A Close Reading Essay of the Poem: “Mail Call” By Randall Jarrell In Randall Jarrell’s poem; “Hope”‚ the poem reads‚ “The spirit killeth‚ but the letter giveth life” (1). A letter maybe only words and thoughts on a piece of paper to some but to others: like the soldiers in “Mail Call‚ a letter is a sense of hope but only if the letter contains something good. In the poem‚ “Hope”‚ Randall Jarrell tells how one goes about living their life day by day‚ never changing. He refers to week as a hand
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The Outsiders The Outsiders was written by S.E. Hinton and takes place in an unnamed town in the United States. The whole story takes place over a few days and describes the life from the view point of Ponyboy Curtis who is the main character of the story as this is his story from an outsider‚ a Greaser. A Greaser is someone that comes from the East side of town‚ which is the poor side of town and has long hair and puts grease in it to make it look shiny and slick. The three main characters of
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‘The Outsiders’ by S.E Hinton shows the challenges of teenagers in America during the 1960’s. Many of the characters in the novel are ‘heroes’ as they face their fears and become better people. Johnny was a character to remember. He overcame his own fears to save the lives of pony-boy and a group of young children. Darry was courageous due to the sacrifices and choices he made to his family. Cherry Valance will be highly remembered for all she stood up for and all she believed in. Although all these
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Q1. With evidence from the text‚ explain why the text is entitled “The Outsiders”. The text is entitled “The Outsiders” is show there in the social system of a teenager’s world‚ for example‚ Ponyboy’s‚ there is a huge difference between groups. One example is the Socials and the Greasers. The Socs‚ an abbreviation for the Socials‚ are favoured by society because they are rich and educated as said in the book. It says‚ “…. But it’s the abbreviation for the Socials‚ the jet set‚ the West-side
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The Outsiders Alienation The Outsiders is a story that has motley of alienation. Alienation isn’t being taken by aliens. Alienation is uniqueness and someone that is different from another person or group of people. But through the whole story of the Outsiders there is alienation. One symbol of alienation in this story is money between the Greasers and the Socs. The Socs always show the characteristics of being rich because they’re always wearing madras shirts and pants. Like
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English A1 Higher Level World Literature Assignment 2c: A detailed study of an extract from pages 14 to 15 from The Outsider by Albert Camus Word Count: 1‚378 I have decided to focus on an extract from chapter 1 of Albert Camus’ The Outsider as I feel this extract is highly significant as it serves as a device of exposition to develop Meursault’s‚ continuously judged‚ character and provides foregrounding for the rest of the novel. The prose style
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Epilogue For The Outsiders “How do you feel Johnny‚ your first sunset up close and personal?” I asked him “Its amazing Dad! I love it.” We continued staring into the radiant beams of the sun until Johnny popped the question I was dreading all those years. “Dad?” “Yes son?” I answered‚ knowing what he was going to ask. “How did I get my name?” I took a long sigh. “I had a friend when I was a bit older than you‚ his name was Johnny‚ an amazing friend to have who didn’t deserve to leave my
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The outsiders by S.E Hinton should be taught in school. This book should be taught in school because it is very much like real life today so it could teach kids what not to do. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a story about a boy named Ponyboy and his friends who are constantly getting in trouble and being judged for being “greasers”. Ponyboy is an interesting character because he is different from his friends‚ but gets caught up in gang conflicts. There are many examples in The Outsiders showing
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The outsiders: Study Guide terms. 1. Point of view The point of view is in 1st person according to Ponyboy. 2. Setting Set in the early 50’s (greasy hair) 3. Circular ending The story starts and ends with Pony’s english paper. 4. Conflict Man vs. Man-Ponyboy vs. Darry Man vs. Nature- Ponyboy and Johnny vs. fire in the church Man vs. society- greasers vs. socs Man vs. himself- ponyboy learns to grow into a better person than his friends. Man vs. technology- socs and greasers vs. guns
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humans were on this Earth. People have a nasty habit to think of people who have been lonely and bullied as outsiders‚ although outsiders are just people who are completely misunderstood and judged the wrong way. If people took the time to know these “outsiders” people mistreat‚ they would understand that these people are just normal kids that got mistreated badly. Nobody wants to be an “outsider”‚ but sometimes you become one for various of different reasons like being a new kid‚ being smarter than
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