Johnny Got His Gun Essay

and the Socs. The whole plot is started when Johnny, the greasers “pet”, kills Bob, one of the Socs. From that point Ponyboy (the narrator of the story) and Johnny run away to an abandoned church that Dally (the “toughest” Greaser) tells them to go to. After everything seems to settle down back home Dally comes to get the kids and he takes them out to eat, when they return to the church it’s on fire. With a group of kids on a field trip Ponyboy and Johnny come to the realization that there are kids

Cowboy”. Steel snapped his fingers and his pitbull came running right behind us and she jumped on me and started to lick my face steel fell on the sidewalk laughing. Then he got up and grabbed her and lifted her on his shoulder and then sead “greecpit stop”. She looked at him then licked his face he set greecpit down then we went on our way then a blue mustang pulled up. Three people came out and they were socs. One of them went to my school and was in the same class as me I think his name was bob. They

Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral by Mark Twain The story starts after the death of Buck Fanshawe, but is more about how his best friend, Scotty Briggs, and the local minister struggle to communicate about the details of his funeral. Buck is described as an upstanding man and the whole community mourns him after he dies. Scotty, described as Buck’s “bosom friend,” were very close, often jumping into fights to help the losing side, so he is distraught when Buck dies. Scotty goes to the local minister, who

walks out from the movie house, only to be greeted by a gang of sneering Socs. Because the Socs think they are superior, they jump on the Greasers at every opportunity. On the way home, he notices a red Corvair filled with about five Socs, which then got out, cutting him off, surrounding Ponyboy as they “walked around slowly, silently, smiling” while he “stood there like a bump on a log”, expecting nothing but the absolute worst (4). Following these events, Ponyboy then finds himself on the ground after

time to show the “overpowered” people that they weren 't afraid. Those people looked to musicians such as; Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, and many others to help them through that difficult time in the country. Each artist, being different genres, managed to change the way people looked at music and still today this day are remembered for their music. Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, The Beatles and many more artists influenced people to believe music was

silver platter. In Debra Dickerson's essay "Who Shot Johnny"

The Outsiders, Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston are two boys in a gang of greasers with both similarities and differences. Both Johnny and Dally have abusive parents and the love and care for eachother. On the other hand, Johnny is the most law-abiding while Dally is the least in the gang. Also, Johnny dies a dynamic character while Dally dies a static character. Therefor, Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston have immense similarities while also having tremendous differences. Both Johnny and Dallas have

"Dally didn't die a hero. He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday. But Johnny was right. He did die gallant"(154). Dallas Winston was not someone to be looked up to, he had many problems from being part of a gang to having been homeless. But, he was a gallant person. Dally was tough and cold. He was also fearless and daring. Although Dally may have lacked empathy towards most people, this was only due to him never getting the chance to experience beauty in

such as; Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, and many others for their influential music. Different types of artists with different sounds changed

eight days ago. We lost a lot of good boys but I am so very pleased to inform you that the Canucks got the job done! What the French couldn’t do for two years and the Brits too we, Byng’s Boys did in three days. I was assigned to the front line in the trenches as part of the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade attached to the 4th Canadian Division. This is actually the first time all four divisions got to work together as a unified Canadian Corps. They