The Giver And Hatchet Book Analysis

The Outsiders illustrates the theme through the relationship of Ponyboy and Darry throughout the course of the book. In the beginning of the book, Darry slaps Ponyboy because he came home very late. This causes Ponyboy to run away from home with Johnny. Ponyboy tells Johnny, “‘He didn’t use to be like that...we used to get along okay...before Mom and Dad died. Now he just can’t stand me,’” (Hinton 51). This quote shows that Ponyboy is isolated from his brother. It shows how Ponyboy and Darry are drifting further apart from each other due to the death of their parents. Later on in the book when Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are in the hospital, Sodapop and Darry come to see how they are all doing. When Darry and Sodapop see Ponyboy, they have a

The Outsiders display how adversity can help people find the real meaning of actions. Ponyboy thinks that Darry doesn’t care about him and believes he’s too strict as said in this passage “Me and Darry just don't dig each other. I could never please him… He never hollered at Sodapop, even when Soda dropped out of school or got tickets for speeding.

What is The Giver you may ask? The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel by Lois Lowry. The Giver takes place in an advanced society which seems to be a utopian but ends up being a dystopian as the story ends. There's a 12-year-old boy named Jonas. Their communities eliminated pain and strife by converting everyone to become so called “equal", they also removed emotional feelings like love. Jonas is selected to become the Receiver of Memory which is the person who stores all the past memories of the time before everyone was equal. There may be times where one must receive the wisdom gained from history to help the community's decision making. Jonas has trouble with concepts of all the new emotions and things introduced to him:

Johnny and Dally come from a similar background of unloving parents. While The Outsiders novel does not tell the reader that Dally’s parents are not giving dally the attention that is needed, Dally does tell Ponyboy and Johnny, “‘Shoot, my old man don’t give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter’”(88). While Dally only talks about his family one time, it allows the reader to infer the kind of childhood Dally had. Johnny also had a poor childhood due to his parents, when the narrator describes why Johnny does not go home with Ponyboy, the narrator states that,“Johnny’s parents didn’t care if he came home or not”(49). Apart from the beatings his parents give him, they also did not care about his well being. But their abusive parents did give Johnny and Dally a similarity, but also shaped the two greasers’ behavior.

The book, The Outsiders is about a boy named Ponyboy, his brothers, and the gang he belongs to. Ponyboy’s parents died in a car accident, and his older brother Darry took care of him from that point on. “Darry’s gone through a lot in his twenty years, grown up too fast” (Hinton 2). When Darry loses his parents, he has to mature and become the ‘dad’ in order to take care of his brothers. Darry not only takes a leadership role at home, but also in the gang that he and his brothers belong to. The gang consisted of a few boys including Darry, Dally, Johnny, Soda, Steve, Two-bit, and Ponyboy. Ponyboy was the youngest along with Johnny, the gang pet, who was physically abused at home, and was jumped by a group of people called the Socs. “They had scared him so much.

me of the struggles of Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry and what they are going through. The first reason why the song What Hurts the Most relates to The Outsiders is because in the song it says, “I can take a few tears now and then and just let them out. I’m not afraid of crying once in a while.” This line reminds me of the story because you learn that Ponyboy isn’t afraid to cry. Although, he doesn’t cry about everything, if he needs to he will. As you read the story of Ponyboy’s life and all he has gone through, you can see that when his parents died he was crying but if he gets into trouble he won’t cry. It doesn't matter to Ponyboy if someone yells at

Written by S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders is a fantastic book, exploring all ideas of person vs. person, person vs. self, and person vs. higher power. The main character, Ponyboy faces challenges dealing with lost, family, law, the higher class (known as the soc’s) and his innerself. The book starts with Ponyboy walking out of a movie theater only thinking about a ride home. When he finally gets to his house Darry, his older brother yells at him for walking by himself. Throughout the book Ponyboy has arguments with Darry, whom after their parents passed away becomes ponyboy and his other brother, sodapops gardien. The arguments get so bad that one day Ponyboy decides to run away. Ponyboy meets with his friend Johnny, sense Johnny already had problems

Just like every person even the people in the books have conflict in their life it or not. Ponyboy went through some tough times in the novel ‘The Outsiders’. But when he was going through those tough times he kind of learned something from the situation. There are many things that Ponyboy went through in the novel. There were many causes of the situations that happened along the way. Such as Pony lost many of his very close friends and didn't know how to face it and get through at times in the novel. When ponyboy went through the tough times or conflict in the novel he in a way made the reader and even the characters in the story understand what he was trying to get at and understand him better.

In the book The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, Ponyboy the main character, thinks he has everything figured out in life, he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop and he can count on his friends too. But when it comes to the Soc’s who enjoys beating up Greasers like him and his friends, Ponyboy’s life starts to take a turn. Hinton uses character interactions to show the importance of loyalty. Ponyboy and his friends always protect and look out for each other. For example, friends always look out for each other. To add on to that, you should always stick by your friends even in hard times. In addition, most of the loyalty and friendship in the Outsiders is caused by differences from the Greasers and the Soc’s.

In the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, a major concept is Family. This helps the reader to understand that Darry saved Ponyboy when he got jumped, that Ponyboy thought that Darry treats him awful because he hates him, and that in end of the book Darry and Ponyboy made up their relationship. Ponyboy got saved by Darry while Ponyboy was getting jumped. After leaving the movies, Ponyboy was jumped by the Socs. The Socs almost beat him up but Darry came and saved him.

Lots of people may have gone through childhood with a bad life. Maybe their parents couldn’t provide for them. Maybe they didn’t even know who their parents were. Ponyboy, the main character in The Outsiders had a rough life as a child and teenager. He witnessed a lot of deaths of close friends and family members and went through really tough times.

Everybody faces various hardships in their lifetime. If it may be failing a test, losing a loved one, or being kicked out of your house by your parents, many people face the same misfortune. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy is faced with most of these examples in his strenuous life. Fighting the Socs, saving children out of a burning building, and witnessing his best friends death. As the saying always goes, the book is better than the movie.

Has anyone ever been deeply devastated? A big and beyond compare pain. What if it was something that could change the way someone would look at life? Imagine the very worst happening. The people someone would love gone, in this case, parents. In the novel entitled The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton, she walks the reader through the experiences of a fourteen year old boy and his six lifelong friends who call themselves the “Greasers.” Along the way Ponyboy Curtis, the youngest greaser, finds himself in a touchy situation that may place him in a boys home. Ponyboy should not be placed in a boys home because he has loving brothers who care for him, support him, and he also takes honor classes and does significantly in school.

Lois Lowry and Phillip Noyce both gives the audience two different versions of a dystopian society in Lois Lowry original work. Noyce changes the characters personality the opposite of what they are suppose to be in the film. Some parts in the film were lacking sameness with the book. Parts of the memories Jonas recieves are similar but different. Although the movie is filled with actions, ultimately the characters, theme, and plot are more interesting and focuses in the novel, The Giver.

Adolescence is one of the most important and influential times of one’s life. During this time, a child formulates what kind of person they will be as an adult in society. Often times, events can change a personality and thought process completely. These event can be extremely good and affect the child positively or terribly bad, changing them negatively. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is an example of a young adult novel because it includes the growth and evolution of a character’s psyche, demonstrates universal challenges facing typical adolescents, and contains a wide variety viewpoints on different