The Outsiders Who are the outsiders? In Tulsa, Oklahoma a 17 year old high school student named S.E. Hinton wrote the book called “ The Outsiders”. The book tells the story of two groups of teenagers : the greasers and the soc. (Doc. A)…
In the stories The Circuit and The Interlopers, many similarities are shown and characters Ulrich and the girl from “The Circuit” gone through life changing experiences during the time of the story. In “The Circuit” the girl moves from her home into a new town, she didn't know anyone at her new school but she eventually begins to have a relationship with her teacher, Mr. Lema. Since her english was poor, she decided to ask for help from her teacher every lunch period and enjoyed that but one day after getting home she found all her and her family’s belongings packed in boxes which she was moving again. In the story “The Interlopers”, one of the characters named Ulrich was out hunting around his land when he approached a familiar face, it was a man named Georg Znaewym and he was a lifelong foe of Ulrich because of their family fued between their land.…
One day there was a girl named Belle, and she loved to read and always love taking selfies. The same day she came out her house and heard it was dance mob and everybody was doing the whip and nae nae. Then while she was walking she sees a man named Xavier, the selfish, bodybuilder that always drinks a lot of ale. Then his sidekick Josh, who does everything for him, and looks up to him starts making fun of Belle’s father. While Xavier tells Belle bad things about her father and his inventions, Belle immediately stands up for her dad.…
The Tell-Tale Heart is a story written by Edgar Allen Poe and is a story which I’m pretty sure, much like many other mandatory school readings like Shakespeare and Thatcher, that many of you have read and most of you have forgotten, myself included. To recap the tale, and summarize for those of you who actually haven’t read it, the Tell-Tale Heart follows the story of a man who tries his best to convince us he is not crazy whilst he plots to murder someone for the sole reason that one specific detail of the man displeases him. The story literally opens up with the man asking us if we will think him mad once the story is over, in fact it references a disease afflicting the man himself clueing us in that this man might be an unreliable narrator. The written language of the text definitely harkens back to around the 1800s with specific mention going to the placement of words in sentences and the significance of certain aspects of the Christian mythos, which was quite popular back then.…
Thesis: While homes have sentimental value that can’t be replaced, people find ways to create new homes because they’ve lost touch with their past homes, have their homes destroyed and taken away, or must adjust to their surroundings and create new homes. Paragraph 1: Losing the connection to your past home is a recurring theme in both Khaled Hosseini 's The Kite Runner and Ernest Hemingway’s A Soldier’s Home. Both of these texts have significant events, both being war, that draws the main character away from the home they were once attached to.…
The topic of revenge is portrayed over and over in countless works of literature. Revenge is portrayed in the Shakespearean play, Macbeth, as well as in the novel, “Of Mice and Men” which was written by John Steinbeck. In the play Macbeth, revenge is seen throughout the whole text. Revenge is one of the major themes in this play seeing as there are various parts with this topic laced throughout it. The reason why there are countless killings in this play is because when someone sees blood, they automatically want more which is why the vicious cycle of revenge never ends in this Shakespearean play.…
The Interlopers is a short story where two families’ rivalry pits them against each other. Towards the end of the story, it takes much longer for one of the characters to forgive another and once he does finally forgive the man, they both die. If the other man would have forgiven him earlier, they could have escaped their problem together and survived. The ideal theme the reader would get from The Interlopers is also the same they would get from the poem, “Forgiveness”, by Alfred Austin. Both of these give you the same theme but on opposite ends.…
“Battle Royal” is a short story written by Ralph Ellison in 1952. He was born in Oklahoma City. After the death of his father when he was three years old, his mother started to work as a servant. His mother used to bring him books and phonograph records from the house where she worked. Because of that he got interest in literature and music.…
Humans are naturally selfish, even over meaningless possession. It is normal for us to mark our worth by our property. Many of our materialistic goods may be useless, but our status is determined by those very goods. We desire to have more than others, to be better than others. In The Interlopers, we see Saki weaving this concept with Ulrich and Georg.…
The most fantastic aspect of the human mind is its ability to retain memories, but it comes at a cost. Humans are blessed everyday with the warmth, joy, and nostalgia of pleasant memories and cursed with regret and shame from the upsetting ones. Humans’ inability to cope with the ramifications of these memories often lead them down a destructive path of correcting past wrongs. Olive Senior’s “The Pain Tree” handles the theme of coping with the past through the protagonist, Lorraine, who in a building fit of rage tries to rewrite history. In “The Pain Tree,” Senior uses the destruction scene of Larissa’s room to show that the actions of the present can only change the perception one’s perception of a memory and not the effects of the memory itself.…
Breaking Home Ties Critical Analysis Breaking Home Ties is one of many paintings by Norman Rockwell. It was created in 1954 and since then has been a well known painting to artists and art critics. The detail in the scene and expression on the two men’s faces make this picture a true masterpiece. With the expressions on the characters, one can clearly tell there is a story behind this one framed moment.…
Tom And Houck The setting of the movie of Houck and Tom is in a town. Tom and Houck is a movie that happened in past tense, because there are multiple old fashioned ways to solve disputes. Tom is the main character that lives a normal life till he meets Houck and the makes one of the hardest decisions.…
“Barn Burning” Formalist Approach “Barn Burning” is a short story about a young boy who struggles between his loyalty to his family and the moral obligation he feels to tell on his father for burning barns. William Faulkner used many literary elements along with organization of events in the story to convey the theme of doing right from wrong to the reader. These elements work together to form a plot that enables the reader to grasp the meaning of “Barn Burning”. Faulkner used imagery, symbolism, irony, a child and adult relationship, and point of view to get the theme across to the reader that choosing right from wrong can be a struggle, but it will pay off in the end.…
Saki’s novella, “The Interlopers”, explores the intricacies of friendship and rivalry. The story takes place in a European forest one night during the winter. The setting of the story is analogous to the plot; the trees have to bind together for warmth to brave the fierce winter, the same way Ulrich and George have to work together to survive. The exposition does a wonderful job of building suspense by telling of the feud between the two families.…
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.…