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Fall In Love One Of The Girls
1,521 words"Among adolescents, so-called 'body talk' can be a major topic of discussion. This is the time when the body arrives to greet its owner, and how to respond with its obvious significance. With ease and enjoyment? With fear and constraint? With abandon, if not reckless abandon?" Robert Coles, (Coles 159). When adolescence occurs in the typical teenager, one of the major transitions in human life occurs. The body of a teenager becomes the body of an adult. This metamorphosis that occurs leaves the ...
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S E Hinton E Hinton Hes
487 wordsThe novel I read was The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton. My copy of The Outsiders was published in 1997, but the original was first published in 1967, both by Viking Penguin. S. E. Hinton wrote this novel when she was just sixteen in the 1950 s. The times are different, so some thing were a little confusing, but overall the book was written well. The story takes place in a city in Oklahoma in the 1950 s. The storys main character is a boy by the name of Ponyboy who is fourteen years old. He is sensit...
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Lead To Death Gang Life
598 wordsGang Life In life, teenagers and adults join gangs for difficulties in their life. They feel that they need a group of people to understand and support them through the rough stage of their life. In the novel, The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton Ponyboy is a fourteen-year-old boy who is a part of the gang called the greasers. His whole remaining family are greasers. Gang life can lead to death and trouble. In The Outsiders, Ponyboy is in a gang with all of the people he grew up with in the neighborho...
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Bob And Randy Curtis To The Stand Pony
573 wordsThe following is a transcript of the recent hearing of the L: Randy were you there the night of Bobs death? L: What happened that night and how did it happen? R: Well it all started when we all saw the two Greasers (Pony and Johnny) in the park. We were completely drunk and had no idea what we were doing so I guess we all just wanted to beat the two of them up, no really big reason it is just that the we hate the Greasers and the Greasers hate us. So we got out of the car and started to gang bea...
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Place In The 50 Relate To Mark Bryon
948 words1. In the story That Was Then, This is Now, the main character was a 16 year old boy named Bryon. Being 16 and living in the 50 s would obviously give anyone a very trendy look. You could either be a Greaser or a SOC. In the novel, Bryon was a greaser. He always wore things such as jeans, and Tee Shirts. With his brown hair, and blue eyes Bryon had his share of girlfriends. Bryon didnt have the same personality as most of the other greasers, he was nice, and more mature. Even though he still had...
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S E Hinton Side Of Town
823 wordsI read The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, who at age 16 wrote this book. The book contains 156 very well written pages. The book would probably be placed in the adventure category. The book was written on things that S. E. Hinton experience in her life as a teenager. Almost everything that occurs in this book happened to S. E. as a kid. Let me tell you a little more about this book. In this book the narrator is a boy named Ponyboy. Ponyboy is a fourteen year old living at home with his 2 older broth...
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Ponyboy And Johnny One Of The Socs Gang
411 wordsAuthor: S. E Hinton Publishing Company: Puffin books Copyright Date: 1967 Number of Pages: 180 Price: $ 5. 99 ISBN: 0 - 14 - 038572 -X In a small town a gang made up of seven people are called Greasers. Ponyboy, the main character in this story is different from the others in his gang. Ponyboy's brothers, Garry and Sodapop, support their family because their parents died in a car accident when Ponyboy was very young. The Greasers are at a constant war with the Socs, or the Socials, the richer we...
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S E Hinton Easy To Understand
1,016 wordsThe year is 1966 and if you were a kid growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. You belonged to one of two groups, you were either a soc or a greaser. 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. Always at each other's throats, the two warring groups fight to save face and prove themselves. The Outsiders is the story of two of the Greasers who come to realize that...
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Greasers Hurry To Find Ponyboy And Johnny Dally
983 wordsThe main character, Ponyboy he is a greaser, part of the lowest-class kids who wear their hair long and greasy, wear blue jeans and ripped-up T-shirts. There is another group of kids called the Socs. They were the preppy kids, the rich ones, the goody-two-shoes. The Greasers and the Socs do not get along and have their daily brawls in the street. One day, as Ponyboy is walking home from a movie, he is jumped and beaten by a gang of Socs. At the last minute, his gang of greasers -- including his ...
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Desperate Act Stay Gold Home
936 wordsThere were all kind of feelings going trough my mind as read the S. E. Hinton novel The Outsiders. Envy, love, roughness, strength, happiness... which leads me to think of this novel as a dramatic humorist nonfiction story that represents the reality that a society in every place in earth has to face with. There are always to sides: the good ones and the bad ones. Obviously it is not possible to define each one because there are different ways of setting a preference for who is the good or the b...
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People Of The Town Richard Cory
687 wordsAlienation is a feeling of separation which can be felt in many different forms, whether it be socially, culturally, or by self estrangement. In the works of The Outsiders, "Richard Cory, " and "Miracle Boy, " alienation is the main theme. In each of the works, there was an outsider or a group of outsiders. An outsider is someone living in a way in which society believes is different. In the movie, The Outsiders, there was a strong dislike of the group called the Greasers. They weren't as rich a...
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Argyle Sweater Vests Barbie Like Figure Style
1,714 wordsAmerican fashion in the 1950 s Fashion is a significant aspect in peoples lives, and is influenced by various parts of society. Mostly there are useful reasons behind certain fashion trends, but there are some trends that have no evident origin or purpose. It was different in the USA, where wartime restrictions had been quickly removed, and where the new consumer society was forging ahead helped by new developments such as the start of the credit card system in 1950. But these differing conditio...
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Member Of The Greasers Ponyboy Curtis Johnny
972 wordsBook Report On The Outsiders Author: S. E. Hinton Character Analysis: Ponyboy Curtis Ponyboy is a fourteen-year-old member of a gang called the Greasers. His parents died in a car accident, so he lives alone with his two older brothers, Darry and Soda. He is a good student and athlete, but most people at school consider him a vagrant like his Greaser friends. Sodapop Curtis Soda is Pony's handsome, charming older brother. He dropped out of school to work at a gas station, and does not share his ...
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Teens Are Represented Save The Kids Movie
407 wordsThe Outsiders The Outsiders is a movie about teenagers who Are always facing conflicts around themselves. The teens are represented in many different ways throughout the movie. There will be many questions asked like are these teens realistically portrayed, Are they like any other teen you know, and is it worth doing what these teens do throughout the movie? The teens are represented good and bad. They are represented good when they are hiding out at the church, there is a fire in the church wit...
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Ponyboy Sup 1 Ponyboy Sup 1 Socs
533 wordsThe Outsiders, an enthralling tale by S. E. Hinton, is an excellent story about the hardships and triumphs experienced by the Greasers and the Socs, two rival gangs. This novel suggests the stories&sup 1; content because the Greasers are a gang of social outcasts and misfits. This novel&sup 1; s theme is very specific; people, no matter what their social background, strive for the same goals and experience the same disappointments. This novel shows this theme throughout a detailed story line. Th...
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Bright Future Aren T
622 words1. If I could be any one of the characters in the book The Outsiders, I would be Ponyboy because of his many good characteristics. He is intelligent which show by his good marks in school. He understands that it? s wrong to fight unless for self-defense. He is heroic; this shows by the fact that he ran into the burning church to save the children at the risk of his own life. Also, he has a bright future and many opportunities in his life because of his school grades and good-natured personality....
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Side Of Town Social Class
1,798 wordsThe Outsiders By: The Outsiders Summary The Outsiders By: S. E. Hinton This story is about a young boy of 14 named Ponyboy. He is part of a hood group called Greasers on the east side of town, a group of lower-class teenagers who wear their hair long and greasy, wear jeans and ripped-up T-shirts, and are at odds with the rich-kid bullies known as the Socs. This group of hoods are born into rich families from the west side of town, are of a high social class, drive around in Mustangs and Corvairs...
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