Title: The Outsiders Author: S.E. Hinton Publication Information: Dell Publishing, 1967; 156 Pages Genre: Young Adult Novel The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is about the rivalry of two gangs, Greasers and Socials. The Greasers are low class and the Socials are high class. In The Outsiders there are two rival gangs, one from the lower class, who are the Greasers and their rivals are from the upper class, they are the Socials. The story takes place in the mid 1960’s in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The story
Book Report On The Outsiders Character Analysis: Ponyboy Curtis - Ponyboy is a fourteen-year-old member of a gang called the Greasers. His parents died in a car accident, so he lives alone with his two older brothers, Darry and Soda. He is a good student and athlete, but most people at school consider him a vagrant like his Greaser friends. Sodapop Curtis - Soda is Pony's handsome, charming older brother. He dropped out of school to work at a gas station, and does not share his brothers'
How can two people That belong in the same gang be the complete opposite of each other ? how do little boys turn into thugs and go to jail at age 10. However, in S.E Hinton’s novel the outsiders , their are two characters that are alike. Johnny and Dally are similar because they both have abusive parents that do not care about them and place very little value on their lives. Yet despite these similarities is that Johnny Follows the rules and Dally breaks the law on purpose and when the church burnt
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
Sometimes we meet people, who are completely different from who we think they are, and begin to judge them from their appearance rather than digging deep and finding out what who they actually are. We are so concentred on judging these people that we forget to think, that maybe they might have a story behind that face. We have to learn that if a 14 year old boy may look like a greaser doesn’t mean that he acts like one. He might be different from his gang, he might have a different personality that
Comparing & Contrasting Dally VS. Johnny How can two different people be so much alike? How can one man who lives in a poor environment and neighborhood have so much in common with a man that lives in a rich neighborhood? But, in S.E. Hintons novel The Outsiders, these two characters do indeed exist. Dally Winston and Johnny Cade are very similar because they each have abusive and neglectful parents and they both care about each other. Besides the similarities, Dally and Johnny have much different
How can two people whose personalities are so diverse have so much in common? Both are teens who view the world very differently. One believes the world is filled with hatred but the other still sees good in it. In the novel The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton such characters exist and appear to be foils of each other. However, if a closer look is taken these two characters have a lot in common as well. Dally Winston and Johnny Cade are the two characters. Dally and Johnny have a lot in common
We are all judged on our appearance, whether if you are popular, smart, nerdy, rich, or poor. We all choose who we want to be in a game called life. We all judge everyone whether they are pretty or ugly even if we do not know them. We may hate a person without even knowing a single detail about them. They can be a complete stranger yet we still hate them for various weird reasons we cannot even explain why. Familiarity alters perception even if it is you yourself that you question. It may take us
Langston Hughes One of the most promising of the young Negro poets said to me once, “I want to be a poet—not a Negro poet,” meaning, I believe, “I want to write like a white poet,” meaning subconsciously, “I would like to be a white poet;” meaning behind that, “I would like to be white.” And I doubted then that, with his desire to run away spiritually from his race, this boy would ever be a great poet. But this is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America—this urge
Typically, when reporting the pros and cons of a particular issue an extensive literature review is necessary to ensure both sides are properly and equally documented. However, existentialism psychotherapy is representative of an atypical topic due to the significance placed upon self-awareness and self-insight not only for the client’s, but also for its practitioners. A cursory literature review revealed that proponents of existentialism provide both its positive benefits as well as the possible
ever increasing population. Having developed a distinctive culture, Harlem was the epicenter for black writers, artists and intellectuals during the 1920s. The Harlem Renaissance was centered on activities influenced by the experimental styles of literature and music that derived from Europe and America. The topic most focused on mainly dealt with being black in an American society and the experiences it entailed. The actual beginnings of the Harlem Renaissance, most scholars, cannot agree upon. However
Grounded Theory (GT) is an established research approach used for generating theories, and it has been applied based on empirical data in many fields. However, Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss (1967) initiate to using this approach in sociological theorizing based on qualitative inquiry. Since then, Grounded Theory (GT) approach appears as a powerful (ke, J. and Wenglensky, S., 2010) as well as a very popular (Birks, M., and Mills, J., 2015; El Hussein, M., Hirst, S., Salyers, V., and Osuji, J.,
was written in the 8th century BC with its key focus being telling more about the adventures of a mythical hero whose name was Odysseus. The story stresses more on the story of Odysseus during his trip home after the Trojan War (Homer & Lattimore, 1967). The adventures of Odysseus wife are also highlighted as she waited his husband at Ithaca. For those who understand the works of Homer, it gets out very clearly that this piece of work is more than just an entertaining tale about monsters, gods, and
the fields of psychology and economics. The Lens Model (Brunswik, 1952) was a conceptual design, sparking a plethora of literature outlining subsequent models and theories on judgements and decision making. Brunswik set out that an individual uses fallible ‘cues’ from their environment while trying to be as empirically accurate as possible in making judgements. Hammond (1967), an architect of modern decision making theory built on this conceptual model with his Cognitive Continuum Theory (CCT)
upon the uniqueness of their developing reason and imagination. This concept changed the face of children’s literature and expanded depth and breadth in ways that we still experience today. For most of the infancy of children’s literature, we see (as previously mentioned) that the main themes were generally religious, educational, or based in adventure (those taken from adult literature, such as Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and latched onto
The sense of magical realism is a natural product of literature. Letting aside literature, in reviewing the circumstances of nature of the world, it can be observed that there are a lot of elements that are expressing magical things which are also real. For instance, a sudden change in the weather at a same place from autumn to spring describes a phenomenon, a thunderstone or a sudden earth quick that demolished many long lasting things. A former grows a seed and it gives birth to a plant which becomes
same rights as whites did. Two short stories were written in the apartheid era, Mrs. Plum by Mphahlete and Closed for Business by Ossendryver. These short stories have many similarities but also several differences. Mrs. Plum written by Mphahlete in 1967 is narrated in first person by a young South African black women named Karabo. Karabo experiences racism throughout the story. It is made clear the author disagrees with apartheid. “None of us liked to work for white farmers, because we know too much
The sense of magical realism is a natural product of literature. Letting aside literature, in reviewing the circumstances of nature of the world, it can be observed that there are a lot of elements that are expressing magical things which are also real. For instance, a sudden change in the weather at a same place from autumn to spring describes a phenomenon, a thunderstone or a sudden earth quick that demolished many long lasting things. A former grows a seed and it gives birth to a plant which becomes
About The Author Carson McCullers http://moorewomenartists.org/portraits-of-women-by-women-photographers-capture-legends/ “The heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!To find some lasting comfort in the arms of another's fire...Driven by the desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sight of love.” 1917- Lula Carson Smith (Carson McCullers full name) was born in Columbus, Georgia. Smith was sick most of her childhood
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