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    People all around you experience different ways of belonging, such as cliques or social class. Others who are excluded, are simply left as outsiders, forced to make up their own groups, maybe just because of where they live, how much money they have, and the items they have and do not have. This is the case in author S.E. Hinton’s prominent novel The Outsiders. Within this well known book is a 2 week story of 14 year old Ponyboy, as he learns to mature in his rough, poor, East side neighborhood while

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    Robert Frost wrote this poem to express how he feels about polotics.The peom can relate to S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" by showing that things will get better it just takes time. The poem is a short narritive peom that tells a story. The story that Robert Frost is trying to tell us is that things might not be the best at the time but it will come to and end. The title of the poem is four words. Four words that show you that it will all eventually come to an end. By it all coming to an end things

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    once the poem was published the author of the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay was Robert Lee Frost. I think Robert frost based his poem on things he has seen in his life and based it off of nature. the poem was written in 1923. the poem was one of many poems the author robert frost wrote, its own poem but has the same author of multiple poem the main style of this poem is narrative. I think its narrative because the poem tells a story and digs deep into things found in nature. it's not focused on a person

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    The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton and Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose highlight advantages and disadvantages of universal themes in their novels. Both novels portray how ‘we are a product of the society in which we grow up.’ Through both novels we see the vulnerability of certain characters through their external pressures and internal motivations and how these desires are pinnacle to themselves and to those around. Characters in both novels portray the consequences and repercussions of stereotypical

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    Gold In The Outsiders

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    S.E. Hinton's novel, The Outsiders is about a group of characters that go through many troubles. The group of characters always stick up for each other and protect each other in difficult situations. Some characters in the novel best retained their “gold” throughout the story. To stay “gold” is to stay hopeful through the rough times. It also means to stay special or young and innocent. First, Sodapop a character in the story, when he had not received anything from Sandy, he did not change his spirit

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    The novels "The Outsiders" and "Making Bombs For Hitler" are two valorous books that show the lives of two separate kids in different times and places. The Outsiders is about a boy named Ponyboy Curtis who struggles with his society where discrimination plays an immense role and in which he believes he is an outsider. Ponyboy along with his brothers Darry and Sodapop are all part of a gang called the Greasers. Throughout the book, a series of fights against the Greasers and Socs an untamed gang

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    their innocence. The novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton’s main characters are the Socs and the Greasers. The novel shows us a lot of examples of loss of innocence between them. Also in the song, “Nothing Gold” by Stevie Wonder described the sense of innocence pretty well. In the novel and the song, we can find a lot of examples of loss of innocence which is shown through losing someone or something so special and problems people have to face. In the novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, many characters

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    Ponyboy once said, “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me”. The Outsiders, By S.E. Hinton, is an outstanding book, and movie, that tells about the rivalry between the less fortunate people, the Greasers, and the more wealthy people, the Socs. The Greasers are an inseparable group of tuff kids, that have gone through many hard times in their life. The Socs are a group of good looking and smart kids who came from a wealthy background. At first glance, it seems like these two groups

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    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

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    The Outsiders Comparison The Outsiders is a novel that follows a greaser from the mid-1900’s named Ponyboy. He has 2 brothers, Darry and Sodapop. He lost his parents at a young age and now lives with his brothers. They are in a gang that is very close. Pony’s best friend is Johnny who is abused at home. They go to a drive in where they meet Cherry, a very nice Soc girl. As they were going home, they were jumped by Cherry’s boyfriend and Johnny accidentally kills him. Not knowing what to do, they

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