The Outsiders slang vocabulary 1)corvair-A popular sports car in the 60’s. Ex: I about decided I didn’t like it so much though I spotted a red corvair trailing me. Page # 4 2)Hood- A person that is gong that gets in trouble in their own way. Ex-greasers are almost like hoods. Page # 3 3)Tuff-cool or sharp. Ex-Like a tuff looking mustang or a tuff record. Page #12 4)Rumble-To fight between groups of people. Ex-A rumble is sometimes born out of a grudge fight. Page # 11 5)Hacked off-
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The ¨Outsiders¨ movie and novel are interesting and tragic. After observing the movie and reading the book‚ they appeared to be very similar. Though they were similar‚ there were quite a few differences too. The movie and the novel have many similarities. For instance‚ both feature greasers and socs as rivals. Both sides fought one another in the rumble. Ponyboy‚ Johnny‚ and Dally proceed to the Nightly Double. There Ponyboy encountered Cherry. Though a lot of it is similar there are a few differences
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The Outsider Essay Breakdown Introduction: Labels impact every character in The Outsiders in several negative ways. These labels affect them causing others to refer to them as those labels even themselves. The people these labels affect are Dally‚ Johnny‚ and Ponyboy and these labels can be seen negative or positive about these characters depending on how they look at the labels. Body Paragraph 1: The one most affected by these negative labels is Dally because the words they used to describe
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college and working to make sure the family sticks together. Darry is very strict towards Ponyboy as he knows that Ponyboy can have a better opportunity then he did but Pony does not like it. Sodapop and Ponyboy think Darry works to hard. Darry is very physically fit‚ the gang calls him “Superman” and “Muscles”. When the Curtis parents died‚ Darry took on the responsibility of raising his two teenage brothers. Ponyboy always reminds us in the novel that Darry works full time. Darry is the parent in this
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Ponyboy’s Journal Entry Me and Johnny have been hiding from the police for a couple of days now. I’m sure Darry‚ Soda‚ and the rest of the gang are worried sick about us. I haven’t gotten much sleep since we went into hiding‚ I am betting Johnny hasn’t either because it is hard to get good sleep while your laying on the cold floor of an abandoned church and when you are thinking about everything that went on with our lives the past couple days. Earlier today Johnny went to the store to get some
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The Outsiders Critical Lens Essay The quote in question is “All good is destined to be defeated.” The quote means‚ for every good guy‚ there is a bad guy. For every hero‚ there is a villain. Everyone who has ever tried to do something good has been destined to be stopped. The quote not only speaks for literature‚ but for everything. If you look from now‚ all the way back to ancient times‚ you will see examples of this in many works of literature. The book The Outsiders is a good representation
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of opportunity. We experience a good deal of social mobility‚ where people through generations or in their own lifetime can move up or down the social scale. By examining the many different perceptions of social class along with S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders‚ it is illustrated that social class has an impact on people while they are growing up‚ and will usually deny them from rising above adversity. Many people have tried to figure out exactly what it is that makes up a particular social class. In Medieval
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The characters Lizabeth and Ponyboy from the short story Marigolds and the novel The Outsiders transition from childhood to adulthood is largely influenced by stereotypes‚ causing them to lash out in anger. Topic Sentence One: In the short story Marigolds‚ the main character‚ Lizabeth‚ overhears her father breaking down and crying‚ going against everything she knows‚ and breaking the stereotypes of her society‚ causing her to lash out angrily at her neighbor‚ Miss Lottie. Background One: “Marigolds”
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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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The Outsiders–Chapter 7 Characters: -Ponyboy -Sodapop -Darry -Jerry -The doctor -Two-Bit -Steve -Randy Main Events: -Ponyboy finds out about Dally and Johnny’s conditions -Ponyboy reads the newspaper and discovers that Johnny is charged with murder and there’s a chance to send both him and Sodapop to a boys’ home -Ponyboy catches up with news of Sandy‚ Sodapop’s girlfriend/ex-girlfriend -Ponyboy has an insightful conversation with Randy Vocabulary:
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