The Socs And Greasers In The Outsiders

In S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, two different gangs, the Greasers and the Socs detested each other. The author uses Ponyboy Curtis to demonstrate a Greaser’s opinion of the Socs. Ponyboy had an evolving conception of the Socs. At the beginning, he disliked the Socs because they are rich and have no problems, but he changes his opinion because of some discussions he had with a few of the Socs. His final opinion is that the Socs are just people after all, and they have problems too.

The reader is taken on a journey with the protagonist where Red faces copious challenges and disappointment from his friends. All his peers wanted to help him be who he is “supposed” to be – red. They all had their own opinion. Maybe he was broken, maybe his label was too tight, maybe he was not sharp enough. They tried to help by giving him advice, setting up play dates with other crayons, nevertheless, nothing seemed to work.

His hobbies are different from his brothers and friends, but it is not the only issue that he has to deal with. Ponyboy is also struggling with his masculinity since he is the only boy who reads poems, goes to the cinema, or watches sunsets. Naturally, he often compares himself to

Many people are quick to jump to conclusions on people 's personalities due to their appearance and their backstories. The townspeople of Hillsboro made assumptions of Henry Drummond by saying that he is a horrible agnostic, they even call him “the devil” and they want to restrict him from entering the town just because of the stories they hear about him. In Lawrence and Lee 's Inherit The Wind it is shown that Henry is actually a praiseworthy character throughout the play even though the townspeople labeled him as a terrible person. Throughout the play, all his motives had intelligence behind it, he is considerate to Bertram Cates and gives Bertram a sense of pride and hope, and Henry shows respect and stands up for Matthew Harrison Brady even though he is his opponent.

They often get beaten up or “jumped” by the Socs, who are the west side rich kids and usually get drunk. In the beginning of this book, the Socs are referred as the cool, mean, no feeling for themselves and others’ bully-type kids while the Greasers are referred as the innocent, poor, and ugly greasy kids. At one point in the book Ponyboy realizes that the Socs have feeling for others too.

Ponyboy realizes that money isn’t what causes the division but feelings. “-you don’t feel anything and we feel to violently” (Hinton 38). “It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren 't so different. We saw the same sunset” (Hinton 40).

These are some reasons why the Socs are a much bigger disgrace and a threat to society than the greasers. Behind the Socs’ innocent faces, there is just pure darkness. The represent the bad side to Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Socs never get blamed for what they do and mug people more often than the greasers.

The use of imagery shown in this quote disturbed me. To him everything was calm even though he felt trapped and helpless. This could possibly be because he is used to feeling trapped or helpless and it feels natural to him now. From my perspective, this would startle me and I would begin to

The downpour of rain put Ponyville in a maelstrom of disappointment—considering that the weather forecast was showed promising signs of warm weather—something that had been yearned for the past few days. Ponies had to cancel their activities they had planned and were now forced to wear dreaded rain apparel lest they get a cold or ill; and there were some ponies, on the contrary, who welcomed the rain, and played in the puddles that gathered all around town; while some even hunted for rainbows. Scootaloo, however, wasn’t one of them. In fact, one could say that the entire schoolhouse was dispirited because of the forlorn weather. Especially Scootaloo.

Instead I walk through damp leaves, husks, the spent flukes of autumn”. This stanza conveys a feel of solitary and loneliness. The poet wishes to influence his fellow friends to end the ongoing brutality but find himself lost in his quest to stop the conflict. Thus, like a “comet” that is lost in the vast space, Heaney is struggling to find his purpose within his society. As the poem progresses readers can acknowledge the awakening point of the poet.

Jeffrey is constantly treated by the towns people on his skin colour rather than his amazing sporting skills. This is evident when Jeffrey tries to join in with the cricket team, they purposely tease him about his skin colour and shirtfront him when he tries to join in. Silvey uses different language techniques to allow the reader to feel empathy for Jeffrey through Charlie. "It 's like watching a puppy crossing a busy street." Pg 78 Silvey, C. (2011).

Introduction: Are all neat people lazy, wasteful, insensitive, and less moral than sloppy people? Are all men more interested in sports than women, while all women focus their time on housework and cleaning? The answer to both of these questions is no. These questions bring up generalizations that are dealt with in both of the short essays which are as follows: “Neat People vs. Sloppy People” by Suzanne Britt and “Batting Clean-up and Striking Out” by Dave Barry. Suzanne Britt describes the generalized behavior and mindset of neat and sloppy people, which is not a popular stereotype heard in everyday life.

When Dally picked fights or robbed he joined gangs this made him look like a thug. As ponyboy describes the gang he has no other explanation for Dally other than the fact that he is cold. When we see how Dally behaves we also get fooled by his actions. As Ponyboy gets the time to see all of his actions he notices that he truly has a heart. He changes his opinion of Dally from this tough thug to this man with a heart when he realized, “Why can I take it when Dally can’t?

I think this because everyone thought the greasers were no good scum who were terrible people but they turned out to be nice. An example is johnny, Johnny was thought to be a very shy person. Then he stabbed bob in self defense and socs thought he was evil. Then when ponyboy saved the kids everyone was shocked that a greaser helped kids out of a burning

He tightly cropped the man and the woman in the painting to represent the private life in a small town and the sad and humorless expression on their faces represented how they felt about their