Informative Essay: The Outsiders The Outsiders‚ a novel by S.E Hinton is showing us how two social groups are paving the way to their individual futures. This path may lead to some conflicts‚ including fights and murder. However‚ there are also many heart touching instances about family and hope. An aspect portrayed in The Outsiders is social disparity‚ which shows the risks and benefits of stereotypes and social groups. To begin the novel‚ Ponyboy tries to find ways in which the Greasers and Socs
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The experiences we go through in life help shape our personal identity‚ they better help us understand ourselves and our place in the world. This thought is explored and investigated in the text‚ The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton. A coming of age novel where the character encounters the effect of their decisions and experiences both negative and positive circumstances. This is clear from the content as the experience of fleeing to the country‚ being in a gang‚ facing violence and poverty can shape the
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In the short story “The Outsider” by Lovercraft‚ there are many themes projected. Although‚ the feel that the author is trying to project is in order to prevent loneliness you must accept who you are. There is something that drives us not to want to be lonely‚ and this is where the tone plays in. A clear connection to being lonely is the connection of feeling melancholy. In the beginning of the story the character is lonely to the point he tries every so hard to “cling desperately to those sere
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I choose to write about his poem “Love Song” because it really caught my interest and made me really think about what he was trying to tell within the poem. “Love Song” byJ. Alfred Prufrock is about a poet trying to show his love to possibly a close friend that he may have been secretly in love with. My interpretation of the poet’ thoughts and feeling are that I believe Prufrock would go to the ends of the earth for this girl. He states in the last two lines of the stanza “And if you were my wife
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March 26‚ 2013 Dr. Shellito Honors English Period One Reading Aloud Project Reflection Paper When this project was assigned to me‚ I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Just six weeks ago‚ the words “nonfiction” created an image of boredom in my mind. I didn’t realize how many great pieces of nonfiction literature there were‚ and how much would enjoy it. Not only did I read many great pieces of writing‚ but I also learned a lot about myself as a person and a reader. In future years‚ this project should definitely be assigned
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Reflective paper to assigned readings April 1‚ 2014‚ Session 10 In the chapter 8 of Counseling & Diversity‚ Choudhuri et al. discuss and define various essential constructs of sexual orientation‚ and offer a historical context of discrimination and prejudice against LGBT people. A person’s sexual orientation can be heterosexual‚ homosexual‚ bisexual‚ or questioning‚ and all of these sexual orientation should be considered to be normal. However‚ there has been a long history of negative judgment
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Grief of The Outsiders There are many ways of expressing the emotion grief. The characters in The Outsiders‚ by S.E. Hinton‚ had many bad things happen to them and the ones they loved. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis‚ Bob‚ Johnny‚ and Dally are all characters that die in the book. The characters deal with grief in different ways; Ponyboy denies the fact that Johnny died‚ Dally was in depression‚ and Darry accepted their death. Ponyboy grieves for Johnny by denying the fact that he killed Bob‚ and died
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In S.E Hinton’s novel‚ The Outsiders‚ there are many themes represented in the book‚ but one of the main themes is social ostracism‚ or the conflict between the economic classes. There are two rival gangs within The Outsiders: the Socs and the Greasers. The Socs represent the upper class while the Greasers represent the lower class. The Socs‚ "jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks‚ and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an
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Notes for reading : Deface your books. Have fun writing in them. Indulge yourself as you never could with your grade school books. The purpose of making marks in a text is to call out important concepts or information that you will need to review later. Be aware‚ though‚ that underlining a text with a pen can make underlined sections—the important parts—harder to read. As an alternative‚ many students underline in pencil or use colored highlighters to flag key words and sentences. Using a highlighter
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Character characteristics From reading the book named The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton‚ I found that Ponyboy was the character that has many similarities to me. I can relate to him since he is very athletic‚ smart‚ kind. I think that I do not connect to any other character like I connect to Ponyboy. The first characteristic we have in common is how both of us are very athletic. Ponyboy and I‚ play a variety of sports. Ponyboy is very athletic because he is on the track team for his school. I have
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