Examples Of Allusions In The Outsiders

The theme of delusion in the book The Outsiders relates to the song The Monster and how after Johnny was dead, Ponyboy wouldn’t let himself believe that Johnny was dead. “That’s still body back in the hospital wasn’t Johnny. Johnny was somewhere else-maybe asleep in the lot… I’d go home and walk by the lot, and Johnny would be sitting on the curb smoking cigarette… He isn’t dead, I said to myself. He isn’t dead. And this time my dreaming worked. I convinced myself he wasn’t dead” (Hinton 150).

HOOK In the book the ‘Outside’ by S.E. Hilton there are two gangs. There known as the socs and the greasers. Socs are preppy high class students who have lots of money and love to spend in on nice mustangs and fancy clothes. Greasers grease up their hair and are known as the lower class.

In the midst of immorality, God always provides a solution. Although the world has been close to complete immorality in the past, morality has never ceased to exist. The world in The Road by Cormac McCarthy is very close to amorality, but God shows that he is working through the man and boy. McCarthy uses two Biblical allusions to Israel to create two themes for the reader. The first is an allusion of the man and boy’s journey to the exodus of Israel out of Egypt. This allusion shows that the man and boy are God’s chosen people in their amoral world. The second allusion is the boy to the Messiah of Israel and the rest of the world, Jesus. The allusions to Jesus show the reader that God has a plan of hope for the world through the boy. Both of these allusions show that not only is the world not “godless”, but God is actively working.

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Cormac McCarthy’s dystopian novel, The Road, conveys the world’s loss of faith in God after mass destruction strikes. The setting gives the novel its barren post-apocalyptic atmosphere. The author uses biblical allusions: Book of Revelation, Book of Kings, and aspects of Jesus to give the reader a better understanding of the characters McCarthy links the novel’s desolate setting to Book of Revelation, to give depth to the plot. “Barren, silent, godless. ”(1).

The book, and the movie, “the Outsiders” is about a conflict between greasers and socs. Up until the point where Johnny kills a soc, there are mostly only small fights and arguments between the two. The story “the Outsiders” takes place in the 1960’s, when there were two main lifestyles. Greasers and Socs. Greasers are known for greasing their hair. Socs are rich kids who have good clothes, drive mustangs, and always have an argument against the greasers. The main character in S. E. Hinton’s book “the Outsiders” is Ponyboy Curtis. He has two older brothers Darry and Soda. Pony is 14 years old and his best friend, Johnny, is 16 years old. S. E. Hinton wrote “the Outsiders” when she was 17 years old. Her book was published in 1967. The

The quote “Conflict creates action, and action defines character” means how a simple conflict will lead to an action and depending on how the action is dealt with and is how people will “look” at the character. Conflict means a controversy between characters. The Outsiders is narrated by Ponyboy and his point of view, he is fourteen and apart of the Greasers. Darrel is 20, and Sodapop is 16, The three of them are brothers, they recently lost their parents in a car accident. In the beginning and in the end Ponyboy describes Paul Newman’s characteristics and how “perfect” Ponyboy thinks Paul Newman’s life is.

The title of the story is The Outsiders. S.E. Hinton wrote it. Dell Publishing published the book. The main characters include Ponyboy, Darry, Soadapop, Dally Winston, Johnny, Cherry, Two-Bit, and Marcia.

What are some of the reasons of why people act how they are? In The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, a young teenage boy named Johnny Cade is the most loved in a gang. The psychological theory in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for Johnny is extremely dynamic and is very interesting. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs shows the basic, psychological, and self-fulfillment needs of others. Literary criticism is the art or practice of judging and commenting on the qualities and character of literary works.The conflicts in The Outsiders are the disputes between the greasers and the Socs, and the choice that Johnny made which changed this life. Johnny starts off as a quiet, shy boy but later becomes something even greater.

The Outsiders movie which was released on March 25, 1983, is a American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola .It is a crime thriller and is adapted from a novel of the same name by S.E. Hinton .The Film was shot on location in Tulsa, Oklahoma and set in 1965 .The story of this movie revolves around the conflict between the two different social groups ,which is the rich and the poor. It is a class versus class conflict which gives rise to a physical conflict between the Greasers and the Socs .I feel there are physical fights throughout the story between the two groups due to enculturation. The native culture that is transmitted from one generation to another among the Greasers is the reason for their limitations.

Are things really rough all over? S.E. Hinton shows in her young adult novel The Outsiders that people's prejudice leads to violence and oppression. S.E. Hinton shows this through events that take place and the characters such as Ponyboy, Johnny, Dally and others. In the book The Outsiders, Ponyboy lives with his two brothers Sodapop and Darry. His parents died when he was young. Ponyboy enjoys reading and going to see movies. He was walking back from the movies and got jumped. Johnny has also been jumped in the past. Hinton shows the theme that, prejudice leads to wrong conclusions, violence and oppression. through the characters, plot events, symbols and theme of The Outsiders

Violence is the main thesis in “The Outsiders”, it connects and helps the plot developments. However, violence isn’t a positive action but still happened frequently incur daily life. Above all, violence influenced person’s personality, looking and behavior. For all the characters exist in the book, the person impacted by violence most is Johnny. The difference between he and other is he had got a miserable family background.

An emphasis that can be placed on allusions is in how imagery is portrayed. Bubbly Creek is described as being “constantly in motion, as if huge fish were feeding in it, or great leviathans disporting themselves in its depths”(pg 94). Sinclair

Stereotypes have been around for a long time. In S.E. Hinton’s book of The Outsiders, the setting takes place in the 1960’s on the West and East sides of town. That’s where people are stereotyped as either a Greaser or a Soc based on where they live. The setting affects the characters by developing their personality based on their status, behavior, and where they live.

In the book “The outsiders” written by S.E. Hinton. There is the intelligent boy names Michael Curtis (Pony boy). He is the smartest out of his gang (The greasers). In the story he has a lot of good quotes such as “he looks tough and i don't- but i guess my own looks aren't so bad (pg.16 Hinton) next, “Boys will be boys” (pg.65 Hinton) next, “I guess were disguised” (pg.