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After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton I looked back at how stereotypes affected the characters and how they expected each other to be. Socs are supposed to be the tough rich kids and greasers are the poor and emotional kids. I will be explaining how stereotypes are in both the Outsiders and the real world. I want people to see how stereotypes are around us and how they affect our daily lives.

Ponyboy thought Socs had the easy life living as rich kids. He thought “I really couldn’t see what Socs would have to sweat about—good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs” (Hinton, 36). This quote shows that Ponyboy thought Socs have it easy because of a stereotype. He later learns that the stereotype is not true and that Socs do have problems. Cherry told him “things are rough all over” (Hinton, 35). If stereotypes didn’t exist then Socs and greasers would think differently about each other and be different.

Now I will compare The Outsiders to my second text. The second text is about gender stereotypes and how women and men are expected to act, dress and speak in a certain way. The article is What are gender roles and stereotypes? by Planned Parenthood. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/sex-gender-identity/what-are-gender-roles-and-stereotypes  The article talks about different stereotypes for example how men are expected to wear pants and women are expected to wear dresses. Also because of stereotypes some people automatically think nurses are women and doctors are men. I think the text connects to the outsiders because they are both stereotypes.

In conclusion both The Outsiders and the article have examples of stereotypes. Don’t let stereotypes stop you from being who you are. Just because someone tells you you can’t do something or you can’t wear something don’t let that stop you. Have you ever experienced someone judging you in a certain way because of a stereotype?

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After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, I still was asking myself questions about what happened to the gang after Johnny and Dally died. Dally experienced some stages of grief represented in the other resource after his friend Johnny died. This will help us understand how the greasers will take their losses.

In The Outsiders, Dally had aggressive emotions followed by Johnny’s death. In the scene when Johnny dies, Dally is frustrated at Johnny for leaving.“Whirling suddenly, he slammed back against the wall. His face contracted in agony, and sweat streamed down his face.

“Damnit, Johnny . . .” He begged, slamming one fist against the wall, hammering it to make it obey his will. “Oh, damnit, Johnny, don't die, please don't die . . .”

He suddenly bolted through the door and down the hall.” (Hinton149). Dally showed disappointment and was scared so he decided to just leave the situation. Dally robbed a grocery store to get in trouble on purpose. He was being chased by the police and called the gang over. Ponyboy narrates what happens “Dally raised the gun, and I thought: You blasted fool. They don’t know you’re only bluffing. And even as the policemen’s guns spit fire into the night I knew that was what Dally wanted.” (Hinton154). Dally felt like there was nothing left for him after Johnny died. Ponyboy realised that it was “what Dally wanted” (Hinton154). Where could these feelings have come from?

In The Five Stages of Grief by Jodi Clarke, 2/21/2021 https://www.verywellmind.com/five-stages-of-grief-4175361, the stages of grief are explained after a loved one has died. The author explains that being angry feels better than showing that you are scared. Anger is the first stage of grief and is very common. This common emotion will most likely affect the gang. Although there are similarities between the two texts, there are also differences.

In The Outsiders Dally shows signs of grief that are listed in the article. But the purpose of the article was to inform you on the different stages until you have recovered. Dally did not fully recover. Instead he forced suicide by police on himself. Will the rest of the greasers go through a rollercoaster of emotions or simply move on?

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Violence is something that happens everywhere. It’s written about in books and even happens in real life. What stuck with me about The Outsiders, by S.E. hinton, is underage violence. This book made me wonder about underage violence happening in the world right now.

There are two main groups of boys in the Outsiders who are the Greasers and Socs. They don’t like each other because of their differences like being poor and being rich. When the main character Ponyboy was talking about how his friend Johnny almost got killed by the Socs Ponyboy says, “They had caught him and one of them had a lot of rings on his hand—that’s what had cut Johnny up so badly. It wasn’t just that they had beaten him half to death—he could take that. They had scared him.” (Hinton, 22) This quote connects to underage violence because it was talking about physical action that could physically hurt someone.

A piece of evidence that I found from another resource connects violence to the real world. My second text evidence is a video by Bryan Stevenson and it talks about underage violence. The video by Bryan Stevenson talked about what we have done to children and how many many children are serving prison sentences for crimes under the age of 18. Bryan Stevenson says, “We now have 250,000 children serving long prison sentences for crimes under the age of 18.” (Stevenson, Video). This connects to The Outsiders because the Greasers were committing crime under the age of 18. For example, in the book The Outsiders one of the main characters Dally robbed a store and pointed a gun at the store owner. Now connecting to the real world there are many children who rob stores and steel things and threaten people with a gun. That is underage violence

In both the Outsiders book and in real life, maybe if their parents were more supportive, cared for them more, and gave them more attention than I would think that they would be doing so many bad things. Most of the time when children’s parents aren’t always around or don’t pay attention to them then the child will do something bad so they could get attention from their parents. They want to be acknowledged. How do you think we can stop kids from committing underage violence?

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At first when I was reading the book: The Outsiders by SC Hinton I didn’t quite understand why everyone was in gangs, it just  didn't quite make sense to me but after reading The article My Gang My Family by Rowenna Davis, it became clear that the Greasers and Socs (I’m more focused on the greasers) needed each other.

The greasers needed each other so much that when ponyboy Curtis and Johnny ran away they thought they needed each other. But then shortly realized they couldn’t live right on their own. After Johnny and ponyboy killed Bob and almost died because they weren't with the gang Dally told them “when you're in a gang, you stick up for the other members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore"(30)-Dally. I think this quote proves my point very well. The particular reason for this circumstance is it shows how they need each other to the point where they are not a gang, to the point where there brothers and family and they couldn’t live alone. This book is extremely realistic and is a common situation for some kids who grew up in a home environment along the lines of the greasers. Therefore kids Who grow up with a bad family life need gangs to feel a part of something. In the article my Gang My Family “new report from the Prince's Trust says that the gang is replacing the family in British society. The stereotypical image of happy families sitting in sunny kitchens may seem a long way from groups of gangsters lurking on our street corners, but their functions are surprisingly similar.” It goes on to explain “Gangs, like families, provide units of security in a world too dangerous for individuals alone. Like families, they provide their young members with structure and routine. They give them role models, a sense of identity and a feeling of belonging.” This actively demonstrates how The situation the greasers were in isn’t just something from a book… It corresponds to real life. Some kids need gangs to feel wanted. SEE! These texts both prove a similar point so to sum up everything that has been stated so far, Kids do need gangs. I’ve said it countless times… if you don’t have a feeling of being wanted kids need gangs and there’s a chance it’s a good thing. The two texts both showed how kids can turn to gangs. When I started The Outsiders I thought it was bad how they were in gangs but when I looked more deeply in it I realized that this is a real world problem when people do have a good life at home and Gangs aren’t always bad.

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I recently read the outsiders by S.E. Hinton, while I was reading it I noticed that there are many examples of stereotypes and their effects. Both with the greasers and the Socs. An article from Michigan state university talks about stereotypes by social class. In this piece of writing I will be trying to prove the fact that stereotypes are made up in our head.
I noticed that ponyboy is a victim of the made up stereotypes, there are ones that apply to him and he believes some of the ones he hears. In page 36, or the last page of chapter 2, ponyboy has recently been told that the Socs have it hard.  “. Even if they did have their own troubles. I couldn’t really see what Socs would have to sweat about—good grades, good cars, good girls, mandras, and mustangs and Corvairs—man, I thought, if I had words like that I’d consider myself lucky.” pg. 36. Ponyboy assumes that all Socs have it easy because that is the stereotype for Socs. Cherry is saying that not all Socs are like that proving that stereotypes are made up and don’t actually apply to everyone.
Stereotypes are actually made up. Michigan State University talks about this in their article, The Development of Stereotypes About the Rich and Poor: Age, Race, and Family Income Differences in Beliefs. This article is by Taniesha A. Woods, Beth Kurtz-Costes, and Stephanie J.Rowley. In this article they write “stereotypes are generalized judgements about an individual.”  With the words “generalized judgements” it’s saying that stereotypes are judgements. Since judgments are usually based on nothing except society it shows that stereotypes are a made up idea. Both of these texts talk about how stereotypes are a thing in our heads in one way or another. If stereotypes are made up by society, why do we continue to believe them? Why are they still a thing?

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Suicide: a big problem with both minors and adults. Is it about how we handle things, or our environment and what we’ve been through, how much and how long we can endure things, egos, or is it everything around us? The outsiders highlights an important subject that is starting to grow. Dally, practically still a kid has seen many deaths, but one death struck him. Was is a breaking point? Did he change? Or was is because he finally grew close to someone and lost them? Suicide has many reasons but even the smallest things or the biggest things can trigger it. This pandemic has provoked many children
Dally a classic selfish, cold hearted, forgotten kid, finally met someone important to him. Now he’s gone and so is Dally, it was probably the first time he’s experienced so much grieve and frustration in his life.
Two bit says this quote after he learns that Dally took off because he couldn’t handle it “So even Dally has a breaking point”-Two-bit pg 152
This is kind of the beginning to how he dies, he is overcome with grieve and doesn't know how else to calm it or face it without dying. He robs a store and holds an unloaded gun so the police shoot him to death. I don’t think any of the greasers really expected this as he was one of the strongest ones.
Unfortunately, I think this happens to much both back then and currently. With COVID impacting our world many samaritans feel trapped. With people overdosing and committing in their houses during this pandemic, people are starting to worry.
We weren’t “designed” to be by ourselves. Some people may love this and for others its the devils village. This text by the Institute for Family Studies says that drug induced deaths have risen severely, gun purchases have also spiked. Alcohol purchase has increased by around 54%. All of the deaths caused by these are also known as “deaths of despair”
Evidence from 2nd text states that the CDC recorded that as of June 2020 approximately 13% of Americans use or increase there usage of drugs to help with the pandemic. 11% of Americans contemplating suicide is about 3 million people. As you’ve read alcohol purchases have risen about 54%, 41% spike in women heavily drinking, and a 14% surge in consumers of alcohol. Tons of citizens have been losing jobs and struggling to pay bills. This could be extremely detrimental to someone’s mental health and well being. They become apathetic and can lead to suicide. With The Outsiders, Dally felt the need to not to live and give up after the only person he really cared for left

As people say, no one cares until its already done. No one cares to ask you how are you doing? Or is it to much? And once it passes a whole water park that got hit by a tsunami comes through. Although some people don’t have the opportunity to prevent things like this people who need help shouldn’t be scared to end up in mental hospital that’s abusive.

There has to be some way that those who are struggling mentally, financially, physically or any combination of those can get help even if many businesses are closed. Even though some deaths can’t be prevented, we should at least try to get the number down. So what are we going to do to increase mental stability but to reduce lives taken by COVID? Problems like this have been brought up tons of times yet are shoved back to the “deal with it later” file in our brains.

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Would you like to be treated harshly based on something you cannot control? Would you enjoy being buried with stereotypes and generalizations? Well, greasers in The Outsiders and football players in the article, Life of Reilly, have to endure these lifestyles. Greasers and the Gainesville football team have to Deal with disgusting looks and words being said from society right to their faces.

Stereotypes are very important on how greasers are treated. After saving the children from the burning church, the father of the children asks who Ponyboy is. When Ponyboy tells them he is a greaser, the father is very stunned and shocked in a rude way. “‘Are you kidding me?’ Jerry stared at me as if he thought I was still in shock or something.” (Hinton 95). When Jerry poses that question, he is in a State of Shock and misunderstanding. She doesn't believe that holds would save children because of the reputation they carry. Just because Ponyboy is a greaser, he shouldn't be stereotyped and treated like other greasers who have been involved in more crime.

These stereotypes also are a very real aspect in the real world. For instance,  the Gainesville High School football team has two cope with these as well. The Gainesville High School football team also has to deal with stereotypes being bombarded by people. Life of Reilly by Rick Reilly tells us the story between the football game between Grapevin Faith and Gainesville State School. It tells us how cheerleaders and fans were rooting for the opposing team because of the tragic backstories of the Gainesville football players. Gainesville had lots of kids with convictions of drugs, assault, and robbery. Many families have disowned the kids. Coach Hogan, the head coach of Grapevine Faith, responded with a very heartfelt statement when he was asked the reason for all this support of the visiting team. “Imagine if you didn't have a home life. Imagine if everybody had pretty much given up on you. Now imagine what it would mean for hundreds of people to suddenly believe in you." The Gainesville players had to deal with close family members and friends that have given up on them. People are looking at them like they were criminals, and they felt like they had failed themselves. When they actually had people that believed in them, even if it was just for a couple of hours, it felt like they had a loyal friend and it gave them lots of motivation.

These two stories are very different but they carry the same message. Both of them explain to the world how stereotypes are wrong and they do not apply to everyone.  everyone is different and you shouldn't make assumptions and treat people differently just how the outside world perceives them. You should treat them based on the content of their character.  How do we fix this? Well, the answer is simple. Don't give people harmful looks and say harmful words to their faces without getting to know them and also stop dividing people. Everyone are different and they have different lights and dislikes. They have different features and also different backstories. Do not make assumptions and judging statements as well.

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Problems in the book Outsiders by S.E. Hinton may not seem like it is related to real world problems, but in fact, there are many problems that are similar to our situation. I’m going to show one of the problems, and that is the discrimination against rich people and poor people and status discrimination. People are discriminated against because of their status and other factors relating to where they’re from.

In the Outsiders, the main character Ponyboy talks about how socs are treating them unfairly and that they can be mistreated just because of their status in the town. One example of greasers being mistreated is from Ponyboy, which he says,”while the socs had so much spare time and money that they jumped us and others for kicks(43)”. Ponyboy and his “family” already have so much to deal with, and many of the people in this group have parents that don’t want to take care of them, or that they’re not there anymore. Also, they don’t have a lot of money, as Ponyboy’s brothers have to work instead of going to school. The socs attack them because they don’t have much power, and they also don’t have money which limits their status in society.

Similarly, in the other text, it talks about how job recruiters are turned away because they don’t have a good-looking background. The article explains from a report,”Only 4% of doctors, 6% of barristers and 11% of journalists are from working-class backgrounds, despite some efforts to change the social make-up of the professions.” This shows that people who do not have a rich or high status background have a less likely chance of getting into a good job. Job applicants are not accepted for a job, and are being said no because of something they couldn’t control. Only a small number of people who come from working class backgrounds or not very wealthy backgrounds work in good jobs . Even after they tried to even out the jobs for both high class and working class, they couldn’t control job recruiters from turning away people who didn’t have a good-looking background.

Now what do these 2 pieces of text have in common and what is different about them? Some similarities are that both working class parties in both texts are mistreated because of their status in society, and they couldn’t control how rich or poor they were when they were born. So they can’t do much about being discriminated against. Even if they become a high class person their past still represents who they were and people will still treat them unfairly. The two texts are in different situations, but the context is still the same. Working class people have an unfair advantage because of where they came from. But that doesn’t mean there are no differences. The mistreatment in the Outsiders is between overall life and status in the community. In the article, it talks about people being prejudiced against because of their background. The article is also about job applications while the book does not.

The book and the text have great similarities, even though they also have their differences. Some people might say that they are completely unrelated, but both of them share the same idea that people are treated differently than others because of their backgrounds or status.

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After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, I was still  thinking about how easy it is to start an accidental fire if we’re not careful.

thinking about the idea of being cautious with fires, before the fire starts, we see that Ponyboy has been smoking a lot of cigarettes to relieve stress. After every time he smokes, he throws the cigarette buds on the ground. This made me worry about the fact that those cigarette buds may still be lit. He addresses the fact that he is being cautious, and making sure that nobody has to worry about any fires starting. He states,  “We were careful about our cigarettes— if that old church ever caught on fire there’d be nobody stopping it.” (Page 79) After analyzing this quote, it makes me think back to all of the accidental fires that have affected earth in the past years. Pony seems to realize this too, that’s why he is being careful not to accidentally start a fire.

Generally speaking,When we think about how easy it is to start a fire we can connect this back to all of the forest fires started throughout the past few years.https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/news/avoiding-accidental-fires-home by - - you are able to see the rates of fires, and how they’ve increased over the past few years.Next, in https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/ by — you can see the places that fires have increased the most, and how much the rates have gone up. As we can see, between these two pieces of text that the numbers of accidental fires has gone up in a great amount. Pew can also see that ponyboy knows this too because he is cautious not to start a fire.

Ending off, when we think about accidental fires around the world, we can connect this to the church fire scene In Outsiders. When we think about fires and how they affect the earth, would you also be as cautious as ponyboy?

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After reading The Outsiders by S.E Hinton I started wondering about how everyone grieved in different ways, from Darry, Soda, and Pony losing their parents to Dally's reaction to Johnny dying. After reading a few more books with a similar theme to The Outsiders, I was able to come to a conclusion: everyone has a different grieving process and way of showing their emotions.

Dally’s reaction to Johnny's death was to kill himself. This is what Ponyboy was thinking when he saw Dally’s lifeless body in front of him, “Dally raised the gun, and I thought: You blasted fool. They don't know you only bluffing. And even as the policemen’s guns spit fire into the night I knew that was what Dally wanted.” Page 154. I think it shows a strong point. Ponyboy didn’t shed one tear, instead he recognized that Dally is at peace and that this is what he wanted. It connects to the theme because it's another death that Ponyboy deals with. When Johnny dies there's a completely different reaction from Ponyboy. He told himself that Johnny wasn’t dead over and over, expecting he would soon believe it.

In the same way The Outsiders showed me that grieving was a universal thing, the book History is all you left me by Adam Silvera, does the same. In this quote, Griffin feels helpless, broken after losing Theo. Here are some thoughts he was thinking, “Then there’s the kind of zombie I’ve become now: the one who has lost everything—his brain, his heart, his light, his direction. He wanders the world, bumping into this, tripping over that, but keeps going and going. That is life after death.” This quote is one of many showing Griffin’s thought process. There were many times when Griffin felt empty, not able to do much. This book shows how Griffin dealt with it, the loss of his favorite person, Theo. There were many points where Griffin loses it, freaks out, because that's the impact Theo’s death puts on him. I think this goes to show that death impacts people in an enormous amount of different ways.

These two books share a common theme, death and dealing with it. Reading both of these really gave me a clearer understanding of how different the impact can be. Maybe it's not the impact that's different, but how the person chooses to act on it. Maybe it's not that they are emotionless but instead just have a wider range of emotions.

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The main idea I want to focus about in this essay is about dally. Dally was a teen who really struggles because he is a troublemaker but does not choose to be. Dally’s real reason for not getting in trouble all the time is because of Johnny. After Johnny died, Dally was devastated and gave up on life, when he had other people to help him. Dally did not know how to take it out on people but he chose violence, he chose that because he thought that was his only way out but it was not.  The police were notified when dally robbed the store. They quickly caught him and did not hesitate to shoot him because he was thought to be a threat. What the police did not realize was that he really had a life ahead of him and he was young. I realized the police did not hesitate to shoot him, this connects clearly to what has been happening in this present day and the past summer of 2020. Without talking about it I already had plans to base this part of the book off of the police violence that has been taking place in the year 2020 to present day.

Dally stated this quote in the sentence where he died and it gave thought to me: “Ponyboy...Wait…..” then proceeds to die. When that happens, everything goes silent. In the book, and in your head. You can clearly tell that the police do not care because they are trying to do their job to protect and serve. Do you think that dally really deserved that? Because I think the police knew that he was a threat but took very much action by putting on force. There is clear evidence in the book that is relatable to what is happening today, you can tell that by prime examples of innocent people being shot, for no reason. Now i'm not saying that dally was innocent, he did commit a crime, but what i'm trying to say is that he did not deserve it at such a young age.

“There was only 18 days in 2020 where the police did not kill someone” - Mapping Police Violence. This article tells a story about many innocent people that were killed. Not only does it include stories but other information. This affects not only the other people in dallys gang but everyone because they have a different perspective about police now. Realizing that police affect innocent people's lives just says something important: why do you do this. The police showed mercy to those people in the 18 days that they did not kill people but they chose after 18 days to show no more mercey, the police showed no mercy to dally.

The other pieces of text in the article  show how people got affected by the police violence but all of those really connect to dally. I say this because Dally, on the other hand, was exactly like every other innocent person, he did not get listened to or talked to by the police; “just had to do what had to be done”. We learn how there is no reason for violence and everyone has a voice in life, everyone deserves a voice because people need to speak to prove their innocence. Darry thought he was doing that for Johnny but really he was sad because the only person who cared about dally had died, dally turned his mood around,  and robbed a bank to just get shot.

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Johnny Cade never had a nice life. He had no support system, and more importantly, no family. This idea is presented in the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, and the briefly explained theme caught my eye. Because what good is everything in the world, if when you go home, something bad greets you every time? That was Johnny’s life, and so many people’s lives now. Because you might have friends, but they can never fully replace your family.

Johnny Cade is only 16 years old, and he is longing for love from his family, just like any other person. When Johnny and Ponyboy are on the run and no one knows where they are, their close friend Dally comes and buys them food. Part of their conversation is “Johnny nodded. ‘I'm sure. It ain't fair for Ponyboy to have to stay up in that church with Darry and Soda worryin' about him all the time. I don't guess…’--- he swallowed and tried not to look eager--- ‘I don't guess my parents are worried about me or anything?’

‘The boys are worried,’ Dally said in a matter-of-fact voice. ‘Two-Bit was going to Texas to hunt for you.’

‘My parents,’ Johnny repeated doggedly, ‘did they ask about me?’

‘No,’ snapped Dally, ‘they didn't. Blast it, Johnny, what do they matter? Shoot, my old man don't give a hang whether I'm in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter. That don't bother me none.’

Johnny didn't say anything. But he stared at the dashboard with such hurt bewilderment that I could have bawled.” Dally and Johnny share the same situation, but Dally is older, and way more tough than Johnny. Dally can deal with the fact that his parents don’t care about him, and Dally is fine, because he had his gang. But Johnny is still young, and even though he knows his parents don’t care about him, he still is waiting for them to love him. And even though he knows he has the gang, it doesn’t replace his family, or changes the fact that no one loves him at home.

Throughout the book, Johnny is worried, broken, anxious, and scared. His family situation is to blame for his current state, because family helps you through tough times, but if you don’t have one, then you’re left to fight for yourself.

Family is family, and it is such a big thing, there are thousands of articles you can find that explain in depth on what only a family member can do. In a more recent article from aresearchguide.com, they talk about this very same topic. In just two sentences, they summarize their whole article. The quotes,  “Friends may abandon you when things get tough, but family hardly will run away from you when things are not working out.”and “Our family members can be our best friends, but our best friends can’t become our family members.” are meaningful because they summarize Johnny’s situation very clearly. They talk about why Johnny is reluctant to make his gang his family, and then go to how family can be friends, but friends can never be family.

Both of these books/articles are talking about the same thing, but are they related to the real world now?

The short answer is yes. Going into the longer, deeper answer, 50 years ago S.E. Hinton wrote a book about a group of poor boys, and a few years ago, an article published, talking about a minor theme in the book. This is a big problem, and it must be solved. People focus on the general problems, but forget about the personal ones. This must be stopped. People need to work to find solutions for young boys and girls going through this problem.

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After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, I wonder about the friendship between Dally, Ponyboy, and Johnny. In life, you might have many friends, but a best friend is really hard to find because someone might have different habits or other.

In The Outsiders, there are many themes that show their friendship is very strong. I want to talk about a theme that I think it is important to remember, it is Johnny died. Before Johnny died, he said “stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.” (pg.148) it comes from a poem Nothing Gold Can Stay, I think Johnny wants Ponyboy to remain gold, or innocent. Just as the gold in the poem vanishes, and the boys must face consequences Johnny dying. After that moment, Johnny died. Dally did not believe, and said " Dammit Johnny. . . dammit, Johnny, don't die, please do not died" (pg.149) that shows Dally does not believe that Johnny died, after that Dally runs as fast as he can to a store and rips a  magazine and rob's a store and takes money, the police chase him and he gets shot 5 times. So that Johnny and Dally will always be together in heaven.

Out of book, I found a website that shows why friends are important to teenagers. The website is Teenage friends and friendships by Australian Parenting. In the website, it is written for teenagers, good friends can be like a personal support group. Friends and friendships give teenagers: a sense of belonging, a feeling of being valued and helped with developing confidence, the sense of security and comfort that comes from being with others going through similar experiences, a social group to do new things with, especially things that are different from what families do. If a person leaves, and you really depend on this person, you will feel sadness. That is why Dally and Ponyboy feel sad and unbelieve Johnny died.someone told me friend is a symbol of friendship between two people, and it is a name for two people who have a deep friendship. For me, when I talk about friends, my heart will be filled with a feeling of cordial friendship and warmth. If there are no friends, then our life is like no color, and life will become boring. There are happy things that no one shares, no one comforts when there is a sad thing, no one will share the sorrows, when I'm lonely, no one is with me. In the scorching summer, friendship is like a cup of fresh and cool ice black tea, moisturizing your and my thirsty throats. The autumn breeze is rustling, and friendship is like the beautiful leaves that fall with the wind, forming a beautiful landscape in the golden autumn season. In the twelfth lunar month of winter, friendship is plum blossoms that stand against the snow, blooming and warming our hearts. Friendship is also a bridge that builds up emotions, enabling you and me to collude, each other, and become close friends.

In the book, when Johnny kills Bob and they do not ask Darry help, but ask Dally and he help Ponyboy and Johnny not just push them away, that is friendship. Finally, I think that a friend is a guitar in a happy day, playing the joy of life for you to the fullest. A friend is a spring breeze on a sad day, gently blowing away the worries in your heart. A friend is a beacon of failure and depression, silently drives away the haze of your soul.

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After reading the Outsiders I wondered about power. What resonated with me was the main fight with the socs, Johnny, and Ponyboy. This main conflict caused everything crazy to happen in this book. It made me wonder about power and how it connects with the book. In the book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton and the article When Power makes Leaders More Sensitive by Matthew Hutson they both communicate that When you see power as a source of freedom, you are likely to use it to serve yourself, selfishly. But when you see it as responsibility, you tend to be selfless. The fight with the socs, Johnny and Ponyboy. Bob says to David before they drown Ponyboy. “Oh, glory this is all I need to top off a perfect night. Want to run for it?”You could use a bath, greaser. And a good working over. And we’ve got all night to do it. Give the kid a bath David.” Chapter 4, page 54. It shows the theme by showing that the socs are so powerful and scary that the boys think that they should run for it because of how powerful they are and how dangerous they are and how hurt they could get. Additionally I found an article by the New York times after searching up Power. It links to the theme that how you use power affects how you use it. When Power Makes Leaders More Sensitive

By Matthew Hutson. In the article, it states how people abuse their power over others and use it selfishly. The article points out that “When you see power as a source of freedom, you are likely to use it to serve yourself, selfishly. But when you see it as responsibility, you tend to be selfless.” in the outsiders when Johnny and Ponyboy go into the fire they are using their power selflessly to save the kids. Pursuing this further In conclusion, the article When Power Makes Leaders More Sensitive and the Book The Outsiders they both connect and proclaim that people will abuse their power and they will use it selfishly. Be aware, there are always people that never know how they will affect people abusing their power selfishly.

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After reading The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, I was still thinking about family! Family is a very principal part of our everyday life. It helps us improve our self-confidence, personality, and more. It is a place where you can be accepted for who you are. Family can help encourage you when you are going through tough times. Furthermore, it is important to Ponyboy, Soda pop, and Darry in the Outsiders because of their parent's tragic deaths in a car accident. They recognize that their siblings are all they have left and they show their importance to family by making sacrifices and supporting each other during extremely difficult times.

”I left up and ran in the door, but it was already open and so they had me in a bear hug and was swinging me around. I was so glad to see him. I could’ve bawled. Finally he sent me down and looked at me and he pushed my hair back.” (Page 97, Chapter 6)

“Then I saw Darry. He was leaning in the doorway, wearing his olive jeans and black T-shirt. He was still tall, broad shouldered dairy, but his fists were jammed in his pockets and his eyes were pleading. I simply looked at him. He swallowed and said in a husky voice, Pony….” (Page 97, Chapter 6). This quote connects to the theme because it proves how much Sodapop and Darry care for Ponyboy. They all have each other‘s back throughout everything.

After reading a bit about The Outsiders, let's take a look at another recourse to show how family can reflect in other ways. There are many different articles that can represent the similarities between The Outsiders and how children need family. This article is about how having family is indeed truly important to children and teens. That can relate to The Outsiders in a countless number of ways. This second resource is an article about teens and family. It talks about how teenagers and children need family to be successful throughout their lives. But in Ponyboy’s case, he doesn’t have parents. Darry acts as though he is his father which helped Ponyboy to be a better friend, classmate, and person. Therefore, Ponyboy and Sodapop need Darry throughout the book, The Outsiders. As the second text states, even being in a family can improve behavior issues, and help to be a better person. You can enhance these things by just spending time with your family. Teenagers benefit from just realizing that there is always support when needed. This text connects to the theme in many ways. In other words, Ponyboy doesn't have a parent but he does have family which helped him to persevere and continue being himself throughout the entire book. This is the same with real life situations, family is there when you need it and alway has you back!

In conclution, to sum up everything that has been stated so far, family is an extremely important part of our everyday lives and it is paramount to Sodapop, Darry, and of course Ponyboy. Lastly, family connects to The Outsiders in numerous ways. Being a part of a family can help to improve social skills, frame of mind, and in general, being a better person towards others and to yourself. Are you part of a family? If so, what has it helped you accomplish?

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After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton I realized that some of the problems in this book happen all around me everyday. Including the idea that kids want to grow up too fast. Though the idea of growing up seems magical, so is childhood.

Kids grow up too fast, sometimes realizing it, and sometimes not. Such as Ponyboy showed right here: Ponyboy was at the hospital with a man named Bob. Bob was a teacher at the school where the kids went that got caught in a fire. Ponyboy was smoking when this happened; “You shouldn’t be smoking” “How come?” Ponyboy has no idea why not, when Bob doesn’t respond he says it again, “how come?” “Why, uh, uh, you’re too young” “I am?” (P.g. 97)

Ponyboy has never thought of the fact that he is doing something that only older people do. He has just grown up doing it. This is an example of growing up fast without realizing it.

Now, evidence of growing up too fast being bad doesn’t just show up in The Outsiders. A lot of research has been done on this topic, including by a women named Emily Kaplan

Emily Kaplan is a journalist who has written in places such as Edutopia, The Hechinger Report, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Harper's. She wrote this article about kids growing up too fast; https://www.edutopia.org/article/whats-lost-when-we-rush-kids-through-childhood

This quote is from her writing;

“being little is of critical importance because we see the signature of early childhood experience literally in people's bodies”

This quote is showing us that the things you do when you are young (such as smoking) have long term effects on your body. If you are doing good things- like working out and studying in school- there will be good effects. But if you are doing bad things- like smoking and fighting- there will be bad effects. depending on how you choose to live your childhood, your life can turn out two extremely different ways.

The kids in The Outsiders are living life’s not fit for anyone, but especially not fit for 14-20 year olds. Even though acting older can feel good at times, in the long run it won't end up feeling good. Avoiding this is easy. Don’t try and act cool, keep a good he’d on your shoulders and shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you'll land among the stars.

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A good team always has a good relationship, kind of like a family. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton is about ongoing conflict between socs and greasers, two rival groups in Tulsa Oklahoma. The greaser consists of Dally, Darry, Pony Boy, Jonny, and Soda Pop, a group united by friendship, not family. Tensions arise when Johnny kills a socs which is an obstacle the group has to overcome. Similar to the way the greaser had to overcome Johnny and Dallys deaths many athletics teams have had to overcome setbacks, such as injuries for example the Dallas cowboys and dak Prescott.

For obvious reasons, Johnny and dally dying was hard but they are a family and they have to fight through the pain and get past it. dall said to Jonny while he was in the hospital about to die. He said that to let Johnny know he was proud and that what he did was right. ”dally licked his lips nervously.’ They’re still writing editorials about you in the paper. For being a hero and all. ‘he was talking to fast and to calmly. ‘Yeah, they’re calling you a hero now and heroizin all the greasers.We’re all proud of you, buddy.’” on page 148. When Johnny was about to die knowing that his family and friends where proud of him was the best thing, it says that dally being proud of him was Johnny’s dream.

It shows how big of a connection they have an losing him would be hard but they need to keep going. when anyone gets hurt it is hard, it’s hard on them, their friends, their family ,but especially their own teammates. The team mates have to find a way to keep playing through someone or their main player getting hurt. dak Prescott the QB of the Dallas cowboys got hurt in game 5 of the 2020 season after having such a good season so far. Everyone felt his pain, (the team, and the fans.) as he was crying in the back of the cart driving off the field. Who knows he could be crying because he got hurt or he could be crying because of his injury. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30094803/social-media-reacts-cowboys-dak-prescott-injury . so many people were devastated from this injury because they didn’t know how many more years Dak can play, als he was having such a good year and there was a chance he could make the super bowl but he got hurt. Hopefully they can make it next year so dak can feel what it’s like. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31040970/healthy-qb-dak-prescott-eyes-leading-dallas-cowboys-next-year-super-bowl.

While reading the outsiders everyone felt Johnny’s and Dallys pain when they died. Like a good team they are there for them but they are still sad. to conclude why the outsiders and a great team are alike...If my teamate was hurt I would be really sad, would you? In The Outsiders the greasers felt the pain of Johnny and dally deing, and the Dallas Cowboys felt the pain when dak Prescott got hurt during a game he was doing so well in. if your team mate or friend/ family member was hurt or even dead how would you feel, would you be sad? Would you feel there pain?