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    Being An Outsider Essay

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    To begin with, being considered an outsider will hinder one’s participation within their community. By keeping them in the middle or below class, having a great lack of authority given to them, and consistently being discriminated against, which would not only affect their participation but lead to them not even wanting to be within that community anymore. Being an outsider by means of: economic class, ethnicity, race, religion, authority, and parenthood would only keep their participation rates…

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    Anthropology is a fundamental genre of study of peoples in their natural or societal environment. Those who choose to study and observe people can take two approaches to in recording ethnographies; a subject orientated perspective or an outsiders perspective. Due to the individuals moulding as an anthropologist and as a person by society, ethnographies can be clouded by researchers views on subjects as active agents through upbringing, sex and experience. These views can impact in their approach…

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    with this solution for years. I, personally, do not think that there can be one answer or theory to such a complex subject. There are many different factors that must come into play: society, genetics, environment, opportunity. After watching The Outsiders and seeing the human aspect of crime that is not usually depicted in film, my stance on diversity of the causes of crime stands. However,…

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    in life. Such as family,culture, and life experiences. With an understanding of these factors we are able to answer the question, what makes us who we are?. Family, is one of the many factors that go into making us who we are. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton Ponyboy’s gang is like his family and they affect who he is as a person. An example would be ponyboy smokes because most of the people in his gang smoke so he thinks it's ok. Additionally, Ponyboy keeps his hair long and greasy…

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    culture are alien to them, and they additionally feel like outsiders in American culture. As immigrants, Ashima and Ashoke make their own particular hybrid culture, a mix of American and Bengali components. They fight to keep up certain Indian traditions, while changing in accordance with American conventions, for instance, Christmas, for their children. Indian-American characters, for instance, Gogol and Moushumi every now and then feel outsider in both India and America, as though they're lost…

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    The novel ‘The Outsiders’ written by S. E. Hinton is a novel written with many conflicts. ‘The Outsiders’ novel was first written and published in 1967. Throughout the novel, we are faced with family complications, involving the brothers. Who are Ponyboy, Darry and Johnny. We discover socio-economic statuses between the Greasers and the Socs, and we find out that Dally has an internal conflict of himself. Throughout the chapters, we uncover family complications. A major reason why Darry…

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    You won’t get help from them unless they trust you. Trust is earned by showing loyalty, which is why loyalty is very important. To the Greasers, loyalty is a principle to a successful gang; without loyalty, the gang isn’t a gang anymore. In the Outsiders, they had experienced how things would be if they lost loyalty for each other, for example, when Ponyboy didn’t believe that Darry really loved him. The Greasers showed loyalty to one another, by defending and sticking up for each other, and…

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    The Outsiders Essay based on Theme: Change of Perspective In the olden days people thought the earth was flat because they did not have enough information about the shape of the earth, others thought it was round. Now we know for sure the earth is a sphere because over time knowledge was gained and perspectives altered. Likewise, in the book, The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton shows the reader that when the main characters get to know each other, their point of view changes. Two gangs from different…

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    will always be an unpleasant emotion. Fear is the outcome of being in a dangerous situation, and of being aware of a threat to your wellbeing. In the novels ‘The Outsiders’ by S. E Hinton and ‘Brighton Rock’ by Graham Greene, the characters each have their own distinct idea of fear, and this varies as the novel's progress. In ‘The Outsiders’, fear is depicted as a bad thing, and it's the feeling you get when everything goes wrong, but in ‘Brighton Rock’, fear is shown as something that pushes…

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    There are many great characters in the Outsiders . In your opinion who is the most heroic character in the Outsiders? A hero is somebody that is brave and has strong will for what they believe in. That is why Dallas Winston is the most heroic character in the whole Outsiders story. Dally is very helpful in the story. Dally helps Johnny and Ponyboy after Johnny killed Bob , he give the two boys money and supplies that they could use if they needed to survive on the run for a little bit. Dally…

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