Summary: The Outsiders
Who Are The Outsiders?
“It seems like there’s gotta be someplace without Greasers, or Socs with just people. Plain ordinary people.” The novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton takes place in Tulsa Oklahoma during the 1960’s. The novel shows how a gang of seven greasy boys deal with society being divided into “Greasers” and “Socs”, however along the way they face hardships including death. In the novel, “the outsiders” were considered people who didn’t fit in. In this case the “Outsiders” were: Ponyboy, Cherry, and Johnny.
In the novel one of the people considered an outsider was the greaser Ponyboy. Evidence of this is in document B Ponyboy is in his advanced class filled with Socs when he is assigned to dissect a worm so he pulled out his switch-blade
“It seems like there’s gotta be someplace without Greasers, or Socs with just people. Plain ordinary people.” The novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton takes place in Tulsa Oklahoma during the 1960’s. The novel shows how a gang of seven greasy boys deal with society being divided into “Greasers” and “Socs”, however along the way they face hardships including death. In the novel, “the outsiders” were considered people who didn’t fit in. In this case the “Outsiders” were: Ponyboy, Cherry, and Johnny.
In the novel one of the people considered an outsider was the greaser Ponyboy. Evidence of this is in document B Ponyboy is in his advanced class filled with Socs when he is assigned to dissect a worm so he pulled out his switch-blade