The Outsiders Final Essay

Have you ever been judged by the way you look or your personality? Don’t you just hate it? In the book “The Outsiders” there are too different kinds of groups the Greasers and the Soc’s. The Greasers are poor and wild. The Soc’s are the middle class and richer than the Greasers. If you actually got to know the Greasers they are nice, kind, and caring people. They loved to hang out in and with their gangs, but the gangs were a group of friends and their families. The Greasers gangs were always there for them while they had each other’s backs. While they are doing all that they loved to go to the drive-in movies. Although, the Greasers are a unique group the Soc’s don’t compare to what they are.

All of the Greasers have their own unique thing or two about themselves.  Ponyboy Curtis the youngest greaser of them all at the age of fourteen years old is the narrator of the story. Ponyboy’s literary interests and academic accomplishments set him apart from the rest of his gang. He has had a hard life with his parents dying in a car accident and he has to live with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop. While all of these things are happening Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love. He has to and does mature over the course of the novel and he finally realizes the importance of strength in the face of class bias.

Darrel, Darrel is known as “Darry” in the novel, he is twenty-year-old greaser who has the raise Ponyboy because the parents had died in a terrible car accident. Darry is a very strong, athletic, and intelligente man that has to drop out of school to support his family. He has to work two jobs to keep his family together. As the unofficial leader of the greasers he becomes an authority figure for his brother Ponyboy. He also makes a great little snack for his family called Chocolate Cake, and him and his two brothers eat that every single morning for their breakfast. Also while he is dealing with he has a nick name from the greasers called “Superman”.   

Another one of Ponyboy’s brother is Sodapop, would be like your happy-go-lucky, handsome brother of Ponyboy. He is the middle child of the Curtis family. Ponyboy envies Sodapop’s good looks and charm. Sodapop plans to marry a girl named Sandy, a greaser girl. His plans don’t go as planned when Sandy gets pregnant with another man’s child and moves away to live some were else.

Two-Bit Matthews whose real name is Keith, is a wisecracking greaser who regularly shoplifts. He is also a joker of Ponyboy’s group. He prizes to sleek black-handled switchblade. Keith instigates the hospitalities between the Soc’s and the Greasers by flirting with Marcia, the girl friend of a Soc.

Steve Randle would be the guy that knows everything about cars and also knows how the steal hubcaps. He is Sodapop’s best friend since grade school; he is a seventeen year old greaser who works at a gas station with Sodapop. He can be very cocky most of the time and intelligente, tall and lean.  He is tough-once he held off four opponents in a fight with a broken soda bottle. He wears thick hair and he arranges it with swirls. While he hates Sodapop’s annoying brother Ponyboy and he wishes that he would stop tagging him along.

Dallas Winston, he is toughest person in the greasers group. Dallas is known as “Dally”, and he is known for running with gangs in New York. He has an elfin face and icy blue eyes and, unlike his friends he doesn’t put grease in his hair. Dally’s violent tendencies make him more dangerous than any other greaser in the group. He doesn’t care about his criminal record; he actually takes pride in his record. Dally is protective of Johnny. 

Johnny Cade, my most favorite character in the book. He is a sixteen-year old greaser with black hair and large fearful eyes. Although Johnny doesn’t succeed in school, he approaches intellectual matters with steady concentration. Unfortunately for Johnny the alcohol and abuse of his parents, he is nervous and sensitive. Since his parents don’t care for him at all Johnny sees the greasers as his true family, so he can rely on them and they will in turn help him. For his good the older boys mainly Dally are protective of him.  

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Authors Note: In the story "Outsiders" there is a poem called "Nothing Gold Can Stay". This is a response to the story about how nothing good can last.


I believe that the meaning "Nothing Gold Can Stay" relates to the characters because in the book "Outsiders" nothing good can ever last. The kids parents don't care about them so they are considerably independent. Also the kids get over excited in things that happen in there life. When their church burns down Johnny and Pony Boy 
loses hope and realizes that they have to go home. After that when they pulled in to a drive in movie, they realized that the soc's were there, then they realized that the soc's are every where.

School Laptops

At our middle school we have these very high tech, efficient laptops that are very useful to all the teachers and students. We had just got these brand new lap tops for seventh and eighth grade students to make it easier to work. For our laptops there is an option to put it in tablet mode. Tablet mode is where you flip the laptop screen down and it would be like writing on a piece of paper. Unfortunately, there have been many students that have left them in tablet mode while they are in the hallway and while walking in the hall all of their laptop screens have cracked. IT, our technology department, has come up with a solution which states that we should carry the laptop by its handle so that the teachers can monitor your laptop while the students are walking in the halls. However, if you would bump into a person or a wall your laptop would have less protection and a greater chance of breaking, without in your laptop bag. Therefore we need to carry our laptops in their bags.

Fifteen laptops screens have broken in the bags, while they are in tablet mode. IT feels that we need to carry our laptops by the handles. For the first week of trying this new technique three laptop screens have cracked from bumping into people and dropping them. While carrying the laptops the rubber handle that connects the handle to laptop is slowing wearing off. When you are holding the laptop in the hall, it sways from side to side. While doing that it’s very easy for it to hit an object and be damaged. In addition it’s not safe because there’s no protection or barrier to protect your laptop from any hard surface your laptop would or could hit. Also if you would have your laptop while you are holding by the handle and it would fall it would stand a greater chance of breaking more than just your screen. However, if you would have your laptop in its bag it would stand a greater chance of not breaking.  

Obviously, our laptop bags are for storage and protection. We should be able to carry our laptops in there bag for safe keeping and for extra hands for supplies. Also there will be less of a threat of cracking or breaking because the bag is padded. If the teachers would check the laptops before they leave for their next class the students would be able to take their laptops in the bag. In addition would have more of an ability to have more space to carry your books and utensils. Unlike holding it by its handle in the bag there is a thicker barrier and more protected if it would have to fall off of your desk or table.

Since IT made the new rule that you have to carry your laptop by the handle many people are just ignoring that and they are still carrying it in their bag, so now the new rule is you can’t bring your laptop bag to classes. Now that we don’t have the option of our laptop bags, we can’t carry useful things like laptop charger and stylus. IT wouldn’t let us use our laptop bags then we couldn’t bring our charger to class in fifth hour and resource when your battery is low or dead, and it’s just another thing that you have to carry if you wouldn’t have your bag. Your stylus is important in most classes to draw and take notes and your bag would be useful in that situation.  In the first place you should just be able to take your laptop bag even if you would be holding the laptop by the handle. If they would let us carry the laptop bag it would be easy and more efficient way of doing things.

Now you see why you should carry your laptop in its bag; it’s safer, more efficient, more protected, and more useful way of carrying your laptop around school. Carrying it by the handle will cause it to wear and eventually break off. Putting the laptop in the bag will prevented damage and bigger expenses of damage. Having your laptop bag on you at all time will give you access to the charger and stylus. In the end it would be better and more efficient way to put your laptop in the bag and take your laptop bag where ever you go.

Outsiders

In the story outsider there is a kid named Johnny which is week and shy, he is also growing up in a gang. He is now as a dog in his gang and he had dropped out of high school. While he is getting beat up by his parents and the Soc's. I seems like Johnny is a good person and he always has Pony Boy's back, with all of those things on his back he doesn't complain at all. Yes I do think Johnny is misjudged. I think that Johnny will get hurt because he is getting beat up by his parents and he often gets beat up by people.