Out Of The Dust Comparison

Obstacles, we all have faced them and we all have overcome. In both of the realistic fiction books, The Outsiders and Out of the Dust ,written by S.E. Hinton and Karen Hesse there are characters who go through mourning for family members. Ponyboy Curtis lives with his brother Darry, in oklahoma and is caught between a gang war in the late 1960’s. Billie Jo from Out of the Dust is a young girl who has found herself in the middle of the dust bowl with her family who owns a farm in the panhandle of Oklahoma in the 1930’s and her father tries to grow wheat but is unsuccessful due to the animals and the weather. Billie Jo’s father owns a farm and wanted a boy hence the name Billie Jo and that she looks very similar to her father, her mother also lives on the farm and is pregnant with her little brother Franklin. One day there was a horrible accident that injured both Billie Jo and her pregnant mother. Ponyboy Curtis is a teenager from Oklahoma whose parents died when he was a young age. Pony Boy lives wmentally brother who isn't really able to but does anyway. In both of the books one of the protagonists had to face the barrier of a close one's death. In peice of …show more content…
Mrs.Kelby was making coffee and Mr.Kelby put a pail of kerosene next to her and she thought it was water so she poured it in and it caught on fire and she was severely burnt all over her body. Billie Jo on the other had only got burns on her hands. Also Billie Jo describes the torture she has been going through,”Billie Jo threw the pail”(Hesse 71). After the accident Billie Jo was accused of killing her mother and not it being an accident.The result of overcoming the obstacle was she was able to have fun again. After Billie forgave herself she was able to play piano and enjoy her dad with his new girlfriend. In Out of the Dust, Billie Jo lost her mother and was able to get over it and enjoy life