Comparison Essay

Everyone in life will probably or most likely encounter a difficult situation that they will have to get over. Whether it’s with a difficult relationship, someone in your family, or even a friend of yours. Both S.E Hinton in her story of the ” Outsiders ” and ” Praying ” by Kesha shows internal and external conflict. Similarly, they show this by how difficult it is to get over their pain. In “Praying” Kesha has to deal with a past relationship and has to try and conquer her pain. In the “Outsiders” Ponyboy has to deal with the relationship with his older brother Darry.

A common theme between the Outsiders and the song Praying is, overcoming pain from past or present things will make you more of a stronger person. In the Outsiders, it talks about how Ponyboy has to deal with Darry his older brother or Guardian. Ponyboy thinks that Darry is too harsh to him because of how he only yells at him and not his other brother Sodapop. This means that Ponyboy is dealing with one person conflict. Which is similar to the song Praying because of how Kesha is only dealing with one person at the moment. In the song she says, ” I hope you are somewhere praying” so someone had to do something very wrong for her to be dealing with this internal conflict.

Therefore both texts show similar conflicts with negative relationships. But there are differences in the theme from the two stories. In the Outsiders there is a conflict that could be described as person vs. Society because Jerry witnesses the bravery of Ponyboy,  Johnny, and Dally during the church fire and he is shocked when Ponyboy tells him that they are Greasers which is referring to a “Hood”. In the book the local paper the headline read ” Juvenile delinquents Turn Heroes” Which is what society thinks of the greasers. In contrast, in the song “Praying” Kesha wants other people to stay strong when dealing with a difficult time like she did. In her song she says, ” I can thank you for how strong that I have become” and ” I had to learn how to fight for myself, cause I can make it on my own.” This shows that she is moving on from a difficult time and is thriving with perseverance.

Now, in both the Outsiders and “Praying” S.E Hinton and Kesha talk about their pain and how they got the strength to get over it. After reading the Outsiders and listening to “Praying” we can or readers can say that each person has to deal with conflicts in their life, either by handling it by keeping it all bottled up inside, or forgive and overcome the pain inside.

Literary essay [outsiders]

S.E. Hinton’s story, ” The Outsiders” takes place in Oklahoma, in a small naborhood. One side of the naborhood includes the Greasers. And on the other side includes the Socs. Pony boy, his brothers, and the greasers all get in to a fight called the Rumble. This Rumble is against the Socs. They have one of  these because of how they hate each other. One lesson in this story is that everyone should treat people, how they would want to be treated.

Johnny and Pony boy do not get treated how they would want to be treated in the first chapter of The Outsiders. This is because When Pony boy comes back home from the movies, he was walking along the side of the street, when a red corvair pulls up in front of him. ” When I spotted the red Corvair trailing me. The Corvaire pulled up beside me and five Socs got out.”  He said he has never got jumped before and he was scared. But he knew when the five Socs came out of the car it was about to go down. One of the Socs had teased and tormented him saying that he would cut all of Ponnyboy’s greasy hair all off. Then all of a sudden they all jumped him and slugging him. “I fought to get loose, and almost did for a second; then they tightened up on me and the one on my chest slugged me a couple of times.”  Then someone had him under his arms and it was his brother Darry. Which he had asked Pony if he was alright and if he was hurt. This is an example of the theme in the beginning of the book, because The Greasers do not get treated as well as the Socs because of what they look like and how they act.

In the middle of the story again Pony boy and Johnny don’t get treated like they should. The reason is because Pony and Johnny both lay out in the lot watching the stars, and Pony must have fallen asleep because when he woke up the stars had all shifted! “I sat up shivering. The stars had moved. What time is it?” So when he ran back to his house, he tried opening the door quietly to get in so nobody heard him. But there wasn’t any use because Darry was waiting by the door and Soda was on the couch, half asleep. Right when Pony stepped foot Into the house Darry all of a sudden started yelling at him. Darry got so mad he had slapped Pony boy right across the face! “Darry wheeled around and slapped me so hard that it knocked me against the door.”  Pony then ran right out of the house, right to Johnny, and to the park. Pony boy should’ve never gotten treated like this because he wasn’t treated the way he should’ve been.

In the middle of the book Dally does not get treated the way he should be treated. This is because Dally doesn’t like to see or handle other people get mistreated. So when one of the other characters were getting mistreated he did something about it. He might not have done the right thing but he did it. So, what he did was run away and go and rob a grocery store. When his family friends came to get him or see where he was, he wasn’t there. Everyone went to see if he was in the lot and sure enough he was there. He was just standing there, when  they heard the cops coming down the street. The way he got mistreated by others and the cops where an example of the theme in the middle of the book. He then got shot by the police and fell to the ground and died.

In the end of the book everyone in the story is not being treated as how they would want to be treated. This is because in the part at the end there Is a fight called the rumble. This Rumble started at 7 to 7:30. The Rumble included Socs that versed the Greasers. In the rumble they fight each other because of how they hate each other. Both of them are not treating each other how they would want to be treated. ” The rumble was set for seven, so I was late for supper.” Once the Rumble started everyone gathered in a line,  splitting the two sides apart. The Socs to Pony boy looked mean and bad. It had to start with someone charging at someone else. And it ended with someone running away.  Even though the Socs looked mean, it was nothing to the Greasers because they had won the Rumble. It had ended with one of the Socs running away.

In conclusion, my theme supports this essay because in so many parts of the book the characters were not getting treated how they would want to be treated.  As stated In paragraph 1, paragraph 6, and paragraph 9 the theme is showed. This theme for my book relates to the story and the characters so much.

Introduction to The Outsiders

In my novel “The Outsiders” The setting is Pennyboy walking home from the movies to go to his house. It takes place in Oklahoma. So mostly in his neighborhood, it is on the east side. Penny boy is called a greaser because he is on the poorer part of his side. This books setting is different from where i live because i live in a neighborhood too, but mine is probably more cleaner than Penny Boys. And mine is one where more people like because of how nicer the housing is.

Penny Boy is the main character and faces the problem of the Scos. Scocs dress better, have a cleaner environment, and more rich. When he was coming home from the movies, he got jumped by the socs and was bleeding because the socs are rude and impolite. This character is different from me because, i dress differently and act differently from him. And i’m also not in a gang at 14 years old.

Dress Code (final)

A girl in 8th grade Blackhawk Middle School, does not like the dress code at her school. Last year when she was in 8th grade at BMS, she was new. So every new students gets a full packet explaining everything that happens at BMS. One thing that concerned this girl was, the dress code. She had read that, you were not allowed to wear ripped jeans (aka holy jeans), Cropped shirts, hats, hoods, very short shorts, and tanktops. She looked at this when she got home, and was bummed that she couldn’t wear tank tops or hoods. This only reason was because at her old school in 6th grade she was allowed to wear these things.

She looks around every day seeing other people in the hall either wearing shorts that go to their mid- thigh that are too short, or cropped shirts without a tank top under showing their skin, or wearing hats in the classrooms. The people that do this never get in trouble and I don’t seem to know how when there are teachers all around them. She contemplates whether or not to ask her parents if she can wear those things in school and not worry about getting caught, but then she knows that if she ever came down in the outfit that wasn’t allowed she would get in trouble. Even if a lot of the students where aloud to wear short shorts, or tank tops. All she know is she could not wear those things.

The girl looked around seeing everything or most things that she could not wear, and think ” This is why I don’t like this middle school dress code.” The girl thinks that the dress code should change significantly, by making people wear what they want to wear, only some things that the middle school students shouldn’t wear. This includes, tank tops, mid-thigh shorts, dad hats, hoodies, low cropped shirts, ripped jeans or holy jeans, and holy shirts, not too holy. This does not include Very cropped shirts, short shorts, Spaghetti straps, and body suits (looks like bathing suits for girls).

As a result, the girl feels, that if we had this dress code that she made then more and more people would be happy or more excited. The downside to this could be that some people might be distracted from what people wear to school. “If they wear to inappropriate clothes, the girl says, then that’s when they should get a dress code.” They should not get a dress code for just wearing ripped jeans or jeans with tiny holes in it. Same thing with the tank tops, the girl thinks that they could wear these tank tops like after gym or in some classes that are hot.

Finally, It is now her eighth grade year, and she still seems to see they have not changed the dress code, and sees the same people wearing the same outfits there not getting a dress code for. Maybe they just don’t have a strict policy for the students at Blackhawk, which is good. Just the other day the girl says that her friend told her she was wearing a pair of jeans with this tiny rip in it, barley even showing her skin and she ended up getting a dress code for that. More and more people are getting dress code for the littlest things, and this is why the 8th grade girl thinks they should change this dress code policy for Blackhawk Middle.

Dress Code (rough draft)

A Girl in 8th grade at Blackhawk Middle School learned that last year when she was new, she had a packet saying the rules about dress code for the school. Once she got home she had to read over it. It says that she cannot wear holy jeans also known as ripped jeans. She also cannot wear short shorts or short skirts or short shirts or. But what she may wear are regular jeans, leggings, and regular long shorts, she can wear t-shirts and long sleeved shirts. She has to wear shoes. If she wore a cropped shirt she would either wear a tank top under or a shirt under, just so that she does not get a dress code. She may also wear a hoodie or a jacket.

But with a hoodie and a jacket the dress code policy in school says not to wear your hoods in school. The girl feels as they should aloud hoods in school. She also feels the students should be able to wear shorter shorts than the shorts she wears where they go to her knees, she think she should at least be to the middle of her thigh that would be short enough.

The 8th grade girl always sees other people in the hallway wearing short shirts that are not aloud. Or she sees short shorts as she walks by or in class she sees people with their heads down with their hoods up which is also not aloud.

So many people are affected by this socially because they just don’t like the dress code in general. The girl personally does not want to have this dress code or even like it. Because she always wants to have holy or ripped jeans to wear to school. The girl states from what she heard, ” A girl in my math class said that she had a little tiny rip in her jeans up on the top, and she got a dress code.” She also asks in her mind, ” Why did she get a dress code for a tiny rip, but these other two girls didn’t for wearing short shorts that go to their mid-thigh?” But did not want to say it out loud.

Overall, the girl wants the office or the principle to change the dress code policy. She wants to have at least be able to wear ripped jeans, or tank tops, because what happens if a student or a group of students ever get hot during class? Even when the teacher turns on the air? They would want to be wearing something so they wouldn’t get hot in.

(TBC not finished, just roughed draft)

Uniforms!

 

At Blackhawk Middle school, a girl in Mr. Hoerings 4th period class was sitting down at her table. She had heard about what was going on in the halls of the school that Thursday. A friend of hers walked up to her 2 periods before they would talk to her about it, and said “Maddie, were getting school uniforms and they’re going to talk about it in your language art class.” The girl really didn’t like the sound of that at all. But as she reached 4th period, she waited and waited until the time came for Mr. Hoering and Mrs. Godfrey to tell both classes that they were all getting school uniforms the day after Labor Day. All of the of the students groaned after what they heard, they all got loud and were shouting loudly. Everyone was saying that it was a prank or that it was fake, and I kind of believed them.

After everyone settle down Mr. Hoering told the class that they were combining classes. As soon as they opened the door almost the whole classes got loud again. The teachers got them all settled down and a teacher that was not a language arts class came in. The girl had a puzzled look on her face when the teacher stood in the middle, only because she thought that Mr. Hoering and Mrs. Godfrey was going to talk to them about the uniforms. Then Mrs. Godfrey exclaimed, ”This is Mrs. Oaks and she will be telling you about the school uniforms.” And so Mrs. Oaks then explained to the students that they would be getting school uniforms the day after they came back from Labor Day.

At this point, nobody wanted to hear another word about but, the students still seemed to ask questions about it. One question the girl seemed to notice by her friend that was in the same class as her asked ” Isn’t this fake, because I heard so many people in the hallway say it was fake and that we are not getting uniforms.” Mr. Hoering quickly shrugged his shoulders and did not say anything. The girl that was listening to the conversation found it odd that the teacher did not say anything about it other than his arm shrug.

Later, the classes then got split up when Mrs. Oaks was finished speaking and taking the students questions. The girls classmates were turning and talking to other people about it saying things like ” Oh it is just a prank” Or she heard people actually believe it and say ” Wow! I am not getting a uniform!” Since the class was making so much noise, Mr. Hoering was having some trouble quieting down the classroom. Many students were trying to ask him questions but it was very hard to answer them because many other students were just talking.

Finally, most people got settled down and the teacher then announced that since they took to long to get quit they had to write about what they just heard and about the situation. The students had to wright a Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, about the situation. So, the girl didn’t want to but did, and said something like ” I really didn’t want to wear A uniform at Blackhawk middle school after Labor Day.”

After, All the students turned in there paper, and 10 minutes later Mrs. Oaks came back in the room and said ” Did you think it was real?” And everyone in the room had a great big look of relief on there face!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am a Reader

I can’t really remember the last book i read was, but it was about how this 12 year old girl was in a foster home, and wanted to run away so she did and ended up in a situation where there was a robbery at a gas station. What i liked about this book is that she ends up happily.

The book that i choose from the library was a book called ” Forget me Not “. The reason why I choose this book is because I thought it was going to be about was a girl who ends up with a boy on the beach and her best friend as a dog!