Main Theme of Ponyboy

In the book The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton,  Ponyboy and his two brothers live in small town in Oklahoma with a gang of trouble makers that are dubbed the Greaser and are in social warfare with a different gang called the Soc, rich city kids that have the world handed to them. Thought  the story many themes are displayed as Pony and his gang battle with the Socs. The one theme that I found constant through the story was survival.

After a brutally fight with Darry, Pony and Johnny are laying down in a park. When a Soc named Bobby that had jumped Johnny and left brutal scars across his whole body. Pony passes out and when he awakes he sees the dead body of Bobby after he had pulled a blade on Johnny.  Johnny and Pony both know what they have to do, that’s  to go on the run.

Now today Johnny would be fine because he killed Bobby in self defense and people hopefully would ot stereotype. Although back then he was an outcast and no one would believe him, so he had to go on the run.  They have to cut their hair so no one notices them.  Also they have to stay off the main roads and shops so no one catches them.

This part of the story reminds me of the story of Airmen Johnson that Ii read online. Where his jet was hit with a SAM missile, he ejected and landed in a forest. He had to survive eight days behind enemy lines. Now of course he was surviving from soldiers  that would fire at will at even the sight of him and Pony was on the run from police that wouldn’t kill him, but the theme of survival stays the same in both stories. 

Most everyone these day has do to something to survive even if that means being home alone for an hour. You have to survive or not burn down the house, but I grantee most people would not be able to survive what Pony did.

Compare and Contrast

Authors note: This is a  compare and contrast piece about the Outsiders and Hunger Games.

Outsiders

In the past

Two main factions (Socs and Greasers)

Lost his parents in a car crash

Ponyboy still had his brothers who were good role modles

Hunger Games

In the future

Main Character is a girl in Catness

Dad died in a mining accident and moms a couch potato

After her dad died had no real parents and had to raise her Sister

Both

Had to fight to survive

Both lost their parents

Thank You Ma'am Alternate Ending

Authors Note: This is a piece in witch I predict what would happen after Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones shut the door in Roger. I believe he would do what he did because she changed roger and he doesn't want to let her down.

The boy wanted to say something else other that "Thank you, ma’am" to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, but he couldn’t do so as he turned at the barren stoop and looked back at the large woman in the door. He barely managed to say "Thank you" before she shut the door.  He looked down in his pocket and saw the ten dollars he was given  from Ms. Washington, he looked back at the door, then back at the money again. Then he proceed to the nearest shoe shop where they sold blue swade shoes.

As he walked to the door of the shop he noticed a homeless man sitting on the street right beside the store. It was a chilly September night and this man had nothing on but a torn shirt and a pair of ripped pants. When I walked by he said” Spare Change?” I replied “No but I do have a spare place to stay for a while”He directed him towards Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones house.

Ponyboy Changing

Authors note: This is a character analysis piece about PonyBoy in the book The Outsiders

In the book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, a young man named Ponyboy is a fourteen year old on the side of the road. His parents dead when he was young in a car crash leaving him to live with his brothers Soda and Darry. Along with a gang of misfits. To add on to that they’re in a gang war with the Socs, the rich kids that have the world handed to them. Pony’s dream is to become a hood like the rest of his gang. His brother Darry doesn’t like this idea because Pony is smart and athletic, Darry believes that he has a shot at going to college and escaping hood life. Pony starts to relies that being a hood and in a constant gang war you can never win isn’t a good career path. So he decides to change for the better.

As the story progresses Pony changes slowly. He meets a Soc girl at a drive in movie theater named Cherry, he tells how lucky she is to have the world given to her. She replies that she doesn’t have the world made and that sometimes life as a Soc can be as hard as a Greaser and at that point Pony started to have sympathy for the Socs.  realized that everyone has their hardships not just greasers. Another example is when they get to a school house and rush in to save the kids that were trapped in there with his buddy Johnny. The school house starts to collapse, Johnny throws Pony out the window to save his life. Not only did it change the way people viewed Greasers, it made Pony want to help more people.

People can be alter by anything, in this case it was good for Ponyboy  but in the book “Between Shades of Grey” by Ruta Sepetys, a young girl named Lina is living in Lithuania during 1941. The NKVD the Soviet military police start do deport people. Lina and her family are forced to go to Sibera. They do hard Labor for 10 years as the years go on she becomes angry with the soviets and wants to kill all of them for making here go through hard labor. For Pony he charged for the better and ended the gang war between the Greaser and Socs. 

My Thoughts on The Beginning of America

Authors Note:The prompt for this years patriots pen was "What would you say if you could say to the founding fathers"

Dear, Founding Fathers

For starters I would like to thank you for laying the foundation for a great nation. You did some things right, some things wrong. You had a wonderful idea but you went wrong.  The idea of America is freedom that’s what everyone wanted from the kingdom and that’s what we got , but America had slaves that were brought out of their homeland to a country forced to do labor for free. The slave’s weren’t given any of the freedoms that rich white men got that’s one mistake. In addition to that women weren’t ether, women weren’t given a right to vote until 1920 they had no say in public issues and same things for African American’s only much later in 1960. The second amendment “Right’s to bear arms” this has been disputed to this day were or not this should be an amendment. At first anyone could buy a firearm until they were beginning to be mass produced and crime rates sky rockets because of this. A law was passed that if you had a felony you couldn’t buy a weapon but this only created more problems, creating a massive black market that criminals bought guns without the government knowing. The last thing I’ll rip apart is that “All men shall be created equally” that was one of the greats told lie’s to people, like a cheesy infomercial.  It took 1865 to have slaves released of their free labor that was mandatory and finally given a shot to live the American dream… or so they thought. Once again America lied they weren’t slave’s anymore, they were social outcasts know and had to swim in different pools than white people. Eat in different restaurants than white people, stay in different hotels and go to  schools with poor education.  It took one hundred years later to finally get it right. Founding fathers you tried to do the right thing. Yes but your efforts came up short. Now it did take awhile to get America right and still today people are trying to get it right, but you made this great nation that started off under the tyranny of a king and is know the leader in freedom.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Thank You,

Ryan 

Cause and Effect

Authors Note: This is a cause and effect piece on the book The outsiders. Warning if you want to read this book this piece contains spoilers.

For Ponyboy life has always be rough. To start things off his parents were kill in a car crash leaving him and his three brothers to live and flight on there on. To add on to that he runs with a gang called the greaser that are considered low class and are at war with their opposing gang the Socs, the rich city kids that have their life on a silver platter. The event that I will be explain is when Jonny shot Bob a popular Soc in self defense.

The effects it had on the story were. Johnny looks like a murderer, it also brings the Soc greaser conflict to a boiling point. After the police get wind of Johnny killing someone Ponyboy and Dallas are trying to hide him they stumble across a church that’s on fire, Johnny  and Ponyboy rush in to save whoever is inside. After saving the people inside the church starts to fall and Johnny throw pony out a window to save him, but a piece of timber catches Johnny, tares open his back and brakes his spine. He later dies in a hospital. The effects on the story if this never happened would have been Johnny would go to jail and would be died but on the flip side it helps the Greaser and Socs realize that they need to stop fight or more people could get killed. 

The Conflict and Resolution of The Million Dollar Throw

In the book Million Dollar Throw, by Mike Lupca. Nate Brodie nicknamed Brady for the shotgun he has for an arm. With money in the running dry he has a one in a life time shot to hit a tire swing at a patriots game. The main conflict in this book was, Nate family was almost broke and they would have to move away to save the last dollars that they still have.
The way they resolve this is by, a man that is sponsoring the throw offers him if he misses intentionally  dollars so he doesn't have to pay 1,000,000 dollars if he makes it through the tire swing. Nate rejects the offer to win one milllon dollars because he thinks he can hit he tire swing. At half time of the game Nate winds up and throws. He made it through the tire swing cleanly.