Howard Frank Mosher was an American writer that wrote literary fiction set in the North East. Mosher was born in Kingston, New York to Helen Emily Trapp and Howard H. Mosher. He referred to his hometown as a ghost town, a dying mill town where he spent most of his happy memories secluded behind his house catching trout from as early as four years. His father was a schoolteacher with wanderlust who moved the family more than ten times before Howard joined high school. However, the moving around had one silver lining as if they had never moved so much he would never have met his future wife in Cato, New York.…
In the novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, Ponyboy Curtis is the narrator who experiences many life changing events. He is kind, quiet, stubborn, bold, and absentminded throughout the book. He shows these traits when being respectful to Cherry, keeping his mouth shut, refusing to stay out of a fight, and going straight into a burning church to save some kids. He is one of the major characters introduced in this novel and is a protagonist as well. He is a very well described character and changes throughout the book, classifying him as dynamic.…
In modern day Latin America people struggle for even the most basic of human needs such as water, sanitation, and food. Governments in many countries do little to help lift the people out of poverty and give way to a higher quality of life for the poor while letting companies with vast resources come into their country, take their resources, and in return do little other than pay a meager wage to those who labor for these companies. The systems that are put in place by forced democracy are meant to keep separation between the rich and the poor. Three movies that depict how these systems work, or don’t work, are City of God, Even the Rain, and Trinkets and Beads. These movies have commonalities that the people of Latin America deal with day to day like loyalty, poverty, drug trafficking, slums, and exploitation of the indigenous people.…
Saki, the author of the short story, “The Interlopers,” tells the story of a feud between two, blood thirsty landowners. His purpose was to demonstrate that because the landowners were so concerned with being more powerful, they did not see the dangers at hand. He uses the setting, theme, tone, and syntax to show the motif of power to his adult readers. Saki utilizes the setting of his short story to disclose the theme of man over man. The land that the two main characters, Ulrich and Georg, were battling over, “was not remarkable for the game it harbored or the shooting it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all the owners.”…
A very interesting and important character from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders is Sodapop Curtis. Soda Curtis is a teenage hoodlum and Ponyboy’s, the narrator's, older brother. Soda is the middle child in a family of three boys. His parents died in a car wreck causing him and his older brother Darry to obtain jobs in order for the three of them to survive.…
Well, this book is all about the Outsiders and if you don´t know what an Outsider is then I´ll be glad to tell you. An outsider is basically a person who doesn´t belong to a particular group. I think outsiders are strangers if I do say so myself; is that what you think? This book is written by (S.E. Hinton) and the main character of the book is Ponyboy. Ponyboy is a part of the greasers which the greasers are a gang and everyone in the greasers are outsiders.…
Legend has it the Nazca lines Monkey was brought to you because of the one and only... Aliens. Rumor has it that the Nazca Lines were brought to us out of revenge. The monkey was said to be a horrible creature. This creature was brought to earth because there may have been a fight between the supernatural and the humans.…
I’ve read a lot of books with heroes in them, but in The Outsiders, almost every character is a hero. This story is about a gang called the greasers. All the greasers could be considered a hero. My definition of a hero is a dependable, caring, and unselfish person. One character in this book fits my definition of a hero perfectly.…
The book we read was named The Outsiders, we also watched the movie. The Outsiders is about a gang with an interesting group of guys and these guys are known for greasers. I had to find out the differences between the book and the movie. There is not a lot of big things that are different do I had to search for the little things that wouldn't stand out so much. I did find a couple so I will talk about them in the next paragraph.…
The message that S.E. Hinton was trying to tell readers through the book The Outsiders is that one should not judge a book by its cover. An example of this would be how Ponyboy thought that all Socs are bad because they were Socs. But once Ponyboy got to know Cherry and Randy, he realized that they weren’t the violent, snobbish, rich kids that many people he thought that they were. Ponyboy didn’t get to know those two until later on in the book so throughout the book, he had a distorted vision that all Socs had a perfect life so he always hated the Socs for having everything that he wished that he had. After he met them and got to talk to them, he saw a side to the Socs that no one had seen before.…
The greatest injustice in The Stranger is Marie to be in love with a man who does not love her back and literally loses his head by the end of the story. We begin to see the relationship take shape right after the funeral. They go swimming together and he notices that, “She laughed the whole time.”(20) And she did that throughout the entire book whenever they were together. For instance, on another occasion they were at Meursault’s home having lunch, she laughed.…
After reading Into the Wild chapters 12 13 and 14, I had a lot of thoughts about the family background and why Chris would discard everything and get into the depths of the wilderness and start his own wild life without any hesitation. Chris’s inharmonious relationship with his parents, especially with his father, was one of the main causes that drove him away to the deserted, frigid Alaskan wild. Chris’s unquenchable anger towards his father was normal, however, unjustified. He would never be able to understand the unbearable pain of parents who outlive their child. The similar experience of taking adventure of Mr. Krakauer, the author, also revealed some of the impulsive thoughts of young people that Chris also had.…
For my film analysis, I chose to analyze the movie “The Outsiders” directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on the novel “The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton. In this movie, a gang of outcasts from the north side of town called the Greasers are always fighting against a rival group called the Socials, who are the rich jocks from the south side of town. The story follows two young Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, who aren’t like the others. These two see that fighting is pointless, but it’s just the way they live their life. The two boys get into a fight with some Socials and end up killing one.…
Eric benscoter Book Report / Essay The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by mark haddon and Enclave by Ann Aguirre a common theme in the two books, The theme in the two books Is doing the right the right thing. But that is not the only theme in the two books A couple examples are Isolation and fear. But the most common theme is Doing the wright thing and this was shown in both books.…
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.…