“Maybe the two different worlds we live in aren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.” (Hinton 41) In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy is the main character. Even though Ponyboy shows many signs of a possibility of being a Soc, he is apart of the poorer class, the greasers.…
James Bulger, the Merseyside toddler whose mutilated body was found on a railway line at Walton Liverpool, in February, was violently attacked with bricks, stones, and a piece of metal by two 10-year-old boys who abducted him from a shopping center at Bootle and took him on a two-mile walk to his death, a jury found at Preston Crown court today. James, aged two, died from multiple injuries to the head said Richard Henriques, QC, prosecuting. His body was then placed on the railway track and was cut in two by a train; according to a pathologist's evidence, the toddler was dead before he was hit by the train.…
n in Flint Michigan they are a black family. Kenny the middle brother he is the narrator in the story The Watsons go to Birmingham. There is five people living in his family in flint Michigan. Kenny had a rough The book the Watsons go to Birmingham is a family that lives childhood because of people making fun of him at school. Kenny goes to school at Clark elementary there is a kid there that bullies him all of the time his teachers say he is a smart kid people make fun of him because he looks cross eyed every which way he looks.…
1. Describe the Initiate's life before the Call Before the Call, the initiate, Ponyboy, is a 14 year old boy who lives with his two brothers Sodapop and Darry. He lives in a society where the population is separated into two different gangs : the Socs (the rich kids from the West-side) and the Greasers (the kids from the East-side). The Socs are a very brutal gang that enjoy bullying and attaking the Greasers : "Not like the Socs [..] for kicks" (page 3). 2.…
Ponyboy is at the risk of getting killed, arrested, and hurt while he is with Darry. Ponyboy should be put in the system because there he would have a less risk of getting jailed, lung cancer, fighting, and so much more. With Ponyboy going to the system he will have better health and he will have a lower chance of getting lung cancer. People would stay with Darry but that is not such a great idea. If he stays with him Ponyboy will be at bigger risk of getting jailed, getting in fights, and he won’t have as big of a chance of getting brain damage.…
The author shows many character traits to describe Vinny and Joe-Boy. For example both boys are the same age, and both in the story “The Ravine”. When you compare the two boys in the story “The Ravine” you can definitely see the differences. Joe-Boy is daring, he jumps a 50 foot cliff “man style.” Vinny said, on “page 10”, he been there before and could not make it the cliff it made him dizzy.…
Search Warrants It is Saturday and like every other Saturday night you are stuck in the house since your friends failed to invite you to do any activities. You decided to be a little spontaneous and text a couple of your friends along with your local drug dealer. After begging your parents to let you borrow the car you then pick up the weed, and then a couple of you and closest friends all decide to go out to a party. Before you all walk into the house you put the car in park and decide to roll up the weed with intentions of smoking it before you all walk into the party.…
After reading the whole book it made me sad. Everything that John Grady Cole goes through and that he ends up with nothing. He left home as a young boy but he came home a man. With everything he went through he had no past experiences with being on his own and all the world has to offer. I picked this book because when I got this assignment I researched a few of the books and read the description of them, and All The Pretty Horses stuck out to be the most interesting to me.…
So Dorothy being the wife of a strong black man knew that his mind was made up there was no arguing. All three of the children started yelling the sign says we are in New York. Alvin Sr. chuckles and says yes we are here .Dorothy looking at her husband with concern says it’s a busy place people are everywhere moving around like it is morning when its well past one in the morning where could they be going and doing this late. Alvin Sr. looks at her and says baby we in the city life now no one ever sleeps.…
“So what did you do before you wanted to travel the world?” ask Potato Creek Johnny. “Well I was a trapper looking for a river that they said the river was full of beaver you’ll get so much your donkey couldn’t pull it a round. “Well is getting dark i’m going to hit the hay” ,said potato creek johnny.…
They have to go into hiding, and while in hiding, end up saving the lives of some young kids in a fire. The youngest boy, Johnny, gets messed up pretty…
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.…
Arkansas,a place where everyone can go for summer fun and relaxation. In the summer of 2013 Alexis Charlton and her family went boating in Arkansas for three days. Alexis and her family went to Arkansas because her grandparents own a house on the lake. Alexis first had to drive for nine hours in a car with her siblings,Carraghan and Brett,and her parents. During the long drive her parents stopped at six flags to ride different carnival rides.…
I Bailey Jaggers was at the hospital with my dad, who had been shot, when I met Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry Curtis. They were greasers just like me, and they happened to live right up the street from my house. They were there to see two of their friends, Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston, who had been injured in a fire. My dad is doing really bad and I don’t know how to deal with stuff like this. “I have a son of my own,” I tell the brothers, “ his name is Roman and my wife’s name is Kiana.”…
The relationship between Ponyboy and Johnny is speechless. The fact that they are that close to each other describes it all. In the beginning of the novel, I would describe the friendship of Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade as, “ together, courage, and faith in each other.”…