The outsiders

• 'they had to be tough or they would have been killed long ago'
• Themes

  • social class(rich vs poor)
  • loyalty
  • violence
• Written by: SE Hinton
• Greasers

  • Rebellious working class youth
  • greased hair, jeans, leather jackets
  • known as hoods
• socs

  • rich kids
  • pick fights with greasers
  • drove corvettes and wore plaid
• Symbols

  • greaser's weapons= illustrate their violent struggle for survival
  • socs expensive cars= their material wealth and the advantages they had over the greasers
• key events

  1. ponyboy gets jumped
  2. ponyboy meets cherry at drive in cinema
  3. darry slaps ponyboy
  4. socs try drown ponyboy and Johnny kills the soc
  5. darry helps them run away
  6. church fire
  7. dally, ponyboy and Johnny go to hospital
  8. big rumble
  9. Johnny dies
  10. dally robs shop and gets shot
• “Things are rough all over”- cherry
• “I killed him, I killed that boy”- johnny
• “Greaser don’t cry in front of strangers. Some of us never cry at all”- ponyboy
• “Ponyboy…I mean if I see you in the hall at school or someplace and dont say hi ,well, its not personal or anything but..”- cherry