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...
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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...
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....
the novelist George Orwell is the pen-name of the novelist Eric Arthur Blair. He was born in 1903 in India and died in 1950. He is famous for his novels, mainly 1984 and Animal farm, but also worked as a journalist, essayist and critic. His literary work mostly deals with social injustice and opposition...
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...
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...
The novel, The Great Gatsby, is an amazing book with great plot and meaning. The book teaches many real-life lessons and even illustrates life in the 1920’s. F. Scott Fitzgerald, like many other authors, was an extremely creative artist with a vision of each character, action, and setting. Therefore...
Relationships In Pride & Prejudice and Bridget Jones’ Diary In the novel “Pride & Prejudice” and the movie “Bridget Jones’ Diary”, there are many similarities to the theme of relationships in both novel and film. The theme of relationships highlight the importance and quality back in the early...
the wider audience the movie is reaching out too. In the novel, the writer attempts to fully develop each situation with every twist and turn that follows it, while in the film the ideas are dulled down in order to reach an audience more interested in visual stimulation. The movie Cold Mountain, by Anthony...
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...
film and novel were telling the same story, there were many differences between the two. For the most part, the actors in the movie portrayed Fitzgerald’s descriptions of the characters in the book. However, there were many differences in the dialogues between the various characters. The movie accurately...
There are lots of similarities existing between Aldous Huxely Brave New World and the movie 1984 written by George Orwell. The settings of both works are set in London and both reveal the dark future. The leading woman, Julia, in Nineteen Eighty-Four is a counterpart to Lenina Crowne in Brave New World...
Susan Eloise Hinton is a 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...
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...
THE OUTSIDERS “The Outsiders” is a novel by S.E Hinton. It is about a boy called Ponyboy Curtis and about the difficult times he has in his life. I am going to be writing about the way Ponyboy changes throughout the novel. Ponyboy lives in a 1960s small American house which he shares with his...
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...
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...
George Orwell’s novel 1984 is one of the greatest depictions any writer has ever made about the future of government. Although his visualizations have not been entirely accurate, he voiced an incredibly deep and thought provoking opinion about the world that we live in. 1984 as a movie would be a great...
principles 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....
are Jane Austen’s novels so enduringly popular, valid and critically valued almost two centuries after their publication? "What is all this about Jane Austen? What is there in her? What is it all about?" -- Joseph Conrad to H.G. Wells in 1901, as recounted in the current novel "The Jane Austen Book...
The Book and the movie The Godfather have their similarities and differences. The Godfather novel is the best selling phenomenon, a classic of our time, it was written before the movie came out, approximately 30 years ago. At first glance, the book and the movie appear the same. Upon further investigation...
The Novel Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption was written by Author Stephen King, and was first published in 1982. Frank Darabont directed Shawshank and wrote the screenplay based on Kings novel. The movie was made in 1994 and produced by Niki Marvin. The films main characters consisted of Andy...
The Book vs. The Movie ��� ������� Like most books, Mario Puzo�s novel is much more in-depth than its visual companion. Every thought, every doubt, every trait, every significant action, every insignificant action, basically everything that could have conceivably been mentioned was mentioned...
Seminar 1: Fight Club: The Novel & The Film Question 1: a) 1. Multiple personalities: - Narrator, a single depressed man. - Tyler Durden: opposite of Jack, has every trait Jack wished he could have. 2. Amnesia and time loss: The narrator has moments in his life that he does not remember such...
crudities of the typical modern teenage movie, here is one that looks closely, pays attention, sees that not all teenagers are as cretinous as Hollywood portrays them. The singer Mandy Moore, a natural beauty in both face and manner, stars as Jamie Sullivan, an outsider at school who is laughed at because...
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...
>From the Congo river in Africa to the Nung River in Vietnam, Joseph Conrad's ideals are accurately demonstrated through the movie Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Coppola. Although both compositions have completely different settings and were written at different time periods, Coppola does not...
Citizen Kane directed by Orson Wells, although a commercial failure is regarded as the best movie to many critics around the world. The movie is revolutionary, though it has a very boring plot and a common theme of Life Vs Death; it incorporates many editing and visual effects such as camera angles and deep...
EPISTOLARY NOVEL • ?????? 7. Different approaches MARRIAGE & MARITAL PROBLEMS • 2 different writers • 2 different periods – Jane Austin - Pride & Prejudice (marriage – necessity, idealized etc. - romantic approach) vs. Scarlet Letter vs. Major Barbara – Puritanism vs. one more?...
vendetta). When the first communist leader tried to take over the country, there has been another leader planning for a revolution. In both Orwell’s novel 1984 and the film V for Vendetta the protagonists Winston Smith and V live in similar difficult lives with extreme and controlling governments where...
The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is one of the most classic movies in movie history. It was directed in 1940 by John Ford, and was based of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by John Steinbeck written 1939. The movie is an accurate historical depiction of the experience of migrant workers during...
Instructor: David Hayes July 14, 2013 Film Critique of “Forrest Gump” Forrest Gump is considered a Romance with some comedy mixed in there. The actual movie was based off of a book written by Winston Groom but the screenplay was written by Eric Roth. Robert Zemeckis directed the film which included award...
always been instrumental in portraying the tension of the age we are living in. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s film Rang De Basanti (2006) was one such movie where we come across a group of young men in their twenties who challenge the system and create an awakening of a sort, which is both revolutionary...
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...
sacrifice 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...
Runner: A Glorious Adaptation The 1982 film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is a fantastic motion picture adaptation of Philip Dick’s sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which is a great example of how change may be necessary and very beneficial when transforming a work of literature...
participate more in reading than simply watching the television. take the comparison of reading novels and watching movie videos for example. a good film maker oftentimes tells you a story, while a excellent author of a novel usually absorbs you into his story by triggering your unlimited imagination. Lastly...
The movie The Last of the Mohicans is based on the novel written by James Fenimore Cooper. Set in 1757, in the third year of the French and Indian War, the movie tells a classic tale of love and war. The main story in the Last of the Mohicans is the love of an adopted Mohican and the daughter of...
is the single female character in the novel. We learn about several other women that are mentioned in the story - Lennie’s Aunt Clara, the women in the red dress and other two local brother keepers - who compose the entire portrait of women presented in the novel. The portrayal of women in “Of...
Fahrenheit 451: An Examination of Right Vs Wrong Carly Johnson 6th period 12/10/08 In the world of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, society leads an existence without emotion or thought. It Is without these crucial parts of life that the people's perception of right, wrong, and truth is compromised...
following "teen" movies (either renting at a video store or via cable television, if shown in your area). After viewing the movie, write five to six paragraphs comparing the movie to issues you have studied in this lesson and the corresponding chapters in the textbook. Choose from one of the following...
first released in 2005. The movie is written by Wachowski Brothers then directed by James McTeigue. Wachowski Brothers wrote the movie basing it on the V for Vendetta, a Vertigo graphic novel of 1982. David Lloyd and Alan Moore wrote the novel. After its release in 2005, the movie V for Vendetta immediately...
him being taken through the town on his deathbed, and contrasted with people dancing in a ballroom to Mozart. This plays on the theme of insider/ outsiders. The play then cuts to the next day where the priest visits Salieri and calls him a man in pain who needs God’s forgiveness. He says: “god is equal...
and you have to use your imagination. In modern day films there are a variety of different actors and actresses, which I like because it gives the movie a better flow. In silent films there were fewer actors and actresses and also they had to exaggerate everything with actions(blackdiamondcomedies)....
of art history, or in fact history, you could be forgiven for getting embroiled in the fantasy that Dan Brown and Ron Howard create in the form of novel and film, as they paint a rather convincing picture, of a possibly more interesting and controversial history. Was Leonardo the man that Brown claims...
cultural identity and difference, discovery and invention of tradition, or else constructed and ‘received’ modes of Englishness” (3). In Ackroyd’s novel English Music, one of the characters refers to the idea of Englishness: We are all detectives, looking for the pattern…It is perfectly clear to me...
Ralph vs. Jack In a society they’re generally people who are better leaders than others. In most cases the stronger people are better influences which others tend to follow. However, sometimes the strongest person is not the best choice. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, the characters...
Red Dawn: 1984 vs 2012 Everyone enjoys a classic movie but sometimes, Hollywood decides to take it into their hands and recreate it with more modern technique. When I heard of a remake of the “Red Dawn” from 1984, I was excited. I found there was plenty of potential with this film as a remake...
‘The Maids’ Now Have Their Say By MANOHLA DARGIS Published: August 9, 2011 There’s a scene in “The Help,” the new movie based on Kathryn Stockett’s novel, that cracks open the early-’60s world of strained smiles and gentility that rarely leaps out of this big, ole slab of honey-glazed hokum. It’s...
The Taming of the Shrew vs. 10 Things The relationship between man and woman is a theme that is forever present in movies, literature, and plays. Over time, movies can portray this in similar and slightly different ways. The Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You are two examples of this...
At the beginning of the novel Jane is suppressed by the Reed family as she is isolated from them she is not included in family activities and is forced to entertain herself. Gateshead is a 'dark' and 'large' place where she feels lonely. She is trapped by their controlling and powerful status. Mrs Reed...
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...
College Professor Whitaker Theatre vs. Theater “Hakuna Matata” -Timon and Pumbaa, the all-time famous quote from the well-known production from Disney. Hearing the name ‘Lion King’, causes one to assume the person is just talking about the movie, but others may assume one could be talking...
Movie review: The Last Samurai The movie starts with the character of Captain Nathan Algren. Captain Algren was a ex-United States Army captain who is haunted by the memory of his past killing duties against Native American civilians, learns that the Japanese are eager to modernize their country along...
The Pearl The movie The Pearl, based on the novel by John Steinbeck, was filled with much symbolism. It was very interesting to watch how one thing could stand for so many different things in the eyes of not only the viewer, but the characters as well. Throughout the film, I saw that the pearl...
INGFICT THE FICTION ONE IS IN Notes on the Late Twentieth Century British Novel “ … we are not personalities, but personages.” F. Scott Fitzgerald “Postmodernism consists in essence of the view that nothing would ever again happen for the first time.” Christopher Hitchens I. A BIRD’S...
artistic Manhattan sacred monster seems quite comprehensive. Whatever you say, the most difficult cinematic genre is a comedy. A truly hilarious movie – with an exquisite and sharp humor is very difficult to create. And we can only guess how Mr. Allen shoots such movies and always remains true to himself...
Cleopatra Movie Cleopatra (1963) directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and based on a book by Carlo Mario Franzero is a spectacle in virtually every sense of the word. The greatest stars of the era were hired to play the roles of these immortal historical figures — Elizabeth Taylor was Cleopatra, Richard...
Fisher, Joel Edgerton Director: Baz Luhrmann Set over one hot, tragic summer, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel paints vivid prose pictures that no movie has ever captured wholly successfully (despite several attempts, most famously the 1974 Robert Redford / Mia Farrow adap). ...