Kensit‚ an actress‚ once said “Once a child is confronted with the concept of death‚ there’s a certain innocence that goes.” Kensit means once oneself has familiarized themselves with death‚ part of one’s innocence is taken away. In the novel‚ The Outsiders‚ by S.E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade‚ lose innocence by experiencing death. Hinton proves that losing innocence mentally at a young age has terrible effect through both Ponyboy and Johnny. Ponyboy’s experiences in life shows the devastating
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No parents. Two brothers and a gang that describes brotherhood. These are the three aspects that define the novel The Outsiders. With thoughts swirling in his mind‚ fourteen year old‚ Ponyboy Curtis steps out of the movie house. Ponyboy‚ a greaser‚ with Johnny Cade‚ kill Bob Sheldon‚ a Soc‚ in self defense. In the attempts of not getting caught Pony and the gang lose some of their valued members of their crew by the Socs‚ who believe having money equals superiority. After this occurrence and facing
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If you think about it‚ many other people have a different society than others. These societies have positive attributes and negative ones as well. In the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton‚ the clip “On the Road: Middle School Football” with Steve Hartman; the poem “The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be” by Nikki Giovanni‚ it gives us positive information about Ponyboy’s society‚ Keith’s society; the society described in the poem. And knowing how their society is positive might change the way
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How can complete opposites of people also have many similarities? How can a law breaking guy have anything similar to a law-abiding person? In most stories this is highly unlikely. However‚ in S.E Hinton’s novel The Outsiders‚ two characters have these differences. Dally Winston and Johnny Cade are similar because they both have abusive parents and they both care about one another. On the other hand they have opposite personalities and have different opinions on the law. Therefore‚ Dally Winston
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Those who have encountered Sirus would describe it with a single word: esoteric. To an outsider it would be unfathomable‚ driven by some strange motive that is known to it and it alone. In truth‚ there aren’t any words to truly capture exactly what Sirus is. The more it is defined the more it evades description. How does one go about attaching words to something so viciously unhuman? No true empathy and no true morality to bind its actions to any sort of code‚ allowing it to act on pure‚ ravenous
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In both Robert Gordon and Erick Brynjolfsson’s TED talk videos‚ they are voicing their opinions about if the world is continuously developing new ideas or not. Gordon believes that innovation is dead and everything is slowing down while Brynjolfsson’s stance is the opposite. In my opinion‚ Erick Brynjolfsson does a better job getting his point across because inventions are like building blocks. Our generation is steadily growing‚ and we are leading towards early retirement. Gordon thinks that progress
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the late Victorian era. He was one of the few men shrewd enough to understand that Gordon’s idea of integrity entailed following his own inner voice rather than any rigid loyalty to Queen and country. Any operatlon that involved Gordon would be sure to meet the approbation of Queen and public. What was more‚ a military action in the central Sudan would almost certainly be given to Wolseley.
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Appearance and Character “Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset” (41) ponders Ponyboy‚ a Greaser‚ when he realizes social class does not define a person. S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders tells of a town where social class splits the citizens into the lower class Greasers‚ who others view as horrible‚ selfish‚ tough‚ trouble-making criminals‚ and the upper class Socs or Socials‚ who the townspeople view as the privileged‚ wealthy‚ law-abiding people. Throughout
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No!" I screamed at him. "I’m fourteen! I’ve been fourteen for a month! And I’m in it as much as you are. I’ll stop crying in a minute... I can’t help it.” the main character in this book “The outsiders‚” Ponyboy Curtis has the innocence and immaturity of a young fourteen-year-old. but as we continue to read we soon see when he reaches the point of no longer being “gold” or is forced to mature causing him to lose his innocence. We quickly learn that Ponyboy wants to understand why the Socs and Greasers
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the United States. It is reasonable to believe that the American people simply do not know what to think because the issues and circumstances that surrounded these “revolutionary characters” are so far removed from the 21st century United States. In Gordon Wood’s Revolutionary Characters‚ Wood claims that with a greater understanding of the circumstances
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