George S. Patton

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.…

Romeo & Juliet, West Side Story, and The Outsiders all share the same basic themes. One theme that stands out the most is the feuding that takes place between the two groups. In The Outsiders, the Socs and the Greasers are always fighting. Romeo & Juliet has the Montagues and the Capulets and West Side Story has the Jets and the Sharks. In the stories, these groups fight to see who is better and there always is some conflict between them. As you can see, feuds exist between two groups in all of…

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…

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a very different book. This is because it is written from an “outsider’s” perspective. However, we didn’t get to see much of the Soc’s point of view. Cherry says in the book that life for an “insider” isn’t as great as it looks to the Greasers. Bob As the gang and I were racing down the street in my blue Mustang, I violently jerked the steering wheel away from a mailbox. I knew we shouldn’t be driving this drunk, but we didn’t care. It was way past midnight, and…