Carleton S. Coon

In almost every situation, there is an unavoidable problem: being labeled into groups. Through S.E. Hinton’s high school life, she realized how social groups shaped everyone’s life, and she loathed it. The Outsiders is based off real events that take place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, S.E. Hinton’s hometown. The novel is based off two separate groups, the Greasers and the Socs. The plot is powerful and exhilarating, but it’s difficult to identify the true outsiders of the story. Even though both the…

In T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” Eliot details and laments about the meaninglessness pitiful existence of men, whom he describes as hollow, and the overall decline of contemporary society. The characterization of the hollow men perfectly fits many of the characters who exist in the world of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Indeed, both authors explore the innate emptiness of human life and the ignorance of humanity to its emptiness throughout their literary pieces. Such ignorance causes…

Honor Among the Unruly What is honor? Honor means sticking to what is right or having a code of conduct. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, is a book that displays that maybe there is honor among those who don’t follow laws or rules. The Greasers are a gang of brothers who rivals with the Socs, the rich gang. They go through some obstacles throughout the book and while they do, they show honor to each other. There is honor among the lawless because the Greasers show bravery, protectiveness, and they…

best known work” and also he was become an internationally known because of his firs nonfiction novel Hell’s Angels: The strange and Terrible saga of the outlaw Motorcycle Ganges. As Jerome Klinkowit wrote “For all of the charges against him, Hunter S…

actual monument is an “American” type steam locomotive engine named the “General.” The engine operated on the Western Atlantic Railroad line and serviced both freight and travel between Atlanta, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee. According to Russell S. Bonds in Stealing the General, “Chattanooga was an important rail junction that controlled food and supplies coming from the dep south headed to the confederate armies in Virginia.” The engine was built by the Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor…

T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1917) is a poem that uncovers a man, named Alfred Prufrock, who not only has an unproductive and bleak life, but also has a lack of willpower and boldness to change that life. The poem is not entirely about love, it is a collection of the fragmented thoughts of a man with very low self-esteem and his inability to express his love to the woman the poem is addressed to. The poem is basically about this older man, Prufrock, who is distressed by…

Ponyboy Curtis, a member of a gang called the “Greasers”, is leaving a movie theater when groups of “Socs”, the Greasers’ rival gang, jump him. His older brothers—Darrel and Sodapop—and several members of their gang rescue him. The next night, Ponyboy and his Greaser friends Dallas and Johnny meet Socs, Cherry Valance and Marcia, at a drive-in movie theatre. Ponyboy realizes that Cherry is nothing like the Socs he has met before. Afterward, Two-Bit Matthews, another gang member, Ponyboy, and…

Retell The book starts off with us meeting Ponyboy Curtis, he comes out from a movie theater and is walking home when he gets attacked by socs. The socs give him a cut on his neck, but luckily he was near his home and he gets saved by his family. He lives with his 2 brothers Darry and Sodapop. The boys have recently lost their parents to a car accident, so they live together on the east side of their town. In the town that they live in the people are divided into two groups, the socs, and the…

T.S Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” theme is centered around a man who died an unfulfilled life. “And will it have been worth it, after all?” This statement poses the dilemma for the man in the poem, will the choices he made as a preadolescent up to being an old man have been worth it. From passing women to cheap one night hotels, “And will it have been worth it, after all?” T.S Eliot uses a lot of imagery and metaphors in order to write “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”…

Author S.E. Hinton got the idea for the book, The Outsiders, when she was mad about the little situations going about her high school. Everyone would be in their own little groups and wouldn’t be friends with anyone but the group. Since she has written the book on these problems, Hinton has sold over 14 million copies and it has been made into a movie. In the book, there were many details on what Ponyboy, the main character, was thinking. It was more of what he was thinking than dialogue.…