The Outsiders Ponyboy Curtis A groundbreaking teenage rebel story written by a brilliant writer S.E Hinton "The Outsiders" is about a gang of brothers and friends called the "Greasers" who learn the importance friendship. Ponyboy Curtis, the youngest member of the greasers, narrates the novel. Ponyboy theorises on the motivations and personalities of his friends and describes events in a slang, youthful voice. Ponyboy’s interests and academic accomplishments set him apart from the rest of his gang. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop.
Finny never failed to forgive Gene for his faults, and he helped Gene develop into a man who was ready for war. These books are different in that their narrators are of different genders. In the reality of adolescence, teenage boys and girls both learn to grow through their mistakes and their experiences. However, how they go about this task differs. In Prep, Lee dealt with sexual curiosity and drama in friendships.
Although he was quite young to be part of the greaser’s gang, Ponyboy Curtis showed many people that he could have been one of the greatest hero’s in the novel. Ponyboy is one of the few people in the story who respected others as well as Socs and did not enjoy fighting. Throughout the story, Ponyboy ponders the question, ‘why people in both the Greaser’s and Soc’s gang enjoyed fighting’. The answers he received which were, “It’s fun” or “It’s for pride” or even “because we hate the Socs”. Ponyboy thought this was just an act of self-defence.
The script perfectly captures all the feelings and urges of Seth and Evan, angry with each other because their lives are headed in different directions and like “knocked up” the movie also manages to combine filthy phrases and dirty words with almost delicate emotion and truthfulness. Superbad really is a teen movie with heart and all the characters are loveable, even the selfish and foul mouthed Seth has a sense of naivety which makes him resemble a little 4 year old
Attics, scout jem and society all misjudged boos shy personality for so,e crazy killer man. - . As the story goes on we find scout beginning to realises boos situation. When scout and jem are in a life threatening situation boo reveals himself and saves the young lives of them. By the times Attucks and heck Tate understand boos innocence, to was to late to save him.
Dally is one of the oldest, and certainly the toughest. He seems to enjoy being a criminal. He thinks the law is a joke. Johnny is even shyer than Pony. His parents abuse him, so he always seems scared.
Being pegged a tom-boy from the beginning, readers see this in her willingness to fight any boy that comes along or even any adult that questions her. Part of her courage though comes from being naive . She doesn't always know or understand the danger around her.In chapter 2, Scout represents the voice of reason from the children to their new teacher Miss Caroline. She speaks on their behalf, which took courage since she ultimately gets in trouble for most everything she says to Miss Caroline.In chapter 15, Scout bursts into a mob of men potentially about to hurt Atticus.In chapter 31, Scout meets Boo face-to-face. She treats this man like a child.
This is reflected in hes actions as an adult because as an adult he had reversed the roles, he was now acting out as the molester. Gacy was labelled as sociopathic and according to Sam Duncan & Jack Lenz a socio path is ; breaking the rules and laws, takes advantage of other people for personal gain, feels little remorse or guilt, appears friendly and charming on the surface and is often intelligent. This definition clearly fits Gacy personality perfectly because he often enticed young boys to take a ride with him taking advantage of their trust for he’s personal gain. Everyone who knew him thought him to be a likable friendly person but that was only on the outside. He was good at deceiving people and he’s neighbor’s trusted him enough to spend Christmas and holidays with him, even went as far as saying he was a very intelligent
If there a was a battle that others couldn’t beat, he would strategize and bring out all his intelligent’s to be the best at it and prove to others he deserved his spot. “He jumped at the giant, clambered up his lip and nose and began to dig in the giants eye”(64). No matter how hard ender played and studied it was never good enough for him and would always give it everything he had. Ender Wiggin the most sensitive, determined but yet intelligent boy. When
Imaginary audience arises from the larger concept of adolescent egocentrism. Teens will feel that the imaginary audience is always commenting and judging them, teens at times can get caught up in their imagination and consider themselves “celebrities” but no one is actually watching them. The adolescent get so caught up in their imagination, that they develop a mood for their “audience”. The mood that the “audience” usually has is the attitude that the teen has that day for example if the teen feels self conscious than the “audience” is going to be judgmental. Children in childhood have imaginary friends, and they do believe that “others see what they see, know what they know, hear what they