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The Book Loft of German Village is an independent bookstore in the German Village neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.Opened in 1977 and described by the Columbus Business First as "iconic" and a "tourist destination", [1] the store has also been called "a national treasure" by The New York Times. [2]
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z / SOH-shiz—short for Socials).
The Outsiders was Hinton's first published book in 1967; Hinton started the book at the age of fifteen. [1] Hinton based the characters, the Greasers and the Socs, off of teenage gangs and alienated youth in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 1960s. The Outsiders has sold over fourteen million copies since it was published.
The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School, [8] the Greasers and the Socs, [3] and her desire to empathize with the Greasers by writing from their point of view. [c] She wrote the novel when she was 16 and it was published in 1967. [10] Since then, the book has sold more than 14 million copies. [8]
The Greasers and Socs brutally fight one another in the pouring rain, and eventually, the Greasers win. They go visit Johnny in the hospital after the fight. Johnny tells Ponyboy to "stay gold," and then dies. All the Greasers become emotional. Overwhelmed with grief, Dally storms out of the hospital.
The 1990 John Waters film Cry-Baby is a camp reminiscence of Baltimore greasers during the 1950s. [33] In the Fallout video game franchise (1997–present) gangs of greasers are commonly encountered in the 1950s-inspired post-nuclear apocalypse setting. [34] The 2006 video game Bully featured a social hierarchy that included a greaser clique. [35]
Ponyboy is a fourteen-year-old boy who belongs to a gang of greasers alongside his elder brothers Darrel Shaynne "Darry" Curtis, Jr. and Sodapop Patrick "Soda" Curtis. . Ponyboy, although he is loyal to and loves his gang, he doesn't like how it's in gang nature to be criminal or im
Articles relating to the greasers and their depictions. They are a youth subculture that emerged in the 1950s and early 1960s from predominantly working class and lower-class teenagers and young adults in the United States and Canada.