Role Of Orphan In The Outsiders

characteristics of a hero as described by Joseph Campbell in The Hero With A Thousand Faces. These characteristics are largely demonstrated in the hero’s childhood though they extend through the hero’s journey. Mostly, the hero must grow up as an orphan or an outsider and endure a difficult childhood as a result of this. The child’s guardians are often cruel or ignorant of the child’s needs. By surviving loneliness the hero will learn kindness and empathy which will allow him to build important relationships

In the introduction of the Outsiders written by Julia Eccleshare, the author explains that “unlike most stories about adolescence, this novel is not about the breakaway from restrictive parents. In fact, adults have been almost completely removed from the story. Far more interestingly, it is about how teenagers regard themselves and each other.” As a matter of fact, it is precisely how the novel begins. The story takes place in Oklahoma and relates the story of a small group of teenagers who live

novel, The Outsiders, because a lot of beliefs, motives, and arrangements happen in that novel due to either Nature or Nurture. In the novel, The Outsiders, Ponyboy and his two older brothers, Darry and Sodapop, are orphans. Their parents died in a car accident a few years before. So Darry, the oldest of the three, stepped up and took the head of the family and was the leader. Ponyboy said that Darry acts just like their father. With that being said, does Nature play the biggest role in how a person

novel, The Outsiders, because a lot of beliefs, motives, and arrangements happen in that novel due to either Nature or Nurture. In the novel, The Outsiders, Ponyboy and his two older brothers, Darry and Sodapop, are orphans. Their parents died in a car accident a few years before. So Darry, the oldest of the three, stepped up and took the head of the family and was the leader. Darry who in Ponyboy’s words, acts just like their father. With that comment does Nature play the bigger role in how a

her depiction of the characters Catherine Earnshaw Linton and Heathcliff. Catherine begins the novel as a tomboyish girl, with no intentions of becoming a “lady” as defined by the society of her time. She only begins to want to conform to feminine roles when she is introduced to the expectations of women by the Lintons, causing her to begin to abandon her own independence in favor of conforming to societal norms. In doing so, she not only limits her own life, but spurns Heathcliff into a rage and

love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Written in the Victorian Era where social class played a major role in determining one’s position in society, Brontë utilizes mirroring characters to illustrate the parallelism of multiple characters to present the idea that one’s identity and the choices they make mirror their social standing. Heathcliff, born dark-skinned and an orphan, was already considered to be of a lower class than everybody else. He was adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, where his status

Women as Outsiders: A Comparison Of Jane Eyre and "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" Women are often portrayed as a marginalized "other" or outsider in literature, reflecting the degree to which they are outside the traditional patriarchal concepts of authority and power as well as (for much of Western history) outside the practical and legal means of self-sufficiency and self-direction. As the times have shifted, the particular perspective and definition of women as outsiders has also changed, as can

How Charlotte Bronte Creates Sympathy for Jane in the First Two Chapters of the Novel Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre (1848) is a story is about a ten year old orphan girl called Jane Eyre. Her circumstances are as follows; when both of her parents died within a year of her birth, leaving her into the care of her Aunt, Mrs Reed. Mrs Reed is a widow of Jane's uncle, who broke her promise to late husband by mistreating Jane cruelly. Then Jane is also bullied by here three

middle-aged man, and grows from a shy orphan into a successful lawyer for the railroad companies, acquiring an impressive education along the way at the University of Nebraska and Harvard. Ántonia is caught between her natural optimism and cheer and the extremely difficult circumstances that she faces after her emigration from Bohemia and her father’s suicide in America. She is also trapped by the cultural differences that make her feel like a perpetual outsider in Nebraska and lead, in part, to her

Victim vs. Victimizer Readers often pity literary characters who play the role of a victim. In Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Heathcliff: an outsider brought into the wealthy Earnshaw family, Hindley: the eldest Earnshaw child with a strong dislike for Heathcliff, and Hareton: the orphaned child Heathcliff takes in to raise, are victims, yet they evolve to perpetuate the abuse they suffered. Being able to be or become a victim or victimizer show the complexity of these characters. Emily Bronte