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One of the biggest controversies in today's society... is stereotypes. Human beings are very judgemental and quick to label others; it's simply in our nature. If you don't have a good feeling about a person, generally you won't put yourself in a situation around them- but in doing this, you're judging an innocent person, or stereotyping them.

What is a stereotype? A stereotype is used to label or classify people (a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing). "Black people can't swim," "All Asians are smart," "White people are all stuck up," "Soccer is only for Mexicans," "Girls can't do what guys can do," and many others. The truth is, stereotypes hurt. It doesn't matter what your genetic makeup is, how much money your family has, your hobbies, or the sports you like to watch. People shouldn't be classified based on what they are. When Martavious Wright was asked to give one thing that he is commonly stereotyped on, he said, "People think that because I'm black, I can't swim. Or that I don't enjoy being outdoors because I don't want to get too dark." Stereotyping brings prejudice and segregation.

"They're real, but they shouldn't be a go-to for judging people. It shouldn't block you from meeting new people or immersing new cultures. I'm a dancer and I specifically dance ballet, just because it's a more fundamental part of dancing. I get more support from my family and friends since it's sort of a not-so-popular thing. But, I mean there are people I can tell who judge me for it, assuming I'm gay or not- I'm not gay. Stereotypes for guys (dancers) are generally that they're gay, I've learned to overcome this and I don't let it get in my way. " said Parker Mitton.

With stereotyping people, you're hurting other people, but also limiting yourself from many incredible people. At the end of the day, I don't think you would want to fall asleep with the thoughts heavy on your mind: that someone has stereotyped you as something that may not even be true about you.

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One of the biggest controversies in today's society... is stereotypes. Human beings are very judgemental and quick to label others; it's simply in our nature. If you don't have a good feeling about a person, generally you won't put yourself in a situation around them- but in doing this, you're judging an innocent person, or stereotyping them....

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In the novel The Outsiders a theme people learn after reading is that the choices you make are depended upon how you want your life to be.  Within the story Johnny makes a decision to have killed a Soc.  His life took a turn, scared little Johnny had just killed a Soc because,”...They were drowning [Ponyboy].  [The Socs] might have killed [Ponyboy].  And they had a blade… they were gonna beat [Johnny] up…”(Hinton 57).  From this event of killing the Soc Bob, Johnny was frightened and no longer thought to be as the tiny weak pet of the gang.  He had just saved Ponyboy and killed a Soc, he wasn’t the scared little boy anymore.  He changed his life because of this decision, he now is mentally and physically stronger.  If he hadn’t made this decision and let Pony drown he could be hated as the weakling who couldn’t save a friend and doesn’t deserve to be a Greaser.  Darry made a dangerous decision, he was terrified when Ponyboy came home but used anger to get it out.  He gained so much energy that,”[he] wheeled around and slapped [Ponyboy] so hard that it knocked [him] against the door”(Hinton 50).  Darry had the decision to slap Ponyboy which led to him running away.  He made this decision which changed him, Ponyboy and Soda now thought Darry was rude and crazy and not a good brother.  After time passed, Darry realized this which then he tried to change his decision, but he changed his life by remembering this moment when he did slap Ponyboy.  All in all, decisions are depended upon to change your life and make it the way you want it to be, don’t make it regretful.

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In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton. She creates a theme of courage through out the book. In the novel Johnny, who was always scared of every thing, kills a Soc who is named Bob because he was killing Ponyboy. After Johnny killed the Bob they run away to a church in New York to hide out. Then one day after they leave, they come back to the church to find it on fire. Ponyboy realize that it was his fault it was on fire.

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In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, a theme is stereotyping people before you know them. The greasers are lower class, hoods who get mistreated by society because of it. They get jumped by the Socs, another group, but they are rich and get respected by society. The socs jump the greasers, but they also threaten and beat them up. Yet, the greasers are stuck with the bad reputation, when they are actually good people.

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In the novel The Outsiders , by S.E Hinton the theme is about courage. During Pony boy's journey with the greasers he experienced various moments when he used it. Towards the middle of the novel he and Johnny saved several kids during a fire, this takes courage because they were risking their lives for others. Later in the novel Pony boy must fight in a rumble while sick and injured. After the rumble Darry tells Pony boy ""You got a concussion"' (Hinton 157). Pony boy that he would run the risk of an injury but he still fought.

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In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, readers learn that courage exists inside of everyone.  In The Outsiders, Ponyboy is a greaser, along with the rest of his gang.  Greasers are faced with a lot of bad breaks, that take courage to get out of.  After mudering Bob, Johnny and Pony run away.  When they'e about to leave the church, there's a fire, with many kids trapped inside.  Johnny and Pony rush in to save them.  After, Jerry, a teacher for the school of kids that was there says,  "'I swear, you three are the bravest kids I've seen in a long time'" (Hinton 95).  Johnny, a character who's known for being anything but courageous, ran into the building to save the kids, running in to what seemed to be a death trap.  This would take a lot of courage for anyone to do, nonetheless the kid who's scared of his own shadow.  All in all, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a great example of showing that everyone has courage existing inside of them.

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In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, one of the themes is courage and I learned that courage can make you better, but also hurt you. In the book Ponyboy says “Did you know that you got your name in the paper for being a hero?...I could see that only a few words were tiring him out.” (Hinton 104). During the book, Johnny and Ponyboy ran away from the cops to an old church. Later, they left the church then came back to see the Church in flames. 5 Kids were inside so Johnny and Ponyboy went in and saved those kids. But when johnny was leaving, a piece of timber wood fell on his back. Overall, this action was courageous but ended up hurting him.

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In the novel, The Outsiders, By S.E. Hinton there is a major theme  which teaches the reader how violence is never the answer . In chapter four, “Five Socs were coming straight at us, and from the way they were staggered I figured they were reeling pickled...drunk...We backed against the fountain…  Socs surrounded us” (Hinton 54). The end result of this conflict was Bob the soc's death. This is unfortunate for Ponyboy and Johnny because they were defending them selves. Eventually they hid in a old abandoned church. They were forced to cut their hair and diy it because their discription was written in the paper.

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In the novel, The Outsiders, By SE Hinton, stereotyping towards the Greasers occur. Stereotyping is the theme in the novel and towards the end of the novel, the reader can understand that stereotyping is wrong. Greasers are treated differently in the novel and aren't expected to be good people as the author writes, "'...are you proffesional heroes?'...'No, we're greasers'"(Hinton 95). As Ponyboy was talking to the man in the ambulance after he was burned at the church, the man asked if Pony and Johnny were proffesional heroes for saving the childen in the burning church. As Ponyboy responds that they are hoodlum greasers, he was shocked, as most people would be, expecting greasers to be dirty, mean, and violent. In conclusion, the reader learns that stereoyping is the main theme of The Outsiders, by SE Hinton, and that it is wrong to judge people before anyone meets them.

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Nicole Cordasco: Stereotyping in The Outsiders

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Nicole Cordasco: Stereotyping in The Outsiders

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In the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the theme is that stereotyping is wrong and one should not do it. At the end of the novel, when Pony realizes his future, he says, "Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then and wouldn't be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore" (Hinton 179). This is extremely important to Pony because he knows what it feels like to be immediately categorized as a "thug." When people don't even know someone, and they assume things it can make one feel horrible. Maybe some Greasers were bad people, but definitely not all of them, Johnny proved that. Overall, in the novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, the true theme is that one should not just assume things or stereotype other people they don't know.

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In the novel The Outsiders readers learn that  choices have an impact on what you do. Choice can be a decision that changes your life. In the book when a soc is talking to his girlfriend "'And even if you were mad at us, that's no reason to go walking the streets with these bums'"(Hinton 45). Two soc girls ditched their boyfriend and started hanging out some greaser boys at the movies. The greaser were trying to walk the girls home when their boyfriends showed up. The girls hanging out with the greasers was a risk they were willing to take but it backfired and a fight almost started. Choice makes a big difference

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In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton a theme is you should never judge people before you get to know them, which is stereotyping.  In this novel there are the Greasers and the Socs.  They get into fights often, but they don’t know each other that well.  Johnny was getting attacked by a Soc named Bob, but the Socs claim that he was a good person.  Johnny and Pony tried to escape, “but the Soc caught my arm and twisted it behind my back, and shoved my face into the fountain” (Hinter 55-56).  According to the Socs, Bob was a good guy, but he was drunk at that time.  Since, this has happened to Johnny before the first thing he thinks to do is kill him.  Johnny doesn’t know who Bob is and the other way around.  All in all, the Greasers and Socs don’t know each other that well, and you should never judge people before you get to know them.

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In the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, he uses  a theme of violence. In the story there is a lot of violence going on. Violence isn't the answer. Ponyboy lives with his brothers and he usually spends time with the gang. But then there was a blue mustang and the greasers knew it was trouble on its way.The socs were the West-side rich kids but the greasers were poor . The Socs and Greasers don't get along really well, then "They ran when I stabbed him..." ( Hinton 57). Johnny was protecting his friend from David (a soc)  that was drowning him. He should have not killed Bob because violence isn't the answer it causes more problems with more different people.

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In the novel The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, the readers learn that violence is never the answer, because something bad you didn't know would happen, might happen. Ponyboy lives the gang called "The Greasers". They always get jumped by the socs. When Pony and Johnny see the blue mustang, they know violence is coming. A few socs came the the park where Johnny and Pony were, looking to start something, "the next thing I knew I was lying on the pavement beside the fountain...then I saw Johnny,... 'I killed him"'(Hinton 56). Johnny killed the soc, Bob. If Bob and his friends came over to the Greasers park, they should have known not to start anything because things can turn very quickly. Johnny was trying to protect his own friend from dying, so he stabed Bob, and all of them ran off. The socs shouldn't have came to their park anyway, even though anything the socs want to do is to start a fight. The socs thought that the fight would end well, and they were wrong because they thought that nothing bad would happen to them, even though they were wrong.

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In the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton theme of stereotyping occurs a lot. In the novel, they are judged by the way they look, act and talk. The Socs who are the people in upper class and the Greasers are Ponyboy and his gang. The Socs are known for their mustangs, nice clothes, and money but the Greasers are known for their hair smoking, and being no so wealthy. Not every Greaser and Socs are like that though. "You know what a greaser is?...white trash with long hair" (Hinton 55).

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In the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the theme of stereotyping occurs. Throughout the story, people get judged by the way they look, which they shouldn't. The Greasers(who are Ponyboy's buddies and gang) and the Socs(who are higher class and wear nicer things such as sweaters and drive mustangs) get judged. Socs are known for driving Mustangs(or other nice cars), getting drunk, nice clothing, jumping Greasers and being wealthy. Meanwhile, Greasers are known for their hair grease or oil, leather jackets, smoking, being unintelligent and not having a lot of money. Clearly, this is not true about every Greaser and Every Soc. Pony is judging both sides," Socs, who jump Greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks...Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and rive old souped-up cars"(Hinton 3). In the novel, each sides are judging each other just by people who hurt them or by their looks. This is not okay to be judged. All in all, people are being judged by how they look throughout this novel.

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In the novel, The  Outsiders  written by S.E. Hinton the steroetypes aren't always true . In the story there are a whole bunch of different groups in the city that Ponyboy and his gang live in. Some of these groups include The greasers, (Ponyboys gang) and the socs. The Greasers are supposed to be the ones who are dumb, use to much grease in their hair, and are supposed to be hoodlums. The socs are the ones who are snotty, rich, and make bad decisions. So after a movie ended the greasers came out but the socs came up and said "'You know what a soc is?'...'white trash with a mustang and madras"'(Hinton 55).

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Choose one of the theme topics below:

1. Stereotyping
2. Coming of Age
3. Violence
4. Courage
5. Loyalty
6. Choice

Write a CER in which you explain the theme topic of your choosing!

Claim: Identify a theme in the novel.

Evidence: Include a quote that illustrates your selected theme. Make sure you include a quote stem and cite the quote properly!

Reasoning: Explain how the selected quote illustrates your theme.