Journal#1
I started out kind of confused. Rusty-James, the main character is talking to, I guess, an old friend. I don't understand why he's acting like he doesn't want to talk to him. I'm going to guess that something happened in his past, involving Steve and he's trying not to remember it. He could be a little bit nicer. Rusty-James seems real tough, like he's been through a lot. The second chapter starts and it flashes back when he was a kid. First thing that happens is he's threatened to be killed. What surprised me is that this boy acts like its nothing. Id get all my friends to back me up and id still pee my pants. Id be like Steve, the wuss, trying to talk through it instead of fight. Rusty seems smart, he just wants to be cool and have people scared of him. They start talking about this guy nicknamed motorcycle boy. He's supposedly "the stuff," everyone thought he was cool but was terrified of him at the same time. I guess that's how Rusty wanted to be. I've never understood the whole ego thing, how you feel about yourself depends on everyone else, but whatever, not the point. So this "legend" is gone, and Rusty wants to take his place. Rusty and Steve seem like complete opposites, but that might be why they click so well.
Journal#2
Surprise, surprise, Rusty has a girlfriend. He doesn't seem like the type to commit to one person. He seems like a flirt, like a show- offy type. A kind of guy a girl would want to have fun with, not date. She reminds me of myself when im dating someone. Jealous, accusing, and nosey. She probably has a reason to be though. They seem like they care about each other, though. Just like her I wouldn't like him fighting. Its kind of wrong how he leaves her so quickly to fight after he hadn't seen her in so long. He's acting like he's about to go play a game of football, rather that fight. He's so excited, id be trying to find a way out of it. The guy he's supposed to be fighting is high on something and is bugging out. Oh my goodness, id be such a little girl! Only way I would EVER fight is if they were younger than me, or smaller than me, and im pretty small.
With his long greasy hair and baggy worn out clothes he looked likes a bad kid, but the way he talked and the way he thought it was a whole different person inside of him. The Outsiders is about two rival gangs that fight and go through so much stuff to just to call the territory their own. It is the Socs versus Greasers. They always have their back up because you can't trust anyone, but at the end of the day is all the rubbles and fighting worth it? Ponyboy one of the greasers has a big character change during the book. In the beginning of the book Ponyboy was getting jumped by the Socs and he was acting all tough and defending himself, in the middle of the book he starts to break while he is in the church, and when the kids were stuck in
The story starts off with Scott saying, “we plunged toward the future without a clue. Tonight, we were four sweat guys heading home from a day spent shooting hoops. Tomorrow, I couldn’t even guess what would happen. All I knew for sure was that our live were about to change” (3). Scott was indeed right, his life was about to change when he entered high school. This clearly ties in with the theme of growing up, because entering high school and going through major changes is all part of growing up, and growing up is inevitable. Scott has to grow up no matter what so he has to somehow learn to deal with the changes he will be faced with. It is clear that Scott knows he has some growing up to do when he states, “Freshmen? Unbelievable. Fresh? Definitely. Men? Not a clue” (4). This shows how Scott starts off the year knowing that he has a lot of maturing to do, because high school is not at all like middle school, it is way harder. Lastly, by the end of the book, Scott wrote in his journal, that he plans on giving to his baby brother, “And, wow, I’m not a freshman anymore. I’m a sophomore. Imagine that. ‘Flux rox,’ Scott said, conclusively” (279). This demonstrates how Scott recognizes that changes will still be happening, but he can do nothing than to make the best of those changes and go along with it. Overall, it is clear to see
Journal Entry #1 Wiesel says this because he wants to keep the Holocaust from happening again. He probably meant that it is selfish to keep something to yourself when it is important and you can prevent it from happening. When he was being tortured, the other citizens did nothing to help. Maybe he just wants to make up for what others did not do for him. I agree and disagree with his statement.
Development: The narrative follows part of these students' lives during a year at college, they are in each other's lives whether they know it or not. There are parallels drawn between them as the narrative progresses: Peace V War, Aggression V Pacifism, sides are taken and the racial lines are clear- stick to your own group like glue. How they fit in with the rest of the college population, Malik does this better than Remy and Kristen- he heads straight for the black population.
The story begins with Jake driving on the freeway. He is so enraptured by his daydream of better possibilities that he ends up smacking the car ahead of him. Jake considers driving away but instead he stops and finds out that the owner of the Toyota he hit was a beautiful girl. From there, Jake switches into his smooth talker role with Mariana. Jake then tries to con her by saying he doesn't have any insurance and assures her that he will pay for it. As he drives away, he sees Mariana behind him writing down the license plate numbers that he stole from another car.
The main protagonist of the film, Scotty Smalls, is introduced as a straight-A, friendless young boy who has just moved into a new neighborhood in new state. While
Standing between boy and the man are the villain's. Most of the book is dark and grey with evil everywhere. Villain's in The Road can be described as cannibals, rapist, and murderers. The show no humanity, and only want to survive, even if it means eating other humans. In a conversation between the man and his wife, she states all the things the bad guys will do when they find them,
This book teaches about friendship when Joey and Rusty meet. Both Joey and Rusty keep their secrets and do a lot of things together. They both fool around a lot.
In the book, “The Outsiders” you really get to know the characters such as Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Johnny, Dally, Two-Bit (greasers) and, Steve, Randy, Cherry, Marcia, and Bob. (soc’s) In this book it discusses greasers, and soc’s everyday lives. In this book as well it discusses the struggles between greasers, and the soc’s. The main character is, Ponyboy Curtis, a smart greaser with a huge heart. Ponyboy is accompanied by his two brothers, and some more greaser friends.
Walter introduces readers to his characters in such a way that it seems like a movie. He allows the characters personalities to grow as the novel progresses and they intersect with other characters. The main characters are Pasqual Tursi, Richard Burton, Debra “Dee” Moray, Alvis Bender, Michael Deane, Shane Wheeler, Claire Silver, and Pat Bender. These eight character’s stories provide the plot line to the book. Some stories are tragic and others hopeful, but all depend on one another at some point during the course of the novel. Walter shows how peoples lives can intersect...
The rising action of the story was when he would find friends and they would help him to realize certain things about himself. The biker that he met helped him get started on stars. One of the maids that he met on his trip had shown him kindness and through this, she taught him that u can always have a fresh start or second chance at life as long as you try hard enough. And the artist that he met at the ocean helped him learn that u shouldn’t always judge a book by its cover, there might be more to someone than you think.
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The film chronicles the histories of three fathers, and manages to relates and link their events and situations. First is Mitchell Stephens and his relationship with his drug-addict daughter. Second is Sam, and the secret affair he is having with his young daughter Nicole. He is somewhat of a narcissistic character because of his preoccupation with himself and pleasing himself, and his lack of empathy throughout the film for the others in the town. Third is Billy, who loves his two children so much that he follows behind the school bus every day waving at them. Billy is also having an affair with a married woman who owns the town’s only motel. On the exterior the town is an average place with good people just living their lives. But, beneath all the small town simplicity is a web of lies and secrets, some which must be dealt with in the face of this tragedy.
At the beginning they Sandy & Danny start off with a great relationship. They meet at the beach during summer break. Thinking they would never see each other again they went their separate ways. But Sandy ends up moving and goes to the same high school as Danny. They don’t know that the other is at the same school until Rizzo, one of the “pink ladies” introduces them to on another at the football pep rally. This is when all the conflict starts. Danny and Sandy are so excited to see each other, but all of sudden Danny changes his tone of voice, as well as attitude toward Sandy. Sandy is taken back by the way Danny is acting. She asks him, “What is wrong with you?” Then he replies “What’s the matter with me, What’s the matter with you?” Going on she calls him a fake and a phony and says she wishes she never laid eyes on him. The T-Birds, Danny’s friends start giving Danny a hard time about Sandy. So in a nutshell he treats her like she is just an ordinary person and not a girl that he cares for. On one day Sandy is at the local restaurant with a guy that happens to run track and Danny keeps watching her. When Sandy goes to the juke box she walks by Danny and does not acknowledge his existence. Danny then approaches Sandy and begins to give her a hard time about the guy that she is with. Sandy is very short with Danny and does not let on that she is upset.
About a boy is a novel which follows the lives of two people: Marcus and Will. Marcus is a strange kid who struggles with growing up, he is in need for acceptance outside of his own family, he is searching for his own identity, he is a victim of constant bullying and is suffering with his lack of parental care. Will is the complete opposite to Marcus. He is a 36 year old who is in his own extended childhood, he is searching for his identity not wanting to lose his youth, he ‘prides himself on his cool’ and simply can’t find a way to grow up. It is when these two opposing characters meet that they soon act as catalysts for each other. From their dependence on others they find independence for themselves within one another.