https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2 Made with fortitude en-us 2019-03-14 18:07:01 UTC 2026-02-26 01:04:04 UTC hello@padlet.com aidanhalsey1 https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/341483106 The Theme of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about personal versus group identity.]]> 2019-03-14 18:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/341483106 aidanhalsey1 https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/341488084 Johnny and Ponyboy, instead of smoking and driving and drinking like greasers, are watching the sunset.]]> 2019-03-14 18:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/341488084 aidanhalsey1 https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/341488471 Ponyboy's favorite thing to do alone is to watch sunsets. Greasers don't watch sunsets, they focus on looking "tuff", and acting cool.]]> 2019-03-14 18:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/341488471 aidanhalsey1 https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/341488641 "I don't want to be a hood, but even if I don't steal things and mug people and get boozed up, I'm marked lousy." (132), shows that he does not wish to be a part of the generalized identity of a Greaser. He would rather be seen as his smart, more presentable self.]]> 2019-03-14 18:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/341488641 aidanhalsey1 https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/342496290 Greasers were too busy trying to have their persona of their wealth class to watch sunsets, " 'It was because we're greasers.', Johnny said," (47). Ponyboy is being himself by watching the sunset as he likes.]]> 2019-03-18 16:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/342496290 aidanhalsey1 https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/342517658 Transcript:
Ponyboy never wanted to be a hood--a greaser. He always desired to be normal without the prejudice, [QUOTE]]]> 2019-03-18 17:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/342517658 aidanhalsey1 https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/342519496 How does S. E. Hinton develop the theme through setting, characters, and plot over the course of the text?

    S.E. Hinton makes the main characters long for independence from a setting and situation where everyone is either one or the other.
    Throughout the text, Ponyboy is shown to long for escaping the Soc versus Greaser reality. He is even willing to leave behind what he is to avoid the conflict, " 'Well, I wont. But I gotta do something. It seems like there's gotta be someplace without greasers or Socs, with just people. Plain ordinary people'." (48). Ponyboy would rather be separate and alone, or with ordinary, plain people than intertwined in the prejudice against greasers, and violence against the Socs and greasers.
    S.E. Hinton also makes it clear that Ponyboy does not quite fit in with the rest of the Greasers or Socs. Ponyboy, unlike the other Greasers or many Socs, enjoys quieter, more relaxing and thoughtful things like movies and looking at sunsets, "Johnny and I stretched out on our backs and looked at the stars." (47). Ponyboy was always smarter than the rest of his Greaser family as well, and focused on school, rather than messing around like his peers and siblings. 
    Over the course of the plot, it appears multiple times that Ponyboy has an inner conflict with his belonging. It even comes to the point that he runs away from his family for a while, "I turned and ran out the door and own the street as fast as I could." (50). After the conflict with Darry, and his inner doubt of being a Greaser his whole life, Ponyboy exploded and (irrationally) ran away out of anger and fear.
S. E. Hinton makes Ponyboy clearly desire to be independent from a violent and controversial situation involving his social class.]]> 2019-03-18 17:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/342519496 aidanhalsey1 https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/342520687 Ponyboy and Johnny just want to avoid all of the greaser-soc conflict, and being associated with Greasers which causes them considerable trouble, " 'Well, I won't. But I gotta do something. It seems like there's gotta be someplace without greasers or Socs, with just people. Plain ordinary people.' "(48).]]> 2019-03-18 17:21:47 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanhalsey1/xrq4d85lupl2/wish/342520687