Text Response Option 2- “The Outsiders” S.E. Hinton What are the lessons that S.E. Hinton wants to teach us through the story of “The Outsiders’? A number of lessons can be learnt from reading S.E. Hinton’s debut novel “The Outsiders”. By naming the novel “The Outsiders” yet writing it from the greasers perspective‚ we feel more like an insider in this group society seem to be pushing out. We identify with the underdog from the opening page. We find ourselves seeing life through the eyes of the greasers
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human nature’ The Outsiders – Text response essay In the novel ‘The Outsiders’ by S.E Hinton‚ we see how hard times bring out the best and worst in human nature. Human nature is basically what people are like deep down. As the characters change and their life grows and gets harder‚ we are shown their true colours. Some of them change for the best‚ and some for the worst. Hard times include a large variety of matters. Based on the novel that we are working on – ‘The Outsiders’‚ some of the issues
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I. SUBJECT The Help‚ by Kathryn Stockett‚ is story about the journey of a young woman‚ Skeeter‚ standing up for what she believes in and following her dreams. This story is set in Jackson‚ Mississippi during the 1960’s‚ which is the height of the Civil Rights movement period. The story is through the viewpoint of three narrators: Skeeter Phalen‚ Aibileen Clark‚ and Minny Jackson. Skeeter is the main narrator out of the three. She is a young white woman returning home after receiving her journalism
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The novel The Outsiders by SE Hinton is a novel about teenage boys that are trying to live their lives to be like the rest of the community. These kids feel like they are the outsiders. Atul Gawande once said “Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But‚ precisely because they are the outsiders‚ they are usually in a poor position to fix them.” In this novel the outsiders would be the Greasers because they are poor‚ violent‚ and they don’t have parents
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just true for middle school‚ but also life in the 50s. The book The Outsiders focuses on two main cliques‚ the Greasers and the Socs. One might think that the name represents Greasers‚ and what they have to deal with‚ but the real outsiders are specific people. The outsiders are the people who dare to be different from the stereotype of their group‚ who believe people should be judged on who they are‚ not social class. Major outsiders in the book are Darry‚ Ponyboy‚ and Cherry Valance. Darry is the
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een persoon die altijd buiten de algemeen geaccepteerde sociale structuren valt. Iedereen kan op enig moment een buitenstaander zijn. De een kleedt zich op een bijzondere manier‚ de ander heeft een Brabants accent‚ weer een ander heeft in een straat met rijwoningen een bijzondere tuin. Dit zijn eenvoudige voorbeelden van deviant gedrag waardoor mensen in bepaalde situaties bestempeld kunnen worden als buitenstaander. Het volgende essay is gebaseerd op het boek ‘Outsiders’ van Howard S. Becker (1997)
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The Outsiders INTRODUCTION: "The Outsiders" by S. E Hinton is an early novel based on two waring juvenile gangs‚ divided by economical and social background‚ the lower East side Greasers and the upper West side Socs. The novel is set in 1966 in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma. It is a novel written in first person by a 14 year old Greaser‚ Ponyboy Curtis who allows us an insight into the lifestyles of these distinct worlds. I chose the novel "The Outsiders" as a text for year 10 for the following reasons: It
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Q1. With evidence from the text‚ explain why the text is entitled “The Outsiders”. The text is entitled “The Outsiders” is show there in the social system of a teenager’s world‚ for example‚ Ponyboy’s‚ there is a huge difference between groups. One example is the Socials and the Greasers. The Socs‚ an abbreviation for the Socials‚ are favoured by society because they are rich and educated as said in the book. It says‚ “…. But it’s the abbreviation for the Socials‚ the jet set‚ the West-side
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The Discrimination of Outsiders ZZ Packer’s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere a book that consists of many short stories that are very similar in plot‚ however very different in the overall meaning of the story. Throughout her compilations of short stories Packer grasps the idea of being labeled an “outside” in our society. In these three stories “Brownies‚ Drinking Coffee Elsewhere‚ and Geese” all of the main characters of the story receive discrimination from their other peers. In one story “Brownies”
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