An example of how self-image impacts behavior emphasizes that individuals often follow the guidelines set for their social position. In S.E Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, the gorgeous Soc, Cherry Valance, admits to Ponyboy that she often has to keep gabbing about various topics. She discreetly explains to him, “Nothing is real to us. You know, sometimes I’ll catch myself talking to a girl-friend, and realize I don’t mean half of what I’m saying” (38). Furthermore, Cherry often feels very coerced to speak around the Socs. Classified as a rich Soc, Cherry feels she must rave about various subjects to keep her reputation, even though she does not mean most of her words. An example of how self-image impacts behavior emphasizes that individuals often
Fear is a natural response to danger that prevents personal innovation, but there is beauty in it. Though fearing the loss of something fleeting—an established reputation, for example—may not be justifiable, to fear for the well-beings of another can be. In her bestselling novel The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton describes various cases of people demonstrating the sort of justifiable fear mentioned. Character Ponyboy Curtis, for instance, is afraid of what may become of his good friend Johnny Cade when Cade unintentionally causes the death of a rival gang member and high school student. “‘What are we gonna do?
In the Outsiders, S.E Hinton, it presents the idea that perspectives changes what other people think of you by being yourself and not caring what other people think of you.you should stop worrying about what other people's perspective of you and start being yourselves so people don’t get the wrong image of you. In Chapter 2 when PonyBoy talked to Cherry (who is a socs).Cherry tells PonyBoy that,”it’s not just the money. Part of it, but not all. You greasers have a different set of values.you’re emotional we’re sophisticated.
When people think of someone in their family who provides for them many think of their mom or dad. Although, that is not always the case. Darry is the older brother and provider to Sodapop Curtis and Ponyboy Curtis in the book The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton. Darry’s parents died in a car accident so he was left raising his two younger brothers, which are sixteen and fourteen. Although Darry can be harsh, he still cares deeply about his brothers and their lives.
Conformity is portrayed as a desirable trait, and those who deviate from the norm are often seen as weird or abnormal. This pressure is reinforced by the media and advertising, which constantly promote the latest trends and fashions that promise to make people more popular and accepted. How you act and talk also affects how popular you seem. Violet explains, “I love the great feeling of Coke’s carbonation going down my throat, all the pain like…
Dallas The book, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about two gangs who did not like each other in the hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the middle of the 1960s. The theme of the book is growing up and learning about life. One character who stands out in the story is Dallas because he comes from the poor side of town. He is a static character.
"The Outsiders" is a seminal coming-of-age novel authored by S.E. Hinton and originally published in 1967. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis, a member of a gang called the Greasers, who perpetually finds himself at odds with the affluent and privileged Socs. The central premise of the novel involves the significance of learning from mistakes and overcoming challenges. Hinton employs the literary technique of characterisation to effectively communicate this message to the reader. Ponyboy Curtis is a young and impressionable protagonist who confronts various challenges throughout the narrative.
In life there is many lessons to learn. Lifes about choices and decisions that you make which can drastically affect one's quality of living in present and future. In life it is important to have hope that things will get better to stay gold. One's decisions in life can drastically affect one's life in the future and present. In life is not everything is as it seems on the surface.
This led to realization of social cognition, the way society thinks as a whole and as individuals. Society, in a sense that for people to know who they are, and to feel better about themselves, they have to be compared to those around them. For example, in Diaz’s Life Oscar Wao, Oscar compared himself to his college roommate Yunior a lot, feeling ashamed and disgusted of his image, he attempted to change it, to make himself more similar to Yunior. In this sense, Oscar had stereotyped himself as he knows he doesn’t look like the way other dominicans looked, and attempts to change himself, hoping he can be more like Yunior, a carefree, smooth talking, masculine dominican. The identity that he tries to established for himself, is his way of trying to be somebody, because for people to respect him, or even to notice him on the first glance, he wants to be somebody
The other point of this paper is how society changes you. If you are rich and you don’t look like it you wear off brand clothes then society will change you when you get with the right group. If you stay with the group of friends that you have been with then you will be fine. If you want to let society change you then go ahead but always remember if you judge someone without getting to know them then you are dead to
In S.E. Hinton's book, The Outsiders, many things and people change, but the most noticeable change was in Johnny Cade. Johnny had always been the quiet one, sitting back and doing whatever the others told him, but by the end of the book, everything had changed for him: who he was, what his situation was, and the confidence he had grew to enormous heights. This was a key part of the book because without these drastic changes in Johnny, the book would have stopped on chapter two. At first, Johnny was quiet and never talked back to anyone in the gang. His parents always treated him terribly and the gang was the closest thing he had to family, “. . .
Many people have used violence to solve problems that they have at some point in their life, but as you look back at what you accomplished, you realized that violence doesn’t help you in a good way. Ponyboy learned that the hard way. In The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton presents the idea that using violence against your rival(s) isn’t the solution, it is the problem. One scene that reveals the idea that violence isn’t the answer and that it can only hurt others, was in Chapter 3 when ponyboy talks about what happened to Johnny. He said, “Johnny was lying face down on the ground.
Jonny Cade and Ponyboy Curtis, the two main characters in S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," share similar struggles but differ in their personalities and worldviews. Despite their different personalities, Jonny and Ponyboy share several similarities. Firstly, both characters come from difficult family backgrounds. Ponyboy's parents have passed away, and he lives with his two older brothers who struggle to provide for him.
Conforming to social stereotypes and expectations limits one's individuality. As the outsiders oppose conformity challenges through Ponyboy
Did you know that “76% of parents feel guilty about saying “no” to their kids?” (Janice D'Arcy). S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the late 1960s, and follows a fourteen-year-old boy named “Ponyboy,” and his group the “Greasers.” Ponyboy and his group are constantly quarreling with the west-side “Socs,” and the Greasers always get the short end of the stick.
In the story The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton, there are two rival groups/ gangs, the greasers and the Socs. A young boy named Ponyboy explained his journey being a greaser and the sacrifices, consequences, and decisions he had to manage with. This story reminds me of William Shakespeare's story Romeo and Juliet of their similarities which are they gangs, fights, and loyalty and differences that are the wealthiness, behaviors, and between the two books. One of the similarities of the two books is the groups/ gangs, because in Romeo and Juliet there are the Montague and Capulets and in The Outsiders there are the greasers and the Socs. They are both enemies and try to sabotage and fight each other when every they have the chance to.