to pay bills. Imagine having to take responsibility of maintaining a household because your parents have died. Would you be able to handle that position and those responsibilities? or would you bail on your siblings? Well‚ in this book I read titled the "The Outsiders" a boy named Darry had to take care of his two young brothers‚ he had to work ‚ pay bills ‚ and he had to give up his college scholarship because he needed to take care of his brothers. Darry’s personality was stern and serious‚ his
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Social groups are often marginalized or misrepresented in various pieces of literature. In Albert Camus’s novel The Outsider‚ there are a variety of social groups that are portrayed in a negative light‚ but the most prominent is the female population. Throughout the book‚ many women are disregarded‚ or are seen as unimportant. From Marie to Meursault’s mother to Raymonds mistress‚ each woman is portrayed as destitute and desperate for love. Thus‚ Camus uses the character of Meursault to present women
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Virginia schools “To kill a Mockingbird” is banned for the racial slurs it uses. One of the high school students parents said that her child had a very hard time reading the content that was in the book. She says “I’m not disputing this is great literature‚ but there is so much racial slurs in there and offensive wording that you can’t get past that‚ and right now we are a nation divided as it is." Allen‚ Nick “To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn banned from schools in Virginia for racism” The
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During the book‚ The Outsiders Ponyboy changes a lot from when he is a at home to when he is hiding in a church on a top of a hill with Johnny. Ponyboy grows and matures in this book. Ponyboy grows during this book mentally and physically. In the book Ponyboy Loses his innocence‚ in the beginning of the book Ponyboy was a good student and he followed rules from his older brother Darry. But‚ towards the end of the story Ponyboy started to get himself into bad situations for example‚ he got
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In the book The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy had a few things similar to me. For example‚ we are honest to our friends. We both go to a good school that will give us a good education. And the last thing is we both have a brother. I will also be talking about how we are different in these paragraphs. I do not smoke and Ponyboy does. Ponyboy lost his parents in a car accident. And Ponyboy is in a gang‚ and I am not. Even though Ponyboy and I have several differences‚ we still have
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different situations in which books have been banned and or challenged. The Great Gatsby‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ and Gone with the Wind all history changing books which has frequently been banned or challenged‚ this collection of raw American Literature have been attacked for numerous of reasons. Sexual content‚ profanity‚ and explicit scenes. All of these are among the most common reason these classics have been either banned or challenged. Many of these book serve educational and life
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aspects in people you need to look for whats on the inside‚not just the outside. Many people just look at the outside of a person and never really try to see whats on the inside. The characters Ponyboy and Dally for example from S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders The characters Ponyboy and Dally are both in a gang called the Greasers.The Greasers get into many rumbles with the Soc’s. As members of the gang the Greasers are very close to one another‚especially to Johnny.Another thing makes Ponyboy and Dally
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The Outsiders Freytag’s Pyramid Freytag’s pyramid the structure of any movie or book. It starts with the exposition‚ then goes into the rising action which leads the climax‚ or the main part of the story. After we are done with the climax we go down to the rising action which then leads us to the denouement. The exposition of this story starts with Ponyboy walking out of the movie theatre. At this point‚ he starts to introduce and describe all of the greasers. After he describes everyone you are
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A banned/challenged book is material that has been removed because people believe that it is too inappropriate to read. Especially in schools. The reason books are challenged or even banned is that the topics the book covers are sensitive for people to handle. Such as racial themes‚ profanity‚ and violence. The novel The Catcher in the Rye would be challenged because it showed a child going through an adult life with vulgar language‚ sexual references‚ and underage drinking. After all the reasons
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The Great Gatsby Books are banned or challenged because they have capacity to “corrupt” a reader’s mind or influence. Banning a novel is actually one of the greatest things that can happen or be “awarded” to a book. The Great Gatsby is an example of one of these great books that was banned. The book was banned in 1987 by a Baptist college in Charleston‚ yet it is considered of one the “Great American Novels” and a literary classic. The book was banned for language and some sexual content. By examining
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