In our world today‚ the standards of society are what many of us live by. The people who do not meet these qualifications are cast out by society. The novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ demonstrates what being on the outside is like. The Greasers‚ labeled as outsiders‚ are viewed by their community as hoodlums and criminals; the only reasons being that they are not well off‚ put grease in their hair‚ and dress differently. Reading this book made me think of a very important lesson everyone should
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deal with life as a fourteen year old with only one leg. With the help six brothers and dad‚ he’s just going to have to take it one step at a time. (Mr. Curtis is alive!) Disclaimer: No‚ silly‚ I never have nor will I ever own The Outsiders. S.E. Hinton owns The Outsiders. *sighs* :( I simply borrow them for my own creative enjoyment purposes. Guest: White collar black wolf: I’m so glad that you enjoyed the last chapter! Thank you so much for your review. Kas3y: Thank you so much‚ dear! HappierThanMost:
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INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS In Harper Lee’s book‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ social differences determine insiders and outsiders. The social status of someone in Maycomb County has very different points. Your families reputation is a main factor in determining your place in Maycomb. Due to the factor that the men and women try to marry other respectable families to keep themselves on the inside. Wealth is seen as another factor. Also‚ the people that characters associate with makes them perceived as insiders
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discussed is The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Within the novel many characters contributed to the novel’s plot in some shape or form. However there are two characters that truly stand out and are of true importance for the plots development. Those two characters are as follows‚ Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade. Both characters go through a lot of personal experiences within the story. They have similarities and differences that are critical to the development of the plot for this novel‚ The Outsiders. These two
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types; true love has no color‚ gender‚ age‚ distant‚ or end. When love goes missing from our lives‚ the human response is grief. Grief is the price we pay for love‚ and it plays an important role in human life. We must have bad times and low-points throughout our lifetime‚ in order to recognize and cherish the good times. Throughout this paper‚ I am going to explain what “grief” is‚ and what it entails; from both my perspective‚ as well as it’s psychological
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witness and experience abuse‚ addiction‚ and poverty. This is a lot for an adolescent mind to handle. In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders‚ the teenagers are faced with extremely mature issues. They are partially to totally scarred from what they experienced. They lost their innocence either by choice of by force. As a result of the dismal situations the characters in The Outsiders experienced‚ they have been robbed of their innocence and will be damaged for the rest of their lives. The reality of the
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Psychology 2113 Spring 2014 SIBLING DEATH AND CHILDHOOD TRAUMATIC GRIEF Author: National Child Traumatic Stress Network Child Traumatic Grief Committee The National Child Traumatic Stress Network 2009 When someone close to a child dies‚ the child may experience deep emotional loss and grief. Children will grieve in their own way‚ and much of what they are feeling will show in their behavior. Children who were quiet and shy may start acting out and having tantrums‚ in the same token a
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The Outsiders” is a book about two groups of people‚ the Socs and the Greasers. These two groups of people are very different from one another. The story takes place in Tulsa‚ OK in the 1960’s. The Greasers are a group of people in “The Outsiders” that grease their hair and wore t-shirts and jeans with switchblades in their pockets and mosted of them smoked. They are not wealthy people. A few of the characters that belong to the Greasers are Johnny Cade‚ Ponyboy Curtis‚ Two-Bit‚ Dairry Curtis‚ Soda
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In the books Of Mice and Men‚ by John Steinbeck‚ and The Outsiders‚ by S.E. Hinton‚ both stories feature different relationships that have their ups and downs‚ and are extremely prevalent themes. Relationships are a huge part of human life. In fact‚ it is thought that relationships are the things that keep us going every day. In the books Of Mice and Men and The Outsiders‚ relationships are a very important and prevalent theme that have a remarkable impact on the plot. The relationships that exist
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I think that Hinton left the word “outsider” out of her novel because there are so many outsiders in the book it would get confusing for the reader. An outsider is someone who doesn’t fit in with a certain group. The greasers are the outsiders in the Socs eyes‚ but to the greasers the Socs are the outsiders because they aren’t like each other. The Socs have a lot of money and can be pointed out because of their blue madras shirts and their fancy corvairs. The greasers are known because they are “criminals”
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