Switchblade

crime would have been committed. Juror Eight volunteers, and while demonstrating the crime comes within an inch of actually being stabbed (105). With Juror Eight’s backing, Juror Five brings up that any experienced knife fighter wouldn’t handle a switchblade in the way that it was handled during the murder. Another vote is now taken, resulting in nine votes in favor of not guilty with three in favor of guilty. The next case proven wrong comes from the woman across the el tracks. She says she saw…

Freddie Gray was arrested on April 12th, 2015 for owning a switchblade that was illegal. According to Times News: Black Lives Matter, while in transit to the police station, Freddie Gray suffered many injuries, including a neck injury, and a spine injury. He then fell into a coma and state in it until the 18th. Freddie…

To tell the truth, this book could probably been the most touching story I have ever read! Although I was not used to the tales at the beginning of the story, in fact, most of the characters in this book were juveniles who were too used to cause crimes. However, there were people among them who were having true feelings and loves. Amazing as it was, the author, S.E Hinton, was only in her age of seventeen as she wrote this book. This book was very well-organized. In the mid-1960s when it was…

Professor Dietz English 112 Collin Habib Inquiry Three Creative Non-Fiction Narrative June 6…

The plot of The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is quite interesting because it gives the reader a sense of what it was like to be a fourteen year old boy that belongs to a group that is known as the outsiders of society. I chose this book because I am a teenager, and this book is about a real life teenager struggling with what is right and wrong in society. This story takes in the Southwest United States sometime during the 1960’s. Ponyboy Curtis is the main character in the story. He is a fourteen…

In my essay on, “The Outsiders”, I will be arguing that the Soc’s and the greasers are not very different if you compare the two of them. This is important because people are always saying that the Soc’s started something or that the Greaser’s started something but in the end they are just two rival gangs that both do bad things in their own ways. I would say that I would not be classified as a Greaser or a Soc. In my opinion, the Greasers and the Socs are not very different; they both commit…

the for his friends even when it may mean getting in serious trouble. For example, Pony and Johnny ran away from home and got jumped be a gang of socs. When Ponyboy was in the process of getting drowned by a soc named Bob, Johnny took out his switchblade and killed Bob. If Pony wouldn't have been in trouble Johnny wouldn't have killed that soc. The socs thought that Johnny killed him for no reason and were furious at him,…

Hylant took a moment to compose herself before she entered the medical wing. Her fronds faded from agitated pink to calm blue, her gills stilled their frantic flutter. She took a breath. This was always the hardest part of her work. They took the news in different ways. Shouting and screaming were bad. Crying was harder. It was difficult to be professional with battle-hardened warriors weeping in front of her. The worst ones tried to tear off their offending limbs, or kill themselves rather than…

Horror at the Harbor Rex has been scared before and eventually gotten over it. But this huge impact on history is something he will never forget. It was a dark, windy December morning, the trees on Bravo rd were rapidly, swaying back and forth, and it was 6:00 AM and Rex Akers is up way too early for a Sunday. All of Bravo rd is silent. Rex goes outside to wake up Charlie Askren, which is his best friend, so they can go down to the basketball courts. But on their way back from the…

Justice is an ambiguous concept with no accurate definition. One man’s idea of justice differs from another man’s idea, depending on the circumstances. Some people see justice through the eyes of the court system, while others see justice as “an eye for an eye”. Still others see justice through fairness and moral equity. An individual defines justice based on their personal belief of what is right and wrong. The Greek philosopher, Aristotle writes, “[Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest…