Free Essays on The Outsiders

  1. The Outsiders 12

    The Outsiders Essay Violence, Rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment. This is a definition for a something that happens everyday. Sometimes you can stop it, other times you can’t. Violence frustrates people until sometimes they try to show us how it really is. At 16 Susan Eloise...

  2. The Community and the Outsider

    George Elliot’s presentation of the community and the outsider In George Elliot’s Silas Marner, the major theme of the novel is set right from the first chapter. The theme of how an outsider is out casted by the community. In this context, how Silas is viewed through the cynical, narrow minded eyes...

  3. The Outsiders

    Outsiders Essay Someone’s last words can make a big impact towards the life of another. S.E. Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders demonstrates this when Johnny, a very close friend of Ponyboy passes away. Right when Johnny has just about lived all he can, he manages to say “stay gold Ponyboy…stay...

  4. The Outsiders

    Book Report Title: The Outsiders Author: S.E. Hinton 180 Pages Copyright S.E. Hinton, 1967 Puffin Books, 1997 Hardcover Edition Main Characters: Ponyboy Michael Curtis, Dallas Winston, Sodapop Patrick Curtis, Darrel ’Darry’ Curtis, Keith “Two-Bit” Mathews, Johnny Cade, Cherry Valance, and Steve...

  5. Outsiders Theme

    Eshan Kumar 1/26/11 Period 3 Outsiders theme In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the author shows that it is difficult to show one’s true self when society perceives emotions as weaknesses. Ponyboy, a member of gang called the Greasers, has grown up in poverty around tough people. By living...

  6. The Outsiders - 1

    yes then I have the perfect book for you. “The Outsiders” is filled with adventure, action, and loyalty. Even if you’re not a big reader I can guarantee you’ll love this book. Give me a few minutes and I promise I can make you read this book. The Outsiders has the perfect amount of adventure. Two of...

  7. outsiders character analysis

    Character analysis outsiders Johnny is the gang’s pet but can be courageous when Help is needed. In the novel the outsiders by SE Hinton Johnny is a young handsome courageous abused and shy. Story he learns the true meaning of love and friendship. Jonny is pretty much the gang’s pet but in a crisis...

  8. The Outsiders

    read about the outsiders living normal lives like Momentians and nothing about them ever being frozen in space. He loved the science books. He read about the earth revolving on its axis every twenty-four “hours”, causing a constant shift between "day," when people, the outsiders that is, are...

  9. The Outsiders

    Have you ever read the book "The Outsiders?" One of the main characters is Ponyboy Curtis. He has many good virtues. First of all, he has a good friendship with his friends. Secondly, he has courage. Finally, Ponyboy is very honest. Those virtues make Ponyboy who he is...

  10. The Outsiders 13

    The Outsiders Ponyboy, the protagonist in the award winning book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, a boy of many sides. Ponyboy can have a soft friendly side that understands what’s going on. Or he has a mean dark side that will do whatever it takes to keep his family and his group together. Pony demonstrates...

  11. The Outsider by Albert Camus

    The opening lines of the novel, The Outsider by Albert Camus, set the tone for the book: Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know (pg. 9), it is a dreary and depressing sentence, so are the thoughts of a character by the name of Meursault. However, the circumstances that took place, plunged...

  12. Sodapop Curtis - the Outsiders

    become quite obvious to us. One of Sodapop’s most prominent values is his love of freedom, which becomes evident throughout the novel. As we read ‘The Outsiders’ Soda comes across as someone that values respect highly, and the other characters consider his as someone they can talk honestly to. We realise that...

  13. The Outsiders 14

    In The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, two groups of teenagers, the Greasers and the Socs have many conflicts. In a Midwestern town during the 1960’s, Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and Cherry Valance are three friends that help each other through conflicts. Ponyboy Curtis faced many conflicts...

  14. Book Review for the Outsiders

    themselves for one another, and the minor things are that they should not betray their friends, and should be strong and brave. In this novel, The Outsiders, I think that Dally is the most heroic person because he fits all of the characteristics that a hero is required to have. He is willing to sacrifice...

  15. The Outsiders Play

    Amneh Al-qudah, Tasneem Qattous, Amel Hassan, Mariam Skalli, Ayah Ghaleh. The Outsiders *walking around the park smoking cigarettes* Johnny: Why’d u run away anyway, aye Ponyboy? Ponyboy: Darry slapped me for stayin’ out too late. Johnny: You know he don’t mean it, he’s just watchin’ out...

  16. A Time I Was an Outsider

    A Time I was an Outsider When I was in middle school, around 6th and 7th grade, I was bullied a lot. One day I came home sobbing because of some things people said, and I said I wanted to move. I just wanted out of that school and I never wanted to go back. My mom worked hard to find a school where...

  17. Camus’ Exploration of Existentialism Through Mersault’s Views and Thoughts on Life and Death, Throughout ‘the Outsider’

    The Outsider, written by Albert Camus, revolves around a protagonist - Mersault. The major theme the book explores is existentialism. According to Wikipedia, ‘Existentialism is a philosophical movement that views human existence as having a set of underlying themes and characteristics, such as anxiety...

  18. GHUJk

    our lives, but some books will stay with us for the rest of our lives. This book for me is The Outsiders. Once in awhile, books inspire a great deal of interest and we just can’t forget. How could The Outsiders do such a thing? Try lets say, the time frame of the 1960’s. Most books are about the current...

  19. Describe an Important Idea in Each Text Which Is Relevant to Real Life. Explain Why Each Idea Is Relevant to Real Life.

    In the short stories The Outsider by Graeme Lay and Yellow Brick Road by Witi Ihimaera, a common theme of great importance is the idea of disillusionment. The Outsider portrays a young, naïve, teenager Justine, Karl an older American surfer and their whirlwind relationship. Yellow Brick Road follows...

  20. Walloflower

    A Wallflower An outsider by many definitions can be thought of as an individual who doesn’t necessarily fit into the WASP society that America is portrayed to be. These people or outsiders have distinct differences from the norm. These differences can be physical whereas one feels as if they...

  21. S.E. Hinton (Term Paper)

    published author. While still in high school she wrote novels. Her hometown was Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hinton describe words of how she was feeling in The Outsiders. This book is considered a classic story of two sets of high school rivals. Hinton launched an uprising in young adult literature. Hinton's publishers...

  22. SEC571 Midterm Exam All Questions

    prevent an outsider obtaining free network access by intruding into your wireless network. Question 4. (TCO C) Respond to each part of this question: a) Describe how a long number (encryption key) can be shared between sender and receiver without using any source that is obvious to outsiders and without...

  23. Edward Scissorhands

    Othello sees himself as an outsider- the whole out of my league thing- he cant believe that Desdemona has married me * He sees himself as a rough, baboon soldier, this is evident when he apologises for his speech * If you don’t know the rules then you become the outsider * If it doesn’t agree...

  24. Stuff

    local ruler. In the Complete Scoundrel sourcebook Batman, Dick Tracy and Indiana Jones are cited as examples of Lawful Good characters. Lawful Good outsiders are known as Archons. NEUTRAL GOOD Neutral Good is known as the "Benefactor" alignment. A Neutral Good character is guided by his conscience and...

  25. Why Do Most of Us Follow Along?

    any of us were born, people created cliques or groups. And then there were the outsiders, or people who didn’t fit into a specific group. They thought of these “outsiders” lowly, like a stray, starving dog. Those “outsiders” didn’t want to be alone, so they tried to conform to one of those groups or “follow...

  26. Multicultural Education

    Teachers consider this person a legitimate member of the community. The Indigenous-Outsider was socialized within his or her indigenous community but has experienced high levels of cultural assimilation into an outsider or oppositional culture. The values, beliefs, perspectives and knowledge of this individual...

  27. Fido

    him on his father’s day off. Ironically, Fido becomes a catalyst for change in the family. Fido helps Bill realize that he is emotionless and an outsider within the family. He also helps Helen to love again, and become a friend to Timmy. One scene that depicts how Fido is a catalyst for change in...

  28. Albert Camus

    the French colony Algeria on the seventh of November, 1913. Some of his more famous works as a writer are The Stranger (1942) otherwise known as The Outsider, and The Plague (1947). Albert Camus is famous for many other things other than the books he wrote. He played a notable part in the Revolutionary...

  29. ASH COM 200 Week 2 Quiz

    Question : ________________ is the specialized or technical language of a specific group or pro¬fession that may not be understood by outsiders. For more classes visit http://www.assignmentcloud.com ASH COM 200 Week 2 Quiz Check...

  30. attitudes

    Our attitudes and view of the world can change as our life situations change. Our experiences shape who we are as people. In ‘The Outsider’ by Graeme Lay, we see how language features are successfully used to analyse the attitudes of Karl and Justine.This essay will analyse how the use of contrast, omniscient...

  31. Comparing Networks

    breached by outside threats. The firewall is opened by a common extension of the intranet, the extranet opens this block with controlled access to outsiders. Non-profit groups and schools all over the world use the intranet, corporate companies are the primary hosts of this productivity tool. This valued...

  32. Street of Riches

    are part of human experience. In “Street of Riches”, Gabrielle Roy uses tensions among family members and outsiders to reveal the personality traits embedded in family members as well as outsiders. Although family tensions and differences are prevalent in “Street of Riches”, Characters’ act of tolerance...

  33. Othello

    Techniques such as symbolism, foreshadowing, irony and soliloquy’s are portrayed. As a 21st century reader, I am drawn to view of Othello that women are outsiders. In today’s society, women are limited in the opportunities they have. In Othello, Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca are portrayed as a marginalised group...

  34. SEC 571 Week 8 Final Exam

    point. Also, suppose you do not use the full capacity of your network connection. List and assess four reasons why you might still want to prevent an outsider obtaining free network access by intruding into your wireless network TCO C) You are designing a program that will be able to detect if any of the...

  35. Hype Music

    The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy and his two brothers — Darrel (Darry), who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16 — have recently...

  36. Matin Luther King

    clergymen use the phrase “outsider” to describe King. They use it in a term to make him feel unwelcome as well as question his reason for even being in the state of Alabama. The first set of paragraphs, King addresses all the points made by the clergymen, specifically the term “outsider.” King goes to say,...

  37. Adjshd

    4TH MAY 2008 This Essay is based on The Outsiders, written by S. E. Hinton. Pony boy and his greaser friends have a lot in store for them. Although there are some new surprises when the socs, a gang that lives in the west, becomes cool with Pony. Johnny is Pony’s best friend and one night he kills...

  38. Johnny’s Death: Positive or Negative?

    The Outsiders looks at many facets of life. It looks at rich and poor, happiness and grief, and life and death. The death that is most thoroughly looked into is Johnnys. This also happens to be the most touching death to me, and probably to many other people who have read the book. In my opinion, Johnnys...

  39. gfjk

    Goldman writes that editors who fail to comply with Wikipedia cultural rituals, such as signing talk pages, implicitly signal that they are Wikipedia outsiders, increasing the odds that Wikipedia insiders will target their contributions as a threat. Becoming a Wikipedia insider involves non-trivial costs:...

  40. unveiled

    not born with it. The wearing of the hijab is part of a religious culture and who are outsiders to say different. I do believe that for a country, such as Saudi Arabia, to enforce their values and norms on outsiders in unethical. For the young women, some feel it should be their choice to wear the headdress...

  41. Summary

    be patient and reasonable terms. I think I should give the reason for my being in Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the argument of "outsiders coming in." I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every Southern...

  42. ULTRA VIRES’, DOCRINE OF “CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE

    of Memorandum of Association (M/A)and Articles of Association(A/A) seeks to protect the company against the outsiders. The ‘Doctrine of Indoor management’ seeks to protect the outsiders against the company. This doctrine connotes that if a contract is consistent with the public documents, the persons...

  43. The Debut

    being separated from my family, I developed a better appreciation for my heritage. Living in a foreign land allowed me to view my own culture as an outsider and see the beauty of it. When Ben's two friends witness the tinikling being performed, they are awed by it. At first, Ben is dumbfounded by their...

  44. Things Fall Apart

    interact. But when an outsider comes alone they stick together. They also have occational story telling in their tribe to keep each other close. Religious views can change how one is interacting with their community. The Igbo tribe all believe the same thing, and when an outsider comes in there is an...

  45. managerial analysis

    management doesn't have any cost basis for charging R&D services to outsiders, and (2) it needs to gain control of its R&D costs. Management decides to implement an activity-based costing system in order to determine the charges for both outsiders and the in-house users of the department's services. R&D activities...

  46. Ponyboy's Decisions

    Staying Gold (92%) Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.1 In the events of The Outsiders, Ponyboy is faced with many troubles in his life. His opportunities, or lack thereof, cause him make decisions that could endanger his own life....

  47. SRM 320 ASH Courses / ashtutorial

    someone outside of the organization will benefit him and the division that he manages: Explain why the vice president will benefit from having an outsider restructure his department by combining information that you have learned and relating it to the scenario. Integrate concepts from your research with...

  48. Taisha Is Cool !

    THE OUTSIDERS At the age of 17, S E Hinton wrote her first book, The Outsiders. It’s an inspiration because it shows how young adolescents are living and behaving. It’s also about a boy called Pony boy Curtis who is a product of the time and place they lived. It is narrated from the point of...

  49. Team Collaboration

    the like. Conflict-Stimulation Techniques Communication: Using ambiguous or threatening messages to increase conflict levels. Bringing in outsiders: Adding employees to a group whose backgrounds, values, attitudes, or managerial styles differ from those of present members. Restructuring the...

  50. Indians All Our Lives

    States, who was pushing into the heart of the northern Plains and were demanding access to all of its land and resources. To expedite settlement by outsiders of Native land, the U.S government negotiated one of the major treaties with Indian communities, which promise was later abandoned after the U.S....

  51. Hemingway & Faulkner

    referenced as the old Negro in Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily. The Negro shows his solidarity to Miss Emily by protecting her from outsiders; protecting her secrets from outsiders until her death. This helpfulness is expressed in the following line, “Daily, monthly, yearly we watched the Negro grow grayer...

  52. Cultural Values Essay

    * Ch. 10:   How much do you think it is possible for an outsider to discern about the underlying cultural values of an organization by analyzing symbols, ceremonies, dress, or other observable aspects of culture, compared to an insider with several years of work experience? Select a percentage (e.g....

  53. Social Media

    chilling effect on one’s willingness to express oneself, we further assume that users would control that by excluding outsiders from controversial social media posts. More formally: H5: Outsider exclusion will positively predict political involvement. H6: Offline talk will positively predict political involvement...

  54. The Relationship of Jack and Ralph

    that. 2. Piggy is an outsider for many reasons. His health is one. Boys like Ralph are strong and healthy. They are confident in their ability to act. By contrast, Piggy is fat and has asthma. He can also be considered as an outsider because of his particular way of talking “Them...

  55. English

    diminish and the consequences can be far-reaching. This notion is explored through the texts I had been hungry all the years by Emily Dickinson, The Outsider by Albert Camus and This is my letter to the world and What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson. When one is unable to conform to societal...

  56. Spirituality: Post Mormon

    faithful Mormon), whose minds are proven to function well in contexts away from religion, have such a clearly demonstrable inability to deal in what outsiders to their faith would likely consider a rational manner with matters concerning their religious beliefs. Another way to frame this issue is to wonder...

  57. The Girld

    novel: In this novel, there are three significant themes that are expressed throughout, which are, death, individuality and the thought of being an outsider. Various times within the novel there are mentions of crows; black crows to be specific. The colour black is a dark colour that typically is known...

  58. piiiramaall

    only with small community and demand for the PeS services decreased. The Pudah (veil) culture which needed women to be distant from adult male outsiders was also an issue. The PSS were lacking in the right motivation for this job because many of them became PSS just to increase their social status ...

  59. SRM 320 UOP Courses / uoptutorial

    someone outside of the organization will benefit him and the division that he manages: Explain why the vice president will benefit from having an outsider restructure his department by combining information that you have learned and relating it to the scenario. Integrate concepts from your research with...

  60. Christ Stopped at Eboli

    people’s faces are filled with despairing looks. People in the town walk around at a solemn and slow pace. They do not appear to be welcoming to outsiders, just as the town does not. At the end of the film, the scenes are brightly lit. The characters of the film are seen with smiling faces. They move...