The Misfits Book Report

group. The book focuses primarily on one boy and his brother who started the group, Knud and

Another symbol is Just Frank, who is an old guy that stayed at the corner in the apartments. He would tell Bobby that he needed to change if he wanted to become a man. One night Just Frank was killed while trying to help a girl from being dragged into an alley by an idiot. Frank trying to help the girl was being a man. Bobby wants to be a man like Just Frank. He wants to be someone’s hero and make a change. “I went to his funeral at Zion AME, then walked home and held Feather for the rest of the night, wondering if I would be a man, a good man” (Johnson 7). This quote from the novel shows that Bobby wants to be like Just Frank and be a man.

Ponyboy Curtis - The novel's fourteen-year-old narrator and protagonist, and the youngest of the greasers. Ponyboy's literary 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. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense, but Ponyboy is a reliable and observant narrator. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love. He matures over the course of the novel, eventually realizing the importance of strength in the face of class bias.

It is hard to analyze Bobby as a character by using one theoretical perspective but I am confident that Lenore Walker’s “Cycle of Violence Theory” (Barnett, Miller-Perrin, and Perrin 315) best describes Bobby’s behaviors as a classic batterer. As defined, the theory has three phase’s, the first phase is “Tension Building”, minor incidents of violence, along with the build-up of anger, verbal put-downs, jealousy, threats, and breaking things. This phase could describe the initial escalation by Bobby to start intimidating Fran prior to their marriage. The second phase is the “Battering Phase”, where major violent outbursts occur like Bobby breaking Fran’s collarbone and nose. The last phase is the “Honeymoon Phase” where the perpetrator is remorseful and loving. There were times where this would apply, but Bobby was not consistently loving after he beat Fran, rather he would often attempt to downplay the intensity and effects or even blame Fran for causing the incident while downplaying his violence, and in some cases denying that it took place, as with the initial instance where Bobby explained that he “just came at you a lil”.

While reading The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, I felt as if I took a time travel to the 1960’s. The book clearly gives an insight to the past. Unlike other book, The Outsiders has its own unique meaning. The author created something different than a modern clique book that I read in my day to day life. Hinton’s word choice creates an interesting book where it felt as if it was non-fiction than young-adult fiction. I like this book because the author made something extraordinary by stating the past rather than another author’s writing twenty-first century book.

The Misfit is our antagonist in the short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” written by Flannery O’Connor. He is a mysterious man who’d give you the sense of trust, but his actions are not pardoning. He’d show the qualities of a good man and the qualities of a psychopath. His background and stories don’t quite fit his actions, that is why he calls himself “The Misfit.” Although The misfit’s actions are ringing the bell of a psychopath, his inner-self shows otherwise. The Misfit is full of flaws but he is no psychopath, he’s just a man who is forced to live a life that was not meant for him. Deep down inside he’s a good man, but life forced him to act differently.

In or when bobby runs off to do graffiti he states and or shows he misses his childhood by painting all the stuff he did before he had to become a father. How he paints the arcade and painted him and J.L.hanging out with nia and K-boy there it shows how he misses being a kid and and misses that time away from the baby. He also painted him playing ball another thing he missed doing and how he wished he could but can't because he has to take care of feather and that is a part of growing up or being a father. Graffiti shows or states that bobby misses his freedom away from father and or he misses his innocent due to the drawings he made on the brick wall in the

And this quote means that bobby has lost respect for himself and his friends have lost respect for him. This makes bobby feel upset because no one respects him and now he is treated as if he wasn't even there.

In chapter two, Ponyboy destinguishes the difference between the Socials and the Greasers more than ever. Greasers are poor and have "gangs". Socs on the

It was almost like the author ran out of ideas and didn’t know how to end the story. In the beginning, Bobby becomes invisible and throughout the story, he meets a blind girl who he becomes close friends with. They then start to find a cure for Bobby’s baffling condition. At the end, it turns out it was just an electric blanket that made him invisible and all he did was wear it again. I actually sort of hated this because I wanted more action and more mystery’s to solve but instead, an electric blanket was the culprit. This is probably one of the worst endings for such a great book with many other possible

A symbol that is shown is the symbol of the arcade, and children playing games. Bobby will see these children, or talk of what his friends are doing in the arcade; furthermore, it shows that Bobby wants to be a kid again. A symbol that is also shown is the symbol of the bubblegum. The bubblegum found on page 108 shows that he feels the temptation to leave Feather behind, and to just have his life be easy and simple. These symbols all show his longing to be a kid again, but he doesn’t follow these promptings. Bobby always seems to only glance at these symbols, but not put them to action. He doesn’t want to leave Feather all alone, even if it is hard. Another thing that Bobby does throughout the book is he censors himself. Instead of speaking out loud, he stops himself. On page forty-two, Bobby thinks to himself while the teacher is talking, and doesn’t try to contradict what the teacher is saying. He tries his hardest to just listen and keep the situation from getting worse. Throughout the book, Bobby says that he sometimes wants to be like Feather. He even acts like he is Feather’s brother on page 82 saying, “Yeah, she’s easy to deal with, my sister,” in order to get out of the responsibility of being a parent, yet he still has to take care of Feather at the end of the day. “This must be what made my mom’s eyes narrow and nasty words come out of her mouth. This must be what helped give my dad an ulcer and that look on his face that says-what next (Page 33)?” Bobby is able to realize that what he has done has changed the lives of his parents, and it has made the situation harder for his family overall. He feels bad, saying, “I feel worse because I’m taking my dad’s smile and probably some more things he’ll never talk about (Page 74),” and he sees that he might have taken his dad’s smile away. He feels guilty, and therefore decides that he will do as much as he can without his parent’s help. This

In the first chapter, Bobby states that he thinks of the world as wrong. He thinks that "if the world were really right, humans would live life backwards and do the first part last. They would be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end" (TFPL pg. 4). Bobby was given more reason to think this way when "Just Frank", the homeless guy who always asked Bobby if he "was being a man", got murdered while trying to stop a nutjob from pulling a helpless girl into an alley. Just Frank had been killed in cold blood by a man whose sole intent was to harm. This man had lost everything, and was probably having the worst time of his entire life when he was murdered while trying to save someone's life. Then, the thought arose, "why do bad things happen to good people", which gave Bobby a respect for this man who he had seen as a joke for a very long time. He died when he was the most alone, and Bobby wishes that humans would die when they are young and innocent and in the arms of their loving parents and surrounded by people who care about them. Not to be murdered in cold blood in an alley when help is needed the most. This changed Bobby's outlook on the world and gave him a new sense of maturity and

-Bobby decides that Mr. Kellerman's life is mostly standing around the shop and waiting for the PA to announce the store's closing

How Society Affects People “If we don’t have each other, we don’t have anything. We’re all we have left. We ought to be able to stick together against everything,” (Hinton). Characters are affected by society positively and negatively throughout the book, the video, and the poem. The society in the book, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, affected characters positively, like the poem, “The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to be,” by Nikki Giovanni did, as well as the video “On the Road with Steve Hartman.”

The video I have decided to evaluate is “The beauty of being a misfit” by Lidia Yuknavitch. With Lidias speech, she was able to get her point across clearly, I was able to follow and not lose interest or track of the message she was trying to perceive to her audience. Lidia was able to get her main idea and point across by reaching out to her audience with her own personal life story of being a misfit in almost everything she did, but still being a misfit and accomplishing her dream was clear and understanding. So, clear that while she was speaking, my life and my misfits were running through my head. Her purpose of her speech was effective because it made me realize that you can only live out your story and make it what you want to do with