The four sub schools, Social Learning Theory, Social Control Theory, and Dramaturgy can be used to understand a criminals behavior. In 1983 film, The Outsiders, examples of all four sub schools can be interpreted. The Outsiders is a movie about a group of teen boys who consider themselves to be "Greasers" the boys misbehave, have knife fights, and commit crimes. Out of all the boys, Dallas Winston, is the boldest.…
Fire in a Canebrake Review After the ratification of the thirteen amendment on December 6, 1865, race problems were over in America? Obviously not, even though you hear people in 2015 say it was. Some people do not like discussing the complications of the past. That’s why Laura Wexler was told not to write the “Fire in the Canebrake,” in fear of sparking racial division. Wexler ignored the pessimists and went on to write the Fire in Canebrake.…
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.…
He leaves the city to search for Mr. E and put him to justice. After a couple fails he comes out of hiding and meets his step dad Rick Elliott who also happens to be a cop. His step dad acts like he was on Steve’s side but then betrays him. He then steals his Rick’s car and drives to his school. On the way he meets Ms. Gilfeather his teacher.…
“Dally raised the gun... I thought: you blasted fool. They don’t know your only bluffing... the policemen’s guns spit fire into the night I knew that was what dally wanted.” (PG.…
Even if Dally was a high standing person in the gang, he committed terrible acts in the past but was still a sympathetic character. Not only was he high standing, but he always somehow found his way into trouble. In the beginning, Ponyboy is talking about Dally's past right after a bunch of Socs jumped him." He had been arrested, he got drunk, rode rodeos, lied, cheated, rolled drunks, jumped small kids- he did everything.…
In the novel The Outsiders, the main character, Ponyboy lives with his two older brothers: Sodapop and Darry. If you’ve read the book, Soda and Darry might seem like polar opposites, but they do, in fact, share many common characteristics. Sodapop and Darry. Yin and Yang. Fire and Ice.…
Hard yet Caring Have you ever thought of someone as being hard and caring at the same time? The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about the Greasers not getting along with Socs because of the stereotyping they do against each other. They live in Oklahoma, the Socs live on the West side and the Greasers live on the East side. One character that stands out in the story is Dally because he is the only person in this book to be hard and soft at the same time.…
Ponyboy Curtis is the main character in S.E. Hinton’s popular novel, The Outsiders. After Ponyboy’s parents tragically died in a car accident, he is left to live with his older brothers Darry and Sodapop. The three brothers are part of the Greaser gang. Greasers are looked at as ‘hoodlums,’ mostly by their rival gang: the Socs. After the Socs cause the gang lots of trouble and even a couple of deaths, Ponyboy's strength is really put to the test.…
What if the ending of The Outsiders was changed and Dallas, Ponyboy, and Johnny had not snuck in the drive-thru theater? Well for starters, they would not have met Sherry Valance or better known by her red hair as Cherry Valance and her friend Marcia. By not meeting them Bob and Randy would not have shown up in their blue Mustang and jumped Ponyboy and…
Bob, Randy, and other Socs show up and start drowning Pony in the fountain. Johnny stabs and kills Bob to save Pony. Ponyboy and Johnny go to Dally for help. He gives them some money and a gun and tells them to get on a train to Windrixville and hide out in a deserted church. Ponyboy and Johnny stay at the church for about a week.…
“There’s still a lot of good left in the world. Tell Dally. I don’t think he knows.” The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a book about two gangs called the Socs and Greasers that live in Oklahoma, they are always fighting with each other and one fight gets taken too far. Inside the book it shows the madness and how a few characters develop and adapt to what they are surrounded by.…
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…
Ponyboy was describing all the characters. This show how violent Dally is. Here is another quote about his weakness. “Dally swore at me clubbed me across the back as hard as he could and I went down into a peaceful darkness.” Dally, Ponyboy, and Johnny, were saving kids from the fire, then Dally told him to get out, then pushed PonyBoy across the head for not listening.…
Take the novel Mrs. Dalloway, while the ending is more precise than say Larsen’s Passing, there is still a question of what is to come. After the death of Septimus, Clarissa begins musing about him. “She felt somehow very like him… She felt glad that he had done it… He made her feel the beauty,” and then at the very end of the book, “What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement?…