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The Outsiders: by S.E. Hinton A Book About Growing Up and How Complicated It Can Be To Be On The "Outside"

The document summarizes the young adult novel "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton. It describes the rivalry between the Greasers and the Socs, two gangs divided by socioeconomic status. The Greasers, including main characters Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Johnny, have less money and are considered outsiders by the wealthy Socs. Though the groups fight, relationships also form between them as Ponyboy navigates growing up and finding his place in their divided world.

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The Outsiders: by S.E. Hinton A Book About Growing Up and How Complicated It Can Be To Be On The "Outside"

The document summarizes the young adult novel "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton. It describes the rivalry between the Greasers and the Socs, two gangs divided by socioeconomic status. The Greasers, including main characters Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Johnny, have less money and are considered outsiders by the wealthy Socs. Though the groups fight, relationships also form between them as Ponyboy navigates growing up and finding his place in their divided world.

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The Outsiders

by S.E. Hinton

A book about growing up and how


complicated it can be to be on the
“outside”
The Socs The Greasers
Wealthy Didn’t have much money
Fancy clothes Jeans and worn clothes
Jocks and Cheerleaders Parents weren’t around
Popular kids at school Didn’t make great grades
Spoiled Got into fights
“I never noticed “You’re a nice kid, Ponyboy.”
clouds and -Cherry “I was wishing I looked
colors and stuff like Paul Newman-he
until you kept looks tough and I don’t-
reminding me but I guess my own looks
about them.”
aren’t so bad.”
-Johnny

“I used to “We’re poorer than the


make A’s in Socs and the middle
English.” class. I reckon we’re
wilder, too.”
“I’ve always “I lie to myself all
been kind of the time. But I “And nobody in our gang
absent never believe digs movies and books
minded.” me.” the way I do.”
Sodapop
Darrell (Darry)
•Older Brother of Ponyboy •Middle brother
•Jock in HS and smart •Dropped out of school
•Trying to be a parent to •Works on cars
Sodapop and Ponyboy •Best friend is Two-Bit
•Happy-go-lucky
Johnny
•Smallest of the Greasers
•Parents hit him
•Sleeps in the park sometimes
•Ponyboy’s best friend

Dallas Winston (Dally) Cherry


•Older friend of •A Soc
Ponyboy and Johnny •Falls for Dally
•Tough guy •Helps out the Greasers
•HS dropout •Becomes friends with
•Helps the boys out Ponyboy
Drive In

The Park

The Church
1) Man vs. Man (physical) – Ponyboy and the other boys fight
against the Socs with fists and knives, but they have guns and
the most might

2) Man vs. Circumstances (classical) – Ponyboy struggles with


the fact that he wasn’t born with money and priviledge

3) Man vs. Society (social) – Ponyboy and the Greasers struggle


against the wealth and the elevated social position of the Socs

4) Man vs. Himself/Herself (psychological) - Ponyboy struggles


with the trouble he feels he has caused and whether to turn
himself in or not
It doesn’t feel good to be on the ‘outside’

Life Isn’t Fair

Family relationships
change and evolve

Nothing Gold Can


Stay
Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold,


Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower,
But only so an hour.

As leaf subsides to leaf,


So Eden sank to grief.
So dawn goes down today,
Nothing gold can stay.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

That was Then, This is


Now by S.E. Hinton
Romeo and Juliet by
William Shakespeare
Written by Hinton as a 16 Hinton criticized for her
year old, so sometimes overly macho male
themes are oversimplistic. characters and her rather
The world is black or white, flat and stereotypical
Greaser or Soc, nothing in female characters.
between.

Very accessible to
young readers. It was
essentially the first
young adult novel that
gave a realistic look at
what it was like to be
a teenager.

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