“Sometimes the toughest are the most broken.” (Anonymous) In the novel The Outsiders‚ Dally Winston‚ a poor seventeen year-old with a tarnished past‚ played an influential role in the lives of his fellow friends‚ the Greasers‚ and mostly over Ponyboy. Dally was both the toughness and the anger that existed and held back the Greasers and Ponyboy. Known as the toughest of the Greaser gang‚ with no family‚ Dally felt he could take violent risks. While Dally’s death seemed tragic‚ if Dally had continued
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The Outsiders “Stay gold‚ Ponyboy. Stay gold”(IMDb). This is a famous quote from The Outsiders The Outsiders is a book and a movie. The book and the movie are both excellent. The book and the movie are very similar‚ however‚ there are some differences that make them each unique. The storyline is that there are two groups of people‚ the greasers and the socs‚ who don’t get along very well. The main character is a greaser named Ponyboy. He has no parents and lives with his two brothers Soda and
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“Things are rough all over.”(Hinton 35).The novel‚ The outsiders‚ By S.E. Hinton is about a conflict of Ponyboy and his family having struggles as a Greaser. Being a Gang that is broken on‚ is a struggle that makes their lives hard and difficult. While Ponyboy always sees things in a positive way to keep going. S.E. Hinton’s theme “ Things are rough all over.” is evident in the struggles Greasers and Socs face. However the Greasers face more struggles then Socs because‚ they live in poverty‚ plus
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this book because I’ve heard a lot of great things about the author F. Scott Fitzgerald. His style of writing seems to intrigue and catch the audience attention. I’ve seen the movie that was created of this story but I want to read the book to see how it all started. What parts were left off in the movie that maybe I didn’t know. What sense was highlighted the most from the book and interoperated In the movie. I want to compare the similarity and the difference between the book and the movie. The
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“Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things‚ not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong things‚ not the things you want to see.” (S.E Hilton‚ The Outsiders). In the Outsiders‚ Hilton demonstrates the rough life of gang living. In the story there many negative examples and consequences from the gang life‚ such as‚ “rumbles”‚ violent acts‚ and even tragic deaths. The gangs were small groups‚ within the community
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In The Outsiders Ponyboy recites a poem on page 77. I believe that the meaning of this poem is that not everything is meant to last. In this poem‚ he talks about how the dawn becomes day‚ leafs turn into flowers‚ and how Eden sank to grief. All of these examples show how things can change. The time of change changes all time‚ as well as the seasons and more. This poem is saying that nothing in nature is meant to be the same all the time. Plants in nature grow old and slowly wither away‚ as time goes
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Into the wild is a book as well as a film. The book was written by Jon Krauker and the film was by Sean Penn. Chris McCandless was the son of 2 wealthy parents‚ he graduated from Emory University as top athlete and student. However‚ instead of becoming someone big and important with money‚ he decided to throw all of that away and give his money and savings to charity and set of to his journey into the Alaskan wilderness. Chris McCandless wasn’t a sociopath‚ he wasn’t an outcast and he wasn’t a crazy
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The Novel Frankenstein is over hundred years old and still popular today. Frankenstein is still seen in movies‚ cartoons‚ and short stories. People around the world continue to read the novel. The novel’s themes are understood and relatable to many people because it discusses life and death. Shelly’s purpose in writing the novel was to entertain. However‚ the time period in which Shelly wrote the novel was very conservative and the themes of life and death could had been offensive. Shelly’s experiences
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Mary Sow The plot that leads to the revelation of the scandal in the newspaper and the suicide of the three protagonists is similar in both the novel and the film. However‚ there are visibly several differences between the film and the novel. Unlike the novel‚ where the author Junichiro Tanizaki takes his time to vividly express events‚ the film has a relatively shorter span to fit the same plot. However‚ it is the film whose scene seems to better capture the emotions of the audience. The plot is
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In the book‚ “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton there are two main social groups‚ the Socs and the greasers. The Socs‚ and the greasers are enemies in the town of Tulsa and often get into fights just because they are different. Socs and greasers often stereotype each other just based on one experience with one their friends. To start off‚ there are many instances of greasers stereotyping Socs but here are just a few examples. First‚ when Ponyboy was looking through Sodapop’s yearbook he stumbled upon
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