An example of this would be, “ I usually Lone it anyway”. Which shows his feelings on how he doesn’t care. Also when the reader imagines Ponyboy you get a lower class hoodlum image but when you read on Ponyboy doesn’t fit the Hoodlum stereotype as you find he is very intelligent as he has a high IQ and makes good grades but doesn’t like to show it as his older brother Darry expects a high grades from him. In addition Ponyboy admires his brother Sodapop as he
There are always two sides: the good ones and the bad ones. Obviously it is not possible to define each one because there are different ways of setting a preference for who is the good or the bad. The Socs are the privileged kids from the Westside that as the word Soc means society, they have nice cars, they are rich and they live for bluffing. The Greasers are the unprivileged ones who live in the poor side and have to put up with the Soc’s attacks, in both moral and physical ways. A special detail to look at are the changes the protagonist undergoes during the novel which I think is one of the main purposes the author wants us to pay special attention to, since the entire plot is based on Pony’s feelings and expectation for his life.
His family is quite wealthy, and he visits a private boarding school. Like every other teenager, Holden acts typically like a teenager. His statements and assertions are often unnecessary and uninteresting, and have an arrogant tone. Holden judges people based on their suitcases, since he thinks it is “really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are better than theirs.” This statement just comes out of nowhere and completely irritates the reader. Holden implies by mentioning his thought, that roommates with cheap suitcases are hard to be with, that he is a special person that everyone envies and is jealous of.
All three are happy in the rela tionship they have with one-another. However, one day, he was told, "Now look here, we don't want any more trouble from you, but if ever we see you near those girls again, you'll find yourself up before a magistrate" (57). Ernest is deprived his life, w hat makes him happy. He is deprived the only friendship he has because the unwritten social code suggests that a man such as himself befriending young girls as such means that he is a paedophile. The detectives interfere with his life.
In the beginning of the book, Pip gives us an image that he’s a friendly, kind, chubby boy who helps out Magwitch. When Pip is taken by uncle Pumblecrook, he meets a young rich girl, who treats him terribly, by the name of Estella. He wants to prove his worthiness to her, by setting out on the path of great expectations and becoming a gentleman. This contributes to him being a memorable character since we never forget the determination he has, and also the title relates to Pip himself, making it also memorable. He refers to the title, since it’s about his path of great expectations, he has great expectations since, because of his background, it’s hard for him to become a gentlemen.
“...it’s just a way of trying to break us”. Their greasy long hair gives them a sense of pride, safety and a way of showing that they are a greaser. All their lives the greasers have been judged on the way the look rather than their personality. The rivalry between the greasers and the Socs is mainly due to wealth and social class. The Socs have all the breaks while the greasers have to work hard for everything they have or want in the future.
The quizmaster – who himself has gone from rags to riches - presents this belief to the audience, and their response shows them to be in agreement with it. The wealthy were seen as intelligent and were given more chances to move up than the poor people from the slums. The inspector was a middle class man who probably never knew what it was like to be poor. He immediately felt that Jamal was a lying, cheat and that he couldn’t possibly have known the answers because he was only a poor “chai walla”. This is a contradiction because one of the inspectors involved was really stupid and showed it in the way that he got angry when Jamal used big words or said something he didn’t understand.
Although suddenly coming into a large amount of money is seen by most as the key to happiness, such outlook could not be further from the truth. Greed is defined as a selfish and excessive desire for more of something than as needed. This destructive trait can be seen in the lottery winners themselves, strangers who know who the winner is and hassle them for money, and even those who are especially close to the winner and feel that they deserve something from them. It is a familiar occurrence when someone suddenly becomes so popular and liked that everyone automatically wants to become their friend, whether they were friends with them before they were popular or not. It is the same thing with the lottery; everyone wants to befriend the winner.
Dickens castigates this class system through the foils of Estella and Biddy, Magwitch’s generosity, and Jaggers’ coolly indifferent ethics. The drastic differences in social status of Biddy and Estella molds them into very different people, with conflicting values and traits. Biddy is compassionate and approachable, Pip “repose[s] complete confidence in no one but Biddy” (95). Biddy, being raised lower class, is shocked at first to discover Pip’s desire to become a gentleman, “Oh I wouldn’t, if I was you!” (128). A working class citizen is no less respectable than a gentleman in Biddy’s eyes, it is the character of the person that truly matters.
To begin, Pip demonstrations his maturation throughout the novel through his frequently changing relationship with his brother-in law, Joe. In the beginning of the novel, Pip greatly admires Joe, considering him his best friend. However, after he receives a benefactor and is introduced to high-class society, he is immediately ashamed of his family and origins, instantaneously becoming greedy and insensitive. Pip’s gluttonous and petty behavior is shown through his reaction to Joe visiting him in London , “I was looking forward to Joe’s coming not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, Spriet 2 some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity. If I could have kept him away by paying money, I certainly would have paid money” (Dickens 170).