Ulysses S. Grant

“Text means tissue” Roland Barthes once stated, emphasizing that a text should not be viewed as a finished product “behind which lies, more or less hidden, meaning (truth)” but rather as a fluid entity which “is worked out in a perpetual interweaving” (64). Thus, a text does not hide one single truth, waiting to be discovered, but – in perpetual interaction with its readers – creates or at least permits a multiplicity of meanings. Symptomatic of the complexity of meanings woven into a single…

When heroes are mentioned, most people think of people that are brave and do not get scared. However, some heroes can be scared like Johnny Case in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. When Johnny encounters a situation be is brave and scared at the same time. Although Johnny appleseed brave and caring he is still scared at the same time. A character trait that Johnny has is being scared. One way that Johnny show this trait is by saying “I could not laugh because I was scared I’d drown in…

Through the novel, ‘The Outsiders’, Hilton has proven her point in which all young people should have a sense of belonging. Ponyboy, the main character as well as a member of the Greaser gang and he believes that belonging to a gang is the reason to the safety of his friends and himself; he has someone to rely on. Johnny, Ponyboys best friend as well as another member of the Greaser gang, needed the urgent sense of belonging as he wasn’t overly supported by his own family and “he would have run…

The poem “The Song Love of J. Alfred Prufrock” is written by T.S. Eliot in 1939. During this time period, the “late Victorian culture forbade the public expression of feeling” (McNamara 359). Eliot defies such principles and writes poems that contribute to the new era of poetry, the Modern Era. Eliot utilizes every aspect of the poem to exploit the hypocrisy of the people during the Victorian Era. Eliot develops this poem to expose the frustrations of the modern individual and the hypocrisies…

During the time Lewis was in college and later as a tutor for the college, some his readings exposed him to material by christian authors. Those authors were George MacDonald, and G.K. Chesterton,who was also a journalist, this is a quote of Lewis speaking of the effect these two authors had on his atheistic life, “In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading…

The Outsiders The Outsiders is a great story by S.E. Henton. This book will make you cheer, cry, laugh, and happy. The Outsiders takes place in the year 1965 and follows a young, 14 year old boy named Ponyboy Curtis. Pony lives with his two brothers Dary and Sodapop curtis. The boys live together by themselves after their parents are in a fatal car accident. Taken care by the oldest witch is Dary. With the odd living style the boys reach out and they find more family with a local greaser gang…

Journey of an apex beast comparing to a normal teenage boy that is living in a normal life until one night, someone takes it too far. Call of the Wild by Jack London and The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton theme are yet similar but their point of view is different. What makes them differ significantly, is the perspective that London and Hinton wrote and their characters. The Outsiders is written in a first person view of a boy named Ponyboy, while Call of the Wild is written in third person limited of…

Identity has always been an important topic throughout literature and real life, for, without identity, you wouldn’t be yourself. Furthermore, identity is a process that is ongoing and is constantly influenced by our environment, the people we choose to hang around with, and our experiences. On the other hand, identity is rarely discussed in society, leaving kids confused on what identity is. Luckily, we have literature to teach us about identity, and it’s important for authors to reveal…

“Loyalty is hard to find. Actions speak louder than words.”~ Unknown Being loyal is being supportive to someone or something. Most of the time you would support a friend, or a family member about an argument. Justice is staying true to the facts and following the law. Loyalty is better than justice because if you got in trouble they would support you too, if you cared about them you would help, and you wouldn’t be a loyal friend or family friend if you didn’t support them. To start off, if you…

The Outsiders was written in the 1960’s to describe the struggle between the upper and lower classes in that time period. S. E. Hinton, the author of the book, wrote it when she was in high school and published the book when she was a freshman at the University of Tulsa. She became known as “The Voice of the Youth”. This pressure brought her writer’s block that lasted three years. Hinton broke the block by writing two pages a day, which led to her next novel, That Was Then, This Is Now. She has…