Do you know the difference between a Soc and a greaser? There is always a social structure no matter where you go. In the movie based off the novel “The Outsiders” written by S.E. Hinton and produced by Frank Ford Coppola there is a fine line between Soc and greaser. At the bottom you have the hoods. The hoods are like greasers, but they are dirtier and a lot meaner. Next, is the greasers. They’re just lower class people with greasy hair. Then middle class comes, just regular people. They’re neither rich or poor. Then you have the top, the big time Socs, the rich kids. The fact that you can quite literally see the difference between a Soc and a greaser in the movie, helps support every detail S.E. Hinton wrote in the novel. The visual image of what the characters look like and how they dress shows the difference and the dividing line between a greaser and a Soc. Like I said before, the greasers (Dally, Darry, Soda, etc.) aren’t really bad people. They just dress different due to lower funds and they like their hair longer and greasier. They wear torn jeans, and cutoff shirts. Other than that they’re just ordinary people. I believe the only reason they act out is because they’re scared and they feel too much. They’ve been exposed to too much. The greasers are not like the hoods (The Shepherd …show more content…
Frank Ford C. also did a good job with the plot of the story and bringing it to life. My favorite parts were the fight at the beginning, the rumble, and when Dally gets shot. I enjoyed these parts for the action, not the violence. Especially since Dally was my favorite character. The only thing I didn’t like about the movie was the music. The music seemed unnecessary in some parts and the choices they made for the songs. They just weren’t the right mood for what was going on. I didn’t like some of the acting either. The acting seemed fake and quite frankly needed a little
In the book The Outsiders, written by S. E. Hinton, the theme is that people, though they may be very different, they still live in the same world and they are really the same. This can be proven with Ponyboy’s quote within the first half of the book, “We aren’t in the same class. Just don’t forget that some of us watch the sunset too” (page 46). The first half of the quote tells that the two people are in very different social classes, in this case, the Socs and the greasers. The two gangs are always in conflict, however, the second half of the quote emphasized that the two groups of people indeed living under the same sun, watch the same sunset, and practically do the same thing.
The movie is very good at capturing the setting and characters from the plot and it amazingly matched the time period,the details to the settings and mostly the characters had the perfect accent to bring that whole southern essence mentioned in the plot. The movie carries out the plot well but it misses certain
In S.E. Hinton’s story, The Outsiders, group identity is so important that sometimes people overshadow their own identity. In our generation it is kind of the same way to some people, for instance people sometimes act and dress differently around the popular kids to fit in. While at home they do their normal routine and stay true to themselves. This is so important to the story for many reasons. It is also really important to kids this age in 2017.
"It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget some of us watch the sunset too". This quote from The Outsiders seems to be the main point of this whole book. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a timeless novel.
“Nothing is real with us [Socs]. You know, sometimes I 'll catch myself talking to a girl-friend, and realize I don 't mean half of what I 'm saying. I don 't really think a beer blast on the river bottom is super-cool, but I 'll rave about one to a girl-friend just to be saying something,” said Cherry Valance, a renowned Soc in the novel The Outsiders. This quote better shows the great degree of artificiality and perennial sense of menace that thrive among the Socs. While viewed as the socially-elite in society, the Socs instead possess counterfeit, spurious dispositions that overwhelm the otherwise bona fide characteristics of the Greasers.
outsiders is a book that talks about 2 socioeconomic groups of teenagers the Socs [the rich kids ] and the Greasers [hood kids ] . In the
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.” (Charlie Chaplin). The issue is whether the Greasers struggle more than the Socs. There is more evidence for the Greasers to be struggling more from the sacrifices they make and the violence they face. One either believes that the poor kids with close friends struggle or the rich kids with no support structure struggle more.
The Outsiders is definitely a novel with some political commentary. Ponyboy wonders, “What kind of world is it where all I have to be proud of is a reputation for being a hood, and greasy hair? I don’t want to be a hood, but even if I don’t steal things and mug people and get boozed up, I’m marked lousy... Why should I even pretend to be proud of it?” (132).
The Outsiders “Things are rough all over” (Hinton 35). Is what Cherry Valance said to describe both situations of the Greasers and the Socs. The book The Outsiders was a story of a boy named Ponyboy Curtis who had been going through a rough time because his parents had just died in accident. Ponyboy had been living with his two brothers Darrel Curtis, Sodapop. Pony and his brothers were in gang with Dallas Winston, Two-bit Mathews, Steve Randle ,and finally Johnny Cade who was 16 year old boy that was beaten by his father and his mother and weeks before he had been jumped by a group of Socs and had beaten so bad he was almost dead.
The Greasers try to achieve personal justice and assurance of their pride by using violence and
Have you ever been in a situation that someone does something and then you do the same thing and get into trouble? Like if someone tells you not to touch something and your friend touches it and then when you touch it you get in trouble. In S.E Hinton's book, The Outsiders, it it's kind of the same. The socs get away with things much easier than the greasers because they are upper class.
“I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city, I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society.
Picture being so scared walking home alone that you had to carry a switchblade around. In The Outsiders Ponyboy, and his friends who are called the greasers, live in a violent, bad neighborhood without their parents. They are against a group called Socs who are a higher class, in a much better neighborhood and they jump the greasers all the time out of nowhere. The setting causes the characters to be tense and anxious, for example, Johnny and Darry who can never calm down and loosen up. They always have to look behind their back everywhere they go.
Had they not loathed each other that much and just ignored the status symbol, they would have lived serenely to reach their adulthood. Had they tried to open up to the greasers (Ponyboy, Johnny, Dally and Two-Bit), they would have realised greasers are ordinary teenagers too. Cherry Valance and Marcia, in spite of their Socs identities, portray openness and acceptance towards the greasers. Subsequently, they comprehend not all greasers are dirty and uneducated; and Cherry, especially, learns about the adversities in a greaser’s life. We never know who we can learn something
I thought that this film was extremely well done. I was very creeped out by the events which occurred in the film, especially Tim’s abrupt and graphic suicide at the end of the film. I think that the directors were very effective in capturing the attention of the audience, and in allowing the audience to feel the fear and horror that the characters felt throughout the film. However, there were storylines that started very strong but were not developed throughout the film, which really upset me. An example of this is when Marco cheated on Karo with another girl, and Karo did not find out, which shows how the situation was never resolved.