socs and greasers are different. The socs like to wear Madras blue shorts and they are also very wealthy. Also the socs have very expensive cars they have mustangs and corvairs, the socs like to fight with knives and beer bottles they like to jump the people they are fighting. Also The socs live on the west side. The greasers like to fight with punches they like to fight straight up. Also
Stereotyping is a constant theme throughout The Outsiders. It may seem as if the Greasers are the ones that really have to deal with presumptions, but the Socs also have quite a bit of stereotyping to deal with. While the outside world tries to force these stereotypes onto the gangs, they also tend to assume things about each other. This leads to divisions between them that most likely would not exist if stereotyping was not so abundant. The Greasers are pegged as nasty hoodlum troublemakers that are dropouts and criminals. On the other hand, the Socs are made out to be the opposite- crisp, intelligent young adults that have no real problems. Many cases of stereotyping between the two groups leads to violence between them.
The book “the Outsiders” (S.E. Hinton) is based on the story of two gangs the Greasers and the Socs. These two groups of individuals have conflicts. the Greasers are the East side working class people. The Socs are the West side rich kids. they drive around in a blue mustang, they “jump” the greasers and injure them purely because they are lesser than the Socs. The Greasers are a interesting bunch of individuals. the story is based from their perspective. They aren’t rich but they get by, they steal they fight they smoke but they aren’t bad guys.
My evidence for why the Greasers struggle more than the Socs is that the Greasers have to make many personal sacrifices, & they experience a lot of violence.The Greasers are poor with a few good friends to help them, while the Socs are rich with no “real” friends to support them. Because of the sacrifices they made & the violence they were exposed to, the Greasers struggled more than the Socs.The Greasers struggle more because they were exposed to violence. According to pg. 33 of The Outsiders, “...one of them had a lot of rings on his hand--that’s what had cut Johnny up so badly. It wasn’t just that they had beaten him half to death-he could take that. They had scared him. They had threatened him with everything under the sun.” Explain how the quote shows the
Did you know that many people join gangs because of Family issues. Socs and Greasers have problem with family issues.They also have problems with money and are judged by others.Both Socs and Greasers deal with money problems,family issues,and are judged by others because of the way they act.
...e better and the Socs to be worse. Being tough and tuff were the two things required in each group, but not every individual were able to be the two things. This caused some individuals not to be themselves for the gang. Internal and external expectations changed the group to be better or worse. The Greasers were expected by others to do bad things, but they were able to prove they could be heroes. The Greasers are disgrace to the society which helped them to strive to become real heroes. While the Socs were to pressure by the high expectations they decided to rebel. The Socs took advantage which led those group to be a disgrace, although no one ever thought the Socs were capable to do bad things. Society should stop being judgmental to avoid changes that make other worst. The only expectations people should make is to help other people to be the best they can be.
"Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations and have a gang fight once in a while."(3). This quote from the book shows that people will think even worse of the Greasers because of their actions. Normal people would not do what they are doing because they have principles. The Greasers were fugitives, and this gave people an even bigger reason to be fearful of them and consider them a disgrace to society. The Socs did comparable things, but were not punished for them like the Greasers, and were still able to keep a sterling image of themselves. "Not like the Socs, who jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next."(3). Unlike the Greasers, whatever the Socs do, it will not ruin their reputation at all. Overall, from looking at both the Greasers and the Socs, it is easy to say that the Greasers are a bigger disgrace to society concerning their behavior than the
In the outsiders we learn that the Greasers and the Socs aren't so different because they feel the same way about teenage issues. Both Greasers and Socs want the other one gone. They both wants what’s best for their gang.They both feel the same about issues. In the beginning of the story the Socs and the Greasers seemed like totally different people, and I thought the Socs were just rich snobs and the Greasers were just hoodlums. In the Middle of the Story Randy confronts Soda and tells him that he doesn’t want to fight and that he’s sick of all the fighting. At the end of the story the Greasers and the Socs kind of make peace because they both lost friends just because of all they’re fighting and they realized that all of this fighting is
I feel as though the novel The outsiders has many themes, but the most important one is belonging. The greasers are a group of poor, low class youth that don’t have much and live on the wrong side of town. They are always held accountable for their actions. On the other hand, the Socs are a bunch of high class youth that are very privileged and aren’t held accountable for their immature actions.
The Socs are almost always the ones that are starting the fights. For instance, jumping the Greasers all the time,just out of boredom! They usually also target weaker victims, just like when they beat up Johnny. Johnny is a Greaser, the “pet” of the group, and one of the youngest. The Socs affected him so badly that he had a scar emotionally and physically. “Johnny's face was cut up and bruised and swollen, and there was a wide gash from his temple to his cheekbone. He would carry that scar all his life. His white T-shirt was splattered with blood. I thought he might be dead; surely nobody could be beaten like that and live”(Hinton 29). Here, the author reveals that the Socs did some damage to Johnny that he would have as long as he lives, and it’s not only the physical hurt. Even though the Greasers are not fully innocent, overall the Socs have done more
The greasers are poor and from the bad part of town also are considered hoods by the clothes they wear and how they look. The greasers are just young boys trying to find their way in life and cant find it with all these things about them all the struggles. Finally the Greasers have it hard because of their constant struggle.
In this documentary, many of the individuals were “born rich,” meaning that they have inherited an excessive amount of money, not because of their intelligence and talent, but because they are heirs to wealth. The director of the film, Jamie Johnson highlights the life of the rich, in which the wealthy 1% have more than the rest of the 99% of people. Meritocracy is non-existent in the life of the rich. A rich person has many educational benefits, because they have the networks and connections that those of the middle and lower classes do not have. The rich have the right access to schools because of their wealth and power that comes from their wealthy status. For example, in the documentary one of the rich kids, Luke Weil, attended Brown University and was describing his entry to the Ivy League as expected. He did well on the boards, but it was “incidental” (Weil, movie) because without it he would have still went to Brown University or any other Ivy League University because of his inherited wealth. Interestingly, even when he attended Brown University, he was not a good student, where in his first year he did not attend more than eight academic events, including tests and exams. As a result, he was put on academic probation because he was not attending classes so he was
Complicating matters even further is a third gang, The Ramrodders, a group of greasers that interact with the Reds and the Blues.