Switchblade

she wrote it. She put her name as S.E because she didn’t want anyone to prejudge her for writing about a book about boys. In (Doc.B) Ponyboy forgot he was in one of the socs classes. So when the razor wouldn’t cut the frog he got out his switchblade. Then the girl sitting next to him told him “They are right. You are a hood.” Then Ponyboy got mad. They only put him in that class with the socs because; they said he was supposed to be smart. The person in (Doc.B) that is an outsider…

He was just 25 and arrested by officers in Baltimore, Maryland for allegedly possessing an illegal switchblade which ended up being false. Once Gray was illegally arrested, he was put into the back of a van with his extremities shackled. He appeared to have suffered an intense neck injury that lead to his death one week later. The key parts of this case…

The Outsiders The Outsiders is the story of two gangs, the Greasers and the Socs, that despise each other. Throughout the story, the Greasers learn the importance of sticking together all of the time. The Greasers strong friendship is shown when Johnny follows Ponyboy into the church fire, Dally helps Johnny and Ponyboy hide after committing murder, and when Ponyboy follows Johnny even though he didn't have any part of the murdering. The character Johnny stands by Ponyboy while trying to…

Reginald Rose, the spectator is presented to a jury made up of twelve men. The jurors are being forced to come to an agreement of whether or not a nineteen-year-old boy, who grew up in the slums, is guilty of stabbing his father in the chest with a switchblade knife. Throughout the play an onlooker can see juror nine change from being quiet and reserved into a bold speaker that is key in the outcome of the verdict. It is obvious that juror nine is quiet and reserved because he only speaks three…

An external conflict is when there is a church fire caused by POnyboy’s and Johnny’s cigars. As Pony and Johnny were eating and talking with Dally, some kids had gotten into the church and were stuck in there as the cigars triggered the fire to start. POnyboy and JOhnny came to go see the church and saw the screaming kids inside the church with the fire. The clueless, little kids were left in there, screaming helplessly. As a result, Johnny and POnyboy decided to go into the church and save them…

The Outsiders by author S.E. Hinton withholds many life lessons, one of them being that fighting doesn't solve your problems. This story follows the lifestyles of the hoods on the east side of a small town in Oklahoma during the 60s. These hoods are called Greasers and are viewed like this because of their rebellious attitudes, disrespectful criminal behaviors, slicked hair, and poor economic status. The teens of this town are separated by money and lifestyles these guys have a tough life and…

Many children do not care for the company of elderly people, particularly older men. This could be for various reasons: they are not interesting, they smell funny, or they require too much assistance. I personally think the main reason is because children are led to believe that old men are grouchy; at least, that is the stereotype. Television and movies often shows how old men are grouchy, but sometimes they show how elderly men have the ability to overcome that stereotype. Carl Fredricksen…

knife that the boy had used to kill the father, the saying “I’m going to kill you!” and the woman that seen the scene of the killing without her glasses. One piece of evidence that proves the boy’s innocence is the unique knife. The knife was a switchblade that the boy said he got before the crime scene at a shop for two dollars and that it also had fell out of his pocket. Since it fell out of his pocket anyone could have picked it up and used it on his father while the boy was at the movies.…

seem to be. People in societies make fun and call people many different names because of the way they act and live their lives. Ponyboy gets yelled at because he is a greaser. (Ponyboy) “One time in biology I had to dissect a worm, (…) I used my switchblade, (…) the girl right beside me gasped and said, ‘They are right. You are a hood’” (Hinton 15). Greasers also think because they’re greasers when someone likes them it’s a surprise and they think it’s just a joke. (Two Bit) “He took a piece…

Ponyboy and Johnny ran into the socs. Randy, Bobby, & 3 other Socs drove in a blue mustang taunting Ponyboy and Johnny.Ponyboy spit at the socs, so the socs decided that Ponyboy needed a bath and tried to drown Ponyboy in the fountain. Johnny used a switchblade on Bob because he was going to kill Ponyboy. Some people might argue that Ponyboy had no other choice but to kill Bob. It was Bob's fault that he had tried to drown Ponyboy but Johnny could have avoided the problem and went to get help.…