The Themes Of Piri's Down These Mean Streets

The novel is capable of giving readers more insight into the story with the use of symbols and hidden meanings. It is able to do this because it depicts important underlying messages and incidents. For instance, in the novel one may realize that Mary Anne starts to wear a necklace with tongues on it. This shows the readers that Mary Anne is no longer than clean innocent girl. She is now a brutal solder always ready to kill. “Elongated and narrow, like pieces of blackened leather, the tongues were threaded along a length of copper wire, one overlapping the next, the tips curled upward as if caught in a final shrill syllable” (O’Brien 111). Portrayed in both the novel and movie is Mary Anne’s change in personal hygiene. “No cosmetics, no fingernail filing.” “She stopped wearing jewelry, cut her hair short and wrapped

Is the novel making the same point about the value or ideas as the film? If so, how? If it is making a different point about the value or idea, how is it different?

The tone is set quickly and effectively. With the book and the movie you “are not being invited into fictional believe and deaths, into the imagination, but into the absorbing reality of flesh and blood”. (McCabe 561).

The novel and the movie were both very suspenseful. The main characters are both the same in the book and in the movie but are a little bit different then their counter partners in the novel/movie. In both the movie and

Determined to help his audience - people who stereotype against and do not understand gang life - find commonalities with gang members, Fr. Boyle shares his experiences with gangs in Los Angeles. At the beginning of the novel, Fr. Boyle articulates his thesis and expresses his purpose for sharing his experiences when he states, “Though this book does not concern itself with solving the gang problem, it does aspire to broaden the parameters of our kinship. It hopes not only to put a human face on the gang member, but to recognize our own wounds in the broken

Rudolfo Anaya, author of “Bless Me, Ultima”, uses an analogy of a lake during one of his interviews. He states that the top of the lake is the story and as you go deeper into it, you discover several important symbols and archetypes. The archetypes he uses connects the audience to the “the collective memory” and “connects us to every human being who has ever existed”. Archetypes help authors develop their stories and/or novels with characters that symbolize something meaningful. People often can relate to certain books because of author ’s uses of archetypes.

Also the conflict that was announced in the parking lot where the bad older character was hit with a tire iron and the three young teenage boys were fighting with this man. For the most part the narrator consistently talks about his wild life style. He chose even though he was from a well off family and he didn't have to take that road, but we all have the choice and every generation goes though it. The narrator also tips of his rebirth and baptism in the lake while he was running from his fight that he just encountered with the tire iron he trips over a body floating in the lake. All in all I thought this story was super fun to read and relate to in the sense of being wild and ruthless, but the song that came along with it was pretty awsome and was fun to listen to and get a feel for the time period and style back in the day where it was good to be

The novel and the movie share many similarities.The book and the novel share the same problems. A example johnny and pony run away since johnny killed bob.In both johnny gets injured badly and dies.

The “outsiders” movie and novel are very fascinating. Both the movie and the novel have many differences.

The movie and the book had one main thing in common; the plot. They are both about heirs coming to Sunset Towers to figure out who murdered Sam Westing for millions of dollars. The heirs are split up into pairs, and are given clues to play Mr. Westing’s game. Both the movie and the book have similar pairs, but each pair connects differently.

How we dress, talk, and behave can have life or death consequences, with young people particularly at risk. Myself would define it as the ultimate black urban experience. More importantly, I was more engaged to read the book eager to base my own personal experience of my black urban neighborhood to compare to the residents interviews Anderson tackles and the assertion Anderson makes between street" persons from "decent" persons and families, with decent families tending to accept mainstream values, while street values are part of an oppositional culture. In addition, I wanted to see if he is accurate about his assumptions that the constant threat of violence to the circumstances of life among the ghetto stir from poor lack of living-wage jobs, dearth of basic public services, the stigma of race, the fallout from rampant drug trafficking and use, and the ensuing alienation and lack of hope for the future. After just finishing chapter one and two I was amazed and shocked by his knowledge and illustration on the distinction along with the relationships between “street” and “decent”

The book tells the same story as the movie but in a different way it cuts out thing the movies has or the movies adds thing that's not in the book. The book has some not many similar but . I feel the director was unfaithful to the book.The book and movie version of Our America had many differences.

After reading The Hate U Give, my eyes were opened to the struggles that people face in “ghettos”. Before reading this book, I never thought how awful it can be to be stuck there and not be a part of the gangs, drugs, and crime. Starr is stuck in Garden Heights even though she frowns upon all of the shady dealings that occur around her. I know many people that look at residents of not-so-nice neighborhoods and automatically assume that they are just another gangbanging “hood rat” (a term I’m heard a lot). I know many people who do not act and despise people that act in such a manner and this book showed me how they deal with these stereotypes put on them.

Santana was born to a culture that has been historically abused for labor, marginalized (Kendall, 2007), and reputed as criminals. Santana’s opportunities in life were predetermined by forces in position of power long before his birth. Due to the circumstance of Santana’s conception he served as a constant reminder of his mother’s violation. The young Santana, rejected by his father and emotionally abandoned by his mother, was unable to garner a sense of belonging from home. Santana finds the family he seeks amongst his friends on the streets and from his gang La Eme in

IV: In both the movie and the book the plot is basically the same. A man, Nick Carraway leaves his small town life