Critical Analysis of "The Outsiders"
Critical Analysis of "The Outsiders"
There were all kind of feelings going trough my mind as read the S.E. Hinton novel “The Ousiders”. Envy, love, roughness, strength, happiness...which leads me to think of this novel as a dramatic humorist nonfiction story that represents the reality that a society in every place in earth has to face with. There are always to sides: the good ones and the bad ones. Obviously it is not possible to define each one because there are different ways of setting a preference for who is the good or the bad. The Socs are the privilege kids from the West that as the word Soc means society, they have nice cars, they are rich and they live for bluffing. The greasers are the unprivileged ones who live in the poor side and have to put up with the Soc’s attacks, in both moral and physical ways. A special detail to look at are the changes the protagonist undergoes during the novel which I think is the one of the main purposes the author wants us to pay special attention at since the whole plot is based on Pony’s feelings and expectation for his life.
In every story there are certain events that will always stay nor just in our memory but also in the most deep side of our hearts which will make us remember the story forever. This events happen along the story and besides telling it, they describe the characters letting us know how they react to different situations. This novel has different stages in which we an easily identify each character by the specific details described from each one. The most shocking events in “The Outsiders” are very remarkable. Ponyboy, which is the central character in the plot, gets jumped by the Socs as he’s walking home back from the movie theater. His gang including both of his brothers rescue him and he gets a little beaten up but nothing to worry about. After that incident things cool for awhile. Pony and Johnny (Pony’s best friend) go to the movies and meet some girls. They introduce themselves and immediately notice this girls are Socs. They make friends with them and they walk the girls to their house. Suddenly the girls’ boyfriends caught them and take the girls with them without making any trouble. After a...