of the school year‚ Mr. Escalante told Angel‚ a gang member‚ to "fill the hole". Not only was he referring to the hole as an illustration‚ but also to the hole in the students lives as a result of lack of education‚ the gangs‚ and in many cases‚ a poor upbringing. Mr. Escalante must have seen some potential in Angel and was trying desperately to fill the hole caused by a lack of education in his life. However‚ Angel‚ tied very deeply to his gang "family"‚ would have none of it. Jaime wants Angel
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Walter’s remark about Spike’s being "reformed" was viewed as an insult because Spike still was not accepting the fact that he changed for the better and wasn’t a trouble maker like them anymore. What Walter meant was that Spike wasn’t part of them [the gang] anymore because he improved his conduct and was not ready to sacrifice his life again to be a Tsotsi. b. I think what the principal meant by saying that Spike was "going forward to being a man" was that he was adopting a better way of life. He
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younger adults) join gangs for a spectrum of reasons. Furthermore‚ some may join because they have limited life options or they may join because they want to. Whatever the reason is‚ no matter what‚ it is an illogical decision to join a gang. People in‚” The Outsiders‚” joined for a few different reasons. One example is‚a partly main character‚ Steve‚ joined from peer-pressure. On page nine‚ it states that‚”He was cocky‚ smart‚ and Soda’s best friend.” If Soda was in the gang before Steve was‚ Steve
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disgust as he describes the police‚ fear during gang wars‚ pride when he makes a difference in his community and sadness when he loses some of the people he loved. I think the one thing I absolutely disgusted by the most was his brother’s actions towards him. His brother treated him like a chew toy between two dogs. At one point in the novel Rodriguez escapes the gang and tries to convince his fellow gang friends to join them but leaving the gang to them meant leaving the only family they had
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Summary ©2014 eNotes.com‚ Inc. or its Licensors. Please see copyright information at the end of this document. Summary directup Summary (Magill’s Survey of American Literature‚ Revised Edition) Heart of Aztlán is the second novel in a trilogy begun with Bless Me‚ Ultima and concluded with Tortuga. Each of the novels involves a seer‚ a spiritual guide to help the characters deal with the problems they face and to help structure the spiritual wholeness‚ peace‚ and harmony that bring them
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Criminal justice practitioners are necessary for a civilized society. Without those who form boundaries to our freedom‚ and the ones that reinforce those laws‚ our community would be chaos. Some of the main social issues our society faces are drug abuse‚ gang violence‚ child abuse‚ and terrorism. The criminal justice practitioners face these types of issues daily. These professionals must act on the morals and laws stated by society rather than their own opinions‚ sometimes facing hard decisions. The criminal
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|Related Text Overview: Novel | |Title of novel |The Outsiders | |Author |S.E. Hinton | |Date published
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are also gangs. This book‚ “The Outsiders” written by S.E.Hinton is about a gang called Greasers and the narrator‚ “Ponyboy” tells us about what happened the year before telling us the story of everyday life as a Greaser. In this book‚the author uses different types of techniques to contradict the characters to their gang. However‚ the author also does not connect the characters to the gang. I have three different techniques that the author uses to contradict the characters to their gang. Ponyboy
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months‚ and their has been complaints that he has been acting up with the gang which from my point of view he is doing fine. Ponyboy is at the age 14‚ lives with his 2 brothers‚ Darrel Curtis‚ who goes by the name of Darry‚ and is at the age of 20 and Sodapop Curtis who is 16 and happens to be a high school drop out. He lives in a environment where his brothers smoke and so does the rest of the gang. He faces a lot of fights with The Socs; due to that he is a greaser. On the half of Ponyboy’s words;
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longer being “gold” or is forced to mature causing him to lose his innocence. We quickly learn that Ponyboy wants to understand why the Socs and Greasers fight‚ why his brother is overworked‚ but yet they have so little money. We first begin to imagine Ponyboy’s innocence in chapter one when we discover that he is not like the other greaser gang members‚ He says “I make good grades and have a
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