The Outsiders book and movie are about the same storyline with the same characters and the same themes, although they also have many differences. The book is has many things going on, like Darry, Soda, and Ponyboy. Three brothers living together on their own after their parents died in a car accident. The book emphasizes on Soda’s horse Mickey. Pony talks about how he wishes he could buy Soda a new horse. I wouldn’t have known this if I had only watched the movie because Pony was thinking this
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Being an individual is better than following a crowd This is shown in The storys Outsiders, All american Slurp and “cardboard”. Being an individual is defined as “a single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family”. This is shown in the story The Outsiders. In this book, there are two different kinds of groups, there are the greasers who live on the bad side of town, and there are the socs who live on the good side of town. The Greasers stand out from everyone else, especially Johnny
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The adolescents are struggling these days. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton describes the main character Ponyboy also known as Curtis is in a gang called the Greasers. The Greasers always thought that the Socs had it better than them, but they found out that the Socs are cool to the point of not feeling anything. In the article, “The Allure of Gangs” it also describes why kids join gangs and what leads them into conflicts, like in The Outsiders. However in the article “Cool at 13, Adrift
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Chris Shea ENG 474 Professor Aimee Pozorski 02/08/17 Abstract of Patrick B. Sharp’s From Yellow Peril to Japanese Wasteland: John Hersey's “Hiroshima” In his essay From Yellow Peril to Japanese Wasteland: John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”, Patrick B. Sharp describes how John Hersey fits the characteristics of a modernist author who sympathizes with the Japanese through his 1946 work Hiroshima. He initially contrasts Hersey’s work from the narratives brought upon by popular American works Buck Rodgers and
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Eugene Field was born September 2, 1850 at 634 South Broadway in Saint Louis to Roswell M. and Frances Reed Field. Eugene had one brother, Roswell, who was a year younger than him and a sister, but she died soon after her birth. Roswell and Eugene were very close brothers, but completely different. Eugene took after his mother, hated studying and also hated the dark while Roswell took after their father, loved studying and loved being in the dark. In 1856, the two boys’ mother died when they were
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Outsiders was a great book, it was about guys who are Greasers and Socs. The Greasers are the ¨hoods” they run around and are always getting in trouble. The Socs are the kids who are rich and are always dressed nicely. There is always a feud going on between them, resulting in fights. My favorite characters are Dally, Soda and Two Bit. I like Dally because he is always so strong in situations, maybe not in the best times but he always knows what to do. Dally is also very caring about the people
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The outsiders compare/contrast The outsiders movie and the book are almost the same but they both have different kinds of details and they both have it to where they say one thing then they another but the book gives more details and description then the movie does. The movie shows when dally gets shot in the store and when he helps uses a fake gun and he gets shot by the police and he dies then ponyboy starts to read the book gone with the wind. The book says that ponyboy falls to the ground after
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"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold." (148) While reading the book "The Outsiders" by Se Hinton staying gold is mentioned many times in the book. The book is about a greaser named Ponyboy from Tulsa Oklahoma, Ponyboy goes through trials with some of his best buddies. I think that one of the best themes showed in the book is staying gold even when things around you are changing. I think this because they talk about Robert Frosts poem "Nothing Gold can Stay" (77) Secondly the book talked about people through
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Dead Poet Society is a film directed by Peter Weir. Its context is one that is historical and social. This film is set at the fictional Welton Academy in Vermont, USA, in 1959. At that time, the economy was strong and education was highly valued. Despite widespread prosperity following the end of World War II, American society was also experiencing the anxiety of the Cold War with the Soviet Union and its satellite states. This veneer of prosperity undercut with tension is thematically reflected
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In the novel and the movie of “The Outsiders”, one can evaluate the advantages, and the disadvantages using a particular medium to portal a message. The book has more detail bye saying who is who and wee and what they are doing at the moment. Has a backstory it tell us who the characters are it tell us what they did there fears. Says the inner thoughts by telling us how the characters feel about things. The book develops the characters. It says why johnny is as fears to the socs. Says why darry
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