I felt the separation from others in 7th grade when I was at a sleepover with one of my best friends and a few others. It started out as a normal sleepover; we all sat on a bed with blankets on the floor and ordered pizza to be delivered, I was having fun. But as the night continued my friend slowly started conversing with the others more than me. They spoke about private matters to such a degree that it was code words as if they did not want me included. I felt like I didn’t belong there, and it made me feel distressed and questioning whether I should even be there at all.…
“A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.” That is the definition of the word community. The Outsiders, a novel by S.E. Hinton, was based on a setting of a divided community consisting of the Socs, the rich Westside kids, and the Greasers, the poorer Eastside kids, usually deemed for trouble. The problem: they can’t put their differences aside, and realize they are both human. They just can’t crack the code on equality.…
The narrator’s presentation of the events is unreliable and uncreditable. This is because, the narrator is unreliable because, he is too unsophisticated. According to the article, “The Outsider”, “I must have lived years in this place, but I cannot measure the time.” This shows that the narrator can’t tell time so, there is no way to no how much time has gone by in any of the events that happens. The narrator says that he can’t remember most of his life.…
Have you ever felt frustrated with yourself because you feel like you do not fit in with the people who surround you? As a child I felt like an outsider from both my friends and family. Growing up I was surrounded by friends who only spoke one language and grew up with the American culture, but in my family I was the only one who did not know how to read and write my first language, Spanish. I always felt different than my peers. I was jealous of the Spanish skills my cousins had just like Malcom X envied Bimbi in, “Homemade Education” for Bimbi’s stock of knowledge.…
The book, The Outsiders, is about a constant battle between a group of west side rich kids, called socs, and east side poor kids, called greasers. The socs are always jumping the greasers and beating them up but they never get caught because they have rich parents and are high up in society. Throughout the book it gives details on the struggles that the kids with no money have to go through every day. It also gives insight into the true motives and feelings of people and how not everything is perfect, even for the people who seem to have it that way This book is told from the view point of a fourteen year old greaser named Ponyboy Curtis.…
Chapter 4 Developing Diversity Consciousness: Stepping Outside of Ourselves Stepping outside of ourselves helps to increase awareness and understanding (Butcher, 2015) reports, that it enables you to see through other’s eyes. Also, he encourages us to put ourselves in other people’s shoes.…
Growing up, I have always been the outsider or someone who observes others doing things. I would gaze near people's directions and their amazing qualities. Whether that individual had a talent or was outgoing, I would be in awe. Sometimes I would feel a tinge of jealousy because I wanted to be one of those people who are productive, active in their community, and talented. Overall, I just wanted to be someone who was confident and talented.…
Reno begins the discussion of Stranger in a Strange Land by explaining how Heinlein was able to develop the material for the novel through the already present concepts in the 1950s. However, not only does Heinlein use the 1950’s social culture as inspiration for sexual exploitation of female characters, but Heinlein also uses inspiration from the Whorfian hypothesis in order to develop Smith’s Martian background. Reno states that the Whorfian hypothesis is the basic idea that people see the world personally because of each person’s difference in language and background. For example, in Stranger in a Strange Land, the character of Mahmond, as Reno mentions, has a different way of thinking due to having grown up already knowing a foreign language…
The credibility of the narrator in The Outsider is not that reliable. The narrator may be telling his “truth” but that doesn’t mean he’s completely right. His mindset to unsophisticated for him to understand what is actually happening around him. Even if you understood the narrator that wouldn’t Change the amount of suspense. The suspense is created by his vivid descriptions of his surroundings/sights and sounds that are all around the castle.…
The title “The Outsiders” in itself describes the overall them of the story, as the characters involved feel as outsiders in society. When one looks at life as an outsider and feels as though one is being treated as an outsider, creates a perspective that makes one feel that life is unfair. During the dramatic and deeply confusing time of adolescence in life, teenagers often consider themselves to know the way of the world, yet find themselves still under the control of others, which creates tension and disillusion with society. Authority figures such as teachers and parents telling them how to live their lives creates a feeling of powerlessness. This loss of control inevitably leads to the feeling that life is unjust.…
Traditions around the world differ and ways in which another society operates often seem strange to others. As an International and someone from a different culture I have experienced alot of strange things in the United States society. Also I have experienced some strange things in my country. Comparing the U.S society to other countries I have visited around the globe I found the U.S society strange because they do everything different.…
To me Jhumpa Lahiri’s story about her struggle to mingle into American society, coming from an Indian background, is very much similar. To really experience and to get know what she felt like one should really have been through that and been to places where no one is concerned about your existence. Well, if you ask me, I have been through it many times and every time I got into that situation, it felt like I was doomed and was on the cusp of choking myself for some reason. I bet, growing up, everyone has witnessed something like this at least once. It is really hard especially if you’re an outsider because people often tend to alienate you.…
Most people don’t truly understand the misunderstood. Being misunderstood is hard because most people will “judge a book by its cover”. In other words, they really don’t know much about the person before they make a judgement on them. This is hard because everybody does it. Everybody is misunderstood in one way or another, but you may not know it.…
Results Four themes were identified from the current study 1) the language and communication barrier; 2) Time restriction; 3) Addressing social isolation; and 4) adapt with social support. The Language and Communication Barrier All the participants mentioned inadequate language skills impede their communication with the Americans and their participation in all activities that require communication with English. When they’re talking about poor English, they refer to their speaking and listening English skills. Most of them have no problem in reading and writing.…
Every person around the world is living within the presence of a culture. This culture may be American culture or it could be youth, Latino, or even college culture. Whatever it is, culture is everywhere and it is what makes every person unique and original. When people begin to go outside of their culture into new and foreign lands, they often times find themselves feeling awkward because they are unsure of the culture around them. In my life that happened to me when I visited the International Holiday Folk Fair in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.…