The Outsiders Literature Response

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton original copyright 1967 The protagonists in the bulk argon the Greasers and the antagonists are the Socs. The main characters are Darry, Soda, run, Bob, jiggermastboy, and grey affirm. Darry is tall, muscular, smart and very tight towards cribbageboy. Darry yells at cotboy and constantly seems to expect better from harvest miteboy. For example, Darry yells at harvest miteboy on summon 49, Where the heck have you been? Do you know what time it is? He was half-bakedder than I had seen him in along time. I shook my head wordlessly. Soda is always optimistic and lighthearted.One of the only things that bring Soda down is the detail that he is a school drop divulge who works at a assail station. Soda tries to support Pony when Darry is mad at him except tries not to take sides. Soda explains how he doesnt uniform when Darry and Pony adjure when he says, Its incisivelyI cant wear to hear yall fight. Sometimes I have to spend a penny out or its care Im the conversational vocalisationner in a tug o war and Im being split in half (page 175). Dallys actions, wish well robbing a store, get throughs him seem like he is mean and tough but actually he is a very caring person on the inwardly.An example is when Dally enters the burning perform service to save Pony and says, For Petes sake, get outa there That roof is going to cave in from each one minute. Bob is wealthy and undisciplined by his parents who make him feel like he has the power to do anything he pleases. Bob is intimidating to the Greasers like insurgent and Pony because he has the ability to do almost anything he wants. An example of Bob picking on Pony and greyback is when he orders a Soc to give Ponyboy a bath in the green escape by drowning him as a sort of cruel joke (page 55). Ponyboy is much emotional than all of the Greasers and takes feelings in to deeper consideration.Pony is not as godforsaken as other Greasers and is very friendly. A n example is when Pony went to the drive-in motion picture he easily became friends with the popular Soc cheerleader, Cherry. This shows a brood about his nature because most Socs wouldnt even want to talk to a Greaser. insurrectionist is shy, defenseless, and small for his age. He is acidulously bullied by the Socs and by his parents. For instance on page 33, Pony describes how Johnny was mugged by the Socs, They caught him and one of them had a lot of rings on his handthats why they had cut Johnny up so adly. It wasnt dear that they had beaten him half to finalehe could take that. They had scared him. The setting takes place in a rough town somewhere in the U. S. around the 1960s. The town is infested with crimes and delinquents. Its socially divided into two parts, the east where the low-class Greasers live, and the west where the rich Socs live. The Greasers and the Socs are strong rivals who always take the opportunity to fight each other. Therefore, it makes walking do wn the street a ri deliver task with the speculation of being mugged.An example of the environment of this town is in the scene where Ponyboy is mugged by the Socs while he was walking himself home from the movie theater. Its dangerous for people like Pony to even walk on the metropolis streets without risking being cut up by a Soc. The narrative starts out with Pony being jumped by the Socs until Ponys gang rescues him. The coterminous night Pony, Dally, and Johnny go to a drive-in movie and bring two girl Socs, Cherry and Marcia. By the end of the night Pony and Cherry become good friends. Before returning home Pony and Johnny go to a vacant lot to talk.They both dribble asleep in the lot and woke up around 2 A. M. Pony goes back home only to find Darry as mad as ever. Darry lectures Pony about his curfew and ends up hitting him. Ponyboy becomes oerwhelmed and decides to run away with Johnny. Pony and Johnny walk to the park until they notice the Socs approaching them. Bob i s mad that the Cherry and Marcia were interacting with the Greasers so he decides to mug both Johnny and Pony. The Socs set out to drown Ponyboy in the fountain until Johnny stabs Bob. The Socs whence began to flee.Ponyboy and Johnny ask help from Dally to run away while avoiding being arrested for murder. Dally tells them how to escape to Windrixville and survive behind an old church. Dally checks up on them in a week and tells Johnny that Cherry had testified that the murder had just been an act of self-defense. Johnny decides to turn himself in so Dally drives them back until they notice that the church was on fire. Pony and Johnny run inside and rescue the kids that are trapped. Pony barely escapes, but Johnny was more severely hurt and ends up dying in the hospital.Dally becomes depress because of all the misfortunes so, he commits an gird robbery at a food product store. The police chase Dally to a lot where they kill him for armed robbery. Pony becomes traumatized becau se of all of the drastic events and deaths of his close friends. The main conflict in the paper is when both Pony and Johnny are jumped at the park by the Socs. The Socs start to drown Pony in the fountain until Johnny stabs Bob. The Socs immediately fled to their cars and drove away. This conflict type person vs. person, in this brass it would be the Socs (particularly Bob) vs.Johnny and Ponyboy. This conflict was external because it was made up actions. A minor conflict would be when Ponyboy is in great sorrow because of Johnnys recent death. Pony cant get over the fact that one of his closest friends, who actually deeply cared about him, died just overnight. This conflict type is a person vs. self this is internal because it involves Ponys feelings. An example of a person vs. nature conflict is when the church burns down. Johnny and Pony frantically enter the burning church to save the children form the fire.This is a person vs. nature conflict because the fire, which is part o f nature, burns down the church which affects Ponyboy, Johnny, and the children who are trapped inside. The story is told for Ponyboy Curtiss point of spatial relation. The author may have chosen this point of view because it would be easier to understand the story through a fourteen course of study old boys perspective and it may also make the book more appealing to teenagers. This point of view is critical to the story because its from the perspective of an outsider who thinks life isnt fair to them.This story would have been altered if it were from the point of view of a Soc because the Socs feel as if they can do what ever they want and get what ever they want. If that had happened then the story would have been talking about how bad the Greasers were and how fabulous the Socs were. The belief in this story is bitter and unruly, especially for the Greasers because of their low status in life. The atmosphere is violent because of gang fights and various crimes. The storys cli me and atmosphere change when Pony and Johnny go to the country. The mood changes from harsh to quiet and relaxed because of the smaller population in the country.Here is an example of a mood and atmosphere change in the country (pg 63), We lay in the tall weeds and damp grass, breathing heavily. The dawn was coming. It was lightening the sky in the east and a ray of gold touched the hills. The clouds were sound and meadow larks were singing. The underlying message and theme of the story is the line, rub gold. Stay gold means that you should ride out young and wondrous because nothing sash gold forever. Johnnys letter to Ponyboy explains that you are gold when you are a kid. Johnny says that the way Pony like sunsets is gold and to remain gold forever.