The Outsiders Literature Response

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton certain copyright 1967 The protagonists in the p profanescript be the Greasers and the antagonists argon the Socs. The chief(prenominal) characters are Darry, tonic, coquette, Bob, trotboy, and insurgent. Darry is tall, muscular, unfermented and very strict towards harvest miteboy. Darry yells at harvest miteboy and eternally seems to expect better from redbugboy. For arche reference, Darry yells at cribbageboy on varlet 49, Where the heck draw you been? Do you realize what time it is? He was madder than I had seen him in along time. I agitate my head wordlessly. Soda is continuously pollyannaish and lighthearted.One of the scarce things that bring Soda down is the fact that he is a school dropout who works at a gas station. Soda tries to support cribbage when Darry is mad at him besides tries non to take sides. Soda explains how he doesnt comparable when Darry and harvest mite fight when he says, Its justI shtupt stand to he ar yall fight. Sometimes I have to catch out orits like Im the impinging in a tug o war and Im cosmos split in half (page 175). coquettes actions, like robbing a store, makes him seem like he is mean and unsentimental but truly he is a very caring individual on the inside.An archetype is when dally enters the burning perform to save trot and says, For Petes sake, get outa there That roof is going to spelunk in any minute. Bob is well-situated and undisciplined by his parents who make him feeling like he has the power to do anything he pleases. Bob is intimidating to the Greasers like g irradiation stern and harvest mite because he has the efficiency to do almost anything he lacks. An example of Bob picking on crib and insurgent is when he orders a Soc to clear trotboy a bath in the super C commencement by submergeing him as a sort of cruel joke (page 55). harvest miteboy is much emotional than all of the Greasers and takes feelings in to deeper consider ation.Pony is not as violent as other Greasers and is very friendly. An example is when Pony went to the drive-in pic he soft became friends with the popular Soc cheerleader, crimson. This shows a standoff nearly his personality because most Socs wouldnt sluice want to talk to a Greaser. knot is shy, defenseless, and small for his age. He is harshly bullied by the Socs and by his parents. For instance on page 33, Pony describes how greyback was mugged by the Socs, They caught him and cardinal of them had a lot of rings on his hand&8212thats why they had rung up maverick up so adly. It wasnt just that they had beaten him half to expiry&8212he could take that. They had scared him. The stead takes place in a trigger-happy town somewhere in the U. S. nigh the 1960s. The town is infested with crimes and delinquents. Its socially separate into two parts, the east where the low-class Greasers live, and the western where the rich Socs live. The Greasers and the Socs are st rong rivals who always take the opportunity to fight from each one other. Therefore, it makes walking down the street a dangerous task with the possibility 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 him self home from the movie theater. Its dangerous for people like Pony to even walk on the city streets without risking being cut up by a Soc. The stage starts out with Pony being jumped by the Socs until Ponys combination carry throughs him. The next night Pony, Dally, and grayback go to a drive-in movie and meet two girl Socs, Cherry and Marcia. By the end of the night Pony and Cherry become good friends. to begin with returning home Pony and Johnny go to a vacant lot to talk.They two fell 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 hit him. Ponyboy becomes everyplacewhelmed and deci des to run away with Johnny. Pony and Johnny walk to the park until they notice the Socs coming them. Bob is mad that the Cherry and Marcia were interacting with the Greasers so he decides to mug both Johnny and Pony. The Socs begin to drown Ponyboy in the fountain until Johnny stabs Bob. The Socs then began to flee.Ponyboy and Johnny adopt help from Dally to run away while avoiding being arrested for absent. Dally tells them how to omit to Windrixville and survive behind an old church service. 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 confine. Pony barely escapes, but Johnny was more severely scandalise and ends up dying in the hospital.Dally becomes depressed because of all the misfortunes so, he commits an gird robbery at a grocery store store. The police chase Dally to a lot where they kill him for armed robbery. Pony becomes traumatized because of all of the drastic events and deaths of his close friends. The main skirmish in the twaddle 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 battle type person vs. person, in this case it would be the Socs (particularly Bob) vs.Johnny and Ponyboy. This difference was external because it was do up actions. A minor conflict would be when Ponyboy is in great heartbreak 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 burn down down. Johnny and Pony franti cally enter the burning church to save the children form the fire.This is a person vs. nature conflict because the fire, which is part of nature, burns down the church which affects Ponyboy, Johnny, and the children who are trapped inside. The fable is told for Ponyboy Curtiss portend of view. The author may have chosen this institutionalize of view because it would be easier to understand the study through a fourteen class old boys stance and it may also make the book more appealing to teenagers. This point of view is critical to the story because its from the office of an outsider who thinks life isnt fine 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 unfavourable the Greasers were and how fabulous the Socs were. The pettishness in this story is bitter and unruly, especially for the Greasers because of their low spot in life. The strain is violent because of gang fights and various crimes. The storys mood and atmosphere change when Pony and Johnny go to the country. The mood changes from harsh to ease and relaxed because of the smaller population in the country. here(predicate) is an example of a mood and atmosphere change in the country (pg 63), We lay in the tall weeds and come apart grass, breathing heavily. The dawn was coming. It was lightening the flip-flop in the east and a ray of property touched the hills. The clouds were pink and hayfield larks were singing. The underlying message and theme of the story is the line, Stay gold. Stay gold performer that you should remain young and wondrous because postcode stays 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.