The attention that his mother could not give him. He was raised in a bad way where he didn’t know from right or wrong. It is not his fault he ended up that way it is mostly his mother fault for not being there when he was in need. He was only 18 and was always in and out of jail if he had a real role model in his life then things would have been so much more different. He had so much potential to be a good person but ended up in a bad family.
Throughout the book Dally, Johnny, and Ponyboy face many obstacles that they must face and overcome. Dally obstacles were the Socs, jail, and Johnny, and although he could survive the Socs and jail, he couldn't survive the death of his “brother”. Johnny’s obstacles were the Socs and self - esteem, and in the end he is able to overcome his struggles with the Socs. Last Ponyboys obstacles were his brother, and the Socs, throughout the book you will notice that Ponyboy believes his brother hates him. In truth his brother loves him a lot, but Ponyboy does not realize this until something traumatizing hits his life and shows him everything he has taken for granted.
Cole is a 15-year old that trusts no one and no one trusts him. He feels like everyone needs to fear him because he thinks that everyone is out to get him. He thinks everyone in his town is against anything he does. He has gone to juvie many times and is just trying to get out of going to real jail. His dad beats him and his mom does not care about him she just cares about her reputation as a wealthy woman.
This neighborhood was full of violence, all other kids were up to no good. However Geoffrey and his three brothers weren't, they came into the neighborhood as a clean slate. They moved here around when Geoffrey was four years old and this where the term “violence” was introduced. With their mom raising them with no dad that lead for the boys to grow up with no guidance from a male figure in this tough neighborhood. The quote “Paradise didn’t last long the day after our arrival my mother sent my brother Daniel to the store with ten dollars...
This affair put a huge strain on his relationship with his wife, as Rose practically put an end to their relationship even though they still lived under the same roof. Furthermore, Troy does not have any friendships in Fences, aside from working with Bono. Troy and Bono met in jail and built a relationship from working together cleaning up garbage. Nevertheless, outside of Bono, Troy doesn’t have a clique of friends, a therapist, or anyone he can go to with his deeply rooted problems. Towards the latter end of the play, he stops talking to Bono almost entirely once he is promoted to driving the garbage truck.
Life in prison differs from the one you live outside of it since you are limited to certain things in life. Jack never experienced the love he got from his girlfriend Michelle or his parents in prison, nor was he ever exposed to the kind of friendship he had with Chris before or in prison. He came from a broken home with a mother that had cancer and a callous father. He was bullied, but saved by the devil in disguise. Phillip was the one to fend off the bullies, but he was sadistic and had a horrible influence on Jack.
Okonkwo is known throughout all nine villages for his self-wealth, strength but most of all his anger and temper. He is irrational and does not think logically, but thinks through his fists. He is incapable of showing remorse or emotion, and due to this lack of emotion, when someone starts to agitate him he immediately fights. Whether it be domestic violence towards his wife and children or picking fights with neighbors challenging him. Okonkwo’s family relationships make him a sympathetic character because he provides for his family which is what his father could not do and an unsympathetic character because of the constant domestic violence when something is not done to his expectations.
Doodle has a variety of physical limitations such as he cannot become “too excited, too hot, too cold, or too tired and that he must always be treated gently” (417).The narrator resents Doodle due to all these physical limitations. The ways the narrator in “The Scarlet Ibis” kills his younger brother are he pushes his physical conditions, he is prideful, and he abandons him.
In To Kill A Mockingbird Boo Radley is a man who always stays shut up inside of his house which causes many rumors about him to be spread around the town. For instance, at the end of chapter 14 it’s stated “Dill?”/ “Mm?”/ “Why do you reckon Boo Radley’s never run off?”/ Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me./ “Maybe he doesn 't have anywhere to run off to…” This shows how Boo Radley is emotionally struggling because people always are assuming things about him that can cause him to feel uncomfortable around others. At the end of the book Boo Radley acts afraid of everything like when it says “Will You take me home?’ He almost whispered it, in the voice of a child afraid of the dark.”
Lyons is serving a three year jail sentence for stealing and his wife left him all because Troy was being so stingy with giving money. And poor Raynell has to grow up wondering what her father and real mother were like. The story might seem resolved in the end but no one ever really knows if he got into heaven after all. All in all, Troy does not fill his responsibilities as a man, husband, father, or brother because he doesn 't act like the father figure to his kids, treat his wife, Rose, with any respect, and aid his brother, Gabriel,
Dally has the biggest reputation for being the best, toughest and the meanest in the outsiders. He also served time in juvenile prison and even came from a broken home environment … in the book and the movie. Ponyboy fears dally and most of all ponyboy dislikes dally for his horrible and rude personality. When they hide out in the abandoned
Theme 1: Family– In North Korean concentration camps and North Korea in general, there was no concept of “family”. Shin was born and raised in the concentration camp, and he did not have a loving or caring relationship with his mother, father, or brother. Shin even saw his mother as another competitor, and he rarely spoke or interacted with his brother. “When he was in the camp–depending on her [his mother] for all his meals, stealing her meals, enduring her beatings–he saw her as a competition for survival,” (16). Outside of the camps, North Koreans also turned in whoever spoke out or went against the leaders of the country, and their rule, even if it was their family members.
Darius Martin is a young man that had a rough childhood growing up. Growing up his father was incarcerated his entire life and his mother was a hard working single mother that worked 3 jobs to support Darius and his two brothers. Darius was involved in crime at a young age, which included this such as theft, vandalism and fighting. Throughout school he was looked as a kid that will never be anything in life so teachers did not bother to put much effort into him bevasue it seemed as a waste of their time. Many people made fun of him in highschool because he did not wear the nicest attire.
Dally is seen as a heartless cold, thug and throughout the novel Ponyboy sees that he truly has a heart. Dally is a trouble-maker and he has no space in his heart except for hate and regret. Ponyboy describes Dally as a thug by saying, “He was tougher than the rest of us tougher, colder, meaner. The shade of difference that separates a greaser from a hood wasn’t present in Dally”(S.E Hinton, pg 10) As ponyboys grow up as a greaser he can see the difference between a greaser and a hood. Throughout Dally’s action, he shows that he is heartless and that he will not care if someone gets hurt.
Likewise, Dally’s parents do not care about anything he does. For instance,