Outsiders Theme Essay, Period One by Alison Matthews https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl Made with a wish on a star en-us 2017-10-24 10:58:10 UTC 2017-10-27 12:10:23 UTC hello@padlet.com What you need to do on this Padlet . . . AlisonMatthews https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199916646 Hi! 
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3) theme
4) three occasions in the story when your theme is conveyed
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6) your thesis statement

]]> 2017-10-24 10:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199916646 Topic AlisonMatthews https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199917238 Theme:
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, x, y, z, blah, blah, blah.
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]]> 2017-10-24 11:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199917238 Difference 2207065 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199935867 Theme: People could be very different from how they act on the outside than what they think in the inside.
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Cherry, Dally and Randy all are not showing who they really are in the inside.
1. Cherry being a Soc but still remains gold (35).
2. Dally being tough looking in the outside and fragile in the inside
3. Randy might appear like a tough looking Soc, but he has a sense of what's right and what's wrong unlike the other ones (98) ]]> 2017-10-24 12:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199935867 Family 2205083 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199935949 Theme: Family is anyone that you love and that fills your necessary needs.
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the Curtis brothers, Johnny and the gang, and Dally and Johnny all show us that family is more than just who you have to watch out for.
1: The Curtis brothers relationship
2: Johnny and the gang
3: Johnny and Dally]]> 2017-10-24 12:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199935949 Social Class 2205084 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199935973 Social class should not define who you are and what you do.
In The Outsiders by S.E.Hinton,  Johnny, Cherry, and Ponyboy all refuse to let their social class define them.
1. When Johnny saves the kids
2. When Cherry sits with Ponyboy at the movies
3. When Ponyboy watches the sunrise at the church]]> 2017-10-24 12:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199935973 Reputation 2204036 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936052 Theme: When you are in public anything you do can affect how people think of you.
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy, Randy and Darry all have mixed feelings about the rumble.
1. Darry was ashamed to be seen with the Brumly boys before the fight (121).
2. Randy tells Ponyboy that even if they whoop the Socs it won't change anything or make their lives any better. The Socs will still be the lucky ones with all the breaks (89).
3. Pony thinks of Tim Shepard's gang as hoods because "Tim Shepard's gang is used to using anything they can get their hands on" (119).]]> 2017-10-24 12:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936052 Loss 2208021 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936109 Theme: Loss is inevitable and you need to be able to deal with it.
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton,with different degrees of success, Dally, Ponyboy, and people close to Bob all have to deal with loss. Dally does the worst because he ends indirectly killing himself, Bob's parents don't do well either because his mother had a nervous breakdown, and Ponyboy grows tougher from his loss because he eventually recovers.
1: Dally has to deal with the loss of Johnny
2: Ponyboy deals with the loss of Johnny and Dally
3: Bob's friends and parents have to deal with the loss of Bob.]]> 2017-10-24 12:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936109 Being Yourself 22050511 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936133 Theme: More often than not one's prescribed identity is not commensurate with one's internal identity
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy, Dally, Randy, and Johnny show that their prescribed identities aren't commensurate with their internal identities.
1. Jerry the school teacher doesn't realize that Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are greasers when they save the kids from the burning church. Instead he says that they are brave kids who are sent from heaven or professional heroes. When Jerry is told that they are greasers, or hoods as Ponyboy says, he is surprised because their brave actions showed who they truly are, and allowed them not to be judged as greasers (prescribed identity) (95). Ponyboy is a greaser, so he is supposed to feel things to harshly, but he gets good grades, is on the track team, and likes to read and watch sunsets. This isn't like the normal greasers, so he is defying his prescribed identity and is being himself (91 and 66). 
3. Dally is thought of as being a bad kid, but he feels responsible for Johnny and really cares about him.
4. Randy is a Soc, so he isn't supposed to have feelings, but he knows that he doesn't want to fight because it wouldn't help anyone and is worried about Ponyboy being sent to a foster home (141). ]]> 2017-10-24 12:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936133 Compare and Contrast 2205015 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936327 Theme: The different views of people sometimes show similar they are.
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the differences between Ponyboy and Cherry, Ponyboy and Randy, and Darry and Paul, shows that if you get rid of all the rough edges, they are more similar than you think.
1. Ponyboy and Cherry: When Pony and Cherry meet each other at the movies, they immediately have a connection and that makes them open up to each other. The more they talk, the more they see that they have more in common than meets the eye. Later when Cherry comes to visit Pony in the greaser area, even though it's only their second time meeting, they're able to talk, argue, start to leave. then make up. (e28-40)
2. Ponyboy and Randy: When Randy comes to speak with Ponyboy, Ponyboy finally realizes what Cherry was talking about when she told him that, "things are rough all over." Randy explains to him that Bob had parents that spoiled him too much and that he was actually a good kid. Also, they are alike in their dislike in fighting. Ponyboy doesn't know he he doesn't like fighting. He will but doesn't enjoy it like the rest of the gang. On the other hand, Randy is so sick of seeing people fight that he doesn't even go to the rumble. Both boys have an understanding to how the other thinks. When Randy states that Socs will always be above greasers, Ponyboy doesn't even try to deny it. Even if the greasers won all the rumbles, They woulds still be looked down upon.(e97-100)
3. Darry and Paul: Darry and Paul were on the same team back in high school. From their descriptions, I can see both of them standing next to each other. Tall, cold, and buff. With their clothes tho only thing different. Paul looks down upon Darry because he could've been great and gone to college like him. However Darry had chosen his kid brothers, and that made Paul very salty. (e120-122]]> 2017-10-24 12:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936327 Family 2205033 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936363 Theme: Your family doesn't have to be blood related to you Family can be the ones closest to your heart. 
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally all have problems with their family and what they perceive to be their family.
1. Johnny throughout the book shows that his true family is the gang not his mother or father. On page (104) Johnny shows that he cares about the gang so much more than his mother he doesn't even want to see her while he's in the hospital.
2. When Johnny passes away Dally shows that he can't take a loss of a person so close to him and that Johnny was really his only family member that ever cared. (127)
3. At the end of the book Ponboy shows that he wants to be closer to Darry and Soda shows that he wants them to all stop fighting. All three of them bond and show what family is all about. (149-151)]]> 2017-10-24 12:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936363 Friendship 2206002368 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936516 Theme: Good Friendship can help in hard situations.
Thesis : 
In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, greasers have to deal with hard situations, but because they are all friends, each, specifically Johnny, Dally, and Ponyboy, make sacrifices in order to help and support one another.
1.When Ponyboy was being drowned his friend Johnny killed Bob the Soc who was the leader of the small group who was drowning Pony.  
2.How Dally was helping Johnny and Pony after the murder of Bob and how he helped them with supplying food and find a place to stay.
3.How Pony ran away with Johnny.But Ponyboy didn't kill Bob.But because he was a good friend he ran away with him.
]]> 2017-10-24 12:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936516 Friendships/Family 2204014 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936557 Theme:  Friends understand and want to impress each other. You don't have a choice on who's your family. Friends can also be family and help you out in difficult times.
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the greasers are portrayed as family whereas the Soc's are portrayed as friends.
1.Pony runs away with Johnny even though he didn't have to when he killed Bob.
2. The Soc's ran off right away when Johnny stabbed Bob and didn't fight for their friend's life.
3. The greasers come back to visit Johnny right before he dies after they won the rumble. They tell Johnny that and tell Johnny that they're proud of him. ]]> 2017-10-24 12:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936557 Perspective 05001759 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936796 Theme: There are always multiple perspectives to a story.
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, different characters have a different point of view on each other.
1. Bob is viewed as violent to the Greasers, but Cherry views him as a caring guy when he's not drunk. Bob is a sweet guy to Cherry, but when he gets drunk, he becomes violent (110).
2. Although the Greasers view the Socs as bad, Cherry tells them that not all Socs are bad. Cherry says that not all Socs are bad, its like saying all Greasers are like Dally (31).
3. To many, Dally is viewed as a hood, but Johnny and Ponyboy view him as a helpful and caring person.]]> 2017-10-24 12:18:04 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936796 Identity 2208001 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936823 Theme: Because sometimes others view you differently than you view yourself, it becomes difficult, but necessary, to work to know and be who you really are.
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, like the real world, many people make asumptions of identity such as Cherry's assumptions of Ponyboy, Pony's assumptions of Cherry, and the way the Socs view the greasers/the way the  greasers view the Socs.
1. ]]> 2017-10-24 12:18:07 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936823 family 2207036 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936877 Theme: Family is different for everyone and your family is changing all the time. 
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, throughout all the families in the book everyone has a different perspective on their own family
1. Before the rumble Darry keeps telling Pony that he has his back and he wants him to be extra careful. (135)
2. When Soda runs out of the house and he tells Pony and Darry that he doesn't want them to argue and fight anymore
3. When Ponyboy was concussed and he worried that he didn't ask for Darry and when he asks Soda he finds out he did and he is relived. ]]> 2017-10-24 12:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936877 Friendship 2207211 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936899 Theme: Friendship is such an important aspect of life. The strength of a bond of friends can be indestructible.

Your love for friends can be as strong as for your family.

Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the love of friends can prove to be stronger than family.
1. When Ponyboy comes home from Windrixville and they're all having breakfast, they leave the door open so anyone from the gang can enter. They leave it open also if they need to hide each other if they rob something or if their parents tell them to get out. (89 of the electronic text)
2. Johnny and Ponyboy going through so much in Windrixville; talking about Gone With The Wind, Johnny taking care of Pony and saving those kids together all strengthened their bond (79 of the electronic book)
3. Dally's love of Johnny is proven to be so strong that he can't live without him. In the end of the book, when Johnny dies,  (127 of the electronic book) Dally couldn't handle it. He couldn't imagine life without Johnny, so he got himself killed. (131 of the electronic book)]]> 2017-10-24 12:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199936899 Hardships 22040721 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199937894 Theme: No matter who you are, you will always go through hardships in life, even if they are minor in the grand scheme of things.
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, various characters go through various hardships.
1) Dally willingly getting shot down after Johnny dies.
2) Ponyboy's grades and attention span dropping after Johnny dies.
3) Pony's, Soda's, and Darry's parents dying.]]> 2017-10-24 12:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199937894 Choices/Consequences 2206001331 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199938567 Theme: No choices are small - instead, each leads to a consequence that could affect your life.
Thesis: In the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Bob, Dally, and Ponyboy all make choices that affect their life.
1. Bob and his friends getting drunk and jumping Ponyboy and Johnny lead to Bob's death.
2. Dally living on the wild side of New York and making bad decisions and getting arrested at a young age makes him tough, cold, mean, and hard.
3. Ponyboy's decisions at the end to take all the bad things that happened and turn it into something productive.]]> 2017-10-24 12:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199938567 Appearance/Society 22070511 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199938678 Theme: Society confines people, labels them, and affects how you act and are perceived by others.

Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, many characters act the way they do because of their place in society and end up being seen as something different than their real personality.

1. Dally is perceived by Ponyboy as the toughest out of the group. It isn't until at the end of the book, when Dally dies, that Ponyboy understands that Dally wasn't the strongest. Ponyboy learns that most of what Dally's appearance was a front that was put up to protect himself. 

2. Bob is seen as strong and mean, with rings over all his fingers. To Johnny, he is a frightful figure. To Ponyboy and the other greasers, Bob is seen as an enemy, just like all the other Socs. Bob appeared smart, athletic, the perfect guy. He got into trouble, but there was a meaning behind it. Bob wanted somebody to tell him, 'no'. He wanted limits set for himself, a solid place to hold himself. 

3. Randy, like the other Socs, appears cool and unfeeling. Deep inside, he's sick of being a Soc. Randy is tired of the rumbles, the constant fighting between greasers and Socs, and the Socs being "the lucky ones with all the breaks" (98).

]]> 2017-10-24 12:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199938678 Loss 2208064 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199940833 Theme: Loss is unavoidable for all people.
Thesis: In the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, greasers like Ponyboy and Dally and also Socs like Randy and Cherry all experience loss.
1. Ponyboy loses both Johnny and Dally in one night. (148 and 154)
2. Dally loses Johnny and can't handle it so he kills himself. (148 and 154)
3. Randy and Cherry lose Bob who was a great friend to Randy and Cherry's boyfriend. (116 and 128)]]> 2017-10-24 12:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199940833 Persona 2202001714 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199942014 Theme: Society, experiences and one's world effect who one is, however at the end of the day one is given the choice for how it affects them and what will do as a result.
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally face many challenges and experience a lot, but they all end up differently because of how they comprehend and deal with the events.
1. At the end of the book, Ponyboy has changed from a boy to a man, with new values and a new understanding of the world. He had to go through a lot to gain his new perspective, but he realizes that the world isn't all about him and widens his circle of obligation. 
2. Johnny redeems himself after he murders Bob and accidentally sets the church on fire. Despite coming from a terrible past, he dies a hero and a martyr. 
3. Dally was always seen as strong and undisturbed, but he breaks when Johnny dies, and his tragic death reveals his inner turmoil and helplessness. ]]> 2017-10-24 12:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199942014 Emotional Strength 2202001726 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199942587 Theme: Even though we may not be able to control events, we can control how they affect us.

Thesis: In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Johnny and Ponyboy are involved in tough and upsetting events, but it is how the boys recover from these events that reveals their strength.

1) When Johnny kills Bob, at first he is a nervous wreck, but after a while he understands that what he did was inevitable if he wanted Ponyboy to live. (49)
2) When Ponyboy and Johnny leave the Church in Windrixville, they also leave behind a cigarette, this later causes the church to burn, but they redeemed themselves later by saving the children in the burning church. (78)
3) Towards the end of the book, Ponyboy's friends Dally and Johnny die. After the event Ponyboy isn't eating, but then at the end of the book, reality dawns on him. He can't do anything about what happened, and mourning forever won't help either, so he writes The Outsiders. (151-153)



]]> 2017-10-24 12:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/199942587 Protection 04002005 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/200046262 Theme: When faced with difficult situations or experiences, people cope in different ways; however, no matter how one copes, one must eventually face reality. 
1. Dally
2. Ponyboy OR Johnny
3. Socs
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, readers see that when each character -- specifically here Dally, Ponyboy OR Johnny, and the Socs -- is faced with a difficult situation or experience, each copes in different ways; however, no matter how they choose to do so, each must eventually face reality. ]]> 2017-10-24 15:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/200046262 family 2207036 https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/200354091 Theme: Family is different for everyone and your family is changing all the time. 
Thesis: In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, throughout all the families in the book everyone has a different perspective on their own family
1. Before the rumble Darry keeps telling Pony that he has his back and he wants him to be extra careful. (135)
2. When Soda runs out of the house and he tells Pony and Darry that he doesn't want them to argue and fight anymore
3. When Ponyboy was concussed and he worried that he didn't ask for Darry and when he asks Soda he finds out he did and he is relived. ]]> 2017-10-25 12:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/AlisonMatthews/rppr1u3zobdl/wish/200354091