Greasers Subculture Values and Beliefs: History- Greasers originated in the early 1950’s increasingly popular toward the 1960’s. They originated in the young northeaster and southern united states street gangs and changed rapidly unto other type of individuals. Initially it arose from working class families that didn’t have access to the greatest educational resources. They existed before gangs were dependent on violence and drugs. The greasers of the 1950s took their name from the “Greaser Act”
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How does Ponyboy’s opinion of the Socs change from the start of the novel to the end? S.E Hinton’s novel‚ “The Outsiders” explores the idea of two opposing rivalries‚ the Greasers and the Socialists who fight over the turfs in their shared town in order to gain respect and have control over the other gang. Ponyboy’s view of the Socs changes towards the end due to different events‚ friendships and problems which occur throughout the novel. Ponyboys’ perception varies drastically through the events
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Greasers or Socs? How do you know weather the Socs or the Greasers have it tough? Trying to decide is difficult. You may think you know but unless you see it through their eyes then you can decide who has is tougher.Greasers and Socs are people too. They do have other lives. They both have problems and tough times.It would be way better if there were no Socs or Greasers‚just normal people. Socs pick on Greasers sometimes and want to start fights. Some Greasers are childish and do not care
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External expectations play a big role in the life of a greaser. Things such as appearance‚ speech‚ and behaviour. Things such as clothes‚ hair‚ skin‚ and features‚ influence their first impression. People make first impressions to decide wether they want to be in the presence of someone or not. The most common bearing of a greaser is long hair‚ with hair oil or grease in it (hence their name ‘Greasers’). The status quo for Greasers is that they are impecunious‚ meaning that they can’t afford expensive
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The Greaser vs. The Socs In your opinion who do you think has more struggles the poor or the rich? These boys are life on there only.The greasers are once who are going through a lot he greasers have a harder struggle in life. They go through a lot and do things on there only.How ponyboy has harder struggle in life.and whos having a struggle in life.The greasers have a harder struggle in life in the The Outsiders. The greaser are the once struggles in life.”Were poorer
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I used to hate greasers. They had tried to pick up Cherry and Marcia‚ Bob and my girls. We were so mad that they thought they had the right to do that; they were no-hopers. The night we went to find Ponyboy and Johnny we just wanted to put them back in their place. We wanted the power restored to our superiority‚ because as typical socs we believed this was our right. Socs will always have more power than greasers because the socs had money and the greasers didn’t. There was a constant war between
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Many people think that Socs are different from greasers. Socs are wealthy rich kids who live on the west side of town and like to jump greasers and ride in their mustangs and corvairs. Greasers on the other hand are tuff and ride in souped up cars. They usually carry a switchblade or some other weapon and they are poorer and usually don’t learn as well‚ plus they put tons of grease in their hair thus the name greasers. Sherri Valance or known as Cherry for her bright red hair is a different type
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ever wonder what made up the community of the greasers‚ or what makes up a community in general? A community is made up of the personality of the members in the community‚ the certain aspects the community is known for‚ and the family and love inside these communities. I will also explain to you what makes up the greaser community‚ and I will explain to you the emotional help that the greaser community did for its members‚ but I will include how the greaser community unfortunately did harm to some of
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known as Greasers and Socs they are divided by their socioeconomic status. The Greasers are a group of boys from lower class.Their gangs were like their families because they were there for them and cared about each other. On the other hand the Socs were the rich kids. They lived on the Westside and were always getting drunk and looking for fights with Greasers.This story is told in first-person narrative by protagonist Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy is a member of the gang known as ¨Greasers¨. The story
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"Things are rough all over"‚ think the greasers and Socs based on their situation.Mostly‚ the Greasers.The main character and narrator‚ Ponyboy thinks that the greasers have it rough. Because‚ they are poor. And based on Ponyboy’s conversation with cherry from the Socs‚ cherry said "we have troubles you’ve never even heard of "Which seems like the Socs have "problems" too. Based on Cherry’s talk with ponyboy about each others gang‚the story starts to unfold and prove each others reasoning.This Fiction
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