If you walk into any bookstore or search online, you will find many books that interest you. For example, books that involve crime, tragedy, and love. One book that is a great example of these topics is “The Outsiders,” by Susan Eloise Hinton. The book portrays the lives of two rival groups of teenagers who fight for respect and dignity. In this book report, I will discuss where the story takes place, the characters, and the plot of the story. The story takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which happens to be the author S.E. Hinton’s home town is. During the story, the boys visited several locations. They visit the drive-in movie theater where the Greasers meet two Soc girls. A church where the boys hid from the police because of a murder, and …show more content…
When he was little, his parents were killed in an auto wreck, leaving him and his brother alone with nobody to care for them and a lonely house. Luckily, Ponyboy and his brothers meet Two-Bit Matthews, Johnny, and Steve Randel, who would later form a group known as the Greasers. The Greasers were a group of boys with long slicked back hair, hence the name Greaser. These boys agreed to stay together no matter what happened to them. They would steal things, drive fast cars, and have the occasional gang fight with another group known as the Socs. The Socs were a group of high-class people in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They would jump Greasers, wreck houses, and throw beer blasts for fun. Overall, this group was not much different from their rival group the Greasers, but both groups will cause a large conflict later in the …show more content…
Now it was just Ponyboy, Soda, Darry, and Steve who left. Steve and Soda tried to tell Ponyboy there was nothing they could do, and the only thing they did was to continue with their lives. The next day, Ponyboy was recovering from his injuries and sickness from the past few days. He was told that he would have to appear in court, but Cherry Valance, the Soc girl they meet at the drive-in movie theater, convinced the judge to ask him very few questions due to his current life conditions. A week later, Ponyboy finally felt better about going back to school. During his first day back at school, he was told by his English teacher that he could bring his grade up to pass by writing a paper on what he wanted. It took Ponyboy a long time to think about what he wanted, but when he realized he wanted to write his book report on Johnny’s life from his perspective. He knew that Johnny’s life should be told to everyone, starting with his English teacher. Then S.E. Hinton ends the story with the first words of the
First, the beginnings are quite different. In the book, the story begins with Ponyboy leaving the theater, thinking to himself while walking home. He chose to walk alone, which in this story, is beyond being a bad idea! This results in Ponyboy getting jumped by the wealthier kids, known as the “Soc's”.
Johnny murders Bob to stop him from killing Pony. Dallas Winston - A member of the Greasers, Dally has spent time in prison. He helps Johnny and Pony by telling them to go to Jay Mountain to hide out and by giving them money. Two-Bit Mathews - The Greasers' oldest member.
Ponyboy was a bad kid, he fought against Socs and he even smoked a weed, which is a cigarette. Later on he got into worse trouble and had to hide. He wanted to change and be a different person. While he hid he was scared and frightened and was beginning to think of how he was doing in life, and his thoughts were not very well. After the church incident, he began to change a little.
Title: The Outsiders Author: S.E. Hinton Publication Information: Dell Publishing, 1967; 156 Pages Genre: Young Adult Novel The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is about the rivalry of two gangs, Greasers and Socials. The Greasers are low class and the Socials are high class. 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 Greasers win, but when Dally and Pony go to tell Johnny that they won, he dies during their visit. Dally is destroyed by this and later he calls Pony to tell him that he robbed a store and is being chased by the cops. They hurry to meet him, and see him shot down after he pulls a gun on the police. Pony is scared by what has happened, and convinces himself that he, not Johnny, killed the Soc. He is also afraid that Social Services will take him and Soda away from Darry and into a foster home.
In chapter twelve Ponyboy’s english teacher told him that since he is failing english, he has to do an extra credit essay to bring up his grade. Ponyboy and darry also get into a fight causing Soda to leave. Then the trial confirmed that Ponyboy and Soda can stay with Darry. Then Ponyboy wrote his paper on his experience, basically the whole story. The best literary element for this chapter is the plot. The plot is when Ponyboy and Soda find out they get to stay with Darry. “ Then he said I was acquitted and he whole case was closed.” (Hinton 168)
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
Showing that Ponyboy was very inexperienced and thought Mickey Mouse Sodas horse was just like Soda and they were brothers.Thirdly, we see how some actions Ponyboy’s gang does help show the need for childhood innocence like when pony says,” Darrel, who we call Darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story or drawing a picture,” (Hinton 3). Darry is only 20 and he has a job working on roofs he works so hard so he can care for his brothers Soda and Ponyboy he has no time to be a kid himself he is working like a man when he is only a child.While some believe the main theme is brotherly love I argue its preserving childhood innocence. While this is a good point, because Ponyboy’s group definitely sticks up for one another in a brotherly fashion, it lays a strong foundation for preserving childhood innocence. Jonny had never been a coward he was a good man in a rumble, (Hinton 34) this shows how has Johnny loses his innocence, he becomes fearful of the Soc’s and begins to carry a switchblade to keep his gang safe, you might think this shows brotherly love, but it also shows preserving childhood innocence because when Johnny got used to being targeted by the Soc’s he lost his innocence, that’s why he would carry stuff like switch blades to keep him and others safe from the Soc’s. While the Greasers grew up they lost more and more of their innocence to rumbles and hatred of the Soc’s.
the beginning of the book chapter 1 Ponyboy went to the movies alone on the way home some greasers jump him and in the right moment his group members save him from getting beat.
Ponyboy talks about him as having ", an elfish face with high cheekbones and a pointed chin, small, sharp animal teeth, and ears like a lynx. His hair was so blond, and he didn't like haircuts, or hair oil either, so it fell over his forehead in wisps and kicked out in the back in tufts and curled behind his ears and along the nape of his neck. His eyes were blue, blazing ice, cold with a hatred of the whole world. “He works as a jockey, and funnily doesn't rig his races; it's "the only thing Dally did honestly." Even though he is only seventeen years old, "the fight for self-preservation had hardened him beyond caring." He set the stereotype for the greasers its scary to the others how scary he is. In the events when Johnny killed Bob dally helped out the boys and gifted them one handgun and $100. Ponyboy realizes the truth after Johnny's death. When he tries to make sense of Dally's reaction to Johnny's death, it dawns on him, "Johnny was the only thing that Dally
Ponyboy and Johnny met up with Dally under a streetlight. They all went to buy Cokes. They ended up stealing some Kools as well. It was dark outside and Dally enjoys breaking laws, so they snuck into “the Nightly Double drive-in movie(20)”. While there, they met two Soc girls by the name of Cherry and
Greasers are considered dirty low class “hoods” by just about everyone around them. As told in the article “Parents Guide to Gangs” by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention,”Gang involvement is very dangerous
Socs and greasers are two very different social groups. In the beginning of the story, the Socs and Greasers don’t get along at all. They even try to kill each other. They jump each other and rob each other. By the end of the story they kinda get along. ”Hey, ‘Grease’, one said in a over-friendly voice. ’we are gonna do you a favor, grease. We’re gonna cut off all that long greasy hair off”(Hinton 5).
Greasers are real people just like Socs, but they do not fit in as easily. They feel as though they don’t belong anywhere. Or in other words, they are outsiders. Hence the title name. Ponyboy especially feels like this due to the fact that he does not fit in very well with Socs or Greasers. The rest of Pony’s gang feels more like the fit as Greasers. In conclusion, the title of the novel fits with the theme because they do not fit in anywhere, and they are outsiders.
Ponyboy has a dispute with his brother Darry and ends up running away to the park with Johnnycake. There, Ponyboy and Johnnycake get into a fight with Randy, Bob, and three other members of the Socs. The Socs try to down Ponyboy, so Johnnycake stabs Bob with a knife and ends up killing him. Ponyboy and Johnnycake run to a party where they meet up with Dallas, one of their close friends. He gives them a gun, money, and tells them to get a train out of town to an abandoned church. They are told to stay there until Dallas comes to get them.