random and plain out dumb such as "I did not get my Spaghetti-Os". When Johnny Cade laid out‚ in agony and distress on his death bed‚ he muttered the last words "Stay gold‚ Ponyboy. Stay gold..." (page 157). If one who hasn’t read the novel "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton‚ they can assume these last words mean nothing‚ or that Johnny was delirious. However‚ when you think about and interpret these words‚ they have a very deep meaning.
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The events a person goes through in his or her life shapes them into who they become. In the story The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton a young boy named Ponyboy Curtis is mostly affected by the death of his mother‚ father and later his best friend. He lives with his older brothers Darry and Soda pop. Even though he has his brothers watching his every move‚ Ponyboy gets into some trouble that seems to be a related to some pain he still feels from his parent’s death. After their parents died‚ Darry‚ because
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In the novel The Metamorphosis‚ Kafka uses symbolism to express the idea that Gregor transformed into a bug physically‚ after feeling like one psychologically. Gregor worked as a traveling salesman and although he didn’t like his job or boss‚ he dealt with it in order to support his family. His parent’s owed money to an employer and Gregor wanted to help in any way he could and stated "Well‚ there’s still hope; once I’ve saved enough money to pay back my parents’ debt to him—that should take another
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The kindness on strangers Blanche is a fading‚ but nevertheless attractive Southern belle‚ whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask her alcoholism and delusions of grandeur. Her poise is an illusion she presents to shield others‚ and most of all herself‚ from reality to try to make herself still attractive to new male suitors. Blanche arrives from her hometown of Auriol‚ Mississippi at the apartment of her sister‚ Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter)‚ in the French Quarter of New Orleans
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Background does not matter when you are a hero. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton‚ the author argues that heroism defines a person by their actions not by their background‚ history‚ or looks. The events at the church‚ the incidents that happened before the church and the aftermath all show the changes that happened over time that would eventually negate Ponyboy’s history and background and regard him as a hero. There are different points of heroism in the story and different forms of heroism
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Epilogue For The Outsiders “How do you feel Johnny‚ your first sunset up close and personal?” I asked him “Its amazing Dad! I love it.” We continued staring into the radiant beams of the sun until Johnny popped the question I was dreading all those years. “Dad?” “Yes son?” I answered‚ knowing what he was going to ask. “How did I get my name?” I took a long sigh. “I had a friend when I was a bit older than you‚ his name was Johnny‚ an amazing friend to have who didn’t deserve to leave my
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In The Stranger‚ Camus’ treatment of nature demonstrates how he sees nature as unrelated to and uninterested in human activity. In the text of The Stranger‚ Mersault tells the reader‚ a woman at his mother’s funeral reported “If you go too slowly there’s the risk of a heatstroke. But‚ if you go too fast‚ you perspire‚ and the cold air in the church gives you a chill." I saw her point; either way one was in for it.” (Camus 16) This statement comes early in the text and is part of setting up the action
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shapes our character and actions. It is human instinct to fear being judged‚ and denial is an inherent tendency. Franz Kafka’s The Trial opens with an idea of guilt and innocence. “Someone must have slandered Joseph K.‚ for one morning‚ without having done anything wrong‚ he was arrested” (Kafka 3). This introduction initially implies to the reader that Joseph K. is innocent. However‚ as the novel unfolds‚ and we are given more‚ yet unlimited information‚ the reader’s concept of K.’s innocence shifts
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The story The Judgment‚ written by Franz Kafka was said to be one of his breakthrough stories that sparked his story writing career. While most of Kafka’s stories were thought to be closely related to certain aspects of his life‚ The Judgment is thought to closely represent the conflicting relationship between Kafka and his father and the turmoil that Kafka experienced growing up as a result of his crude-minded father. This relationship that Kafka had with his own father is reflected in The Judgment
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Introduction: In American Psycho and The Outsider‚ to experience the Absurd is to experience Otherness‚ and within both film and novel it is absurdity and the Absurd which drives Mersault and Bateman towards their respective social alienations. However‚ despite the inextricable link between the Absurd and Otherness within the texts‚ the means by which the Absurd interacts with each text‚ and‚ in turn results in alienation is unique. Within Camus’s novel‚ the world itself is portrayed as being oppressive
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