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Emma Trusio

Mrs. Sental

Language Arts 8

December 5th, 2016

Theme in The Outsiders

In the novel, "The Outsiders", there are many different main themes. The theme in “The Outsiders” is that the whole gang is growing up by maturing and being more responsible for their actions. The Greasers throughout the story are growing up because they need to in order to be able to take care of themselves. While Ponyboy was walking, he said,“You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you...”(Hinton). The Greasers commonly get jumped by the Socs and Ponyboy exclaims how they need to become more tough and protect themselves so that their chances of getting jumped in more and more unlikely. They do this by conjuring more winnable rumbles and fights. All in all, maturing and becoming more responsible is a main theme in “The Outsiders”.

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Marc De Jesus

Sental

Language Arts 8

December 5,2016

In the novel, The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, we learned that doing things for your friends is important,no matter what it takes.Johnny and Ponyboy was in a fight between socs and it was only them two. The two of them had to help each other out in this situation. Johnny had saved ponyboy’s life, “They were drowning you, pony. They might have killed you. They had a blade” ( S.E Hinton 57). Ponyboy had almost been killed but johnny had saved his life. Johnny had killed someone for ponyboy. Overall, In The Outsiders it teaches us that friends are worth doing anything for.

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Samantha Kelly

Sental

Language Arts 8

December 5, 2016

In the novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, we learn that friends and family are always with you even when they're not. Johnny and Ponyboy were really close. They were like brothers. Ponyboy loves johnny boy so much, “Johnny was dead. But he wasn’t. That still body back in the hospital wasn’t Johnny. Johnny was somewhere else-maybe asleep in the lot, replaying the pinball machine in the bowling alley, were sitting on the back steps of the church in Windrixville” (Hinton 150). Ponyboy didn’t want to believe that Johnny was dead. He still wanted know Johnny was still here and he can see him whenever. Pony couldn’t face the fact his some what brother was no longer with him. Ponyboy was heartbroken. All in all, The Outsiders lesson is to know someone important to you is always with you no matter what.

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In the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton there is a theme of not one social class being better than than the other. The Socs say that the greasers are lowlife hoodlums. Meanwhile, the greasers say that they are white trash with moderates. Both social classes are equally as bad the other. Once a Soc tried drowning and killing Ponyboy. Then a greaser took out a knife and killed the leader of the gang.

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Samantha Solomon
Sental
Language Arts 8
December 5, 2016

In the novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, we learn to think before carrying out an action, or you might regret the action you took. Johnny, a sixteen year old Greaser, is pressured and forced into doing something that he wasn`t certain of. He later regrets the decision he made, but he did it for his fellow Greaser, Ponyboy. Ponyboy and Johnny were getting picked on by the Socs. Then, a Soc named David grabbed Ponyboy and attempted to drown him in a nearby fountain. Johnny has to react quickly so they don`t kill Pony, so in his fiery rage he lashes out and kills Bob, the leader of the Socs. After Johnny kills Bob the rest of the gan flees leaving Pony and Johnny. When Johnny has time to realize what he has done he immediately regrets it. Johnny and Pony are siiting in the park when Johnny says in a scared sort of way, "'I killed him.' ... 'I killed that boy'"(Hinton 56). In Johnny`s case, he realized he had to do want he had to do. Not only were the Socs about to kill Ponyboy, put they had a knife and were going to cut Johnny up. Immediately after all of the the shock and excitement had worn away Johnny felt fear and guilt because he had ended someone else`s life, although he always said the next next person to jump him would die ,no one, not even him, believed that for one second. To conclude, you should never be spontaneous when in comes to difficult and important choices, otherwise the outcome might disappoint you

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Nicholas Cabelo

12/5/16

Sental

Period 8

Theme in The Outsiders

In “The Outsiders” there are many themes. One theme that is addressed later in the book is staying at the peak of your performance. When Johnny is in the hospital close to death he tells Ponyboy “ Stay gold, Ponyboy” (Hinton 148). When Johnny says this he is telling Ponyboy to stay at his peak. Staying at his peak means to try his hardest to not let anyone bring him down. All in all staying at your peak is important throughout the book.

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Veronica Ramos
Sental
Language Arts 8
December 5, 2016

In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, we learned that saving or helping other people is worth it because, you know you put someone else before yourself. When Johnny goes into a burning church and saves children, he shows a great amount of courage. Although Johnny is severely injured and dies in the end, it doesn't change the fact that he knows "Its worth saving those kids..." (Hinton 177). Though they all know Johnny's life has come to an end at the age of 16, but he dies heroically. He knew those kids will grow up to live a longer life than he ever had. Everyone will remember Johnny for his actions, and he will be known as a hero in his town. Overall, The Outsiders teach us that having courage and helping others is worth it in the end.

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Grace Farro
Sental
Language Arts 8
December 5, 2016

In the novel "The Outsiders" written by SE Hinton, we learn that some people don't look like who they really are on the outside. Johnny, a sixteen year old Greaser, shows great courage when saving children in a burning church. Johnny ends up getting stuck and burned in the church and is in critical condition, later on the the story Johnny passes away. While in the hospital, Ponyboy, a fourteen year old Greaser who is best friends with Johnny, comes to visit. Johnny starts to feel hopeless while talking to Ponyboy and states "It's worth saving those kids. Their lives are worth more than mine, they have more to live for"(Hinton 178) In Johnny's case, he feels as if his live doesn't matter. Johnny's parents don't really care about him, so he doesn't really know what love and family means. Without Johnny, those children would has most likely died in the church. Also, Johnny wants these kids to be able to see the world, unlike he did. All in all, "The Outsiders" teaches us not to judge someone by the outside because they can be different in the inside, just like Johnny

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Isabel Voca

Sental

Language Arts 8

5 December 2016

In the novel The Outsiders by SE Hinton, we learn that having courage and saving others is worth it in the end because we’ve contributed to something bigger than ourselves.  Johnny, a 16 year old Greaser, displays great courage and bravery by saving five children from a burning church.  During the rescue, Johnny is seriously injured, and though he dies in the end, he selflessly thinks that, “It’s worth saving those kids.  Their lives are worth more than mine, they have more to live for” (Hinton 178).  Even though Johnny knows he will pass away, he claims that it was all worth it because now five more children will be able to grow up into the world.  He doesn’t die for nothing like most people, he leaves a mark on society.  Without Johnny, those children wouldn’t be able to experience all the world’s wonders, and therefore the effort is worth it.  Overall, The Outsiders teaches us that using bravery and helping others is always worth it in the end.

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In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there are many themes. One of them being saving others in always worth it because you’ve contributed to something bigger than yourself. The reason why they are at the church is because Pony and Johnny got into a fight with Socs, they tried to drown Pony, so Johnny killed Bob a Socs. While Ponyboy and Johnny were in the church they both decided to go into the corner of the church to make a sigart “I wasn't about to go through that flaming  door, so I slammed a big rock through a window and pulled myself in. It was a wonder I didn't cut myself to death, now that I think about it” (Hinton 78). This shows that saving others in always worth it because you’ve contributed to something bigger than yourself because Ponyboy, Dally and Johnny risked their lives to go back into the burning church to save other children's lives. They were very courteous to rescue children they didnt even now. All in all, because of Johnny Ponyboy and Darry's courageousness saving others in always worth it because you’ve contributed to something bigger than yourself.

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Camren Mattia

Mrs. Sental

Language Arts 8

December 5, 2016

In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there is the theme of nobody is better than anybody else. This is true because all people say that the Greasers are hoodlums and the Socs are the smart upper class people. But, this is proven wrong because the one of the socs “pulled a knife out of his back pocket and flipped the blade open” to try and kill Ponyboy. This is because the Socs and Greasers are enemies, and neither are better than the other.

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Anna VanderGast                                                 Mrs. Sental                                                     Language arts 8                                               December 3, 2016                                                             Throughout the novel, we have seen some different themes. Heroism is not usually used with greasers. People usually thought that the greasers were the ones who created the trouble. However, it is now time to change all of that. One main part in the book was it showed heroism by one of the greasers was when Johnny ran into the burning church to save the 5 little children that were stuck. Johnny had to think quick, “One was screaming his head off, and Johnny yelled "Shut up! We're going to get you out!" (Hinton 79) This quote represents our main theme because when Johnny ran into the church he did it with bravery, courage, ​and confidence. Almost like a real superhero. Even though later in the novel Johnny ended up in the hospital and died, he saved those kids life. He took his life for theirs. As an unknown author once said, “Not all superheroes wear capes.

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Anna VanderGast                                                 Mrs. Sental                                                     Language arts 8                                               December 3, 2016                                                             Throughout the novel, we have seen some different themes. Heroism is not usually used with greasers. People usually thought that the greasers were the ones who created the trouble. However, it is now time to change all of that. One main part in the book was it showed heroism by one of the greasers was when Johnny ran into the burning church to save the 5 little children that were stuck. Johnny had to think quick, “One was screaming his head off, and Johnny yelled "Shut up! We're going to get you out!" (Hinton 79) This quote represents our main theme because when Johnny ran into the church he did it with bravery, courage, ​and confidence. Almost like a real superhero. Even though later in the novel Johnny ended up in the hospital and died, he saved those kids life. He took his life for theirs. As an unknown author once said, “Not all superheroes wear capes.

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Nick VanderMolen              Mrs. Sental                  Language Arts            December 2, 2016    Throughout the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton the Greasers have made many choices that could have good and bad. They have made good choices such as being and sticking together for their life and always sticking together during rough times. The bad choices the have made is in some ways pick fights with others if the think they are threatened, they will stick up for themselves and won’t back down. They have won fights because of how they stick together. Choices like killing a Soc was a choice that Johnny had to make to save his friend. If he didn’t Ponyboy would have died and they would of lost a member of the gang. A bad but wise choice was from Dally. He pointed an unloaded gun at the police officers so they would shoot and kill him. Although he just gave his life, Johnny had died and he said that it was hi responsibility to look after Johnny and since he died he felt there was no other point to living anymore because he cared about him with his life.

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Nick VanderMolen              Mrs. Sental                  Language Arts            December 2, 2016    Throughout the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton the Greasers have made many choices that could have good and bad. They have made good choices such as being and sticking together for their life and always sticking together during rough times. The bad choices the have made is in some ways pick fights with others if the think they are threatened, they will stick up for themselves and won’t back down. They have won fights because of how they stick together. Choices like killing a Soc was a choice that Johnny had to make to save his friend. If he didn’t Ponyboy would have died and they would of lost a member of the gang. A bad but wise choice was from Dally. He pointed an unloaded gun at the police officers so they would shoot and kill him. Although he just gave his life, Johnny had died and he said that it was hi responsibility to look after Johnny and since he died he felt there was no other point to living anymore because he cared about him with his life.

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Evan Brown

Mrs. Sental

Language arts 8

December 2nd 2016

Stereotyping is part of the theme judge people by who they are on the inside not on the outside. Pony and Johnny are going for a walk at the park. They are followed and jumped by a couple socs. The lead soc, Bob, calls greasers “White trash with long hair” Ponyboy gets angry and spits back a retort calling socs “White trash with Mustangs and madras”. If they hadn’t judged each other by their groups Bob would realize that Ponyboy is a smart kid and means no harm. Ponyboy later realizes that Bob was just a kid trying to fight in with the social status. All in all, none of this would have happened if they hadn’t stereotyped each other.

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Throughout the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there are many lessons or themes shown, one of them being how choices follow you every where and in everything you do whether they are good or bad. Ponyboy Curtis, a greaser, makes choices usually without thinking, some good, but mostly not so good. Pony and Johnny, a fellow greaser get in a fight with socs, the appointing group. Bob, a socs makes a smart remark that greasers are just, “‘White trash with long hair”’ (Hinton 55). After hearing this Pony made the choice to reply with “‘You know what a Soc is?.... White trash with Mustangs and madras”’(Hinton 55). After that he could not think of anything else to call them, so he spit at them. This is just one of the many examples where the theme of how choices follow you every where and in everything you do whether they are good or bad. In this case it was a bad choice because the socs reaction consisted of them attempting to drown Pony. If Pony chose not to say this then possibly the fight could have ended differently. Overall, in the book The Outsiders one of the many themes is  how choices follow you every where and in everything you do whether they are good or bad.

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Julia Duren-Lubanski
Mrs. Sental
Language Arts 8

In the novel “The Outsiders” heroism for the greasers is scarce and never heard.  The Socs always get the prasing and “heroism” label, unlike the greasers.  When a particular Greaser shows up in the news as a “hero” it is shocking to all because the Greasers are not categorized as a “hero”.  When the boys see that there are little children in the burning church their first instinct, not the smartest, but is to run in and get the children out.  The boys, Pony and Johnny, are in the church getting the children out then Pony gets out and hit then black out, he wakes in the “car with strangers” (Hinton 94), he is startled to hear that the teacher and the medic thought that, ““[Johnny and Pony] were heroes sent straight from heaven.”” (Hinton 95).  After Pony hears this his initial thought is, “No, we’re greasers” (Hinton 95), he never knew that greasers if anything could be “heroes”.  This shows that greasers think that being a hero is something greasers never are heros they are not exposed to that type of “language”.  When Pony thinks that he and Johnny are heroes he doesn’t think it is real, he thinks the medic is just playing with him making a joke to make him feel better.

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Carmen Cecere
Mr Sental
Language Arts 1
December 5, 2016

In "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton, many of the characters have made life or death decisions for themselves or others. For example one of the characters, Johnny, was in a situation where the wrong choice could end up with him and his friend dead. While walking home from a movie, a group of soc's ganged up on Johnny and Ponyboy. When one of the soc's was drowning Ponyboy, Johnny had to act fast. Johny made the decision to help ponypoy by taking a blade and killing th eperson drowning Ponyboy. . After that Johnny says, "'I killed him...I killed that man" (Hinton 56). This supports my theme of making good decisions counts because Johnny saved a life, but also took one. Was there another way? Maybe, but Johnny's decision had a big impact on not just his life, but other lives too.

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Mrs. Sental
Sental
Language Arts 1
5 December 2016

In the novel, The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, we learn that heroes do not always take the traditional form.  Greasers, for example, are viewed very negatively throughout the novel--they are almost seen as anti-heroes in their community--however, when Ponyboy and Johnny save the children from the burning church, the children’s teacher tells Pony that he thinks that Pony, Johnny, and Dally are “the bravest kids [he has] seen in a long time” and that they were “sent straight from heaven” as “professional heros” (Hinton 94).  Ponyboy is completely shocked by this statement and feels the need to clarify that he is a greaser.  He does this because he has come to see greasers as incapable of being viewed by the world as heroes, but this statement made by this unassuming stranger makes it clear that anyone, even a greaser, can be a hero under the right circumstances.