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    The Best Book on the Planet The Outsiders was a great book that includes suspense and fights. This book is in the point of view of Ponyboy Curtis. He talks about how it was living back in 1967. Him and his friends are in a “gang” called the greasers. This “gang” is really a group of good friends that always have eachothers back. The main character is Ponyboy. He is 14 years old he has light brown hair‚ he is the youngest in the gang. Then the other characters are: Soda‚ he is 16 years old and is

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    S.E. Hinton was only 15 years old when she wrote this extremely detailed book. I liked her book a lot because of how much detail she put into it. I didn’t like the movie a lot because I was kind of expecting it to be a lot like the book but was disappointed when it left out many different parts of the book. While the book and movie have many similarities and differences‚ the book was more effective in telling the story. To start‚ the first scene in the rumble is when the Socs come to the rumbling

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    The ‘‘ Outsiders’’ is a Movie & Novel are interesting and cool. Watching both they appear to be similar. After watching the movie & reading the novel they also have distinct differences. Well the movie & novel have some similarities. They feature the same characters. Soda‚Darry‚Dally‚Johnny‚Tim Shepherd‚Ponyboy‚the Farmer‚Steve‚Two-Bit. In the movie and the novel the church burns down. The kids were in the church and the church was burning.Ponyboy & Johnny saves the kids.one of the kids

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    Thru-out the book The Outsiders‚ the main charter Ponyboy seemed to change drastically. Ponyboy would try to run from a fight with Socs in the beginning. But after going thru some tuff times he changed. But at the end of the book‚ if there is about to be a fight with some Socs he is willing to go in head first and get it over with. Do you think this is a good or bad change. In the beginning Ponyboy was a little skiddish and tried to run from trouble. For an example‚ "I knew it wasn’t any

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    Many books have been prohibited by people and countries around the whole world‚ but is it really a good Idea to do so? I believe that the fact that people are banning books is a completely ridiculous idea. Additionally‚ everybody should have the right to read what they want. In these past few hundred years‚ humans have invented writing‚ paper‚ and books in order to record their findings and memories to share and pass down to future generations. Consequently‚ ideas and information are now more easily

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    diverse world they live in. Although this seems to be the case‚ more than 11‚300 books have been challenged for controversial material since 1982; 311 books were challenged recently in 2014 (American Library Association). The fact that books are constantly being banned illustrates how in many schools‚ knowledge is being withheld from students. Although some students may be sensitive to controversial material‚ banning books from their school libraries is damaging because it takes away their rights‚ limits

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    Although banning books is quite a drastic measure‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest should not be taught in any school’s curriculum because of the effects that the graphic intensity and brutality shown throughout the novel could have on the minds of adolescents. The debate of whether or not to ban certain books has gone on for ages‚ throughout this period of time‚ many books have been deemed acceptable and some have received the opposite fate. The majority of these decisions have swayed toward giving

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    don’t know what love and affection are because you aren’t getting that at home. You are forced to look elsewhere. I believe that if you don’t get love at home and are treated bad‚ you will go somewhere where you can get those things. In the book‚ The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ Johnny Cade didn’t get those things at home. He found a gang of boys that gave him what he thought he needed. He needed to fit in‚ to be cared about‚ and in this gang he did. He protected his gang‚ even though at home he was

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    ‘The Outsiders’ written by S.E Hinton demonstrates that violence can cause much change to a person on the inside as well as outside. This book became an immediate success when it was written during the 1960’s and was based around the reputation and the stereotypes of that current decade. If you were a kid growing up in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma you either belonged to one of two groups‚ a “Soc” or a “Greaser”. In this book‚ there are many differences between the two groups‚ which tends to cause much violence

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    The Outsiders In class we have been reading a novel called ‘The Outsiders’ by S E Hilton. This book was published forty years ago and is still popular because it has an interesting theme and characters as well. The book was set in the 1960’s in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ America. This book is about a boy named Ponyboy Curtis and his brothers and his gang. Ponyboy is from a gang called the greasers. The greasers are enemies with the socs who are the rich kids. Ponyboy is good friends with Johnny Cade‚ who

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