Mrs. Sental

Language arts 7

December 5,2016

Theme CER

In the book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, violence is a main theme throughout the novel. The Greasers are always getting jumped by the Socs and they are tired of it. Finally, the play that if you keep picking fights that one day you will lose. As Darry was shocked, the story stated, “‘We won.’ Darry announced in a tired voice…’We beat the Socs’”(Hinton 145). With knowing that the Socs always win at rumbles and when they jump the Greasers. Finally, it shows that violence is a big theme in “The Outsiders.

Sental 

Language Arts 7 

December 5, 2016

Courage in The Outsiders

 In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hintonthere is a theme of courage.  This theme is shown when Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally going  into the burning church to save the kids that were stuck inside.  Ponyboy was worried that they started the fire, they decided to go inside and help the kids. “‘I’ll get them, don’t worry!’ I started at a dead run for the church… [All] I could think about was: We started it. We started it” (Hinton 91)!  Ponyboy had the courage to go in the burning church to help save these kids.  Johnny and Dally also had courage to come in the church to help the kids with Ponyboy.     

Mrs. Sental

Language Arts Period 7

December 5, 2016

  In the novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, we learn that though people can be divided due to socioeconomic differences, they are all just people who inevitably must come to terms with love, sorrow, and hardships that may take different forms. But, due to stereotypes, they cannot express thoughts on the matter. Pony develops as a character, and though this development he learned that there are two sides. Cherry Valance, a Soc, insists that the high class Socs were always on never ending chase to seek something that would satisfy them, and Pony, the narrator, a Greaser, insists that they have their own problems of being jumped by Socs and being the lower class hoodlums of society.The two gangs have a bitter rivalry that stems from these drastic differences. But, on the other hand, they are, under their madras or jeans, just the same people with different experiences; it is just that this thought was not shared due to the said differences.  This is clear as Pony, when having a conversation with Cherry on seeing good sunsets, found it funny that the sunset he saw from the back steps and the sunset she saw from her patio were the same. The two people are just trained to think that their two respective groups are different in any and every way, instead of embracing the similarities they ignore them. Later on in the novel, when Cherry speaks to Pony after stating the rules of the rumble, she admits that she cannot visit Johnny in the hospital because he killed her boyfriend Bob. She explains that the Greasers know the one side of the Socs who are numb to emotions, unlike the Greasers. She feels that she cannot be loyal to either side, because they have their flaws, and she hints that Bob the Soc is kind of similar to Dally the Greaser. Cherry does not voice her thoughts, but it can be assumed that she believes they are all somewhat similar. The conversation does become tense, due to Pony being loyal to his gang and Cherry to her neutralism. Pony, to alleviate the tension and prove his point, asks if Cherry can see the sunset good from the West Side. Cherry responds, saying that the sunset is real good there. Pony, who has finally sorted out his thoughts on both classes quietly states, “‘you can see [the sunset] good from the East Side, too’” (Hinton 110). Though it may appear that Pony is having a conversation about the sunset, he is actually conveying the theme of everyone just being people. With Cherry, a high class girl, saying the sunset was visible on the rich side of town, and Pony responding by saying he sunset was equally visible from the poor part of town, it is evident that though these two people are different, though they live on  opposite sides of town and are prone to support their class over the other, they are internally just two teens stuck on the weird side of problems. 

Mrs.Sental

Language Arts 7

December 5, 2016

Theme CER

In the ‘novel “The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton there is an overall theme or moral of live by the sword die by the sword.  For example after Johnny died Dally Winston robbed a grocery store drove, to a parking lot then “And even as the policemen's guns spit fire into the night I knew that was what Dally wanted.” (Hinton 162) Dally lived his entire live as a violent person. He would get into fights on purpose and carry a gun. So, when Dally died he died in an act of violence. He teaches us that we should not live like him because in the end the violence will come back at you.  If you live by the sword you die by the sword.