Summer Skies 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. A/N: In the middle of a sweltering August day‚ an accident occurs that neither Darry nor Ponyboy planned‚ but shows them that they might not be as different as they think. ~ Mid August‚ 1966 ~ Wednesday "Race you home‚ kid!" Two-Bit challenged as they started their walk home from school. A monthly teacher’s
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“The gang’s pet” is what Johnny is known as. The story says that Johnny is a "lost puppy" and a "puppy that has been kicked too many times." He is sixteen years old and has already gone through awful times in his life. Before the story starts‚ Johnny was viciously beaten by a group of Socs. He was scarred by this beating‚ and now carries a switchblade in his pocket at all times. Johnny says‚ “He would kill the next person who jumped him.” I chose this quote because it foreshadows the event later
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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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In the Outsiders‚ there are two gangs- the greasers and the Socials or Socs. The greasers don’t usually have a whole lot of money‚ compared to the rich Socs. They both participate in crime‚ though Socs tend to be more vicious and attack for no reason other than for
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amendment violation and 1 additional point for a correct explanation on the blanks below. It was a sunny Tuesday afternoon‚ and Johnny Norights was enjoying a nice nap. I should mention that Johnny Norights was really supposed to be working on his IDLA Government course. Johnny didn’t
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Robby Reyes Mr. Fountain Film Study III/Period 5 11 February 2013 The Outsiders Movie Critiqued Correctly The Outsiders did not fit the criteria of being one of the films of Francis Ford Coppola. Critics were largely unimpressed by the movie but did well enough at the box office. The Outsiders was based off the novel‚ published in 1967‚ by S.E. Hinton. It is about a character‚ Ponyboy‚ who lives with his two brothers‚ Darry and Sodapop. All of them battle class warfare along with their fellow
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Have you ever been an outcast? In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ there is a stereotypical fight between gangs called the Socs and the Greasers in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma. There is one person in the story that stands out named Dallas Winston. Dally Winston is round character that shows many sides of himself throughout the course of the story. One of the conflicts that Dally deals with is a man versus man conflict when the only person that he loves and cares about dies. Some ways that this character can be
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I read the book Johnny Tremain as my student selective novel for this essay. I hope you enjoy reading it. In Johnny Tremain‚ Johnny was an apprentice for a silversmith. He would use things like lead‚ silver‚ and crucibles. Of course the crucibles were the objects that they used to melt the silver or lead but the silver and lead was what was used to make the orders or to fix an order.this was fairly appropriate because this wasn’t modern times so they had to adapt in they’re own ways without the
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Every time Johnny Cash would step out in front of a crowd he would greet his millions of followers with the same line: “Hello‚ I’m Johnny Cash”. He would be greeted with roars‚ hollers‚ and cheers whenever he was seen. Cash influenced a generation and blended music genres to bring the country together. Known as The Man in Black‚ for it was the only color he would wear after 1957 (Streissguth 80). Cash through his more than 50 year career had thirteen number 1 hits (Macnie). Johnny Cash evolved
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Johnny Reeves was really not a good person. Johnny reeves was a preacher for the KKK and he didn’t have any respect for African American people. Respect; a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities‚ qualities‚ or achievements. In this story Johnny was never a witness but he always reacted to everything that happened. I argue that Johnny Reeves was very rude toward all people because he never learns to accept African Americans for who they really are. He also
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