Vinny and Joe-Boy are both characters in a story called ‘’The Ravine’’. They are 15, boys, and best friends from Hawaii. They are going to a ravine to swim and jump off a precipice were a boy named Butchie died one week and a day ago. Vinny and Joe-Boy are in many ways similar, yet they are still very different. Vinny was weak, just letting everyone make his decisions for him. His friends wanted him to go to the ravine, but he didn’t want to. He didn’t know what to do. His mom said he couldn’t go to the ravine but his dad said he could. He didn’t want his friends to think he was scared or a big baby. So he went. Vinny was afraid, if his mom ever found out that he went, he would have wished he was never born! I think he is afraid …show more content…
Joe-Boy jumped from a fifty foot precipice, he said ‘’watch how a man does it’’ to Vinny. Joe-Boy didn’t even worry about what might happen. That would have to take some real guts because I know I would never have be able it. Even though he is brave, he can be a real bully to Vinny. Joe-Boy was saying that Vinny was going to swim down and touch the dead boys face. That is so disgusting and mean. That is all that I have to say about Joe-Boy. These are some similarities about the two. Both Vinny and Joe-Boy are boys. In the story, it refers to Starlene as Joe-Boy’s girlfriend and it refers to everyone else as a boy. The story doesn’t say they are boys but that’s what I can assume. Joe-Boy and Vinny are Hawaiian. Again, the story says that Starlene is the only haole. Now both Vinny and Joe-Boy went up the trail. Vinny didn’t jump, he just went up the trail. It’s just Joe-Boy that jumped from the precipice. Vinny is scared at first, but at the end he is brave. Joe-Boy is brave through the whole thing, but they are still similar and in many ways. Vinny is a coward, he can be very easily persuaded. Joe-Boy is brave and a bully. Even though Joe-Boy isn’t the nicest and Vinny doesn’t care for it, they are still best friends. Although Joe-Boy was controlling at the beginning, Vinny finds that standing up to his friends brings him
Ponyboy and Johnny met up with Dally under a streetlight. They all went to buy Cokes. They ended up stealing some Kools as well. It was dark outside and Dally enjoys breaking laws, so they snuck into “the Nightly Double drive-in movie(20)”. While there, they met two Soc girls by the name of Cherry and
Through the character of Joe, Gary Crew demonstrates the themes of conflict and peace faced through racial discrimination, racism and social exclusion. Joe Carney is represented as a black Aboriginal teenager who left his country town to come down and take an apprenticeship in the city, as white people would describe him as a mixed blood. He had experienced many hardships throughout his life such as being discriminated against and bullied at Wolanga Primary School by his fellow classmates and his teacher. Joe quotes “I had been pushed, chased, punched… My shirt ...
In chapter one we are introduced to our narrator, Ponyboy. Ponyboy is raised by his two older brothers Darry and Soda. They’re all apart of a gang called the “greasers” which is joined by Dally, Johnny, Two-bit, and Steve. There is another group called “ socs” which stands for socials, and everyone in that group is very wealthy. One day Ponyboy got jumped by a socs group, but luckily Darry was there to help before anything too serious happened. The first element of literature is characterization. Ponyboy is a keen observer, trying to make sense of the complexities of those around him. At the beginning of the story, he stops and spends several pages giving us brief character description on Steve, Two-Bit, Dally, and Johnny. This is also known as direct characterization. He tells us that Steve is "cocky and smart" ( Hinton 9). Two-Bit can 't stop joking around and goes to school for "kicks" (Hinton 10) rather than to learn. Dallas, he says, is "tougher, colder, meaner" ( Hinton 10) than the rest of them.
The boys had to overcome hardships. From family issues to financial problems, the boys had to overcome many hard times. On page forty-three paragraph four and paragraph seven is where Joe Rantz is left by his family, “Thula wants you to stay here. We’re going to Seattle now. You can’t come with us this time.” “He was fifteen years old, and he was
Throughout the film there are two main characters. These two characters are Irish brothers that share a deep sense of their Catholic religion. Their names are Murphy and Connor McManus. Murphy and Connor are two normal men who are put in an extraordinary situation. Connor risks his own life to save the life of his brother. The situation starts out with a bar fight with two Russian mafia members. The Russians lose the fight with the two brothers; the next morning they come after the McManus brothers for revenge. Murphy and Connor kill the two men in self defense and go to the police station. While in the holding cell, they are given a message from a “spiritual force” to rid the world of evil men. The two brothers mutter “kill all that is evil, so all that is good may flourish”(The Boondock Saints) From that moment they devote themselves to a battle between good and evil. Another important character is David Della Rocco, also known as the “Funny Man” or just Rocco. Rocco is a package boy for the Yakaveta family which is involved in the Italian mafia. The head of the Yakaveta family is “Papa” Joe Yakaveta. Papa sets up Rocco in a situation to have him killed; Rocco finds out about papa's plans and decides to join forces with Murphy and Connor in killing evil people. The killings are mainly focused towards men with mafia affiliations. So Rocco tells the McManus brothers who to ki...
...en] he clambered over the back of his seat [to confront the men]” (Chabon 196). Although Joe often got beat up when he would pick these fights, it was just a way to let his feelings escape and help him think he was really fighting the Nazis. Joe Kavalier was The Escapist.
The film Boyz in the Hood opens with the kids that will be followed throughout the movie. It is foreshadowing of the events that will follow them all their lives. Ricky and Doughboy are without a father and having committed a crime, are on th...
The boys attempt at making friendship is evident throughout the beginning of the story. When a meeting is dismissed, they leave the group to survey the island, along with another boy named Simon. After
He was afraid in the story because when Ponyboy got jumped by the Socs at the park he was getting his head drowned he was afraid he was gonna die so he pulled out his knife he always carries with him and stabbed Bob right in the head who is part of the Socs. Johnny is a good friend by doing that because if he would of had stabbed Bob Ponyboy would have probably died but he was also afraid because he was scared he was gonna die or get really hurt. “ Johnny never walked by himself after that and always had the knife with him.” (2) Hinton. Johnny was afraid a lot when that
The Vindico is a novel about 5 teenagers named James, Lana, Hayden, Emily, and Sam. They get kidnapped by the League of Villains and are brought to the Vindico Mansion. Torturer, Rono, Avaria, Leni, and Silver each select a teenager to train based on their similarities in personality and ability. The kids train to become the villain’s protégés and their future generation. Baron, the mastermind villain, states that there will be severe consequences imposed if they try to escape the estate. He also lures the teenagers into joining the Vindico by offering to give them a superpower, which they can use to defeat the people who hurt them. James, Lana, Hayden, Emily, and Sam get bullied, either at school or at home, so they coalesce to get back at the world that has been cruel to them. After receiving their super power, they have a group session, personal training, and a workout for 4 hours every day to prepare them to battle the League of Heroes. The first main event in this book is when the Vindico finds out that a member of the League named Junkit- also known as the Sparrow- is in a near...
This morning October 8th 1965 at about 5:13 am the body of Bob Sheldon was found lying next to the park fountain he was seen to be in a pool of blood. His body had a single stab wound in his back which had pierced his heart, killing him instantly. Supposed eye witnesses say that a small boy who was a member of the "Greaser Gang" attacked and killed Bob and intended to kill the rest of them. Cherry Valance claims that she was walking with Johnny and Ponyboy after the movies when Bob approached them in his car and threatened the two them. Be on the lookout for the two boys with the description of one that has long light-brown hair, green eyes, and is about five feet tall and another has long jet-black hair, large black eyes, and is about four feet six inches. The first one is considered to be Ponyboy and the second one is considered to be Johnny. The two are now on the run they were last seen at a party with Dally. Investigators report that Dally says he has no idea where these two are but he thinks that they are going to Mexico. A woman was taking a walk through the park and discovered the bloody corpse she said “I was hesitant at first because I thought they were watching me, but I gained some courage and called 911” the friends that were their helping Bob bully the 2 said they were there during the homicide, but decided not to call the police because they were drunk and they were scared after seeing him dead. They said, the murderer was a 16 year old boy named Johnny Cade.
Hinton) Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are in the car driving to the church then all of a sudden Dally slams on the breaks. The church is burning. So Dally tells the other two boys to stay in the car, but they were confused but of course they don’t they ignore that so they follow Dally to the church. Adults tell the boys that children are stuck in the building and immediately Johnny and Ponyboy rush to help them. After saving them, they were known as the towns heroes.
In the summer of 1967 four friends were sent to the Wilkinson Home for Boys, in up state New York. In Hell Kitchen an old man was hurt during their childhood pranks of stealing a hot dog wagon and rolling it down to the subway steps. The four boys sentenced to serve six months up to one year in Wilkerson center. Where the guard molested them sexually and physically regularly. During the sexually and physical abused the boys try to avoid there family from visiting them. As for Michael he had try to void his family. In the other hand, Tommy's mother couldn't get it together to visit him and for John's mother she came up once a month. However, Father Bobby didn’t stop visit the boy in several occasion. (Sleeper) Since Lorenzo was released, thirteen years had past. The boys were now adult seeking for revenge. The trauma lead the four dealt with the trauma slightly different. As for John and Tommy were know to be the founding members of the West Side Boys and one of the deadliest member in New York.
Joe had a son called Larry who was at war when he heard about what his