Closure in a narrative is when the narrative ends in a way that satisfies the audiences expectations and answers all questions raised throughout the story. In “The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative”, by H. Porter Abbott, Closure is broken down to expectations and questions. Closure at the level of expectation is when we are anticipating what will happen in the story. We recognize patterns of events taking place and form expectations for what the outcome may be. When these expectations are met, it provides closure. Closure at the level of question is when we are looking for answers. Throughout a narrative, questions are formed and we are using the information from the narrative to best answer these questions. Without satisfying expectations …show more content…
Hinton. “The Outsiders” is a story that has a clear beginning, middle, and end. Like most successful novels, the book starts out by explaining the setting and gives the reader an understanding of characters involved. After this, conflict arises in the story, hooking the reader’s attention through events that happen throughout the middle of the story and lead to the resolution of the conflict. Last, she wraps up the story and the conflicts are solved and major questions are answered. The big conflict in this story is the dispute between the Socs and the Greasers and the tension between the two really picks up when a Soc is killed by a Greaser. This book is a good example of closure because the ending does a good job of tying everything that happened together and wrapping up the story. In her book, “Closure in the Novel”, Marianna Torgovnick, discusses how to determine if a book provides closure. She believes that “the test is the appropriateness of the ending’s relationship to beginning and middle…” (Torgovnick). This is something that Hinton does a great job of in “The Outsiders”. The ending of the book is directly related to the beginning and middle and reveals the key points that the author is trying to present. The Socs and the Greasers have their big brawl and in the end, Ponyboy is able to learn multiple lessons. Not only does he discover that Socs and Greasers actually have a lot more in common than they thought, but he is also able to learn from the experience to better his relationship at home with his older brother. Some smaller details of the story may still be left open ended in this book, but the main points that the author is trying to provide are clear and closure of the story is
Last but not least, Ponyboy faces the society’s impression of the greasers. Everybody thinks that they are hoods and that nothing good can come out of them. The greasers are judged strongly because of their economic status and face judgment from everyone. Nobody cares to understand their life and what experience on a daily basis. He also finds out when he was in Windrixville, that people don’t judge them like they do in their city. The whole conflict of the story is the Greasers and the Socs. The characters in the story have gone about their own ways to at least try to fix the problem. Many chose fighting and violence in general, but Ponyboy choose to write a book for a writing assignment. He discovers that there is no difference between them
The theme of The Outsiders is violence doesn’t solve everything. In this book it’s the classic conflict between the socs—short for socials—and the greasers who have been having a conflict for ages and still today. After coming back from the drive In Ponyboy accidentally fell asleep with his friend Johnny in ‘the lot’ after he woke up he ran back home to his brothers Darry and Sodapop got mad and Darry pushed Ponyboy and out of fear Ponyboy ran away, he went back to the lot to find Johnny and went to walk to the park and back, but when they got to the park a group of socs pulled up in their car and got out and started chasing Ponyboy and Johnny and caught them and started drowning Ponyboy while Johnny took out his blade – that he started to carry around out of fear when a previous accouter with the same group of socs – and stabbed Bob, the head soc to death.
In the book the Outsiders, Ponyboy faces many conflicts, some had carried more significance than others. The author of this novel is S.E. Hinton. The main characters of this novel are Ponyboy Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, and Darrel Curtis (Darry). The Outsiders is novel about the wars between the two social classes formally known as Socs (The higher class/richer people) and the Greasers (The lower class/poorer blue collar workers.) This novel however is told from the perspective of the Greasers, more specifically a young boy at the bottom of a small gang or family of greasers. In the novel The Outsiders the character Ponyboy experience multiple conflicts with his family, his friends, and the law.
Pony and Johnny save the kids but, Johnny gets burned bad from the fire. A rumble takes place for Johnny as their revenge towards the socs. The greasers and soc’s are put in a situation where they revert back to violence. In both the the movie and book you can see obvious differences. Like in every movie they miss out pieces from the book, character's physical appearance is sometimes different, and it’s not as elaborated as the book.
“The Outsiders” is by far one of my favorite books of all time. I think it’s a great story that tells about how a fourteen-year-old boy overcomes many challenges and learns how to get through each of them individually. “The Outsiders” is a story about a boy named Ponyboy that lives with his two older brothers, and they have a group of friends, called the Greasers. One day Pony gets upset with his older brother, Darry, and goes to a park with his friend Johnny to calm down. At the park, a group of kids, called Socs, come and start drowning Pony. Johnny gets scared and doesn’t know what to do so he kills one of the Socs. Soon after, Pony and Johnny decide to run away so they wouldn’t have to deal with
Ponyboy, Johnny, Sodapop, Darry are all a part of the unruly gang, the Greasers. S.E Hinton is writing these characters as rebellious young men, with a harsh background, who takes their anger and hardship out on gang fighting. These roles play an important part in this book because it shows that even though they nothing physically, they have a heart stronger than gold for each other and others mentally. Hinton use these characters to show prejudice leads to wrong conclusions, violence and oppression because these “poor” young men are getting beat up by the rich Socs who have never felt the feeling of being in poverty. “ You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you’re in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don’t stick up for them, stick together, make
about what will happen next.” It can be built up by several ways; foreshadowing, withholding
The Outsiders is a book that changed the style of young adult writers because it went off from the genre that young adult writer were using during that time period. The reader sees the everyday problems that teenagers were going through, “I can’t take much more
“The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.” The Outsiders is a novel by S.E. Hinton about a group of boys who face many challenges and hardships together. The novel is based off adversity and how although it could have negative impacts it could still bring some positivity like finding the real image of actions, overcoming fears, and bringing a family together.
“The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton, is centered around Ponyboy’s path to maturity and the life lessons he learns along the way. The novel follows Ponyboy, a greaser, and his gang’s conflict with the Socials, a rival gang. In it, he learns to not judge people hastily and reject gang mentality. Ponyboy also loses his innocence. The following paragraphs will explore his growth throughout “The Outsiders”.
In conclusion, a situation may look like it is going very good or very bad. However, one shall not draw a conclusion too early because a situation still has time to change drastically. For example, Doug could have decided that Ralph was too scary for him to confront, but he did not assume anything. Instead, he went to confront Ralph and realized that he was in a much better physical state than Ralph. In the second story, the narrator did assume that a girl liked him and he got his heart broken. In the last story, a teenager could have assumed that since he could not read, that he had no purpose. Instead, he decided to work hard and he ended up with several awards. There are many things to learn while growing up, but
Epilogue: is a final chapter at the end of a story that often serves to reveal the fates of the characters. Some epilogues may feature scenes only tangentially related to the subject of the story. They can be used to hint at a sequel or wrap up all
Different methods of storytelling impact how we convey meaning. Many stories exist in a state of narrative tension which is the tension a character feels about acting or resolving an issue, and the tension that arises when they are blocked from gaining that resolution. The use of storytelling methods impact the meaning of the work as a whole. Shakespeare, Stanley Kubrick, and Tom McCarthy use storytelling methods such as “Question, Answer, Question”, redefining character relationships, and symbols that advance the narrative tension and aid the meaning of the work.
The Greasers and the Socs' Are two rival gangs who try to claim there place in a small town. Throughout the book and movie an interesting twist occurs, Ponyboy runs away and meets with Johnny Cade, they walk throughout a vacant lot and didn't expect to see the Socs' and their blue Mustang . This is when the interesting twist occurs one of the greasers called Bob had tried to drown Ponyboy and Johnny having no choice, killed him with a switch blade. The movie had quite a turn as it included different details.
The Outsiders is a deep, thought out novel which includes many things a quality novel must have. It includes conflict, some of which is very straightforward; Socs versus Greasers. There are more subtle forms of conflict buried in this novel, such as the desire for violence and fighting versus the desire for peace and reconciliation. This novel also includes strong vocabulary and exquisite details. One of the best parts about this novel by S.E. Hinton is the character development, and the way she shapes and models the characters.