The Strangers That Came To Town Essay

In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, it's built around the class division between the Socs and the greasers. The kids in the Socs came from privileged and wealthy families while the greaser grew up in a unstable and poor environment, and it shaped who they are and how they act. The novel deals with issues important to urban teens, and the obstacles that are part of their daily lives, showing realism in Hinton's writing. In the article ¨The Urban Experience in Recent Young Adult Novels¨ by Sandra Hassell and Sandy Guild, it discuss the importance of urban teens worlds represented in literature. The article consists of many characteristics that are established in urban youth books such as, the usage of slang, strong sense of community,

The Outsiders Essay – Describe an interesting theme from a text you have studied. Explain why this theme is interesting.

African American racial tension has decreased drastically, since the fifties our country has leaps and bounds towards equality. James Baldwin wrote Stranger in the Village, and he wrote about his experience living in a small Swiss village and how he was able to evaluate the American society and its issues of race. Baldwin specifically focused on African American racial issues. Baldwin makes arguments about how race is treated much different in Europe, he also argued how there are still a lot of problems with American society that need to be changed. I agree with Baldwin's thoughts however this essay is outdated and isn't completely relevant to our society today; however some of the broader ideas are.

The Selfish Madness of Duddy Kravitz The story of Duddy Kravitz reveals that there’s more to strive towards in life than being financially successful. Mordecai Richler’s The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz covers the story of a young man who begins to pursue money and land in response to misinterpreting advice from his grandfather. Throughout the novel, Duddy Kravitz fights for money and land, hurting those around him in the process. He breaks the hearts of those who love him and pushes them away through the horrible deeds he performs for his money.

Tom and Andy are delightful young kids whom are curious and got tangled up in peer pressure related incidents. Looking deep into the kids surprisingly shows that they are delightful, even though a few incidents show otherwise. The kids comprehend that the Duvitch’s were suffering from various illnesses. In addition the Duvitch’s were at a loss of money due to the fact that their father lost two weeks of pay. The kids appreciated when Dr.Switzer aided to the family without any charge. They showed their true colours after they presented the Dutvitches with 61 fish because they had finally opened their eyes and stopped thinking like everyone else. They began to appreciate the Duvitch’s and their way of life. “She quietly turned and went away; and again I felt that I had witnessed a profound moment.” (Page 13) The kids were extremely curious when the Duvitch’s moved to town, like most young kids would be.

Freedom is something that we struggle to strive since the day we step into this world. We can see in this book All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr that most of the characters are experiencing a common struggle is the ability to be free. One of the characters that I connect mostly with is Werner. Werner as an orphan while living in Hitler’s times his life, opportunities, and choices were limited.

Eliza,Harry and George leave the Quakers and are soon confronted by Loker and his gang but they manage to once again evade them.George proclaims to them that he will stop at nothing and will become a free man.At his new home Tom is given the responsibility of keeping his masters books.Also he is spreading his good word by trying to reform his new master,who we learn feels he isn’t cut out for slavery.Little Eva demonstrates the power of love when she helps Tom write a letter to his family with whom he is still in close contact. St.Clare and his brother have a heated discussion about slavery while Eva asks her cousin to try to love his slave.

My gut reaction to Act 2 of The Stranger is I found it dry in the beginning because it was him complaining about prison, but as he began to discuss his trial it became more interesting. The question I kept asking myself was, what will happen to his trial? Will he plead guilty, get off the hook or something totally different? It wasn’t a predictable book, it was one where you didn’t know what was going to happen until the end of the book. I ended up liking the book more after finishing it, I wasn’t a big fan of Act 1. I found it very hard to read and get through.

The carriages in Charles Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities, are much more than just modes of travel for the middle and upper classes. These carriages symbolize everything from safety and freedom to oppression and condemnation. In an early scene in Paris, a carriage is carrying a wine cask. The carriage crashes, and the cask falls into the street, bursting and spilling the wine. Every citoyen in sight rushes to the scene and they all begin to drink the tainted wine. This scene foreshadows the bloodshed to come from the guillotine, which will spill blood into the street in the future. Even though the Manette family and their excursions are the focal point of A Tale of Two Cities, many other events are developing in the background. By the end

In reading this poem the first time, I had no clue as to what Cummings was speaking of. However, after many times through and several on-line readings, I believe that I have some semblance as to what Cummings was trying to convey in this poem. In reading this poem through on my own the first time, I saw Anyone as any person. However, Anyone is actually an individual, as is Noone. Anyone is seen to be a happy person as in line 4, he is seen singing and dancing. However, in contrast to him, were the women and men who not only didn't care for Anyone but also are living a life of a boring routine. The men and women are also referred to as Someones and Everyones. It is

Luke runs into Michael for the second time, although this time around it doesn’t seem so peculiar. The world feels awfully smaller when you’ve been eighteen for nearly a century. The surprising part of seeing Michael is where, a gala hosted by the Milan fraction of the Clave. From what Luke remembers, Michael was never a big fan or even a partaker in the Clave’s business. But people change, especially vampires. Something Luke has learned all too well over the years.

     Albert Camus’ The Stranger, is told by narrarator, Meursault . Our speaker seems to be a person detached from feelings, he shows no emotion. Neither the external world in which Meursault lives nor the internal world of his thoughts and attitudes possesses any rational order. He doesn’t have reasons for doing half of the things he does. For these reasons I believe Meursault is determined, but doesn’t know it.

I walked down the filthy New York City sidewalk on my way to the bus stop. I hated living here. People were always asking me for money and food, and on the sidewalks people were always running into me and touching me with their disgusting hands. Things weren’t any better at home. I live with my two older twin brothers, Kyle and Henry, who hang around each other all the time and never with me. They hate me. These are all the reasons why I’m headed for the bus stop. I am running away.

The extract from Ian McEwan's novel The Comfort of Strangers tells the story of Robert and his distant relationship with his family. Robert, the narrator, revisits the time that his parents left him and his sisters home alone in his effort to see if his sisters did, in fact, hate him for telling on them. During their parents' absence, Robert followed his sisters into their parents' room and watched them play dress up with their mother's belongings. The extract follows a sequence of events: the first is dress up in the early afternoon, then, clean up in the late afternoon, followed by dinner. In this extract, Ian McEwan displays Robert's distant relationship with his sisters, father, and mother by demonstrating the unreliability of appearances

Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursley’s sister, but they hadn’t met for several years; in fact, Mrs. Dursley pretended she didn’t have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors would say if the Potters arrived in the street. The Dursleys knew that the Potters had a small son, too, but they had never even seen him. This boy was another good reason for keeping the Potters away; they didn’t want Dudley mixing with a child like that. When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country. Mr. Dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work, and Mrs. Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming Dudley into his high chair. None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter past the window. At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the