Violence In The Outsiders

In today’s world there are people that commit violent crimes every day. Violent people all over plan horrible things to do to public people such as a shooting in a school, a store, or an airport. Not all people are violent but there are many violent people in the world, people go through horrible things and it can alter their brain to think differently and violently. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton contains a great deal of violence throughout the story, violence is a lifestyle in the main character, Ponyboy, and his gangs lives. Violence is something most people want to avoid; although, some try to bring violence to society.

I am discussing the book the outsiders by S.E Hinton and analyzing the impact violence has on the main characters. My main aim of this essay is to assess and demonstrating the emotional and physical damage to the characters Johnny, bob and Dally caused by violence.

Johnny has a fear of Socs after getting jumped by them, which led him to kill Bob. He is regularly beaten by his father and emotionally abused by his mother. Ponyboy mentioned a quotation of Johnny   “ I had never been jumped, but I had seen Johnny after four Socs got hold of him, and it wasn’t pretty. Johnny was scared of his own shadow after that.” After Johnny killed Bob trying to protect Ponyboy from drowning he ran away with Ponyboy to an abandoned church in Windrixville. At the time he was afraid of anybody that he thought could hurt him. When the church went up in flames Johnny made the decision to run in with Ponyboy to save the children in the burning building. His gallant actions led to him being paralyzed, but he learned to overcome his fears of easily being frightened. Before that, he always used to think about killing himself because he was scared and hurt, but now knowing that he has something to live for he thought he was too young to die. He said this “you want to know something, Ponyboy? I’m scared stiff. I used to think about killing myself… ”, “ I don't want to die now. It ain’t long enough. Sixteen years ain’t long enough. I wouldn’t mind it so much if there wasn’t so much stuff I ain’t done yet --- and so many things I ain’t seen. It’s not fair. You know what? That time we were in Windrixville was the only time I’ve been away from our neighbourhood.” Thus, adversity can help to overcome the hardships and

Later, Johnny conveys his guilt to Ponyboy when he says: “‘There sure is a lot of blood in people.’”(Hinton 74), nearly quoting Shakespeare in Macbeth. In a later conversation with Johnny, Ponyboy gets thinking about this new world he has been thrust into. In the text he says: “I liked my books and clouds and sunsets. Dally was so real he scared me.”(Hinton 76) This shows how Ponyboy likes when the hero can beat the villain and get a pretty sunset at the end. But now Ponyboy has to deal with the real-world effects of violence, and he doesn’t like it. This marks one of Ponyboy’s first major changes of his mindset on violence.

The main point in The Great Gatsby is identity. It revolves by Nick’s narrative focusing on Gatsby and himself. As well as loniness and how it can affect others. As an example in the novel, West Egg described the new coming rich meanwhike the East Egg described the inherited of an empty rich. The author Fitzgerald, F. Scott showed rich people as carefree and uptight people. For as Gatsby is described as the new rich fpr having a huge mansion and having good clothengs. And as for the East Egg they are more calm and colletive with a good qualaty of elegance. The East Egg can be well described as the Buchanan’s family household and how well dress

One of the major topics explored in The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth, specifically, how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the country’s richest families. In the novel, West Egg and its denizens represent the newly rich, while East Egg and its denizens, especially Daisy and Tom, represent the old aristocracy. Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. Gatsby, for example, lives in a monstrously ornate mansion, wears a pink suit, drives a Rolls-Royce,

In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton shows that fights create more violence and can even lead to tragedy. The narrator Ponyboy, a greaser was scared for when Johnny got jumped Ponyboy reflected on his feelings in chapter 1, “I had never been jumped, but I had seen Johnny after the after four Socs got hold of him, and it wasn't pretty. Johnny was scared of his own shadow after that. He was sixteen then.” (Hinton 4) This quote is an example that fights and violence can lead to tragedy because after Johnny had been jumped by the Socs he was terrified and scared of his own shadow. He had to start walking with a group of people. This also happened at an early age so Johnny was scared after a while, “ he was scared of his own shadow after he got jumped” This scene had me thinking about Johnny in the beginning of the book because he was only young and was just walking home and was jumped and attacked by four people scaring him for the rest of the book.

Violence plays a big role in this book and the author used violence in the book to tell the readers that violence is not the answer to anything.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that has a large focus on the ideas of the American Dream and social class in the 1920s. In the novel, the people of West Egg and East Egg are people of the upper who have earned money either through inheritance or working hard and have had many opportunities to make their American Dream a reality. The people of the Valley of Ashes are people of lower class who have little to no money and have to work all their lives to make ends meet. Even though both social classes strive for the same thing, The American Dream, neither of them will ever truly achieve it. Fitzgerald uses a vast contrast in the settings of East Egg, West Egg, and

After narrator Nick Carraway spies his neighbour Gatsby stepping outside of his mansion in the nightly hours, Fitzgerald writes, “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling” (24). Fitzgerald writes the orientation of Gatsby’s trembles to be toward the incubation of his objective, the Buchanan estate, across the unconquerable bay, symbolic of the animosity against those of self-made riches onset by the generational bourgeoisie. To a reader of the modern era, however, the means by which wealth is acquired is of inverse respectability to that when viewed from the perspective of someone from the Gatsby era. As Nick counts description of him and Gatsby’s neighbourhood of West Egg, he details it in contrast of East Egg as being “the less fashionable of the two” (7), then going on to append this description by calling it a “most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them” (7). The difference between East and West Egg is invisible to those whom they do not foster. To their inhabitants, and by definition to Gatsby himself, however, this divide is insurmountable and is ultimately what elicits Gatsby’s compensational flaring of

The social group West Egg represents the corruption of the American Dream, during the 1920’s. Fitzgerld describes West Egg as a home for the newly rich. This is a place where people who have recently become fortunate live. It is a place that represents new money. New money portrays the image of the corruption of the American Dream by showing how the people strived for acquiring only material goods. It made attaining material goods their goal in life. In addition, people in the 1920’s connected the American Dream to making quick money. In The Great Gatsby many of the residents that lived in West Egg became fortunate through illegal methods, such as bootlegging alcohol or gambling. Fitzgerld shows this through the character Gatsby. Gatsby’s goal was to become wealthy so that he could win Daisy’s love. By selling stolen alcohol Gatsby was able to mange to rise up to the top of the upper class and live in West Egg. The want for money and power to achieve love shows the decay of the American Dream. The parties that were held at West Egg also represent the corruption of the American Dream. The parties that Gatsby threw were huge and glamorous. Everyone from West and East Egg would attend these parties. They had no care for who Gatsby was. Rather, they only cared that he was someone who was extremely

The settings and backdrops in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, are essential elements to the formation of the characters, symbolic imagery and the overall plot development. Fitzgerald uses East and West Egg communities to portray two separate worlds and two classes of people that are technically the same their status, but fundamentally different in their ideals. The physical geography of the settings is representative of the distance between classes of the East and West Eggers. Every setting connotes a different tone and enhances the imagery of story line. From the wealthy class of the "eggs", the desolate "valley of ashes", to the chaos of Manhattan. The imagery provided by Fitzgerald becomes an important

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, writes a historical fiction novel and incorporates the Jazz Age throughout the text. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald uses may literary techniques accompanied with comical satire about the 1920’s. Fitzgerald fabricates clear parallels between geography, social values, and characters. West Egg, East Egg, New York City, and the Valley of Ashes are all geographic symbols Fitzgerald uses to emphasize social status in that time era. Fitzgerald encompasses geographic symbols associated with different characters to further stress the significance of social status at that time period.

Dalai Lama once said “Through violence, you may ‘solve’ one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.” She is explaining that violence does not solve any problems and for people to get over their situations, they need to solve them by getting support from family and friends. In the story “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, we learn that there is a rivalry between a group named the Greasers and the Soc’s. A boy named Ponyboy has two brothers named Sodapop and Darry. They are in the Greasers gang. Their parents died in a car accident and were left alone in a very dangerous city. Darry is very mean to Ponyboy but it is only because he is trying to be protective and keep him safe. One night, Darry slaps Ponyboy for being out so late which results in him running away with a boy named Johnny. He was beat up by the Soc’s which made him very mad. He always was ready to get them back. That night the Soc’s roll up in a blue mustang and try to drown Ponyboy and kill Johnny. Johnny had his knife and killed Bob, the Soc. Life is always a struggle because of violence which gives the world pain and emotion which causes the attitudes of these bad people.

‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel in which more than one location is utilised. The narrator, Nick Carraway, tells the reader of the glamour and luxury associated with the wealth of many people in the ‘roaring twenties’. He also reveals the darker side of wealth and shows how gaining money can lead to tragedy. The setting throughout the novel is key in portraying central concerns and themes such as The American Dream and Social Class. The first location utilised by Fitzgerald to develop the them of social class is the East Egg.