In the book The Outsiders‚ written by S.E Hinton‚ Ponyboy counts on his friends to be there for him as he gets into trouble on his path to adulthood. The book which is fiction focused on the main character‚ Ponyboy and his two brothers as they struggled with the socs and gangs. Ponyboy learns what it means to be a hero and the value of friendship. The three topics addressed in this meaningful novel are the power of friendship‚ what it means to be a hero‚ and the fight between rich and poor.
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In the book The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton‚ the author highlights the struggles of growing up in poverty while also in battle with a rival group‚ the Socs. The main character Ponyboy Curtis belongs to a gang named the Greasers. The Greasers and Socials are mainly divided by their socioeconomic status. After Ponyboy and fellow gang member Johnny are jumped by a group of socials‚ resulting in one Soc being stabbed and killed by Johnny in self-defense‚ Johnny and Ponyboy go into hiding. After a week
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S.E. Hinton wrote an amazing book called The Outsiders. This book has many amazing characters. So many of these characters are heroic. Darry has strength‚ Two-bit has loyalty‚ Dally has courage‚ Johnny has kindness‚ Soda has charm‚ but Pony has loyalty‚ courage‚ and kindness combined. That is my personal definition of a hero. Towards the middle of the story‚ Ponyboy displays loyalty. The author establishes this when Johnny stabbed Bob and wanted to run away. Johnny says to Pony‚ “We gotta get out
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community. The upper-class community did not appreciate Gatsby wealth and status. Jealousy and ignorance from people like Tom made Gatsby feel as if he was not wanted. Gatsby felt uncomfortable and treated like an intruder. He was always considered an outsider looking in. Money is a powerful lure in a relationship. People factor in a person wealth before marring their future husband or wife. Gatsby wealth was a means to attract Daisy love for him. His money was merely bait for Daisy to catch. The money
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These types of characters have been glorified time after time. In contrast‚ there are characters like Pip from Great Expectations that have that typified type of lifestyle. As a matter of fact‚ Pip is the epitome of a typified low-class child. In Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens makes a bold attempt at showing his feeling towards the bourgeois and beyond of London in the early 1600s. Pip is a "rags-to-riches" boy that has great expectation in life. But later on he finds out that his almighty
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Tickets Please In tickets there are two main characters‚ these are John Thomas and Annie. Annie works on the trams and girls are only chosen to work on the trams of they have a confidant nature and a certain no-nonsense approach to men. And this affects her relationship with John Thomas. There are many ways how Lawrence shows how Annie and John Thomas are attracted to each other. The first example of this is on page eighty three paragraph two. " She could tell by the movement of his mouth and eyes
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Pilgrimage What would a Pilgrim do on a Pilgrimage to; a) Holy land b) Rome and why? a) Holy Land Pilgrims visit the Holy Land (Israel) to follow in the footsteps of Jesus. There are several places that are particularly associated with him; Bethlehem where he was born‚ Nazareth where he was brought up‚ Galilee where he did much teaching‚ preaching and healing and Jerusalem where he was crucified and rose again from the dead. Many pilgrims would go to Jerusalem at Easter to remember the last
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Task 4 (1.4) What is the most important way in which the business you have chosen could improve the promotion element of its marketing mix? The business I have chosen is a local Chinese restaurant in Feltham TW13 4BS called The golden empire .It sells all the types of Chinese food also they have cocktails‚ wines‚ cutlets and other sorts of foods. The figures above show that there are 19‚963 people aged 25-29 who are mostly young busy families. There is a population of 89‚052 of people aged
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Laszlo Corti (The whole system is color coded one color for each question) 1. Abortion = Deliberate termination of human pregnancy Capital Punishment = dEATH penALTY Censorship = Suppression of public information‚ speech. Charity = Organization set up to provide help Contraception = prevention of fertilization Civil Partnership = Same sex marriage Divorce = Legal Termination of a marriage Easy death = Euthanasia Euthanasia = Good Death Fertility treatment = A procedure on a woman or man to
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How does Mishima present the theme of Nature throughout the novel? Support your views from details of the novel. PLAN Introduction: Paragraph 1: Shinji and Yasuo Paragraph 2: Hatsue and Chiyoko Paragraph 3: Nature in their village Paragraph 4: Nature in their love Conclusion: Yukio Mishima’s 1954 novel‚ The Sound of Waves‚ narrates the story of Hatsue and Shinji’s search for love in a rural fishing community where tradition is very important. Throughout the novel‚ Mishima
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