Essays on The Outsiders

In the novel, The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, Dallas Winston is a complex persona that wishes to protect the other greasers from experiencing prejudice and adversity. Dallas Winston is known as one of the most dangerous and spiteful greasers out there, he will not hesitate to go to jail for the sake of fellow…

Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer, born on July 22, 1950, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the age of fifteen, she began writing her first novel, The Outsiders, which was published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was only seventeen. The novel sold more than four million copies in the United States. The success of…

In 2015, Elizabeth Thornton surveyed people to figure out how often people misjudge others based on appearances. Thornton’s survey shows that seventy-five percent of people will misjudge one other person per month. In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, greasers are being misjudged by Socials constantly. Many Socials are considered snobbish and unkind. First, Cherry Valance, a…

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a novel that looks at the social class between the Greasers and the Socials (Soc’s). The Outsiders follows the journey of Ponyboy and his gang, which is alternatively his family, as they go on a journey that they could never forget. Hinton mainly uses the themes of stereotypes, violence…

Plenty of youth turns to gangs because they think it’ll enhance their life but really it could get them locked up for life or put them six feet under. The Outsiders represents the idea of groupthink by taking away the individuality of the Outsiders and becoming part of a gang. Some ways that the Outsiders…

The novel “The Outsiders” was written by Susan Eloise Hinton in 1965 and later published in 1967. Hinton was born in 1948 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This means that she was in high school when she wrote this book. It is told in the first person by Ponyboy Curtis. This novel is in the coming-of-age literary…

In a world filled with divine expectations such as taking part in a gang this novel walks through two tales with a single core comprehension. The Outsiders by S.E Hinton captures the voices of the young boys such as ponyboy and johnny in a realistic way that relates to young boys in gangs today. The…

The author tells the story of the struggles between life for the rich and life for the poor. Stereotyping is the theme throughout the story but when on his own we see through PonyBoy that he begins to realize the socs and the greasers are not so different. Ponyboy acts his role as a greaser…

The Outsiders: Johnny vs. Dally The Outsiders is a book by S.E. Hinton. The teens are part of two rival gangs, the Greasers and Socs, who are split up by socio-economic status. Johnny and Dally are two of the main characters and are both East Side Greasers from the poor side of town. They are…

Greatly impact your life and the choices you make within it. They can also teach you a lesson or two at times. The question is, however, how can this really affect you? The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton focuses on cherishing loved ones and youth. While the characters are learning and growing up, there are many…