The Outsiders In the book, “The Outsiders” author S.E. Hinton tells a dramatic story through the eyes of the main character, Ponyboy Curtis. This book took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. Ponyboy Curtis and his older brothers Sodapop and Darry live in the east part of town and are referred to as “Greasers” . The Greasers are in continual conflict with the rich kids who live on the west side of town, who are called the “Socs”. Since Ponyboy’s parents died, his older brother Darry takes care of Soda and him. The Greasers are almost like hoodlums, and they usually do not do well in school. But Ponyboy and Darry are both intelligent and have done well in school. Darry had the opportunity to go to college, but was not able to because he had to …show more content…
take care of his brothers. The Outsiders details the story of poor kids and the struggles they have surviving in a world that is run by the the wealthy. Ponyboy’s brothers and his friends form a family that helps to get through the setbacks and tragedies that most people don’t encounter until much later in their lives. In the beginning of the story, Ponyboy and his friends go to see a movie.
When they arrived there, the only other people that were there was two girls. Ponyboy and his friend Johnny start to talk to the girls and they find out the girls are Socs. The girl’s names were Cherry and Marcia. While Ponyboy and Cherry were at the concession stands, Ponyboy tells the story of how Johnny was beaten up by Socs that were driving a blue Mustang. One of the Socs had rings on his fingers and hit Johnny so hard it left a scar on his face. After the movie, Ponyboy his friends and the girls decide to walk home together. Then a blue Mustang showed up and two Socs came out. One of them had three heavy rings on his hand. An argument started after the girls accused the Socs of always getting drunk. The girls eventually ended up going home with the Socs. When Johnny and Ponyboy were alone, they accidently fell asleep in a vacant lot. When Ponyboy finally he realized he followed a sleep for quite sometime and he raced home. His oldest brother Darry was waiting for him. They got into a heated argument and then Darry became very angry and slapped Ponyboy. Ponyboy then ran away to Johnny (he was still in the lot asleep) and they walked to the park just to cool off. Then the blue Mustang showed up with four Socs in it. They became angry because Ponyboy and Johnny picked up there girls. Then one Soc forced Ponyboy in a fountain full of water. Then all of a sudden Johnny stabbed the Soc with a knife …show more content…
because he thought the Soc was going to drown Ponyboy. After that the Socs fled. Johnny and Ponyboy then ran away to their friend Dallas and got a gun, clothes, and money. He told them to hop on a train to Windrixville and go to an abandoned church to hide out. When they got to the church they bought food and had to cut their hair to disguise themselves. Ponyboy had to bleach his. They stayed in hiding for over a week. After about a week Dallas went to check on them and took them to get lunch.
Ponyboy and Johnny were in the paper as they were wanted by the police. When they went back to the church they discovered it was on fire. They realized there were children trapped in the church. Ponyboy and Johnny went to save them. They got all of them out but, a large beam that was ablaze fell on Johnny’s back. Ponyboy was on fire and Dallas hit him in the back in attempt to get the fire out. Ponyboy fell and was unconscious. When he woke up, he went straight to the hospital where his brothers and friends were there to meet them. They were so happy to see each other again. But Johnny was in critical condition. His back broke and if he lived he would probably be paralyzed for the rest of his life. After that Ponyboy headed home. When he saw the paper it said Johnny and Ponyboy were heroes. Even Though Ponyboy was injured from the fire and Johnny was in the hospital the rumble between the Socs and the Greasers was still going to go as planned. The Socs usually win so they are confident they will win this time. The next day the rumble started. When they all lined up Darry volunteered to fight first. The Greasers all fought hard and they won. Right after they won Ponyboy and Dallas went to go see Johnny. Johnny was in bad condition. Ase they were talking to him Johnny died. His last words were, “Stay gold Ponyboy”. Dallas couldn’t take this and he ran off. Once Ponyboy had told the news to everyone,
they got a phone call. It was from Dallas and he said he robbed a grocery store and the police were coming for him. When he turn the corner he pointed his gun at the officers. But he got shot and died before he hit the ground. Although Johnny and Dallas died Ponyboy still has hope. Johnny’s last words inspired him to have hope. Ponyboy still has other friends and family to look up to. Even though the Socs and the Greasers are totally different people, they still have some things in common. The Greasers and the Socs have made peace.
On the first week at Grandma’s, a man named Shotgun Cheatman died. Everyone in the town went to the funeral because he was the well known assistant to the Mayor. The funeral was held in Grandma’s house and a creepy thing happened that night when Tom the cat crawled inside the casket. The next day, Joey, Mary Alice and Grandma left the house and walked across fields of tall grass and “cow pies aplenty” to Salt Creek to go fishing. They found an old wooden boat and Grandma rowed the boat out into the creek. While on their fishing adventure, they encountered a cottonmouth snake that fell into the boat and a party of drunken men on land dancing in their underwear.
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,
Then the Bell boys go to the rec center, JB goes of with Miss Sweet Tea and Josh plays a one on one game with his dad. Josh is beating him, and then Mr.Bell steals the ball and tries to show off to the people watching and tries to dunk but before he does. He got a heart attack he collapsed of the court and JB splashed his face. Josh remembered the cpr lesson in PE and tried it. No pulse. Mr.Bell went into a coma everyone was devastated, but it didn't last for long he woke up the day of christmas eve. They had a little family reunion in the hospital room but Mr.Bell had to stay in the hospital for a while. The day of the championship game, the Bell family(minus Mr.Bell) were going to start to go to the game, when a call comes that their father had another heart attack. Mrs.Bell leaves to the hospital and tells the boys to go to the game. JB doesn't want to and follows his mother to the hospital on bike. Josh thinks that his father would want him to play so he goes to the game. During the final 5 minutes JB shows up in the bleachers sobbing. Josh keeps playing till the final second, sobbing as well. He makes the final basket and they win the
According to Chris Pine, “The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.” This quote means you can choose how you view people and things.This relates to the Outsiders because the novel is about how you choose to view people. The Outsiders is about how people shouldn’t judge others based on stereotypes and they should get to know them first.
The Outsiders identified the 60’s, often there would be violence between groups and often involving a group’s social class. For instance, the tensions between the Socs and Greasers is violent, and this will lead to Bob’s death, Johnny’s death, as well as many injuries throughout both gangs. The book The Outsiders is written by S.E. Hinton and is portrayed through the eyes of a high school student in Tulsa, OK where S.E. Hinton grew up. Hinton began writing The Outsiders in 1965 at the age of 17 and the book was finally published in 1967 when she was 19. The difference in perspective upon the society and social class creates issues throughout The Outsiders and they assume the problems will be solved with violence,
Right/Wrong: I was actually half right on this prediction. Johnny and Ponyboy were walking in the park and got jumped by five socs. Then Ponyboy spit in his face and started to get shoved into the pond in the park. After that, Johnny went and stabbed the soc who was drowning Pony and he died. On an attempt to escape and not get in trouble, they went to Dally and he helped them a lot. He gave them money and a gun to escape for a week or two so the story would die down. The two boys are now hiding at an abandoned church.
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!
2. The title of this book relates to the story, because in the book, Ponyboy and Johnny are “outsiders.” They can be thought of as Outsiders because they are labeled Greasers although they do not act like hoodlums, like the rest of the Greasers. They are thought of as Greasers just because they live on the East Side of town, and because they slick back their hair. But Ponyboy and Johnny are different then all of the other Greasers because they show their emotions, and are sensitive.
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.
The Hardy boys, Frank and Joe, were driving down Shore Road and they heard a report about a stolen car. Frank and Joe raced towards the scene and saw the stolen car. Suddenly, a big red produce truck came right into the middle of the road. The boys had to slam on their brakes. They crashed into a fence and were dazed but not hurt The driver came out of the truck and said he was sorry. Frank thought something was fishy about the guy. They both went home and tried not to let their mother see all their cuts and bruises.
S.E Hinton’s ageless novel, The Outsiders, tells the dramatic story of the main character and protagonist, Ponyboy Curtis, who has to face deadly crimes, enemies (the Socs) and society with his family and gangster friends (the Greasers) to survive. Along with themes of identity and social division, the author uses characters from the novel, both protagonists and antagonists, to provide a balanced reflection of the real-life situations in mid-twentieth century America and in today’s society. The mental differences between the classes, the misjudgement of self-worth, and the Greasers’ difficulty to understand the Socs demonstrate issues within the real teenager society.
The Outsiders is about the life of a 14-year-old boy. The book tells the story of Ponyboy “Curtis” and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy and his two brothers, Darrel (Darry), who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16, have recently lost their parents in an automobile accident. Pony and Soda are allowed to stay under Darry's guardianship as long as they all behave themselves. The boys are greasers, a class term that refers to the young men on the East Side, the poor side of town. The greasers' rivals are the Socs, short for Socials, who are the "West-side rich kids."
Pony and Johnny go see Dallas, who tells them to jump a train out of town and hide out in an abandoned church. He gives them some money. The two boys follow his instructions and spend five days in the church. Dallas shows up on the fifth day, and takes them out to eat. When they get back to the church, it’s on fire, and a bunch of school children are trapped inside. Pony and Johnny rush in and save all the little kids. But a piece of burning timber falls on Johnny, and Pony is knocked unconscious by Dallas (who was putting out the fire on his back).
The Novel the Outsiders set in the mid 60’s, Tulsa, Oklahoma written by S.E Hinton published April 24, 1967 is a book about the life of a 14-year-old boy called Ponyboy Curtis. The novel is about Ponyboy and his struggles in the society in that he believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy has two brothers, Darrel, who is 20 and Sodapop, who is 16. Ponyboy and his brothers are in a gang called ‘the Greasers’, the Greasers were the poorer kids. The Greasers also had an enemy gang called the Socs, short for Socials. The Socs were the rich kids. They Socs would always drink and look for fights with them. The Outsiders is not just a story about conflict, but is also about rivalry and competition. The biggest issue of conflict in the novel is about
The girl groans and puts her arms over her ribcage, then quietly says, “I’m here to protect Tohru.” For a moment, both boys look confused. Then the orange hair boy says, “Then why was she CRYING!?” The girl stands up, still holding her ribs, and tells him, “She was crying BEFORE I got here. She wanted to be friends!” At this, neither boy looked too surprised. Silver looks over at Orange and says, “That does seem like something Miss Honda would do. Maybe she is telling the truth.” Orange still doesn’t fully believe her story and says back to Silver, “Yeah, and maybe she’s not telling the truth.” Trying to reassure the boys, the girl tells them “I am telling the truth. I was chasing something but it got away. I came in here to make sure she was safe.” At this, Silver decides that her story is believable.