Outsiders Personal Response

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Originally the Outsiders novel started out with a gang of greasers based out of the 50′s era. Many things will begin to end up happening to them, but I predict will end up being ‘outsiders’. I think that because they’re greasers they will be looked at as different; as outsiders. The whole concept and surrounding this book is based on can be connected to a movie I’ve seen cald ‘Grease’ (a musical). This movie is pretty famous and is about a gang of boys with greased hair (in this case greasers) get through their last year of highschool together, in this same type of background in the 50′s era. It is similar to the book through the type of background it is and once again the time it took place in. In modern school today, in our school their are some common typical incidences where one kid or a group of people are singled out like outsiders. clearly, this can be conected to in the book how the group of greasers and the rest of all of them are singled out by the socs liked outsiders. They are singled out because of how they are different. Their hair to signify who they are greased back, they usually don’t have that much money, so they look like the are poor compared to how rich the socs are. Also, each and every greaser carry’s around their own switchblade and smoke 24/7, so, this separates them and makes them different from the other more normal people. In other words makes them outsiders. Today in my everday life, it is now illegal to smoke, and those with ongoing addictions are told and expected to only legally smoke at least 10 meters from every public building door. In the book the Outsiders, everyone and all the greasers were allowed to smoke a cigarette anywhere and anytime they wanted, and not mention it was completely legal. it was a normal everday thing back then. Nowadays, anyone who has an ongoing addiction and anyone who smokes look like, and are treated

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