The Theme Of Love In The Outsiders

When writing The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton built her story around several key themes that readers could identify. After reading this book, I'm confident I have found a few of them. Stick with your people and uniqueness conquers wealth were probably lesser themes Hinton included for us to become conscious of. There is a bigger theme though. I believe stand in the shoes of people who are different is the most worthy overall theme for this book, and is supported with three examples from the text. First, when Ponyboy undergoes a revelation while talking to Cherry, also when (example 2 here), and finally when (example 3 here).

Johnny , Ponyboy and Dallas also possessed specific interpersonal skills like openness and empathy which can be clearly seen in the scenes where they rescue the kids from the burning church without thinking about the consequences. They valued others life more than theirs that they were ready to sacrifice their own lives for saving the children. Their selfless sacrifice is evident in the scene, where while turning the pages of Johnny's copy of ‘Gone with the Wind’, Ponyboy finds a letter from Johnny saying that saving the children was worth sacrificing his own life. To conclude, the story of ‘The Outsiders’ is inspiring and it contains violence and strong language. I think its themes and conflicts are highly valuable as they still address many of the issues in the modern world. This film’s realistic portrayal has created a new kind of filmmaking which portrays poor teenagers from the wrong side of the tracks .I feel it is an easier way to lead the new generation in the right track through this effective form of communication. The movie also uses various elements and principles of interpersonal communication in many scenes. It would be a good action movie for the young generation to watch as they are mainly related to the realities rather than fantasy that

The main theme of The Outsiders is violence does not solve social conflict. In the beginning of the book Ponyboy thinks that violence is the solution to the Socs, but later through Johnny stabbing Bob, and finally making amends with Darry, Ponyboy figures out that you can’t solve social conflict with violence. This theme was relevant to the real world in Hinton’s time and still is today.

Look around at your close friends. You stick together just like a family. Your friends support and know you. Like a family, friends know each other, like each other, and relate to each other. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, my theme, friends are family, is very present. S.E. Hinton shows that Friends are family like when the greasers stick together because they really know each other and don’t really have family. The theme at the beginning is friends are family.

According to Christopher Reeve, “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” This quote means that if you hope, then anything can potentially happen. Choosing to have hope instead of fear and sadness can lift you up, and make you believe that everything can get better. Just have hope that it will. In the first person novel, The Outsiders, Ponyboy, the protagonist, makes some significant decisions. Some of them forced him to not hope at all, and to live his life in fear and grief. He kept choosing to deny that bad things happened, and that was tearing him apart. Ponyboy wasn’t having hope that anything can really happen, including his life getting better. S.E. Hinton chose to hide the theme of hope deep in the novel so the readers can

Picture having a mother who does not care and is neglectful. Imagine getting shot by cops or burned in a fire. Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston, two characters from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, are similar in some ways and different in others. Johnny and Dally have similarities as they both have abusive, neglectful parents and place little value on their lives. Despite these similarities they also have differences as they give different advice to Ponyboy another greaser from The Outsiders before Johnny dies a hero and Dally dies a Gallant. In the end Johnny and Dally have similarities and differences.

For example, if someone gets in an argument or has to run away for any reason, the others will be there to help. Johnny has parents who are the worst of all of them, and because of this the gang tries their best to make him feel like he belongs and feels like he has a family who loves him. They understand one another’s struggles and try their best to help fix them. “If it hadn't been for the gang, Johnny would never have known what love and affection

The book, The Outsiders is about a boy named Ponyboy, his brothers, and the gang he belongs to. Ponyboy’s parents died in a car accident, and his older brother Darry took care of him from that point on. “Darry’s gone through a lot in his twenty years, grown up too fast” (Hinton 2). When Darry loses his parents, he has to mature and become the ‘dad’ in order to take care of his brothers. Darry not only takes a leadership role at home, but also in the gang that he and his brothers belong to. The gang consisted of a few boys including Darry, Dally, Johnny, Soda, Steve, Two-bit, and Ponyboy. Ponyboy was the youngest along with Johnny, the gang pet, who was physically abused at home, and was jumped by a group of people called the Socs. “They had scared him so much.

Johnny was the pet of the gang. He was always tagging along about following them. Johnny always stayed with the greasers because he could have not stayed with his parents. If he did his parents would either be fight with him or hitting him. “I think I like it better when the old man’s hitting me” (51).

How can two people have so many similarities yet be vastly different? In S.E. Hinton’s, The Outsiders, Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston are two boys in a gang of greasers with both similarities and differences. Both Johnny and Dally have abusive parents and the love and care for eachother. On the other hand, Johnny is the most law-abiding while Dally is the least in the gang. Also, Johnny dies a dynamic character while Dally dies a static character.

Teenagers can’t be thrown around and not be seen. Being ignored can cause a teen to feel unstable, not loved, rebellious and many other things along with those examples. In the novel, The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, they’re kids who suffer in being ignored.  It’s just not right to throw them around like dolls!

Johnny is the only thing Dally really loves. When Johnny dies, Dally loses it because Johnny is like Dally’s Achilles heel. Dally pleads to Johnny: “Oh, damnit, Johnny, don’t die, please don’t die…(149). Dally came to his breaking point when Johnny died. Johnny was the glue that held the gang together. Ponyboy says: “He was the gang’s pet, everyone”s kid brother”(12). Johnny does not like to fight, but he admires the way Dally does not let his living conditions get in the way of anything. Dally and Johnny look out for each other and care about each other due to their

Something important to realize is that before Dally intervened Johnny just said, “‘We’re goin’ back and turn ourselves in’. . . Johnny nodded. ‘I’m sure. It ain’t fair fair for Ponyboy to have to stay up in that church with Darry and Soda worryin’ about him all the time”’(Hinton 87). This is saying that because he doesn’t want Ponyboy to be in hiding and his brothers worrying about him, this had an effect on Johnny’s decision since he didn't want them getting hurt for something he did. Overall it proves how the gang had an influence on Johnny’s decision to turn himself in because he didn't want Darry and Sodapop to suffer that Ponyboy was gone. Moreover, Dally responds to Johnny by saying to him, “‘Johnny, I ain’t mad at you. I just don’t want you to get hurt. You don’t know what a few months in jail can do to you. . . You get hardened in jail. I don’t want that to happen to you. Like it happened to me”’(Hinton 89-90). In effect, Dally tried to explain to Johnny why he didn't want him to turn himself in, as doing so would change him if he went to prison. In that case Johnny’s decision was influenced by multiple gang members to turn himself in or not. Under those circumstances Johnny decided to drop the conversation for now, not making a decision just

Ponyboy talks about Johnny’s parents, “His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him”(12). Johnny’s parents are always mauling and berating him, so he stays away from home as much as he can. The gang treats Johnny like a younger brother and cares for him because his parents

Theme: the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. A theme of a book or a movie can be seen in very different ways. It’s all opinion, and I believe the theme of The Outsiders is don’t judge people because they’re different than you. You see this happen multiple times in the book, when the SOCS assault the Greasers in the middle of the night, and also when the rumble happens, which is where the all the SOCS fight all the Greasers. There are good parts though, like when Cherry and her friend, actually hang out with Pony and Johnny. The Outsiders is about a low income group of teenagers, who deal with a lot of problems in life. They are called the Greasers, but even though there is 20 in the group,