like an outsider in your life? An outcast to others, or the feeling that you 're going through something by yourself? Well meet the main character in S.E Hilton 's novel, The Outsiders. Ponyboy Curtis is a fourteen year old boy in the decade where in every city there were gangs and groupies. Ponyboy is in a gang along with his two brothers and their friends. They are known as greasers for their greasy hair, and because they aren 't the richest people in the town. The greasers rivals, socials or 'socs
oftentimes feel like an outsider. Consequently, I was drawn to the outsiders and the social Other in literature during my undergraduate years in NCCU. The presence of the Other and the outsider can be traced from ancient Greek dramas to modern literature, from Medea to the Underground Man. However, the outsider in literature who resonates with me the most is the titular protagonist of Jane Eyre. As the penniless orphan daughter of a deceased gentleman, Jane Eyre is treated as the social Other wherever she
The Outsiders movie review Author S.E Hinton wrote the novel The Outsiders in her teen years. The Outsiders is a book for teenagers and was sold in 14 million copies and has been translated in many languages. The main character Ponyboy Curtis, is a teenager whose parents died in a car accident and lives with his two elder brothers. They belong to a gang of Greasers, poor kids in town. The Socials are their enemies, rich, spoiled kids who come from the West side of town. Their hostilities would
affects everyone even characters in stories, poems, and plays. For example in Much Ado About Nothing honor plays a key role in the actions of multiple characters throughout the play and even almost ruins the marriage of a wonderful couple. Another example is in the poem “ The Charge of the Light Brigade” soldiers rode to their certain death because of their sense of honor even though their leader made a horrible and huge blunder. The final example is a book called The Outsiders where two groups with
Throughout Camus’ famous novel, The Outsider revolves around the main character, Meursault, who is very distant and quite uninterested in common elements of life like work, love, or friendship. Furthermore, he is a man that sees the hypocrisy of life and has trouble accepting the common explanations for our daily social lives. From the looks of it, Meursault seems to suffer from anomie, which is a French translation for normlessness. A term coined initially by Emile Durkheim, anomie is a condition
Book: The Outsider written by Albert Camus, originally published in French as L’Etranger in 1942 translated by Joseph Laredo in 1982. Reflective statement Initially, I lacked general interest in Albert Camus’s The Outsider. I did not find anything particularly inventive or new. The interactive oral allowed me to explore aspects of the book in detail which admittedly made it seem impressingly alluring. The cultural and contextual characteristics were not as bland as they had originally appeared to
A dynamic character undergoes a momentous inner change, as seen through their persona or individuality. Susan Eloise Hinton was just a young adult when she wrote the Outsiders novel; an incredibly striking, gritty and realistic portrayal of teenage life. The Outsiders is just one of the numerous extent of novels written by S.E. Hinton. This novel takes place in the 1960’s that depicts the truth faced by two opposing groups, the Socials, also known as the Socs and the Greasers. Ponyboy Curtis designates
The Influence of an Outsider in Society in Sula and Mama Day In every society, there are certain rules about how one should act, think, and say in any given situation that are perpetuated and must be upheld. If one strays from those rules, those ways of being, they are considered outsiders. The idea that outsiders do not follow the conventional rules of social behavior that are set in place by a society are prominent in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day. The authors examine this
has little money, yet all the struggles. “Poverty and Wealth” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox demonstrates the life of a poor son and a wealthy one. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there are similar themes since the Greasers are portrayed as poor and Socs are represented as wealthy. “Poverty and wealth” the poem has themarical similarities with The Outsiders. A common theme in life and the two writing pieces is that rich people think highly of themselves because they have more physical items. In the poem
S.E. Hinton the author of The Outsiders feels optimistic about the lives of teenagers in her community. For example, after being found Ponyboy and Johnny left the church not knowing what was going to happen in the future. On the ride home they noticed the church engulfed in big orange and red flames, the boys not caring what happened to them went “ through a window and pulled myself in.” (Hinton 91)S.E. Hinton showed this is what she thinks the teenagers in her community who may be “hoods” if given