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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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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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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Comparing Freedom Writers and The Outsiders Taking place in Long Beach California‚ Richard Lagravense directed an amazing movie titled “Freedom Writers.” Freedom Writers came out in 2007 and has inspired many teenagers all over the world. Not only do I consider this to be one of my favorite movies‚ but many others do too. Freedom Writers was a movie with many interesting characters. Hilary Swank stars as Erin Gruwell (Mrs. G)‚ a high school teacher who realizes that teaching is her passion
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Meursault‚ the novel’s narrator and protagonist‚ receives a telegram telling him that his mother has died. She had been living in an old persons’ home in Marengo‚ outside of Algiers. Meursault asks his boss for two days’ leave from work to attend the funeral. His boss grudgingly grants the request‚ and makes Meursault feel almost guilty for asking. Meursault catches the two o’clock bus to Marengo‚ and sleeps for nearly the entire trip. When Meursault arrives‚ he meets with the director of the old
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From reading the book it was pretty clear that Ponyboy had a rough family life. It is a huge part of Ponyboys growth realizing his family was the most important thing to him but hadn’t realized this until it was too late. Ever since his parents died he has been under the care of Darry. Ponyboy always felt like Darry never loved him because he could never please him. "He’s as hard as a rock and about as human...he thinks I’m a pain in the neck. He likes Soda--everybody likes Soda--but he can’t stand
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Johnny Cade‚ the sympathetic and lovable character from the classical realistic fiction novel “The Outsides” by renowned author S.E. Hinton is one of the most complex and confusing characters in the novel. Johnny is a very special character because he is so different in so many ways to the other protagonists in this novel. He himself who is both quiet and passive is forced to take refuge with the violent and active gang of the greasers by his abusive family. Throughout the novel he is the main catalysis
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