Literary Essay on ‘The Outsiders’

S.E. Hinton’s story “The Outsiders” takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in a poor area. The conflict of the story is that the Socs are after the Greasers because Johnny (Greaser) killed Bob (Soc) in self/defense so, the Socs want to get revenge for what Johnny did. One lesson the story suggests is that you should always look out and stick with your family throughout any situation.

From the very beginning, the description and details in the story show how the tension between the two gangs start to develop. The first event that takes place is the Socs beat up Ponyboy. The next night, The boys go out to a movie and meet Cherry Valance (Soc). Both Cherry and Ponyboy discuss the difference between the two gangs. Later on in the beginning of the story tension begins to grow intense between the two gangs after Johnny gets attacked by the (Socs) like Ponyboy did. After a while, Sodapop and Darry get into it and Ponyboy begs for the guys to stop fighting. During that moment Ponyboy and Darry then get into it because Ponyboy believes that Sodapop did nothing wrong and doesn’t deserve to get yelled at. Darry’s anger level rises. Darry then slaps Ponyboy across the face.
Ponyboy had never been hit before. He was so shocked that he had then stormed out of the house and grabbing Johnny to run somewhere, the park.
As the boys get to the park, the Socs pop up and start to attack Ponyboy and Johnny.
The tone at the beginning of the story is ‘wondering’ because while Ponyboy and Johnny were being attacked, I wondered throughout the whole process what would happen next. For example, “is someone going to die?” “will anyone get hurt?” and also “what will the results be after this?”
The theme I came up with relates to the beginning because you never know what event will take place or when it will occur. So therefore, you should stick with your friends and family because it’s important to keep everyone safe

 

By the middle of the story when Johnny and Ponyboy get jumped at the park, Johnny kills bob (Soc) in self/defense. Johnny and Ponyboy both were shocked about this, they didn’t know what to do. So.. They decide to run away, but before doing that, the boys go to Dally’s house to talk to him. They want to try and flee to Windrixville. While the boys are up surviving in Windrixville, they visit a Chruch that was drowning with flames. Both of the boys rush into the church looking for people or children that needed help. As the boys are helping the children, Johnny gets badly injured and Ponyboy gets knocked out.
As Johnny lays In the hospital, between the Socs and the Greasers, there is a deciding rumble.
During the time when Ponyboy and Johnny were in Windrixville, I found a hyperbole “I was dying for a Pepsi.” That shows how thirsty Ponyboy was at the time.
The theme I came up relates to the middle of the story because at the part when Ponyboy and Johnny visit Dally that shows that Dally was there for them, to protect them.

In the very end of the story the deciding rumble takes place. The greasers beat the Socs really bad. Therefore, the Socs leave the Greasers alone and the two gangs make up. While time fly’s, all the boys choose to stand by Jonnhy’s side, praying that he will make it out alive. Shortly after, sadly, Johnny passes away in the hospital, and Dally dies from being shot and chased by the cops.
In Ponyboy’s English class at school, he decides to write a story called ‘The Outsiders’
The mood at the end of this story is ‘sad’. It is sad because there are two deaths that take place of people who really cared about these people.
The theme I came up with relates to the end of the story because in the end when Johnny was in the hospital, Ponyboy and the other boys stood by his side the whole time.

In conclusion, one lesson you should always remember is that you should always be there for your friends and family throughout any situation. These examples I listed that were shown in the story explains why. Family and friends are important.

Introduction to “The Outsiders”

The book I’m reading is “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton. This book takes place in the East side of a poor town in Oklahoma. The story stars in the past somewhere around the 1900s. Ponyboy and his brothers go to highschool

One of the characters in this book (Ponyboy Michael Curtis) is a poor 14 year young boy that is smart, mature, and friendly. He has two brothers named Darry and Sodapop. Darry influences Ponyboy to do his work in school and keep good grades while Ponyboy wishes he looked like Sodapop. Sadly, their parents were killed in a car accident.

Bullying (Rough draft)

Imagine getting tortured everyday…Being thrown around like you’re a left over that nobody wants to eat, or a piece of trash blowing away in the breezy wind. Bullying a rough situation to tolerate but, almost everyone goes through it at least once in their life, experiencing different situations. Going through the same thing over and over and over again repeatedly but, what really is bullying? What does it mean to you?

There are many ways to define bullying but here are a couple definitions.

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance . The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. Bullying is also the use of strength or influence to intimidate someone to force him or her to do what one wants. There are so many stories about people getting bullied, here’s a bullying story that Lauren experienced in the past.
In 4th grade, Lauren “had lots of amazing friends and an awesome teacher.” Her school life had a great start until…A boy that had a little crush on her started bullying her. One day this boy (Jacob) asked Lauren out, she said no because she didn’t feel the same way that Jacob did. That turned out to be a mistake…

After a couple of days, Jacob ended up texting Lauren over phone calling her names saying she’s ugly, has a big nose, making fun of her acne, and her body type (Lauren was very skinny). Lauren was so confused because the other day Jacob liked her. Words hurt. Lauren was hurt, pessimistic. She didn’t know what to say, what to do, or if she should tell anyone. She couldn’t decide on what to do, so she just ignored the messages and continued on with her day.

The next day, at lunch, Lauren worked in the cafeteria serving little kids their lunches, she worked with most of her close friends. Before that, they were able to get there lunches first and save it for later. After recess, it was time to eat! When Lauren got her lunch, she realized her lunch was all ruined. It looked like someone smashed it. Lauren automatically assumed it was an accident, maybe someone tried to move it and it fell. She still ate it anyway.

Everyday at lunch the same thing kept happening, Lauren’s lunches kept getting smashed. She immediately thought “someone has to be doing this with a purpose.” but Lauren had no clue what that purpose could be.

Today, Lauren was going to finally put her foot down, and…

PREGNANT HAMSTER??!!

Early one morning, Kenadie woke up to obnoxious squealing sounds. She thought to herself “what on Earth could that be?” She then got up from bed and investigated on where the sound was coming from. Kenadie looked over at her sisters hamsters cage and saw her hamster GIVING BIRTH! She was intimidated and didn’t know what to do.

Moments later Kenadie decided to call her dad…FINALLY. “DAD, DAD, DAD!” She screamed on the phone. “WHAT WHAT WHAT!” Her dad replied “CHEERIO (the hamster) IS GIVING BIRTH!!” Her father remained silent and out of nowhere started dying laughing. Kenadie shook her head. “Ok I’ll be home soon but, whatever you do, DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING.

Kenadie was still frightened, feeling like a clueless obstetrician on their first delivery. She tried to remain calm throughout the situation and to patiently wait for her dad to arrive home. In the time being, Kenadie observed the hamster cage noticing that there were 3 bald baby hamsters crying out. The hamster out of nowhere shoved one of her babies in her mouth and started eating it. Kenadie started to panic. She decided to take the other baby hamsters out of the cage and wait patiently for her father to get home.

Momentary, her father arrived home. He rushed into Kenadie’s room to investigate what was going on.

After that, everything was fine and we learned to never buy a pet hamster from PetSmart

I am a reader!

The last book I read was Hatchet. What I liked about this book was the story in general, I found it very riveting. The book I chose from the library is called Artichoke’s Heart. I chose this book because it caught my attention when I started reading the first couple of pages. I think this book is going to be about a girl progressing to loose weight because she’s gained a lot of weight in the past year and wants to try and be a healthier size.