imagined feeling like an outsider in my own home. Unfortunately I wouldn’t even go as far as considering my current home as “my home.” I live in a house with eight people and two dogs and for some, that might not even be slightly overwhelming, but for me it is. I try to keep my heart open about the situation, but I always end up feeling like I don’t belong. Given the circumstances of my situation, I would say life definitely turned out better than what I initially expected, but I was left feeling like…
Feeling like “Other” Shanell Mbamalu Cultural Diversity Fall 2014 Feeling like “Other” I will be exploring a time when I felt like “other”, in this situation I was made to feel invisible, excluded and too visible all at the same time. In this situation I mainly felt excluded but nonetheless I felt all of the above. My husband is Nigerian and I am African American, he attends a Nigerian church and all of the members are Nigerian. Every time I go to church with him I feel as if I am too visible because…
The Outsiders Heroes. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, “A hero isn’t measured by the size of their strength, but by the size of their heart.” Anyone can be a hero. People judge others from the outside not the inside. They judge them by their looks and in the end they don’t really know who that person is deep down inside. First of all, Johnny is an outstanding example of a hero. Johnny has a bumpy road relationship with his parents. Johnny is beat by his father and ignored by…
THE OUTSIDERS Heroes are an important part of our society. A hero is a person that puts other before themselves. In the outsiders by S.E Hinton, there are many characters that play important roles in the theme of the story. The theme shows that not everything is the way it appears. This is the case when identifying heroes in this story. Some characters are so strong, they become the heroes of the story. In the outsiders, Johnny, Dally, and Ponyboy are heroes, they all risk their lives for others…
ENG261AC April 14, 2003 "The Difference of Initial Inference of Identity" S.E. Hinton's novel, The Outsiders, is at first a narrative of Ponyboy, a young outcast boy who later becomes a young man filled with identity. At the end of the novel, it is revealed that the narrative is actually Ponyboy's autobiographical account of his quest for a place in society. The symbols and motifs of The Outsiders contribute immensely to the novel's most prominent theme: Commonality between the rich and the poor…
The outsider There are few times in my life when I constantly felt like an outsider. Many of these were in a time in my life when I was going through a lot along with you never fitting in. When you’re new to a school or you’re not like everyone else it can really put a damper on whether or not you may fit in. At a young age I was taught that you can’t please everyone and this is very true in the world we live in. This makes everything harder the older an individual gets because it seems no matter…
OUTSIDER The story I am going to tell you is about my experience when I felt like an outsider. Being isolated from others can be difficult and frustrated. Sometimes people would treat you different because you are not the same as them. In life, there is a point where someone would feel like an outsider. Getting used to the isolation feeling can take a while, but you can overcome it by getting involves. You may feel like an outsider at the beginning but then later on things will eventually change…
1: Questions 3 and 4 (p. 21) 3) James says, “I feel like an outsider.” How might you work with his statement? As a facilitator, this writer would ask James if he could identify anyone in the group he feels he is not an outsider with and how the relationship is different. This writer would ask James to identify what he needs to feel he is not an outsider. This writer would encourage James to continue to express when he is feeling like an outsider and also challenge James to open himself up to others…
do that; sometimes ordinary people can unexpectedly turn out to be heroes. In the book The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, one unexpected hero is the character Ponyboy Curtis, a poor member of a gang called The Greasers. A second unexpected hero is Johnny Cade, a quiet, abused teen who is also a Greaser. Being an underdog does not automatically make one a hero, though. The character of Dally Winston, for example, is not quite a hero. An imperfect, ordinary person with problems can be a hero if he/she…
The novel The outsiders is about stereotyping and how people's beliefs about groups of people lead to some very bad things happening. In the beginning Bob, Ponyboy, and Johnny were walking all bad around the block. They each have different personalities. Bob is this guy who thinks he's all bad and could do anything he wants. Bob doesn't like kids at all, he thinks they are annoying and selfish. Now they didn't say anything about that in the novel. Ponyboy is this really nice guy who cares about his…