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).

In the book, “To Kill A Mockingbird” there are many allusions the author uses to impact the story and characters. Three of them which stood out was “No money to buy it with” (Lee 6),“Here’s a quarter” (Lee 25), and “Nothing to fear but fear itself” (Lee 6). All three impact Lee’s narrative, add to the reader’s experience and connects to the world. Lee used these allusions to pull the reader into the book. The first quote, “No money to buy it with” (Lee 6), shows the reader what type of town Maycomb is.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The humans’ nature is always following other people without thinking. People are afraid to be different from others. When some people or some groups of people trying to be unique and different like the Hippies people will think they are disgusted. This is because power of conformity is very strong in the society. In every big city or even small town influence of the conformity were shown up. In The Outsiders, conformity is everywhere in this small town which is located in the south of U.S. Tulsa, Oklahoma. In this story are all about Greasers and Socials. The conformity in this story is showed up by the symbols that are described personality and social class of the characters in the story. In this story the conformity shows up mostly by the symbol.