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“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still a lot of good in this world.” Johnny is a 16 year old boy, who has brown hair and dark complexion. He is very shy and quiet but when you grow up in an abusive home and the Socs beat you up it kinda makes you shy. “If you can picture a dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers, you'll have Johnny.” Ponyboy is a 14 year old boy, who has brown hair and green eyes. He is quiet and very intelligent he skipped grades. Ponyboy’s parents died in a auto car wreck and he is being raised by his two brothers Darry and Sodapop. Darry is 20 years old he has brown hair and green eyes he rarely grins and is very strict. But Soda on the other …show more content…
Johnny learns that saving those young kids from the burning church was more important than his life. He also learns how to stand up to his mother. Ponyboy learns that Darry had to grow up faster than he should have because he has to raise Soda and him. Once saving the children from a burning church Johnny and Dally were hospitalized. Dally would live but they didn’t know about Johnny. But once Johnny was conscious the greasers went to visit him. But when his mother asked to see him, he finally stuck up for himself because he refused to see her. Then when he was about to die he said “I don’t mind dying now. It's worth it. It's worth saving those kids. Their lives are worth more to live for.” As for Ponyboy he struggled very hard to deal with Johnny’s death so he stopped doing his school work. Darry got him for it and they were yelling at each other. They kept putting Soda in the middle which was driving Soda crazy. He lost it and ran out the door they ran behind them and when they finally caught him he explained everything. Soda was saying that Darry needed to be more understanding with Ponyboy and that Ponyboy needed to understand that Darry gave up college and being a football player so he could get a job and support him and Soda. Ponyboy then learned even though Darry was tough on him that he knew his potential he knew he loved him
Poney does not want to be in a boys home, due to his parents death all three boys should be in a boys home. He mentions both in the book and the movie he has to be careful with getting into huge trouble because if the cops found him they would put him in a boys home since he has no parent. Cherry is very kind hearted in both the movies she tells Ponyboy about how you can’t assume if one person from this group is like that, then that must mean everyone else there is the same. She finds a way to figure someone out, if they are a certain way it's because of their past because they've gone through tough stuff she says “Things are rough all over”(S.E. Hinton). In both Cherry spills soda on Dally for trying to hit on her and tells him “get lost hood” (S.E. Hinton), but then tells Pony that if she sees Dally she's afraid she will fall for him, because she sees the good in him. Poney boy also talks to Johnny about the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay in both while watching the sunset about losing your innocence and views in life. When Johnny passes away he tells Ponyboy Stay
The book The Outsiders has many dynamic characters. Dynamic Character is a person who changed a lot in a book. Along with the others, Ponyboy was the main one to change. He started off like a rusty metal bar and turned into a shiny gold bar. Gold as in a good child.
In chapter twelve Ponyboy’s english teacher told him that since he is failing english, he has to do an extra credit essay to bring up his grade. Ponyboy and darry also get into a fight causing Soda to leave. Then the trial confirmed that Ponyboy and Soda can stay with Darry. Then Ponyboy wrote his paper on his experience, basically the whole story. The best literary element for this chapter is the plot. The plot is when Ponyboy and Soda find out they get to stay with Darry. “ Then he said I was acquitted and he whole case was closed.” (Hinton 168)
The movie, The Outsiders, starts with the Curtis parents on their weekly, Saturday evening drive to the baking store to buy some ingredients for their boys’ favorite Sunday morning, breakfast treat: chocolate cake. The Curtis boys love their chocolate cake for Sunday breakfast not only because they love it, but also because they appreciate how hard their parents have to work to save the monies necessary for the morsels that put smiles on their faces!
In films, film-makers make deliberate use of certain techniques to influence views to make a certain viewpoint. In the film ‘The Outsiders’, the director Francis Ford Coppola believes nothing gold can stay when it comes to teenagers. He believes that the strength and beauty in teenagers can never stay concrete because it is ruined by adulthood. In the film Coppola shows and represents two groups, the "socs" and the "greasers". "Soc" is pronounced like society, and means just that: money, nice cars, nice homes and a bright future. "Greasers" are the poor kids from the bad side of town with no future and no real hope. Coppola explores how cultural assumptions underpin the ways in which teenagers are represented in films. There are three key factors that Coppola uses to this effect in the film: a well-built plot, strong vocabulary and various motifs.
A hero is someone who is admired for his/her courage and his/her need to help others. Some examples of heroes are Spiderman, Superman, Ironman, Superwoman, and Batman. However, the real heroes are strangers that risk their lives to help others. The book, The Outsiders, shows several heroes that sacrifice their own safety for the greater good. This book centers around the gang, greasers, and the feud between the greasers and Socs. Three characters that show enormous courage and save multiple lives are Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally. In S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders, Johnny, Ponyboy, Dally emerge as heroes because they all risk their lives for another.
“Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave (2).” This explains why Ponyboy, Dally and Sodapop did not have parents. In the novel, this really effected their life and character. "…It was Darry. He hit me. I don't know what happened, but I couldn't take him hollering at me and hitting me too... He didn't use to be like that... we used to get along okay... before Mom and Dad died. Now he just can't stand me (2)." This shows that not having their parents anymore effected Darry’s character and how he treated Ponyboy, which in return effected how Ponyboy felt about himself in comparison to how he was treated. This illustrates that Ponyboy believes that Darry picks on him all the time. This shows that Darry was like a caring parent in a tough way,
In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, interactions between Ponyboy and Cherry, two characters with opposing beliefs, illuminate how if two people have different beliefs, it does not have to stop their friendship, because if people pick their friends based on belief, it can make people who are said to be “different” feel like they’re not good enough. When Cherry and Ponyboy first meet, Cherry tells Ponyboy about what she thinks the difference between being a Soc and a Greaser is, afterwards, she says “‘you greasers have a different set of values [...] I think you're the first person I've gotten through to’” (38). This shows that even though they have different beliefs, she still thinks of him as a trustworthy person, and still wants them
Redemption, in literature and film, is a poignant theme that conveys a sense of morality within character(s). It focuses on how a character can be forgiven for all of their wrongdoings, especially after communicating with God. The film, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” displays the theme of redemption at various points throughout the movie. In a series of loosely tied vignettes, the film depicts Ulysses Everett McGill, Pete Hogwallop, and Delmar O'Donnell as its heroes as they try to escape the law and venture around the state looking for a treasure. Along the way, they encounter characters similar to those in “The Odyssey” such as sirens, a cyclop and a blind prophet. Directed by the Coen brothers, film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” uses notable
Vicious predator women, tempting songs, and wax in his men's ears. Odysseus and his men face many obstacles on their way home as well as the three men from “O Brother Where Art Thou.” Each of these sources also display similarities and differences.
We first meet our narrator, fourteen-year-old Ponyboy, as he’s walking home from the movies ‘ alone, which is something we know he’s not supposed to be doing. Ponyboy lives in a dangerous area. His East Side neighborhood is patrolled by bullying Socials, rich kids from the West Side of town. Pony’s a Greaser and defenseless Greasers are the Socials’ favorite targets. Sure enough, Ponyboy is attacked by a carload of Socials when he’s in a vacant lot, just minutes from his home. Luckily his older brothers ‘ Darry and Sodapop ‘ and the rest of his gang ‘ Steve, Two-Bit, Johnny, and Dallas ‘ come to his rescue and chase away the Socials. We learn that Ponyboy and his brothers lost their parents recently in a car accident.
This story inspires hope because even though, Johnny and Dally die, Ponyboy still moves on with his life. Johnny died while saving children from a burning building where, Dally died while died because he couldn’t handle Johnny’s death.“Try
The title “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton is very transparent and requires deeper thinking to be understood, because in the end it is like an onion. You can peel of layers and layers but there is still more. Ms. Hinton never did mention who the outsiders were or outsiders at all, so what is an “outsider”? I believe that we are all outsiders, because being an outsider means to be different and to work well together because of that. Perhaps a hidden moral to the book is that being an outsider isn’t a bad thing.
They argued and fought a lot, and never had a good brotherly connection. After Ponyboy and Johnny ran away from home and saved the kids from the burning building, Ponyboy and his brothers were reunited at the hospital. Just then was it when Ponyboy realized how much he had missed not only Soda Pop, but Darry too. Ponyboy said "'Darry!' [he] screamed, and the next thing [ he] knew [ he] had him around the waist and was squeezing the daylights out of him."(page 98). After the two expressed and revealed their love for each other, they build a stronger brotherly relationship and grew closer as a
I am going to write about a character from the book The Outsiders his name is Dallas Winston also known as “Dally”. I am going to be writing this essay is a first person perspective through journal entries then it was that day….