Douthen Lau 12/22/11 English. 7 Ms.Skolnik The Mysteries of an Outsider Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. -Anne Rice The true nature of surviving through tragic and rouch enviroments is to be an Outsider. If they are an outsider, it means they dont fit in with what is considered normal. An outsider is someone that doesn't fit in quite well. They don't belong in a group. They do not belong with the rest but
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The Outsiders Essay S.E. Hinton’s aim in her novel, The Outsiders, was to share what gang life was like in the town she grew up in. In particular, she wanted to show the human side of the gang, The Greasers, who were outsiders and the social misfits. An important theme that emerges in this book is that one should not stereotype others, in other words, form judgement on others, based on their appearance, background, and actions. Hinton warns about stereotyping others by presenting her characters
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the community but on the other hand, he showed loyalty, helpfulness and kindness to his gang and most importantly, his community. Dally is a delinquent which means someone who breaks the law and doesn’t care about the rules. In the novel, ‘THE OUTSIDERS’, Dally displays this character. “In New York, dally blew off steam in gang fights but organised gangs are rarities”. They have a file on him, down at the police station. He had been arrested, got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, stole, cheated, rolled
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The outsiders SE Hinton is the author of this novel The Outsiders. She draws us into the novel through using colloquial language that we understand as well as using characters our own age. The novel is full of emotional times as well as violent ones and the themes of the novel are of interest to us. The plot of the novel is full of conflict and tension which keeps us interested and the setting is vague about time and place to appeal to as many people as possible. The characters in the novel are
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In S.E Hinton’s Novel “The Outsiders” there are many characters that are classified as outsiders. Our main character Pony-Boy Curtis is an outsider he feels alienated, he feels like he is the only one who likes sunsets, enjoys poems and loves reading and movies. He also hates fighting and could never hurt anyone, unless he had to. This is not like any other Greaser .Greasers are tough, rough and mean. They aren’t rich and have very few material possessions. All Greasers love fighting and are all
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The Outsiders New Chapter Period: 9-10 Language Arts Miller Chapter 13 “After 10 Years it seems like I’m still so young”, Ponyboy thought to himself. He was 24 now. He was however still the youngest of the gang. The gang was now older. It consisted of Ponyboy, Darry, Sodapop, Two-Bit, and Steve. So now it was them. Sitting in his house, Pony was wondering what could he do now? He lived all alone in his little two-story house on the East side. Being a Greaser all his life gave him strength
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Year 8 Science Cells Use the following link to answer the questions and fill in the gaps below. http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/health/anatomy/cell/index.htm Animal Cells Is this cell a Prokaryote or a Eukaryote cell? (Eukaryotoe cell) All animal cells are made up of many cells Some animals, like humans, have trliions of cells, while others, like bacteria are made of just cell. Cells are like little societies in which each orginal performs a Differnet job. Complete the following
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Gabriel R. Tyson May 17. 2013 Algebra 1 Wendell Phillips Academy High School My service learning project was interesting , fun , and creative. When we first started off it was kinda hard to decide what the board game was going to be about until we all started to come up with ideas and creative ways to make our board game . Once we decided
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The Last Dance The space shuttle Endeavour , placed on top of a modified 747, caught millions attention on a pre-retirement tour of the Golden State on Friday, bringing an end to NASA's space shuttle program. Endeavour flew as low as 1,500 feet. Many people watched from their televisions. Although thousands of other people grabbed their cameras and phones to watch it fly over Los Angeles. The 105 freeway near Los Angeles International Airport was closed down because there was a lot of spectators
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Though everyone is a teenager at one time or another that misjudgement never changes . The song “Teenagers” by the band My Chemical Romance and the book The Outsiders by S . E . Hinton both convey a theme of social ostracism . Though there is a difference of about fortysix years between the book and song they both manage to grasp the feelings of teens then and now . When Hinton wrote The Outsiders she was a teenager . Her drive for writing the book was simply not having anything to read that was accurate about
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The Outsiders Plot Ponyboy Curtis, a member of the greasers, a gang of poor East Side kids in Tulsa, leaves a movie theater and begins to walk home alone. A car follows him, and he suspects that it is filled with a bunch of Socs, members of rich West Side gang who recently beat up his friend Johnny. The car stops, and several Socs emerge and begin roughing Ponyboy up and try to cut off his hair. Ponyboy cries for help alert his brothers and fellow greasers, and the Socs flee. Afterward, Ponyboy's
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2) In Chapter 1, the author really emphasized the point that it was dangerous for the Greasers to walk around alone. “Anyways, I [Ponyboy] went on walking home… wishing I had some company. Greasers cant walk alone too much or they’ll get jumped, or someone will come by and scream “Greaser!”…we get jumped by the Socs…” (pg. 2) The Socials would attack the Greasers if they were walking around alone. This happened to a Greaser named Johnny and it really impacted him and he was scared of his own shadow
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Ponyboy’s relationships change throughout the story. By Cassandra Bishop 8SP Pony’s relationship changed a lot with key characters in “the outsiders” novel. Such as Darry, because he finds out how Darry really feels about him, his relationship with Cherry and Randy changes because he got to see how Socs are really like and with Soda, because he sees how him fighting with Darry is effecting him and he isn’t as tough as Pony originally thought. Darry and Pony never had the best relationship, and
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The Giver: Journal Topics 1-11 The words loss, elsewhere, and release do not mean a lot in Jonas’ community. This community takes place in the future and is perfect. It is a utopia. These utopians do not really know what really happens if your “lost” or where elsewhere leads too. They do not even know what happens behind the release room doors. They think these terms mean happy things and so they celebrate it. But if the Committee of Elders ever revealed the truth it would be a whole
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Related Material: Edward Scissorhands By Tiarne Hamam 1. Name of text: Edward Scissorhands 2. Composer: Tim Burton 3. Text type: Film 4. What is the text about? Edward Scissorhands is about Edward, a Frankenstein-like creation with scissors for hands, who is left alone unfinished in his creator’s mansion. Many years after Edward was created, local Avon saleswoman Peg Boggs visits the broken-down Gothic mansion on the hill where Edward lives. There, she finds Edward alone, and
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Maria Gudin Movie Critique Ms. Pittman The Outsiders The movie "The Outsiders" is about two groups of teenagers who attend the same high school and live in the same town, but are completely different. One group, known as The South-Side Socials are the more privileged group. The second group, The Greasers, are the less privileged kids, who just so happen to live on the wrong side of town. These two groups have had rivalry against each other for many years. The rivalry got even more intense because
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think of “gold” as something that is gleaming and precious. When Frost writes that this cannot “stay”, this seems to mean that everything is temporary, including the precious things in life. Frost’s message here is similar to Hinton’s novel. In the Outsiders, this message is displayed through the young character of Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy’s life, though far from ideal, was running fairly smoothly in terms of a greaser, until Johnny accidentally murdered Bob in the park that night, sending Ponyboy’s life
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Dear Diary, April 2, 1774 Thngs are getting worse at home. This morning when I went downstairs I didnt smell the familiar smell of bacon and eggs and thought that maybe Mother and Father had went to the market to do the daily shopping. Only when I got downstair they were sitting at the table talking in hushed tones. They told me they could afford bacon and eggs at the time and that I would just have to
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There were many characters in S.E. Hinton’s novel that helped inspire him to do this. Although Darrel, his oldest brother, did a lot to assist, I believe Johnny was the most crucial character in pushing Ponyboy to write the story titled The Outsiders . Johnny propelled Ponyboy by representing emotion and pride in the Greasers, saving the kids from the burning church, and teaching Pony that there are other kids in the world just like them who could change. To begin, Johnny represented much of the emotion and pride in the Greasers
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The outsiders Scene Re-write When Ponyboy runs away from the house after Darry slapped him, he goes in search of Johnny since they were best buddies and so he thought to share that hurtful incident with him. And finally he finds Johnny and tells him what happened, Johnny tries comforting him by saying that Darry wouldn’t have done it intentionally and how much he loves his younger brother. While all this, they walk into their local park, where only greasers go. But this time they see Socs coming
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Justice rarely extends to the Outsider As I took my seat between two more experienced journalists than myself the accused man approached the prisoner’s dock and it became immediately apparent that he was unusual. He walked with almost a spring in his step, as though he was glad to be there which was strange. As the case began witnesses were called to speak and it was clear from most accounts that this was a man without emotion or mercy. The man before me didn’t shed a tear at his own mother’s funeral
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Aliens Are Real Persuasive Essay By: Hunter Lowe Many questions are asked daily on how ancient pyramids were built. Could humans really have built the pyramid of Giza; a pyramid that stands 146 meters tall? Or did the humans have help from unseen creatures- Aliens? I believe that Aliens did help mankind build the ancient wonders of Egypt. There are so many reasons why this theory is correct. Starting with the fact that humans didn’t have enough knowledge by themselves, to build pyramids towering
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Character Change Question Beginning: ●Ponyboy lacks sense of belonging to the gang, then a sense of importance ● “...so I’m not like them. And nobody in our gang digs movies and books the way I do. For a while there, I thought I was the only person in the world that did. So I loned it.” (p.2) -Shows Ponyboy’s lack of taking a role in the greasers -Sense of not emulating the characteristics of those in the gang -Ponyboy is a tag-along and an observer of the gang rather
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How do outsiders and the government steal our privacy on the internet? As I sat down to begin writing my proposal, a final tweet for evening was sent to my public Twitter account. After sending my tweet a couple questions come to mind; “who is going to read this?” more importantly “who is able read this?” I read the proposal prompt and the idea clicked that I could use those questions to my advantage. I want to further explore the issue we face with outsiders and the government stealing our privacy
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place or community. While initially an individual may belong to a community or group, speaking their opinion can seclude them, and cause them to become an outsider. Belonging to a community or group can be very beneficial, and not belonging can cause an individual to face consequences. Hysteria and fear can be caused throughout a community by outsiders who don’t belong. We are able to view these experiences of belonging and not belonging through the use of characters and events throughout a variety of
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How the concept of the Outsider is represented in Shakespeare’s Othello Shakespeare’s Othello clearly represents the concept of what an outsider is by comparing and contrasting the two main characters Desdemona and Iago. Through Shakespeare’s Othello the concept of being an outsider is questioning how society’s representation of an outsider is formed, why people become outsiders and the consequences of being an outsider. An outsider is a person who is not accepted by or who is isolated from society
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Road not Taken An outsider is a person not belonging to a particular group or community. A sense of being an outsider can emerge from the lack of connections made with people, places, groups, communities and the larger world. There may be choices to be an outsider. Being an outsider can also help to define decisions made in life. In the poem The Road Not Taken, the persona is shown to be an outsider through the use of various techniques such as: Tense, Metaphor, Rhythm, Imagery, Ambiguity and
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presence of outsiders that disrupt the natural order of things. At the start of these stories, there were no disturbances to the nature of the characters. However when the role of the outsider is introduced, it influences the characters greatly and brings conflict to the story plot, making it more interesting and “richer” for the readers. Furthermore, it resulted in the self-exploration of one’s self and teaches moral values to the readers, for example in “Little Red Cap”. The outsiders bring the element
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by the arrival of an outsider. Compare the ways in which these outsiders can be said to be catalysts. The arrival of “the outsider” causes disruption in their friend’s and family’s lives and their sudden arrival is unwelcome by the other characters. They are left outsiders due to their physical, financial or mental state. Their unusual ideas leave them isolated and ostracized from society which forces them into living in their own fantasies. The appearance of the outsider is shocking, the other
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the USA. There are many companies that are looking towards outsiders to see if they can bring about many profits and ideas to companies. Chief executive posts in companies have been given to outsiders have risen from 14% in 2007 to 22% in 2011. In Europe, it rose from 14% to 31%. Eight bosses were examined by William Thorndike that outperformed the S&P average by more than 20 times, and it turned out, that they were all outsiders. They were not experienced workers in their field. Some were
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