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  • Johnny And Ponyboy
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    The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. This book is about two go ups of people who live in the same large city, but who had completely different natures. The first group the 'Socs " are mean, stuck up, rich snobs. For fun they beat up on the Greasers. Which leads me to the Greasers. They are 'lower class' they come from the hood (the not so good part of town.) This book is a fiction story dealing with friends hp, loyalty, trust, and differences. One night two of the Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy were walk...
  • Greasers And Socs
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    The Outsiders: Theme Jess Martin Human Nature The Outsiders, an enthralling tale by S.E. Hinton, is an excellent story about the hardships and triumphs experienced by the Greasers and the Socs, two rival gangs. This novel suggests the stories' content because the Greasers area gang of social outcasts and misfits. This novel's theme is very specific; people, no matter what their social background, strive for the same goals and experience the same disappointments. This novel shows this theme throu...
  • Pony And Johnny
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    The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Published 1967 Published by: Puffin Books Genre: fiction The book The Outsiders is the realistic story about this between two very different groups in a town in the United States: the poor Greasers from the east side, and the Socs, which is what the greasers call the socials, the richer boys from the other side of the town. Ponyboy Curtis is the narrator of the story, a 14-year-old boy who lives with his two older brothers, Darry and Soda. He is a pretty good athlete...
  • Pony And Soda And Darry
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    The Outsiders In the book the Outsider by S.E. Hinton Pony boy is the main character, in the book he is mostly referred to as Pony. Pony has two brothers, Soda pop and Darry. Pony is fourteen and doesn't have any parent's, they died in a car accident. Pony and Soda and Darry all live in the same house, with Darry and Soda supporting them. He has long black greasy hair, he has hair like that because most of the people do in the gang their part of the "Greasers", and it probably fit with the time ...
  • Fire And Johnny And Ponyboy
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    The Outsiders Book Review The Outsiders was written by Susan Eloise Hinton. It is one of her most popular books about foolish gang rivalry existing between the Socs, the rich kids from the west side of town, and the Greasers, the poor kids from the east side. 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 ou...
  • Few Weeks
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    In the last few weeks, a lot of stuff has been going down in our end of the city. People have been getting beat up real bad, on both sides of the tracks. Just a few months ago, I got wind of a Greaser getting his head beaten in by a bunch of Socs. Just a few weeks ago, the same kid got attacked again, and was forced to kill a Soc. This immediately gave all of us Greasers a bad rep. I mean the kid had to run away, just so the fuzz wouldn't have brought him in. It worked out for the better though,...
  • The Outsiders Text Response
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    The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, published by puffin books in 2001. Pony boy is the little brother of Soda and Darry. Pony, Soda and Darry live together in the house, that their parents left them when they died in a car crash. Darry is 19 and a big muscly man who works two jobs to support his two little brothers. Soda is 16 going on 17 and looks a lot like a Greek god; he works at a car yard and dropped out of school because he needed to work to support the family. Pony is 14 and is an A student at...
  • Ponyboy And His Friend Johnny
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    In the novel The Outsiders the character I chose was Ponyboy. Ponyboy was a good kid but he has just one problem, he is a greaser. The greasers are a gang that no one really likes. They are the under privileged poor kids. They have one major rival gang, the Socs. Socs stands for socials, they are the complete opposite of the greasers, the yare the rich kids. One day after Ponyboy and his friend Johnny took two Soc girls out to the movies, they were walking home when five Socs jumped them. The So...
  • Outsiders By S.E. Hinton S.E. Hinton
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    Critical Review "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton S.E. Hinton wrote this novel while she was in high school, at the young age of sixteen. It was completed in 1967. She has written other novels such as That Was Then This is Now, Rumble Fish, and Taming the Star Runner. The novel, The Outsiders, was written about living in the sixties amid gang rivalries. It is told through the personal thoughts of Ponyboy, a fourteen-year-old who belongs to a gang known as the Greasers, who despise the upper-class S...
  • Movie The Teens
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    The Outsiders The Outsiders is a movie about teenagers who Are always facing conflicts around themselves. The teens are represented in many different ways throughout the movie. There will be many questions asked like are these teens realistically portrayed, Are they like any other teen you know, and is it worth doing what these teens do throughout the movie The teens are represented good and bad. They are represented good when they are hiding out at the church, there is a fire in the church with...
  • Cherry's Fondness For Pony Boy
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    "The Outsiders" Francis Ford Coppola's film "The Outsiders" is a 1980's melodrama, based on teenage behavior in the 1950's. The film is about two groups of teenagers who attend the same high school and live in the same town, but lead radically different lives. One group, known as The South-Side Socials (more casually called "socs"), is the more privileged group. The second group, The Greasers, are the less privileged kids, who just so happen to live on the wrong side of town. These two groups ha...
  • Hinton's Teenage Years By The Society
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    The Outsiders gives a reflection of the historical events of S.E. Hinton's lifetime. "Hinton began writing The Outsiders during a restless time in the United States when teenagers were outspoken and rebellious" (Historical Information 2). Many teenagers hated the fact that young people from many different backgrounds were not given a chance to succeed, and were discriminated by there looks. To voice their dissatisfaction, they formed sit-ins and protests. The teenagers were now at war with the s...

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