“They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.” The outsiders is a oldie classic coming from the era of greasers, it's a favorite to the movie fans who love a good rivalry between classes that struggle with money vs. the classes that come from money. The Outsiders is a story that portrays the relationship between all the greasers as a group, individually, and the hatred that continues to grow with the annoying, rich attitude, show off gang of students that go by the name of The Socs. The two groups never get along being that the greasers come from the east side, and the Socs come from the west side, and there alone brings the differences between to the two groups, realizing that east side is where people with lower money live and the west side is home to the classy rich people. The greasers don't like to start trouble unless they feel it's necessary to protect themselves or anyone in the group but the Socs don't see that, they are pushers, because they annoy the greasers and harass them until they'll do something about it but that is when trouble always starts. Seeing greasers around always gets the Socs worked up, especially when they see them with one of their girls with them.
Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally go to a drive-in movie where they run into two girls enjoying a night out, but they just so happen to be some of the Socs girlfriends, and that is when the mistake is made. Ponyboy and Johnny are the youngest of all the greasers and they are the ones that offer to walk the girls home after the movies; being that Dally ran off because he couldn't get to one of the Soc girls, but that is when the Socs come up and tell them to back off and for her to go with them which she does. This creates an uproar later in the movie, messing with the two greasers eventually goes in an upward spiral of trouble for both groups. Things get real bloody and messy (literally!), after it is somewhat cleaned up, the two gangs come together for a "rumble" to prove who is the better group and to prove a point: not to mess with them again, being that the Greasers won, doesn't fix what they lost as a gang.
Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally go to a drive-in movie where they run into two girls enjoying a night out, but they just so happen to be some of the Socs girlfriends, and that is when the mistake is made. Ponyboy and Johnny are the youngest of all the greasers and they are the ones that offer to walk the girls home after the movies; being that Dally ran off because he couldn't get to one of the Soc girls, but that is when the Socs come up and tell them to back off and for her to go with them which she does. This creates an uproar later in the movie, messing with the two greasers eventually goes in an upward spiral of trouble for both groups. Things get real bloody and messy (literally!), after it is somewhat cleaned up, the two gangs come together for a "rumble" to prove who is the better group and to prove a point: not to mess with them again, being that the Greasers won, doesn't fix what they lost as a gang.
The first analysis of The outsiders was there was many conflicts that seemed to happen because so many situations take drastic measures; rather than being worked out in a more reasonable matter. A lot of events took different tolls on the characters, leading to more conflicts that could have been avoided in some ways. Being that this movie has been watched, we see that some of the characters have conflicts such as avoiding, attentive listening, anger issues, and lacking in the communication methods. The Outsiders really opened our eyes to know that without learning how to deal with conflicts; whether personal or public, things can get really bad really fast and it can be hard to fix the problem once the damage is too deep of a wound to stitch up. Having the characters take a class of HCOM 214 would be really beneficial considering that all the problems that rose to the surface left a trail of sticky outcomes.
If Dally, Ponyboy, and Johnny saw their interpersonal conflicts from the bigger conflicts at hand, I'm postitive things would not have happened the way they did. For example they could have had a better way of handling situations like family issues, friend issues, rivarly issues, self issues, and they also could have controlled their emotions in a better way. Having a plan of how to handle or take on situation would have been very beneficial to to boys and all the characters. If they had better skills such as listening, communication, getting in touch with their emotion, then they could have had better results in their and everyone else's lives (short term and long term). Signing these characters up for a course of HCOM 214 would have changed their lives.
If Dally, Ponyboy, and Johnny saw their interpersonal conflicts from the bigger conflicts at hand, I'm postitive things would not have happened the way they did. For example they could have had a better way of handling situations like family issues, friend issues, rivarly issues, self issues, and they also could have controlled their emotions in a better way. Having a plan of how to handle or take on situation would have been very beneficial to to boys and all the characters. If they had better skills such as listening, communication, getting in touch with their emotion, then they could have had better results in their and everyone else's lives (short term and long term). Signing these characters up for a course of HCOM 214 would have changed their lives.
Nice exploration of the some interpersonal conflicts styles of the main characters (Dally, Ponyboy, Johnny) and how they would benefit from taking the class.
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