versus the hardships of the “Socs” lives which were supposedly much easier. It also shows the thoughts that ran through Ponyboy’s head as and after he was helping the kids safely out of the burning church. In the book‚ Sodapop looks the best by far. “Soda is handsomer than anyone I know (Hinton 7).” Johnny is just a scrawny little boy. Ponyboy has long greased back hair. “My hair is longer than a lot of boys (Hinton 1).” Darry looks tough and mean. Dally is hard‚
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analyze any available pictures or gestures or guess meaning from textual context. Social strategies (SOC): the strategies are employed to ask someone who knows. Learners can ask teacher or classmates about information in a variety of ways‚ such as a synonym‚ paraphrase‚ or L1 translation of new word. II. Strategies are used for consolidating a word once it has been encountered Social strategies (SOC): they can also be employed to consolidate learned words by interacting with other people like studying
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organism to maintain a stable internal environment despite fluctuating external environmental conditions. An animal will maintain this state of equilibrium through adjustment mechanisms that keep the conditions of its cells and body within a narrow range (SOC 2 n.d.). Homeostasis is crucial to the survival of an organism‚ by maintaining a stable environment‚ it enables cells to be functioning optimally‚ giving an organism the best chance of surviving to a reproductive age‚ followed by reproduction which
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“Your gold when you’re a kid‚ like green. everything’s new‚ like dawn” (Hinton‚ 1967‚Pg. that was what Johnny told Ponyboy in his note in Gone With The Wind explaining what he meant by telling him “stay gold”. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Ponyboy Curtis is a dreamy boy who has problems with social classes which cause him to run away from home. By the end of the story‚ he learns to deal with loss and becomes an understanding‚ tuff boy. “When I stepped out of the bright sunlight of the dark
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called the Socs‚ these are the rich and popular kids at the school. The other group the Greasers are what you would call the not so popular kids that are always getting in trouble‚ or so everyone assumes. My first reason that you can depend on friends is a purposeful claim is‚ because when Bob( a Soc) was trying to drown Pony-Boy in the fountain‚ Johnny killed Bob. Obviously this isn’t a good thing but it was either Bob or Pony-Boy. In the text on page 51 it says "Bob‚ the handsome Soc‚ was lying
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some differences that make them each unique. The storyline is that there are two groups of people‚ the greasers and the socs‚ who don’t get along very well. The main character is a greaser named Ponyboy. He has no parents and lives with his two brothers Soda and Darry. Pony is attacked by the socs and his friend Johnny rushes in to save him and ends up killing a member of the socs. This leads to a big fight between the two groups known as a rumble. Johnny is scared because he killed someone so he runs
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night we went to find Ponyboy and Johnny we just wanted to put them back in their place. We wanted the power restored to our superiority‚ because as typical socs we believed this was our right. Socs will always have more power than greasers because the socs had money and the greasers didn’t. There was a constant war between us and we‚ the socs‚ would always have the upper hand. Bob‚ David‚ Stephen‚ John‚ and I had been out drinking and we were driving around in greaser territory when‚ as passed
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Struggles of an Outsider Can two drastically different groups of kids face similar problems? In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton two classes of kids‚ greasers and socs‚ share many similar problems. Greasers come from rough neighborhoods and create gangs to have a sense of belonging‚ socs live in wealthy neighborhoods and gang up on greasers. Although‚ both groups are so different they have many similar problems such as fitting in‚ developing romantic relationships‚ and getting approval from
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the greasers and the socs. In the following paragraphs‚ I will be talking about the importance of her character‚ how the character stands as a link between the gangs‚ and how her character helps to solve the problem. I would say that Cherry is a big character in the book. In some ways‚ Bob’s death was Cherry’s fault. If she and Marcia hadn’t asked Pony and Johnny to come and sit with her and Marcia‚ the events that led to Bob’s death probably wouldn’t have happened. The socs wouldn’t have seen the
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was perfectly normal until I can hear a car engine driving towards my direction‚ I might be sacred but I just kept walking faster because I knew who were in the car - The Scos. The Socs always liked to attack The Greasers especially me. They got out of the car and I knew that I am going to be jumped by them. The Socs threaten me to cut my long greasy hair‚ I like my hair though. They pushed me down and so I was on the ground. One of them put a hand over my mouth‚ it was terrible‚ and one of them
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