The Outsiders, an enthralling tale by S.E. Hinton, is an excellent story about the hardships and
triumphs experienced by the Greasers and the Socs, two rival gangs. This novel suggests the stories¹
content because the Greasers are a gang of social outcasts and misfits. This novel¹s theme is very specific;
people, no matter what their social background, strive for the same goals and experience the same
disappointments. This novel shows this theme throughout a detailed story line.
The fictional novel is set in a moderate-size city, possibly near Texas, in the late 1960¹s.
Ponyboy, the main character, lives with his brothers as a greaser. One day Ponyboy and Johnny,
Ponyboy¹s best friend, get jumped by a group of Socs. The Socs start to drown Ponyboy in a fountain.
Johnny, realizing they might kill Ponyboy, kills Bob, one of the Socs with his switchblade. Johnny and
Ponyboy run to a fellow Greaser, Dally, who is always in trouble with the law. Dally helps them by giving
them some money, a gun, and a place to hide. They hide in a church outside of town for a week until
Dally says it¹s okay to come out. They go out to eat and when they get back to the church they find it
burning. When they see that there are kids inside and the fire could have been started by their cigarettes,
they run inside to save the kids. Johnny and Dally are hurt in the fire and taken to the hospital. They are
hailed as heroes in the local paper. Dally breaks out of the hospital to fight in a rumble against the Socs.
While the Greasers beat the Socs, Johnny dies in the hospital. When Dally finds out he goes out and robs
a grocery store. When the cops pull up he pulls out an empty gun so the cops shoot him.
The theme of this novel is that all people are set back at times and they all want the same basic
things. This theme is expressed in the novel several times. Disappointments are shown when Bob dies
and the Socs grieve for him, when Ponyboy¹s parents die and they are upset, and when Johnny dies and it
disturbs the Greasers. It is shown that the Greasers and Socs strive for the same goals when Darry,
Ponyboy¹s older brother, tells him that he should succeed in school and make something of himself, and
Johnny Cade - Johnny is Pony's closest friend and the gang's pet. They are especially protective of him since he is smaller than the rest, his father beats him, and he is afraid to walk the streets alone after being attacked by a group of Socs.
In the beginning Ponyboy Curtis is attacked by the Socs and is being threaten to slit his throat and then the Greasers come and scare away the Socs to save Ponyboy. The next night Ponyboy and Johnny go to a movie with Dally, they sit behind a pair of attractive girls. Dally flirts with them offensively and then Johnny stands up and tells him to stop harassing them. Dally walks away with rage and then Johnny and Ponyboy sit with the girls. Two-Bit arrives with 3 other Greasers to walk home the Soc girls. On the way Randy and Bob the drunken boyfriends meet the Greasers. They girls leave the Greasers and get in the Socs’s car to prevent a fight. Ponyboy is late getting home, so his brother Darrel is furious with him, Ponyboy sick of Darrel’s constant criticism and enquiry, Ponyboy yells back at him. The brothers have a furious argument and Darrel slaps Ponyboy across the face. Ponyboy runs away with Johnny, they encounter Randy and Bob at the park. The Socs attack Ponyboy and Johnny, They hold Ponyboy’s head underwater until Ponyboy blacks out. Ponyboy regains consciousness and finds him lying on the ground. Johnny is beside him and next to Bob’s corpse, Johnny tells Ponyboy that he stabbed Bob because they were drowning you.
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
the beginning of the book chapter 1 Ponyboy went to the movies alone on the way home some greasers jump him and in the right moment his group members save him from getting beat.
The novel “The Outsiders,” by S.E. Hinton can be defined as an emotional, heart breaking, and lesson teaching story. Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade were the youngest in their gang of Greasers. They were all wild boys, who liked looking “tuff” and being known as criminals. Ponyboy and Johnny were not as intimidating as the other greasers, Two-Bit Mathews, Dallas Winston, Darrel Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, and Steve Randle. One night, Ponyboy and Johnny were both out on the street. Out of nowhere some drunken Socs began to chase and beat up the boys. One of the Socs was drowning Ponyboy in a fountain. Johnny saw the danger Ponyboy was in and pulled out his switchblade. He stabbed Bob Sheldon and killed him. The boys did not know what to do, so they ran away to Windrixville, and lived in an abandoned church. They cut their hair and Ponyboy bleached his. Eventually the boys came to their senses and planned to turn themselves in. Dallas came to pick the boys up, but first they went to Dairy Queen to eat. When they drove back to the church they noticed that the church was on fire. Ponyboy and Johnny forced themselves into the church to save the children stuck inside. Ponyboy ended up with a minor concoction and some small burns on his back. While Johnny was not as lucky, an extremely large, heavy, and blazing hot piece of wood fell on him. Both boys were sent to the hospital. Johnny remained in the hospital much longer than Ponyboy. Johnny felt weaker and weaker every day and was getting worse by the minute. After a long and depressing journey, Johnny passed away. Therefore, their group of Greasers would now be presented with how loss and grief could drive people into making illogical decisions.
He is more of a pacifist than a lot of other children and teen-agers in his town. Pony prefers to read and watch sunsets over fighting in rumbles. He is always considerate of other people's feelings, even when they are unlike himself. Ponyboy commits a brave act in saving children from a church fire, and is also involved in a murder of a Soc which is what brings him to the church in the first place. His kind actions outweigh his wrongdoings, even when hit by trial after trial. Many others in his gang are like family to him and he knows that many face similar issues. His older brother, Sodapop, is a high school dropout who loves horses and his family. His girlfriend leaves him and moves to Florida, and he is stuck between the arguments of his brothers. Sodapop works hard at a gas station fixing cars, and is always there in Ponyboy’s times of despair. He casts a more paternal shadow than the oldest Curtis brother, and seems to cheer many people up. When Ponyboy disappears, Sodapop is deeply concerned for him and even considers looking in Texas so he can bring Pony home. Although he faces many of the same trials as Pony, he handles himself and manages to get his family and friends through many rough patches. Ponyboy and Sodapop suffer because no one steps in, but both could use a guiding hand. Ponyboy could use guidance in finding a productive future and putting his smarts to a more
Ponyboy has a dispute with his brother Darry and ends up running away to the park with Johnnycake. There, Ponyboy and Johnnycake get into a fight with Randy, Bob, and three other members of the Socs. The Socs try to down Ponyboy, so Johnnycake stabs Bob with a knife and ends up killing him. Ponyboy and Johnnycake run to a party where they meet up with Dallas, one of their close friends. He gives them a gun, money, and tells them to get a train out of town to an abandoned church. They are told to stay there until Dallas comes to get them.
On the surface, it seems that Nella Larsen’s Passing is about Irene Redfield’s friend Clare who is Black but has decided to pass for white. The entire story is explicitly centered on the idea of Clare being light enough in complexion that whites are unable to tell that she is Black, especially since they do not know her true background. In order to live among whites, Clare must never strongly advocate for the rights or humanity of Blacks, and she must not be seen too much in public with Blacks, lest her husband catch on to her truth. However, I submit that Passing has an even deeper narrative. Clare’s case is an easy and obvious example of passing; she is using her appearance and skin tone to enjoy the benefits that come with being white. But Irene is also passing, in a sense. Her wealth allows her to enjoy things that are stereotypically “white.” This would mean that Nella Larsen meant
The case study of “What should we do with Jim?” has been read and a set amount of questions has been asked about the reading, which will be answered by the following:
Ponyboy and Cherry start to talk and realize they aren’t that different. On the way, however, they run into Bob and Randy, the girls' drunken boyfriends, and the girls agree to leave with them in order to stop a fight between the Socs and the greasers. Ponyboy then gets home late because of what happened at the drive-in. Dally is mad and starts yelling. Sick of constantly being watched and criticized by his brother, Ponyboy yells at him. The two brothers fight and Darry slaps Ponyboy across the face.
While the Congress of Vienna largely achieved its goal of military peace among European states in the nineteenth century, ideological and social conflicts took shape within and among these states. Responding to the Industrial Revolution, writers of the time encouraged workers to unite against oppression and demand the rights they deserved. Though this call to action was widespread, not everyone shared the same vision of how these goals ought to be achieved. Specifically, while many sought to evade or destroy the influence of mainstream capitalist society in order to improve workers’ standards of living, in The Workers’ Union, Flora Tristan seems to imagine a workers’ revolution that would work within the current laws and use the existing political
I feel as though the novel The outsiders has many themes, but the most important one is belonging. The greasers are a group of poor, low class youth that don’t have much and live on the wrong side of town. They are always held accountable for their actions. On the other hand, the Socs are a bunch of high class youth that are very privileged and aren’t held accountable for their immature actions.
They go to a park and get jumped by a gang of Socs they had conflict with earlier that day. Ponyboy is held under the water of a fountain and to save his friend, uncharacteristically, Johnny stabs the leader, Bob, with a knife. Bob ultimately ends up dying right there next to the fountain. To escape the police, they run away to an old abandoned church with the help from Dally, another in their gang. They spend days there with only baloney, cards, and a copy of Gone with the Wind. Ponyboy says, “The next four days were the longest days of my life” (75). They both had to sleep on the hard, stone floor (67) with no blankets. When they ran away, it insists that they believed they had no choice and soon realized what a ghastly experience it would be. Spending their days on repeat, doing the same thing, eating the same thing, can become redundant. For them it was hard to stay inside the church even though fear kept them
and that everyone would want to know them. Thus the boys decide to go forth and try to find the body. The boys pack their belongings up and all tell their parents that they are sleeping over one of the others house and the next day they are going to the drag races. So they meet up downtown and get ready to embark on their journey. Gordy and Chris meet up together first and Chris shows the .45 pistol that he borrowed from his old man, who was probably too drunk to notice. But while holding Gordy asks if its loaded and Chris tells him it isnt. But when he pulls the trigger it fires. They take off from behind the building where they were. They go to meet the other two guys and set off on their journey.
These skills are an important core separating normal and disabled readers. According to Hill (2006, p.134), phonemic awareness is a skill that focus’ on the small units of sound that affect meaning in words. For example, the following phoneme has three syllables, /c/, /a/ and /n/. These letters make three different small units of sound that can impact the meaning of words. Seely Flint, Kitson and Lowe (2014, p. 191), note that even the Australian Curriculum recognises the importance of phonemic awareness in the Foundation year, due to the ‘sound and knowledge’ sub-strand. This sub strand recognises syllables, rhymes and sound (phonemes) in spoken language. Rich discussions about topics of interest to children as well as putting attention to the sounds of language can help encourage phonemic awareness as well as improve students vocabulary and comprehension development. It is important to make awareness of phonemes engaging and interesting in preschool and in the early years so children can learn these skills early and become successful