What Role did Violence play in The Outsiders
Violence is a real world problem today as technology advances throughout the world. The act of violence is not stopping but growing as we speak. You might wonder what causes violence to lead to these catastrophic events? Aletha Solter who studies violence says “a person who is physically or mentally hurt will more likely become accustomed to violence”. On 20/20 ABC news, Professor Jonathan Freedman says “violence seen through children’s eyes are more likely to become violent”. In the book The Outsiders, there is everything from gang fights, shootings, stabbing, to rumbles. Has all of Ponyboy’s gang been mentally hurt or been accustomed to violence because they were exposed since a young age? Does misunderstanding one another have anything to do with the Socials and greasers hate for one another? The book The Outsiders, is a violent book explores the cause of violent behavior through the literature.
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The Socials and Greasers come from two different situations and have a misunderstanding for each other.
The socials have a rich family and don’t struggle financially. The Greasers don’t have a lot of money and have to work really hard to keep up financially. In The Outsiders, the two social groups collide and always are up against each other. These two groups always collide together because they believe they are different from each other even know they can see the same sunset and live on the same planet. Cherry Valencia, a social, believes that they are no different, they can see the same sunset without the money. The Greasers and the Socials rivalry boils up even more because Johnny killed Bob with a switchblade, a social, in self-defence. Johnny and Ponyboy ran away from fear of the cops, this made the Socials mad because they wanted Johnny and Ponyboy charged for murder. From there on after Bob was killed, it was no longer a game for the Socials and Greasers, it was for
real. As the world becomes more advanced in technology, it has become more dangerous in the world today than 1965 when The Outsiders took place. In the world today, we have made advancements on weapons such as guns, bombs, and etc. CNN News reported sunday May 17, 2015 in Waco Texas more than a 120 guns and 160 knives were recovered from the brawl and officers were continuing to arrest people arriving with weapons. A lot of rival gang violence is caused by territorial problems, just like why the Socials and Greasers fought the rumble. If the Greasers would’ve lost the fight to the Socials, they would take over their side of town. Gangs will be at war as long as they exist. In this organized event by the bike gangs, there was violence that turned out to be deadly. Why do the Greasers and Socials focus on their differences instead of their similarities? There is a 100% chance that we have a similarity together and a 100% chance that we have a difference from each other. We tend to analyze people before they even speak, and don’t even try to sense their personality. Are first impression is not always the real them inside. We like to place people in groups, stereotype people. In The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton tries to create two stereotypical groups who conflict with each other. “Bob a Soc and Ponyboy a greaser shout stereotypical beliefs that they have in their social group. “You guys know what Greasers are? White trash with long, greasy hair. You know what a Soc is? White trash with mustangs and madras.” This is just one and many examples of stereotypes between the Greasers and the Socials. If we as people, would see the next person next to us as a person we would be better society. There would be less fights, arguments, and violence in general.
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.
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.
Most people would agree that some violence is in everyone, but it seems that well educated people often find other means to conquer their problems or go about solving them. Through history knowledge has proved to be an unavoidable part of life. As children in the community began dropping out of schools in vast numbers these kids were forced to, willingly or not, gain knowledge elsewhere (1998). A macro cause for the growing numbers of students dropping out of school and joining the gangs, could be that the ideas and values of those gangs quickly spread through the streets and classrooms. This Leads the teenagers to make decisions about wether or not they agree with the
On pg. 2, the text states that, “I’m not sure how you spell it, but it’s the abbreviation for the socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids.” This quote shows how the Socs are viewed by the Outsiders as the wealthy kids that live on the West side. In the book, the Socs are seen as the people who jump the Greasers, wreck houses, and throw beer blasts. The Socs have a mixed opinion by society. In the newspaper, the Socs are in one article for being a disgrace to society and in the next article they are a pleasure to have in the community. The text states that on pg. 38, “You Greasers have a different set of values. You’re more emotional. We’re sophisticated.” This is a quote stated by a Socs girl named Cherry, who describes the Greasers she and a friend met at the movie theatre. Cherry’s perception shows how the Socs are viewed verses the the Greasers. Also, Greasers have preconceived perceptions about the Socs
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 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!
Tio Hardiman, the creator of the Violence Interrupters Program, said, “You can give them a history lesson. Your daddy was violent, your granddaddy was violent, and your great granddaddy was violent. And now your brothers are messed up because you misled them” (James et al., 2012). He is describing how violence is a learned behavior from your family and close peers. Hardiman goes on to tell a little about his own family’s history with violence. When he was fourteen, a man tried to hurt him in the streets, but his stepfather killed the man right in front of him, and he recalls feelings good about it. This family taught him violence was okay through their own
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.
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 by S.E. Hinton proves the point that violence can be justified if necessary. To inflict change in their lives people often fight with violence instead of peace to evoke change. The world strives for change everyday whether or not you like it. How the people create a change in society whether they use peace or war, it is up to them to decide how to modify our ever changing world. Violence and fight between the Socs and Greasers tells us that both can be justified if it inflicts positive change in society. ‘
What is “The Outsiders”? “The Outsiders” is a book with two groups, the socs (short for social) and the greasers. These two groups hate each other. The socs are always ganging up on the greasers like jumping them or beating them up and stealing their stuff. The socs are the more wealthy ones. The moral/lesson of the outsiders is to have loyalty and help others out even if there Isn’t anything in it for you, you have to stick together with the people you love and care about and do good for them because in the end everyone is in it together.
The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton is a book about two different groups that don’t get along, the Socs and the Greasers. The two unions may act like they are tough and have no emotion on the outside, but on the inside, they are full with feelings and are very caring people. After Johnny was hurt, Ponyboy says to himself “A pain was growing in my throat and I wanted to cry, but greasers don’t cry in front of strangers”(Hinton 102). The 2 social classes may put on a front in public, but deep inside they care about others and have
Throughout human history, violence, for the most part, has been a perpetual struggle we’ve faced. It does not discriminate against location, color, or creed, and it has an impact, lasting or not, on each of us at some point during our lives. Living in a Western country, many of us have become accustomed to the idea that true violence only lives in the ravaged lands of warring countries or the dilapidated streets of rundown neighborhoods, but in truth it can be found anywhere. Community center’s, schools, churches, and even the most secluded towns all encounter violence, though sometimes behind closed doors, everyone is vulnerable to it. But what prompts it to occur exactly? Violence itself stems from the causality of several different factors,
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about a group called the greasers, a group called the socs and what’s different between the groups and what’s the same. The greasers are the kids with little money, who feel a lot, and are tough. The socs are rich kids with not enough emotions and they never get in trouble. The Greasers have it worse because they have broken families, are always getting jumped by the socs, and are expected to steal and be rude because of their backgrounds.