Dynamic Characters In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

Have you ever wonder how to keep kids out of gangs? S.E Hinton is the author of The Outsiders a heroic story of friendship and belonging. The story is about a 14 year old boy named Ponyboy- a 14-year old boy who lives with his brothers. He has many problems that he has to face, but One of the most important and problems that he has to face is the socs a vicious gang and for fun they beat up greasers like ponyboy. Friends and family are the best things you can have in life shows, though many of the characters.

Have you ever wondered how the 1960’s was like? Would you have been fearful, jovial, or melancholy? In the book, The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton the main character Ponyboy Curtis lives with his two brothers, Sodapop and Darry, and is involved in a gang called the “greasers.” Ponyboy realizes what it is to be a kind person instead of being violent, he is always on top of his studies and is very observant of others.

The Outsiders is a novel written by Susan Eloise Hinton, also known as S.E Hinton. The setting of the story takes place in the 1960s. The Outsiders is written in first person view, by Ponyboy Curtis. The story revolves around the greasers and Socs. The Socs are the west side rich kids, they wrecked houses and “threw beer blasts for kicks”. While the Greasers were the east side kids, they “drove old souped-up cars, held up gas stations and had gang fights once in a while.” One of the conflicts the characters face is man vs man, which is because the greasers and Socs don’t get along, this is because they feel superior to each other. They both had different ways of lives, they did different things for fun, and they did not understand each other. This conflict was later resolved towards the end of the story when Ponyboy speaks to Randy about no longer fighting after Bob’s death.

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a novel about a boy called Ponyboy who is involved in a rivalry between two gangs, the Greasers and the Socs. The Socs live in the West side of town; they look clean, have lots of money and drive blue Mustangs. The greasers live in the east side of town; they wear hair oil, t-shirts and jeans, and don’t have much money. Ponyboy is part of the Greasers, along with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop, his closest friend Johnny Cade, Two-Bit, Steve and Dallas Winston, the toughest of the gang... or at least that is what Ponyboy thinks about him in the beginning of the novel in chapter one “He was tougher than the rest of us- tougher, colder, and meaner.”

I remember the day my dog died I thought I was never going to talk again and I thought I had a bad life but in story The Outsiders by S.E Hinton there are many charters that have harder lives than I can imagine. But 3 characters in this book had especially hard life's but the characters with the hardest life are Dallas Winston , Robert Shelton and Sodapop Curtis

The Outsiders is a novel by S.E Hinton about a gang of Greasers in the 1960s. Greasers being the lower class “hoodlums” and the Socs being the more well off and “civilized” teens. The story follows 14 year old Ponyboy Curtis and the events that take place after a Soc was killed. One or more of the Greasers can be considered heroes because of Johnny saving Ponyboy, Darry not going to college to support his brothers, the gang taking falls for one another and how the gang helped Johnny.

Stephanie Beatriz writes, “When you label somebody and put them in a box, then you put the lid on the box, and you just never look inside again. I think it's much more interesting for human beings to look at each other's stories and see each other. Really see each other and then see themselves through other people's stories. That's where you start to break down stereotypes (brainyquote.com). This quote represents how if you label someone you put them in the box because that is not who the truly are and when a person takes off a lid and listen to their story it is a lot more interesting.

Would you be willing to go against your community to stand up for what is right? The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 1960’s. Characters in this novel are involved with internal and external conflicts. In a coming of age story, Johnny kills a Soc, he and Ponyboy run away, and they go from being criminals to heroes. Also in this novel Johnny and Dally die. One character who stands out in this story is a red- headed girl named Sherri “Cherry” Valence. Cherry is a round character with many sides to her personality. She can also considered a static character because she does not grow throughout the novel. Three of Cherry’s traits are considerate, honest, and snobbish.

(Page 148)It says that Ponyboy is trying to go through college and darry told him that he dropped out because he was dumb and that his grades were bad. Then Ponyboy realizes that he has to pick a side either go to college or work at the gas station,When you become mature you get more opportunities and hard choices that you have to make in life which was a phase that ponyboy had to go through in his life and so does everybody else.

Characters in a book can either be dynamic or static, static characters mainly remains consistent with their predominant personality. Susan Eloise Hinton was fifteen years old when she wrote The Outsiders, a novel about youth. S. E. Hinton portrays two groups (Socs and Greasers) that always have conflict against each other, having some kind of an endless fight. Sherri Valance counts as a Soc by the community, because she is wealthy and lives in the west-side of town in big houses. These two groups are stereotyped by each other.

In the story the Outsiders by S.E Hinton one of the main characters Ponyboy is a misunderstood, smart, teen that is not like the friends he hangs out with Johnny is part of the greasers who is treated cruelly at his home. Darry and Soda are pony's brothers, Darry makes Pony try his best at school and Soda stops a fight when both of them get into a fight. Set at his neighborhood where there is poverty and gang like groups that cause trouble in the neighborhood. Ponyboy has to live with his brothers, his only friends are the greasers the greasers are the poor kids and the socs are a group of rich kids who are against the greasers. Ponyboy is a kid who hangs with greasers he is an intelligent teen who lives in a poor neighborhood that is a bad

“The kids say, ‘Okay, this is like Preppies and Punks,’ or whatever they call themselves. The uniforms change, and the names of the groups change, but kids really grasp how similar their situations are to Ponyboy’s.” says the author of The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton. In the novel, The Outsiders, the time period is around the late 1960’s and located in the Southwest United States, in Oklahoma. The main characters are greasers, who use slang words and listen to musicians such as The Beatles and Elvis Presley. The setting affects the storyline and character development in The Outsiders based on where the characters live, how they choose to spend their time, and their surroundings.

Outsiders is a pretty good book compared to the other books i have read.The main plot of the story is about hoodlums trying to get through life in a society were rich do better, the main character is Ponyboy curtis a hoodlum who lives with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop. The main setting of the book is a neighborhood separated by social classes known as the Socs and the greaser,The socs are the rich kids from the east who are said to have no problems at all but in reality the do. The greasers are the poor kids from the west said who have all the problems.

The Outsiders: Book Review The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a fantastic story about a fourteen year-old boy named Ponyboy Curtis. Living in a divided society where the Greasers and Socs are bitter enemies that never got along, Ponyboy usually spends most of his time with his two brothers, Sodapop and Darry, and his Greaser buddies, Johnny, Dally, and Two-Bit. After an accident forces Ponyboy and Johnny to run for their lives, Ponyboy learns that Greasers and Socs aren’t all that different as they think they are and that their status doesn’t define them. He also discovers that nothing gold can stay, but there is still a lot of good things left in the world to look forward to.

According to a study conducted at Sam Houston State University, nearly 1.5 million youth in the U.S. are gang members. This shows that the book, The Outsiders, written by S. E. Hinton is more relevant to modern society than one may think. The story takes place in the 1960s and is about Ponyboy Curtis, a member of a low class gang of kids from age 14 to around 20 who call themselves the Greasers, and their struggles with the upper class gang who calls themselves the Socs. After Pony's friend, Johnny, kills a Soc in self-defense, the two flee to an abandoned church out of town. They then go out to eat and subsequently return to find they had accidently started a fire in the church that trapped some youthful picnic-goers inside. They then return home for an organized fight they will have with the Socs. Two themes in The Outsiders are that, people do not always act how one would think they do at first, and that all people, regardless of financial state have problems that they have to deal with.