was common during the 1960s and gangs/cliques faced much prejudice between each other. They were grouped by their social status and a clear line was drawn between the rich and the poor. Throughout the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy, Johnny and Darry, prove themselves as true heroes. Ponyboy shows heroic traits as he helps those in need and does not fall against the obstacles
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focused with physical strength while woman are more focused on how they present themselves as viewing objects” (p. 225). Cartoon Network, a popular television network for children plays various cartoons such as The Flintstones, Dexter’s Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Thundercats, and more. Although all of these cartoons are hilarious because of the characters and the dialect, there is more behind the humor. Typically, these cartoons portray views of men and women differently because they focus on men as
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A Time for Film Noir Scarlet Street Marina Workman University of Maryland University College Film Noir is the French term “black film” used to describe an era of movies filmed in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Films that are considered to fall under the film noir category touched on themes that were not yet acceptable in society. These types of films were centered on crime, drama, deceit, and sex. The films were the first of their kind to cross the line pass conservative films. Many people debate
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that much by telling Cherry- a rich west side girl who is a spy for the greasers- that Darry would like to put him in another home. At another point in the story Ponyboy shows his affection for his two friends Johnny and Dally when they each die by saying “Please not him, not him and Johnny both”. Another character trait that
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S.E. Hinton's, The Outsiders, people judged each other by family wealth. All they have to do is forget the wealth and focus on qualities, heroic qualities, of everyone, greaser and Soc. Here are the reasons why three greasers, Darry, Ponyboy, and Johnny should be named heroes as a result of their selfless actions. Darry is a thoughtful young man, and though he never acted like a superhero, he has qualities of a real hero. In the book it mentions that the Curtis parents were killed in an Auto Wreck
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burglar in time to stop him/her from stealing something that’s yours. Heroes are people who help other people in small or big ways, in books or real life. For example, in the book “Outsiders“ three specific Greasers are definitely heroes: Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally. Ponyboy is a hero because he ran into a burning building to save a few kids even though he was told not to. In Outsiders, page 79 it says, “ Dally was standing there, and when he saw me he screamed, ‘For Pete's sake, get out of there
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He is in a group known as the Greasers. The Greasers are for some reason against another group known as the Socs. Sadly, his parents died in a car crash. Randy Adderson and Robert Sheldon took giving Sherri Valance and Marcia a ride out on Johnny and Ponyboy. According to Ponyboy Randy and Robert said “here’s the little greasers who picked up our girls”, not realizing that Sherri and Marcia invited them to sit by them and they only insisted on bringing them home because Sherri and Marcia didn’t
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What does Mary do to survive financially? How does Johnny help out? It was a lot harder for women to work during the Great Depression because men were supposed to be the only people to ever work during those times. If women did work it was nearly impossible for them to make enough to support an entire family like Mary. Mary was widowed with three kids to support all alone. She took on her father as a boarder and fixed peoples clothing as a job. Johnny who is her oldest child sold newspapers and then
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the fight of the Greasers against the Socials. In the Greasers gang, the members include; Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Steve, Sodapop’s best friend, Two-Bits Matthews, the oldest of the group, Dally Winston, the roughest and toughest of the gang, and Johnny Cade, who was the youngest of the gang. Ponyboy deals with lots of external conflicts like his social status and the big battle with the
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book very much and we eventually watched the movie. As I was reading the book I did not picture the movie the way it was. I am comparing the movie and book and also making some differences. Some of the main characters in the book are Dally, Ponyboy, Johnny, Two-Bit, Darry, and there is other characters that aren't as important. The narrator in the book is pointing at Ponyboy's point of view. To start off, the characters are very different in the book then they are in the movie. Sodapop was in the
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