Josh Shipp says that “you either get bitter or you get better. It's that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you.” This is true for Bob Sheldon from the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton. Bob Sheldon is a 18 boy who lives with only the struggle of his spoiling parents. Bob’s coping of this physical conflict shape him into a spoiled and reckless individual who his two-faced. Bob’s determination to enrage his parents causes him to make poor choices. Randy approaches the greasers and tells them that. “‘He kept trying to make someone say ‘No’ and they never did. They never did. That was all he wanted.
After he woke up, Darry and Sodapop went off to go to work, so Two-Bit agreed to take care of him. They went to buy Cokes “at the Tasty Freeze and rest up(114)”. As they were walking out of the store a blue Mustang pulled up. Randy and another Soc walked out of it. Randy wanted to talk to Ponyboy, so Ponyboy followed him to his car. He told Ponyboy that Bob didn’t just drunkenly jump Greasers when he was bored. Ponyboy learned that Randy didn’t like the conflict between the Socs and Greasers because “Greasers will still be Greasers and Socs will still be Socs(117)”.
Through a few different phone calls and some schematics (like when Bob faked his death and acted as a Private I) Bob gets Leo's vacation address and the next moment he's in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. Standing in the middle of the street Bob shouts until he sees Leo. Annoyed and disturbed, Leo agrees to meet with him under one prerequisite; If they meet Bob must promise to go back to New York the following day. Waiting to meet with Leo, Bob becomes familiar with the owners of the diner who happen to hate Leo Marvin for stealing their dream home. The envious couple takes Bob to Leo's home and he arrives at the back door. Baffled, Leo tried to put things into perspective for Bob by writing him a perscription that reads "take a vacation from ...
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Published 1967 Published by: Puffin Books Genre: fiction The book The Outsiders is the realistic story about this between two very different groups in a town in the United States: the poor Greasers from the east side, and the Socs, whitch is what the greasers call the socials, the richer boys from the other side of the town. Ponyboy Curtis is the narrator of the story, a 14-year-old boy who lives with his two older brothers, Darry and Soda. He is a pretty good athlete and student, but is not treated the same as the richer students at his school. Ponyboy uses to have long hair that he greases back, a symbol of being in the outsider gang. He is unhappy with his situation, because Darry is too protective of him
In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden, cannot accept that he must move out of childhood and into adulthood. One of Holden’s most important major problems is his lack of maturity. Holden also has a negative perspective of life that makes things seem worse than they really are. In addition to Holden’s problems he is unable to accept the death of his brother at a young age. Holden’s immaturity, negative mentality, and inability to face reality hold him back from moving into adulthood.
Have you ever got jumped for doing nothing, get stuff blamed on you for nothing, or even been made fun of for your social class? The book The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton is about two groups of teenagers, the Greasers and the Socs and how they are in conflict with each other. The two informational articles offer facts about how two groups of teenagers struggle in life because wealthy kids have money to buy drugs and alcohol as well as feel pressure from their parents about doing good in school, while low income teenagers have to drop out of school to help their families by getting a job and help pay for the bills. Some people believe that the Socs struggled more in The Outsiders because they had more money and used it to do drugs and more stuff
...nded up overcoming it. Little did he know that this was a huge feat that many people take much longer to overcome. Although it was naive of him to be the catcher in the rye, he tried it out, and came to the conclusion that he couldn't help other people avoid the inevitable fate of adulthood, and found that it was a better thing to just let go and move on. The Catcher in the Rye was a gripping story that had a hook in me. I was pleased with the way Salinger ended it that left an imprinted image in my mind that adulthood will find you one way or another and you will grow and find your own place in it.
‘The Outsiders’ is written by S.E. Hinton. It is set in the 1960s in a
This book showed the struggle between rich and poor. The two main groups of the story were the Socs and the greasers. The Socs are in the upper class while the greasers are the poor ones that dislike the Socs because they have more money, better cars, and act like they are better than the greasers. The Outsiders is a good story by S.E. Hinton that shows the struggles of growing up Hinton did a fine job with the character development, the plot, and the theme with a few flaws.
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”(Tucker p.56) This quote by Winston Churchill relates to Biff, Willy’s oldest son, and how he gave up on life once he found out the truth and reality about his dad. Upon finding his father cheating on his mother, Biff decides not to take the summer school math class which would have allowed him to graduate high school and go to the University of Virginia. Biff was raised by his father to believe that success and wealth in life were two of the most important goals to achieve. Upon finding the truth of his father’s life, Biff realized his father had neither of these qualities and felt he had lived a life based on falsehoods. Biff left his home to pursue the life of a rancher, which caused him to loose contact with his father. The ties between the two began to unravel even more. Willy’s inability to accept that his son knew the truth about him cheating on his wife only deepens the distortion of his life’s reality. When Biff finally returns home upon his mother’s request, he is unsympathetic about the failing of his father’s mental health, which further worsens the relationship. Biff is the only member of the family that knows the truth behind who his father really is and is the only one to accept the fact that his father is trying to commit suicide.
The Outsiders is a book about Greasers And Socs. The Greasers are the poor east side kids they would wear their hair long and greasy and they will dress in blue jeans, T-shirts, or wear they shirttails out and wear a leather jacket and tennis shoes or boots. The Socs are the rich west side kids that worn nice clothes, drove nice cars, and had all the pretty lady’s. They both was gangs in Oklahoma. The Socs they would jump Greasers, wreck houses, and throw beer blasts for kicks.
Someone’s life could drastically change just by the way they are treated, and the way they feel. In the book, “Theories of Relativity”, the main character Dylan, lives on the streets because he is unwanted by his own mother. This changes his whole perspective on life. Seeing that he needs to adapt to his surroundings, he learns to survive on his own. He goes through many hazards like people doing drugs, gangs, and parties involving alcohol. He never wants to be like that, but he gets tempted and decides to use drugs, it changes his life. “‘No, Thanks,’ I say. A party, a beer, a snort of coke, a joint, a night of warmth off the street.” Dylan is declining the offer of going to a party, because he does not want to lose control of himself. Dylan is always cautious of what he does, but he does end up losing control later on, and is greatly affected. In the poem, “Behind Her Tears”, the girl mentioned feels unaccepted. She takes the pain away by drinking, smoking, and cutting herself. She feels as if the people insulting her enjoy watching her in pain. This impacts her life, because she feels as if she should just die, and if she does it would not matter. This girl is greatly affected b...
How can two people whose lives are so different have so much in common? How can a young man growing up with everything he could possibly want have anything in common with someone who has known only poverty and hardship his entire life? It seems impossible. However, in S. E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, there are two such characters. Dally Winston and Bob Sheldon are similar because both enjoy fighting and have parents who do not give them the attention they require. Yet, despite these similarities, Dally and Bob have dissimilar personalities and opposite financial situations. Therefore, Dally Winston and Bob Sheldon have enormous differences in their lives, but also significant similarities.
The Outsiders was written by Susan Eloise Hinton. It is one of her most popular books about foolish gang rivalry existing between the Socs, the rich kids from the west side of town, and the Greasers, the poor kids from the east side.
In the prologue of Pillars of the Earth, an innocent, young man is hung. By the end of the novel, it is learned that the young man played an important role throughout the book. This man was said to be hung for theft, but it is revealed by the end that he knew a scandalous secret. This essay will reveal who he was, why he was a significant character, and why he functions as a central character and plot motivator though he was not alive throughout the novel.
E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, the two characters Dally Winston and Bob Sheldon, although similar in some significant ways, also are quite different. Dally Winston and Bob Sheldon come from dissimilar circumstances, and this may help explain why they have such diverse personalities. Living in poverty his entire life has made Dally a mean and angry young man. Conversely, living in the lap of luxury, Bob has no reason to be angry at the world. His disdain for greasers does not extend to his friends who know him as a sweet and friendly person. However, despite the stark differences in their living conditions and personalities, these characters do have things in common. Both Dally and Bob have parents who neglect them in their own way and, perhaps because of this, both enjoy engaging in fights. They are two different characters who share some vastly similar