Character Analysis: Alice In Wonderland By Lewis Carroll

In one of Lewis Carroll’s books “Alice in Wonderland” a character in his book says,“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. This quote means each time you make a choice you are going down a path and it’s your choice on which path you want to take. You decide how much you want to grow from now. This quote relates to the novel “outsiders” because the people in outsiders made their own choices, they decided how much they wanted to grow from now. I think the message S.E Hinton was trying to tell us is don’t judge right away because you might not know what they have witnessed, and who they really are. I Believe this because of the different groups in the book. Rather than being friends, they stereotyped each other and had bloody fights with weapons, and brutal fights hurling punches at each other time and time again. This happens everyday throughout the world which is what S.E. Hinton is saying. At one time in outsiders Ponyboy talks to a soc and he thinks, …show more content…
Johnny made this choice because, the socs got hold of Ponyboy and started drowning him. The choice he made resulted in Johnny and Ponyboy running away from their area. In the book Johnny says,‘I killed him,’ he said slowly. ‘I killed that boy.’ Bob, the handsome soc, was lying there in the moonlight, doubled up and still.”(56) For this choice, horrible consequences grabbed hold of Johnny. Not only did run away, but him killing Bob changed the way he saw himself. Like the cat in “Alice in Wonderland” said, the road you take is up to you. The consequences can be big or small. Even though Johnny killed Bob, Ponyboy ran away with him which affected him. Johnny says in the book after the scene,‘We gotta get outta here. Get somewhere. Run away. The police’ll be here soon. (57)” This part displays the consequences of his