The Outsiders, First impressions:

The Outsiders, First impressions:

My first impressions on this book The Outsiders is that it is a really interesting book. This book reminds me of a movie called  “Happy Days”. This book is based on teenagers and the society they lived in during the olden days in the 1950’s to the 1960’s. The characters in the book seem really fun and I am sure they would be great to hang out with. They all have different personality’s that's what makes it so interesting for the reader. The narrator is a 14-year-old boy named Ponyboy describes very well the time in which the book was set with cool clothing and slicked back hair styles and rock and roll music.

There are two different gangs, one is a rich gang the Socs and the other a poor gang the Greasers. Both of the gangs have a long background of fighting together. So far in the story one-gang member from the Greasers got “jumped” which is attacked by one of the members from the Socs.

My prediction is that there will be someone from one of the gangs that will eventually die in this book. It’s not that they are really viscous gangs but they are very territorial and protect each other as family.

The youngest brother of three boys is Ponyboy he is fourteen years old goes to school and skipped a grade because he is so smart. Ponyboy’s is taken care of by his two brothers since his parents died. His oldest brother Darrel is nickname Darry and is 20 years old and works as a roof tiler. The middle brother Sodapop is sixteen years old and he drooped out of school and works at the gas station. The brothers are in the gang Greasers. 

In the year 1960s that outfit and hairstyles are cool. They all us light blue or barker colour jean with a t-shirt with a lather jacket. The slang in this book is American and old fashioned and a bit weird and funny because it’s different to now.

Chapter 1 and 2: Questions

Chapter 1 and 2: Questions

1. Ponyboy is in the Greasers social group on the East side. This group is poorer than the other social group the Socs, as these are the rich kids. Ponyboy is the second youngest in the Greasers group. Ponyboy is well suited to the other members in the group because he wears similar clothes such as blue jeans with a t-shirt, or leaves his shirttails out and wears a leather jacket with tennis shoes or boots. All the members’ smoke and most of the members have to the same hairstyle. They are all like brothers and they protect each other and love each other. The only way that Ponyboy is different to his peer group is that he does not steal; he prefers to read lots of books and watches movies all the time. Phonyboy is a smart kind teenager that always tries not to get in trouble. 

2.  Ponyboy’s family members are his two older brothers Darrel (Darry) and Sodapop (Soda), their parents died in a car accident. His oldest brother Darrel who everyone calls Darry is 20 years old. Darry works long hours, is six-feet-two inches tall and looks like his father, he is muscular and he has dark brown hair with two pale blue-green ice coloured eyes. Darry says movies bore him to death. Sodapop who everyone calls Soda is sixteen going on seventeen, he dropped out of school, he is handsome and he has a girlfriend called Sandy. He is not as tall as Darry but he is slimmer, he has dark-gold hair that is long and his eyes are dark brow. Ponyboy’s relationship with his two brothers is okay. Darry treats Ponyboy like a little kid and this annoys Ponyboy, but they both love each other. Darry always make Ponyboy feel happy and safe. Soda and Ponyboy always hang out together and have fun; Soda stands up for Ponyboy with everyone and especially when Darry gets mad at him. 

3. The other members in Ponyboy’s social group are Dallas Winston (Dally), Steve Randle, Two-Bit Mathews and Johnny Cade.

Dallas Winston and people call him Dally, his has a elfish face, with high cheekbones and pointed chin, small sharp teeth, ears like a Lynx, hair that looks like white because it is really blonde, he doesn’t like haircuts, or hair oil and his eyes are blue like blazing ice.

Steve Randle is seventeen, tall and lean, with think greasy hair, cocky, smart and best buddies with Soda since primary school. Steve’s specialty is cars, he knew cars upside-down and back to front and was a quick and silent thief especially stealing hubcaps. Steve works at the gas station with Soda.

Two-Bit Mathews was the oldest of the gang and the wisecracker (smart allic) of the bunch. He was six feet tall, stocky in build, very proud of his long rusty-coloured side-burns, he had gray eyes and wide grin, and even his teachers forgot his real name was Keith. Life was one big joke to Two-Bit.

Johnny Cade was like a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and lost in a crowd of strangers. Johnny is the smallest and the youngest member of the Greasers. He was slight build, he had big black eyes in the dark tanned face, his hair was jet-black and heavily greased, it was long and it fell messy and was shaggy across his forehead. He had a nervous and suspicious look.  He is the pet of the gang, everyone’s little brother. His father always beat him up and his mother ignored him, except when she was mad she would scream at him.

4. When Cherry said, “Things are rough all over, “Cherry means life is tough, wherever you go, whatever you do and whoever you hang out with, it is all the same. Everyone must be strong and friends and family should stick together because there will be hard times with violence and rough and tough behavior from the rich and the poor; it’s the same.