The Stereotype

Authors note:I wrote this essay to complete four of my goals in organization. This essay also explains how stereo types affect others and what one is.

Do you have a role model that is perfect in something that you like? You may not know this but, that is a stereo type. A stereo type is something or someone who represents an idea or product. There are many types of stereo types. For example in the book the “Outsiders” by S.E Hinton, Dally would be the ideal stereo type of the greasers. This is because he has a jail record, wears ripped jeans and has greasy hair and is good at fighting. Another example of a stereo type would be Cherry. The hone example of a Soc because she is admirable, wears lots of jewelry, and drives classy cars.

Yes there all types of stereo types but there are also tons of ways stereo types affect people. One of the most common ways of a stereo type would affect someone would be either negative or positive. A negative way would be, for example a Nazi stereo type would be a German with mustache and hat, with a gun that looks angry and hurtful. This could affect you negatively if you are against war and you did not like guns. This could affect you positively if you are a Nazi and like scaring people around the world. In the book the outsiders a stereo type would be Dally. Dally affected the greasers positively because it showed them who they are. It affected the socs and public negatively because of his jail record and what evil people they must be.

There are also other books that have stereo types even evil ones like “Blood Red Horse” by K.M Grant on page176 It says “Kamail is the perfect example of my Muslim warrior’s because he is noble, sleek, and cunning I hope that he will be the one for my throne.” Although other books have stereo types I think that the “outsiders” explains it the best because she shows how they are the main stereo types over and over again throughout the whole book on purpose and sometimes not on purpose.88 For example on page 11 it says. (He had quite a reputation. They had a file on him down at the police station. He had been arrested. He got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids, he did everything . I didn’t like him, but he was smart and you had to respect him.). This explains how he acts and what a greaser acts. It later goes on to say how Dally is the perfect stereo type for the greasers how she explained so well.

Even though she explained the types of stereo types amazingly, I think she over did it a little because she kept repeating how Dally was the perfect fit for the greaser model. A few times in the book I thought I was listening to the radio, when the announcer keeps saying that “In case you just joined us…” Then repeating what has gone on earlier. Just a personal thought but, I don’t think that people just start reading on random pages in books. This however could be a good thing if you were reading in a group. But over all I think that stereo types in this book affected negatively because the stereo types just made the groups(socs/greasers) hate each other even more. That is why stereo types in this book are affecting negatively.

By Tyler Hull

The real meaning?

Authors note: This response is about the true meaning of Family what the real definition of family is.


Do you think just because you have the same blood as some you they should be your family? No there are two types of family. The first is physical and nobody gives a dime about it except some old social services dude. The second and most important is the family that loves you and cares for you. I mean did you know over 40% of kids do not grow up to know their real parents.
The outsiders are a great example of this because of the character Johnny he would not pay a penny for his parents. Instead he refers to the gang as his family, over his biological parents because his family does not really care about him. So the real definition of family should be “the people who love and care about you”. Another book that has this same case is Alex rider when you read the first page it says “Alex never knew his family” And he refers to his family as His uncle and Jack Starburt.
Family is the main theme in this book because the whole book is based on bonding with others I mean Johnny and dally Ponyboy and Darry. Ponyboy and randy, everybody is gaining friends. So that is why the main theme is about family so I thought this was a very serious book about true family sticking together.

The Future?

Would you admit to crime if it meant death? I think that Johnny will run away with ponyboy. They will do this since Johnny killed bob, but they don’t want the police to find out. I also think Dallas will help them because he likes Johnny. This is because of page 24 “Dalles scowled for a moment if it would have been me, Sodapop, Two-bit or Steve or anyone but, Johnny he would have flattened them right there”. This explains his love for Johnny; because it is the only person he would not hurt.
They main reason I think Johnny will run away is because he doesn’t really have a family that loves him except for the gang. That means he really does not have a reason to stay he probably would have left anyway someday, to go to some other city. This gives all the more reason that he will leave. Since Ponyboy would get interrogated by the cops and he will have leave too so he would not rat on Johnny.
Also another reason Ponyboy would run away because he thinks that Darry does not love him and that Sodapop is just sorry for him but, this is not the case. Although he has other friends Johnny is his best friends so he will probably stick with him instead of the rest of the gang .
Therefore Ponyboy will go with Johnny and the will run away. Into the wind and leave forever. And because of the love for Johnny Dalles will help them because who in
Their right mind would like to go to jail, so just sit and think on that.