Loyalty. The word itself brings to mind heroes and knights in shining armor who fight out of loyalty for others‚ like kings or commanders. However‚ in the novel‚ The Outsiders‚ by S.E. Hinton‚ loyalty comes in a different form. In a town of greasers and Socs‚ poor hoodlums and privileged rich kids‚ the loyalty of the different groups is tested in struggles between right and wrong as discriminatory attacks on greasers lead up to the murder of a popular Soc. The conflict between the groups was always
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In the book The Outsiders‚ written by S.E. Hinton‚ it tells the story of a young boy named Ponyboy‚ who is a greaser that feels like he is on the outside of society. The book which is fiction focuses on how Johnny killed Bob‚ and how the cops are after him and ponyboy. It also focuses on how they both feel like they are looked down upon by the world. The three topics addressed in this adventurous novel our the fight between the rich and poor‚ the power of friendship‚ and what it means to be a hero
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David Brin quoted "The worst mistake of first contact‚ made throughout history made by individual on both sides of every new encounter has been unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It is often proved fatal." This quote took major themes of The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton. Often times‚ people make judgements upon others by first impression. Those judgements can cause anger. This could lead to fighting‚ in his quote it can often be fatal. Fatal doesn’t have to mean the end of a life‚
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In the outsiders‚ violence was a commonly occurring theme. The Socs‚ the highest social class‚ and the greasers‚ the lowest class‚ are always going at it. It is a common thing in their everyday life for them to be at each others throat. Johny gets jumped‚ and Pony too. Most is ok‚ until the night someone takes it to far. Violence is never the answer. Early on‚ one night after Pony ran away‚ because Darry hit him‚ Pony and Johny ran to the park. When they get there‚ they come to find the Socs
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feeling very well and is not in very good shape (pg.131-145). It could have been easy for Ponyboy to change any of the decisions he made‚ but he did not. So in the end the decisions Ponyboy ultimately made define him as the hero that he is. In The Outsiders Ponyboy overcomes social boundaries. Ponyboy comes to the realization that everybody is not so different. Even though somebody might appear different we are all alike were just human. Ponyboy’s relationship with Cherry Valance proves that even though
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Dylan refers to hardship as rain and “the deepest dark forest”. In the book‚ The Outsiders‚ the conflict between the Greasers and Socs create hardships that characters have to face. The theme of Bob Dylan’s “Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” and S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders is Facing hardship/obstacles can shape one’s identity‚ and this is expressed through the characters‚ their experiences‚ and lyrics. To begin with‚ the theme of facing hardships and obstacles appears in Bob Dylan’s “Hard Rain’s A-Gonna
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In the novel‚ The Outsiders‚ appearance is a very important theme to the book. One example of this in the book is when the Greasers thought that the Socs had everything going great because of what they owned. Some things that made the Greasers think this was the fact that the Socs had really nice cars and they had nice clothes. The Greasers didn’t know that the Socs had some of the same problems that they did and they went through hard times just like them. Another example of appearance being an
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As stated by José N. Harris‚ “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” This can be related to the Outsiders because in the story‚ Dally is seen as someone who does not love‚ and when Johnny died it showed that he cared deeply for Johnny. When this happened‚ he went through grief. Grief is when there is an ultimate combination of sorrow‚ strong emotion‚ and the resulting confusion that comes from losing someone that is very important to oneself.
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own educational experiences has he used in “the History Boys”? Bennett says that he was made fun of at school for coming to school in a suit on the day of his exams. He says he did this because he thought the exam was an occasion and he must rise to it. This show us how he felt towards his exams and probably shows how some of the boys in his book would have felt like when taking their exams. This shows how important he thinks exams are and this theme will probably reflect in the book. Bennett then
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The History Boys Bennett’s setting is a northern grammar school and his focus is on the varied methods of training post A-level students for life. The headmaster‚ obsessed with league-tables and results‚ wants them all to be Oxbridge candidates. To this end‚ he engages a young historian‚ Irwin‚ who knows that the key to exam success lies in singularity and that "the wrong end of the stick is the right one". In the opposite camp is the gentle English master‚ Mr Hector‚ who argues that exams are
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