If your parents died when you were a child do you think that you could recover? Then you find out that your brothers have dropped out of school. The book “The Outsiders” is a great story that explains the importance of family and if you lose the support of your parents it will be a long road to recovery.
In the story the outsiders the three brothers Ponyboy, Soda pop, and Darry lost their parents in a terrible car accident at a very young age. They go through many struggles and join a gang. Soda pop and Darry both dropped out of school but pressure Ponyboy to stay in school. If their parents were alive all three of them would not be in a gang and would be in school. In the story it says that Ponyboy smokes a lot. If he had real parents, not his older brother Darry, he would not have even thought to start smoking. The story also has parents who don’t care at all about their child along with dead parents.
Johnny who is Ponyboy’s best friend also struggles with family. His parents beat him and don’t care at all about him. He frequently comes to Ponyboys house and is found sleeping on their couch. If Johnny’s parents cared about him he would be in school and also not in the gang. If he would be in school he would have a better future and not ending up killing a soc. In the story another greaser struggles with his family.
Dally’s parents also abuse him. At the age of eight he ran away from his home because he did not like his parents. To make it worse his parents did not care at all. He also joined the gang and is often found in Ponyboys house as well. If his parents cared about him he would have a better life than running around town and trying to find a home to sleep in. He would not have to worry about if Ponyboy’s family was home so that he could sleep there.
The story “The Glass Castel” by Jeannette Walls also talks about the importance of family like “The Outsiders”. The main character Jeannette writes about her family and their adventures. Her family is very poor and her parents are constantly spending their last bit of money on alcohol. Her mother never goes out of her house and was once found eating a chocolate bar when her family was starving. If Jeannette had a stabile family she would not have to worry constantly about if she would be able to eat that night. They constantly move around the city and try to fit in. She could have lived a much better life if she had parents who cared about them.
The story “The Outsiders” was a great story that explains when you have dead parents, abusive families, or parents who don’t care about you that your whole life will be changed entirely. Even though most people in the world have stable families we need to be very thankful for what we have and not take it for granted. If all of these kids had parents none of them would be in a gang. They would all be in school and not constantly getting in trouble, all of them need family.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Tell Tale Heart
Insane or Not Insane
Would you consider a man who took one hour to look through a doorway sane or insane? How about that he strangled a man with a hay pillow, then cut him up in a bath tub, opened up the floor boards, and put the cut up body under the floor boards and did not think about the smell, sane or insane? The short story “The Tell Tale Heart” was a great story explaining that when you find something weird about a person you will not forget about it and want to make it go away and will go to any precautions to make it go way.
In the short story “The Tell Tale Heart” a crazy man checks on an old man every night. He is making sure that he sleeps well during his last week of living. The reason for him wanting to kill the man is his eye because it looks like an eagle’s eye and he wants to get rid of it. On the night of the killing he walks into his bedroom and suffocates him with the old man’s mattress. After the man was dead he cut him up in a bath tub and hid the cut up body parts under the floor boards. Then the cops came to his house due to noise complaints. When the man showed the police the old man’s bedroom he heard a heartbeat. Although the old man was dead, he freaked out and told the cops that the dead man was under the floor boards. The man did not think that he was crazy and even stated that in the story repeatedly saying that he was not crazy. Many things in the real world relate to this story, not in the cut up body part but the people being crazy but not thinking that they are actually crazy.
I can relate to this story in having an experience that makes you feel crazy. When I was at Tae-Kwon-Do, someone from the Pewaukee Tae-Kwon-Do school showed me a video about two guys sparring. At first I thought she was just showing me the video to show me how I can improve in sparring. However, when the match started, it looked like something was going to go wrong. After one or two minutes into the match one of the guys looked like he was going to pass out. The other guy kicks the guy that looks like he was going to pass out and the guy falls to the ground and is knocked out. Then the attacker continued to kicked him in the head about ten times more before the referee came in and pushed him away. He was screaming at the knocked out guy as if he did something wrong. Even though things that I can relate to are important so are stories in the news.
On July 22, 2011 Anders Breivik set of a bomb in Oslo killing seven people right after he did that he went to an island off of Norway and started shooting children. He killed 87 kids in 90 minutes. The reason for this is that he was anti-government. Anders Breivik was dressed in a police outfit and told the kids that they would be okay. When the kids would come over to him he would kill them all. About 600 kids went to the camp. A better perspective of this is that he killed about 14% of the camp. Breivik did not think he was crazy at all even though he dressed in a police officer outfit and killed 87 children. Over all he killed a total of 94 kids. Crazy people aren’t always in real life people as act crazy in many different movies like the movie Cast Away.
The movie Cast Away is very similar to this story. In the movie, Tom Hanks Is stranded on an island and after a while he goes crazy. He accidentally cut his hand and threw a white volley ball at a tree. A little while later he picked up the ball and saw that there was a red hand print on the ball. Tom Hanks made a face on the blood stained ball and named it Wilson. Wilson was his friend for the rest of the movie. Later in the movie he started to get into arguments with his volley ball Wilson. At one point, he was going to hang himself off the top of a cliff and he used an “idol” that was his weight to see if it could hold him. When the rope snapped he decided not to try to kill himself. Later, when he was making his raft, he found the rope and used it to help build the raft.
In all of the stories mentioned, the common theme is that when something extreme or violent happens to a person, the memory of it stays with them for a very long time and can even make a person feel crazy. After thinking about how different people handle things differently, I think the man from the “Tell Tale Heart” was definitely insane even though he thought he was normal. Some people just handle tough situations differently.
Would you consider a man who took one hour to look through a doorway sane or insane? How about that he strangled a man with a hay pillow, then cut him up in a bath tub, opened up the floor boards, and put the cut up body under the floor boards and did not think about the smell, sane or insane? The short story “The Tell Tale Heart” was a great story explaining that when you find something weird about a person you will not forget about it and want to make it go away and will go to any precautions to make it go way.
In the short story “The Tell Tale Heart” a crazy man checks on an old man every night. He is making sure that he sleeps well during his last week of living. The reason for him wanting to kill the man is his eye because it looks like an eagle’s eye and he wants to get rid of it. On the night of the killing he walks into his bedroom and suffocates him with the old man’s mattress. After the man was dead he cut him up in a bath tub and hid the cut up body parts under the floor boards. Then the cops came to his house due to noise complaints. When the man showed the police the old man’s bedroom he heard a heartbeat. Although the old man was dead, he freaked out and told the cops that the dead man was under the floor boards. The man did not think that he was crazy and even stated that in the story repeatedly saying that he was not crazy. Many things in the real world relate to this story, not in the cut up body part but the people being crazy but not thinking that they are actually crazy.
I can relate to this story in having an experience that makes you feel crazy. When I was at Tae-Kwon-Do, someone from the Pewaukee Tae-Kwon-Do school showed me a video about two guys sparring. At first I thought she was just showing me the video to show me how I can improve in sparring. However, when the match started, it looked like something was going to go wrong. After one or two minutes into the match one of the guys looked like he was going to pass out. The other guy kicks the guy that looks like he was going to pass out and the guy falls to the ground and is knocked out. Then the attacker continued to kicked him in the head about ten times more before the referee came in and pushed him away. He was screaming at the knocked out guy as if he did something wrong. Even though things that I can relate to are important so are stories in the news.
On July 22, 2011 Anders Breivik set of a bomb in Oslo killing seven people right after he did that he went to an island off of Norway and started shooting children. He killed 87 kids in 90 minutes. The reason for this is that he was anti-government. Anders Breivik was dressed in a police outfit and told the kids that they would be okay. When the kids would come over to him he would kill them all. About 600 kids went to the camp. A better perspective of this is that he killed about 14% of the camp. Breivik did not think he was crazy at all even though he dressed in a police officer outfit and killed 87 children. Over all he killed a total of 94 kids. Crazy people aren’t always in real life people as act crazy in many different movies like the movie Cast Away.
The movie Cast Away is very similar to this story. In the movie, Tom Hanks Is stranded on an island and after a while he goes crazy. He accidentally cut his hand and threw a white volley ball at a tree. A little while later he picked up the ball and saw that there was a red hand print on the ball. Tom Hanks made a face on the blood stained ball and named it Wilson. Wilson was his friend for the rest of the movie. Later in the movie he started to get into arguments with his volley ball Wilson. At one point, he was going to hang himself off the top of a cliff and he used an “idol” that was his weight to see if it could hold him. When the rope snapped he decided not to try to kill himself. Later, when he was making his raft, he found the rope and used it to help build the raft.
In all of the stories mentioned, the common theme is that when something extreme or violent happens to a person, the memory of it stays with them for a very long time and can even make a person feel crazy. After thinking about how different people handle things differently, I think the man from the “Tell Tale Heart” was definitely insane even though he thought he was normal. Some people just handle tough situations differently.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Author's note: The poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" was from the book "The Outsiders." This is a response to the story about how it explains nothing good lasts forever
I think the meaning of the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” relates to the characters in the book “The Outsiders” because nothing good lasts forever. They get over excited in things that happen in their lives. The kids in the books parents don’t care about them so the kids are overly independent. When the church burns down Johnny and Pony looses hope and realize that they have to go home. Then when they were at the drive in and the socs came they realized that there is never a time when the socs are not around.
I think the meaning of the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” relates to the characters in the book “The Outsiders” because nothing good lasts forever. They get over excited in things that happen in their lives. The kids in the books parents don’t care about them so the kids are overly independent. When the church burns down Johnny and Pony looses hope and realize that they have to go home. Then when they were at the drive in and the socs came they realized that there is never a time when the socs are not around.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Conflict with Bob
When Johnny killed Bob in the book the book The Outsiders his whole life changed. At first it was a sign of self defense for his friend but it changed to a whole bigger conflict. They had to cut and bleach their hair which ruined their image. They also had to run away from their families. This makes both of them homesick. If Darry would have not slapped his brother Ponyboy in the first place none of this would have happened. Although Johnny says that it is his fault it could really be any of the boys fault. It could have been Darrys fault since he slapped him in the face. Also it could have been Ponyboy for running away he could have sucked it up and just gone to his room or hind in his yard. It also could have been Johnny fault for going with Ponyboy in the first place he could have just stayed home and not gone with him.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Johnny
Johnny is a week shy boy who is growing up in a gang. He is known as a dog in his gang and is a drop out. To make it worse he is beat up constantly by his parents and by the Soc’s. I think that Johnny is a good person not a bad person because he never complains about his daily beating from his parents. Johnny is misjudged because he is often beat up he probably looks week and looks like and an easy target. I think that Johnny will get hurt somehow just because of how often he gets beaten and that he is an easy target.
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