...S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders is a novel about two rival gangs called the Socials and the Greasers. The Greasers see the Socials as a threat because of the Socials’ constant acts of violence, and the tension between the groups significantly increase. Johnny Cade was caught in the middle of the battle between the groups. Johnny was of the few whom fell victim to the abuse of the Socials. When he takes the abuse, Johnny thinks he is not important and looks at the world differently than other people. Before Johnny joined the Greasers, he thought his only value was to be the continuously “kicked puppy”. In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, Johnny’s personal experiences change his values for better with the assistance of the Greasers by showing him the world around him. Johnny Cade learns to be appreciative and thoughtful of nature and the Greasers. According to chapter five, "I never noticed colors or clouds and stuff until you keep reminding me about them. It's almost like they weren't there before." Johnny receives appreciation training from Ponyboy to increase his...
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...Imagine a world where you are constantly criticized and judged, when violence becomes an everyday issue. In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Ponyboy lives in a place where he is constantly pegged in a category. When a quagmire forces him and his friends to defend themselves, they must endure a series of emotional and physical challenges. With this, the Socs were responsible for causing Johnny’s death. There are many reasons why this claim is true. The only reason the boys were at the church was because the Socials jumped them and Johnny had to defend Ponyboy and himself, forcing them to go into hiding. After Johnny kills Bob, they go to Dally for help. When Johnny told Dally how he had knifed the Soc, he explained to Dally that, “We figured...
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...The Outsiders Analysis Gang violence has severed consequences that affects the life of many adolescence. Young adults are exposed to many dangers when they become part of a gang. As in the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton all the characters where affected in many ways by the violence that a gang exposes. Ponyboy the main character of the story had to deal with stabbings and deaths of people that where closed to him because of the violent environment that he lived in. In The Outsiders Ponyboy was affected by the violence that surrounded him as not being able to walk alone home, the murder of Bob and the death of Dally. Ponyboy was afraid to walk home alone, because he was in danger since he was a greaser. He mentions “Greasers can’t walk alone too much or they’ll get jumped, or someone will come by and scream “Greaser!” at them, which doesn’t make you feel hot, if you know what I mean. We get jumped by the Socs” (Hinton 2). Ponyboy was affected by this because he could not walk...
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...house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home." Good Morning boys and staff. I am here on behalf of Penguin publishing to sell you The Outsiders. The outsiders is a 50 year old book, written by S.E Hinton and first published by Viking publishers. Some say it is out dated and some say it is too old for a 14 year old school boy. But this is incorrect. I believe that the outsiders is tremendously relevant to 14 year old boy’s daily lives and so will you. The characters in the novel are very easy to relate to as they experience in some cases the same sort of things that a boy of your age would, such as drinking, drug use, smoking and violence. Ponyboy is the main character in the novel he is haunted by the death of his parents and during the novel he faces some very tough situations and issues. Dally Winston is another character in the novel he is from the tough streets of New York City. Dally is a rough mean greaser who doesn’t mind a rumble or two. Johnny is Ponyboy’s best mate. He has problems with his mother and father. Johnny also experiences some very tough issues and situations with Ponyboy alongside him. “Stay golden Ponyboy stay gold,” When Johnny says this he means that Ponyboy is a...
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...written by Helen Garner, comments on contemporary Australian society by examining our refusal to open our eyes to brutal reality. Helen Garner exposes the horrific and brutal story of Daniel Valerio, whom in society permitted to be beaten to death at only the age of two by his own mothers ‘boyfriend’. Garner comments that as a result of societies apathy, and refusal to open our eyes to reality, we allow evil to prosper within the society we live in. Expository texts open our eyes to the harsh reality of life and encourage us to take action against societies apathy. In the text killing Daniel, Garner comments on apathy within contemporary Australian society by describing those who lack action and concern towards those considered as ‘outsiders.’ By the use of descriptive language Garner describes apathy within the professional’s walls of society. Garner remarks that people with profession’s dealing with aberrant abuse can become desensitized to these situations, which often result in horrific consequences. This is reinforced by Garners comment that doctors were “impressed in court by their lackluster quality. Their manner appeared limp, their language feeble and non-committal.” By the use of the words lackluster, limp, feeble and non-committal, Garner suggests that authority figures such as doctors, are evasive towards the aberrant child abuse in society and act half-heartedly towards those effected. As a result from constantly dealing with such incidents doctors have become...
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...traditions, it introduced Americans to the total opposite of the conservative writing style. The traits of this genre includes: violence, unrequited love, race, class, social structure, being an outsider, and good vs. evil. The stories that have been read in class include: “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, “The Possibility”, and “A Rose For Emily”. All of these stories fit the traits of the Southern Gothic Genre. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is a dark tale about a family who was murdered. The first example of the traits used in this story is violence. A misfit who has escaped from prison murders a whole family in the woods, in cold blood. Another trait used by O’Connor is the trait of unrequited love. The author uses this by mentioning the grandmother remembering that the misfit is the grandmother’s son. Lastly, the trait of being an outsider is used. Flannery uses this trait by making the grandmother an outsider in several instances. Such as when the grandmother wants to go to a different vacation spot than the rest of the family....
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...George Jonas’s Vengeance utilises various conventions of crime fiction as the structure of his book though Vengeance is categorised as a non-fiction. Jonas structured Vengeance resembling to the events of the Munich Olympics Massacre and the action taken in regards to the massacre, which therefore, reflects to the idea of a realistic aspect and a crime perception involved in this novel, relating and sympathising to the statement of the usage of conventions of crime fiction in this non-fiction novel. The novel is described through a detailed, specific and a realistic setting and this was seen when Avner was in Israel and received a letter. The plotline is described through acts of violence and this was shown when one of the Israeli athlete’s...
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...Shakespeare, one can encounter multiple “others” or “outsiders” when reading this text Othello `through a physco-analytic lense. Found throughout is Shakespeare desire to label Othello as “alien”, “outsider”, the stranger” and “other,” which can be seen as an unconscious, collective thought shared by members of this culture. The citizens tragically delude themselves by accepting him into their Venetian society, when in fact he is an “outsider” in ever way possible. Othello epitomizes what can be seen as an “outsider” in a white, Christian society where blacks are labeled as “strangers.” The tone of his skin is essentially what attributes to him being considered an intruder who...
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...O’Brien. First published in French as L’Etranger in 1942, Albert Camus’ The Outsider addresses the constrictive nature of society and what happens when an individual tries to break free from the conformity forced upon him by staying true to himself, and following his own ideal of absolute truth and sincerity in every action. Propelled more by the philosophy of existentialism and the notion of the absurd than plot and characters, Camus’ novel raises many questions about life, and answers them in a final chilling climax. The plot of The Outsider revolves around a central act of unmeditated violence on a beach, proving that “the darkest moments can happen in the brightest sunlight”. Meursault, Camus’ protagonist, leads a simple life working as an office clerk in Algiers. He lives as a bachelor, who, as we learn from the first paragraph, has just lost his mother and is preparing to leave for the seaside town of Morengo where she lived in an old-people’s home. The rest of the first section of the novel reads as a diary of Meursault’s life until he murders an Arab whilst away for the weekend with some friends. Part Two deals with the time after Meursault’s arrest for the crime, including his court case in which he is condemned more for not grieving at his mother’s funeral than the actual count of homicide brought against him. It has been said that the plot takes a secondary role in The Outsider to Camus’ expression of his views on existentialism and the absurd. In the character...
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...meaning alongside their beauty. In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, colors, specifically red, yellow and gold, and blue, have intricately crafted meanings. S.E Hinton gave the colors meaning and made it so that read symbolizes anger, violence, danger, pain, fear, and heat. Gold is meant to be associated with comfort, warmth, things Ponyboy admires, and precious thing Ponyboy has lost. Blue is tied to coldness, in means of both temperature and personality, death, and lack of feeling. In a book where every color has a meaning, the author must have meant for this to happen. In The Outsiders, red symbolizes anger, violence, danger, pain, fear, and heat. One example of a red symbol on page 64 is the red dirt road leading to the abandoned church in Windrixville. Taking into account how terrified Ponyboy and Johnny must have been of getting arrested for murder and the potential danger of the situation, it makes sense that the author chose to add this detail. Another red symbol is Cherry Valance’s fiery personality....
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...Whitey Bulger was a key leader in the gangster subculture of Southern Boston. In subcultures, the group develops their own set of values, which often opposes those of the dominant culture. The gangster subculture that developed in Southern Boston clearly did not view violence or drug distribution as being wrong or against the norm, as Bulgar was viewed as a sort of community leader. To an outsider, to view Bulgar as someone to be respected seems bizarre, as the general culture frowns upon violence. But as Ferracuti and Wolfgang concluded violence is a learned adaptation in order to cope with harsh circumstances. So in an area that likely fit Shaw and McKay’s model of having high rates of poverty, physical dilapidation, as well as a high cultural mix, a violent subculture could develop....
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...great examples of children’s movies that fit these generalizations. The movie Dumbo on the other hand does not fit these simplistic ideas for Disney movies. From an outsider looking in, this movie may seem sweet, basic and innocent but it is not. The movie Dumbo is filled with anticipated psychological impairments for children. Although the basic idea of this film is simple, the film includes multiple scenes of racism, violence and oppression with an overall theme expressing a derogatory connotation that is not fit for children. The beginning of these unfortunate events starts with Dumbo himself being made fun of. This scene is early in the film setting a direct tone for discrimination for the duration of the film. Dumbo is consistently viewed as an outsider, being mocked and laughed at for his big ears that were viewed by the other elephants as different. This difference was so significant that it led the elephants to disclaim Dumbo as a part of their race. These simple acts of discrimination...
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...these narratives deployed by the majority judges, as well as those of the judges in dissent, reflect and reinforce dominant ideas about women, men and social class, which determined not only the specific outcome of the case but also the development of the doctrine of unconscionable dealing on which it was supposedly based. The classroom dialogue tell three stories, each being different, yet they are all derived from the same evidence, the same facts, presented at the trial. Not only does the interpretation of that evidence differ from story to story, but the ‘facts’ are indeed different in the process of developing each particular narrative. It is the claim that legal narratives are structured in ways which exclude, silence and oppress ‘outsiders’ – those not part of the dominant culture, particularly people of colour, women and the poor – that gives legal storytelling its explicitly political flavour encouraging the courts to examine more deeply for narrative...
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...In the novel “The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton there are two juvenile rival gangs. One of the gangs are called the Greasers. They Greasers are the east side “hoods” who live in the bad part of town containing not many members and are usually dressed in blue jeans and tshirts , greasing their long hair back. Unlike the Greasers the Socs have a average amount of members and live in the wealthy west side of town usually dressed in plaid designed clothing.The Socs and Greasers both deal with trying to find acceptance and belonging with their peers, finding approval from their guardians, and trying to stay entertained. Many...
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