Dynamic

Author’s Note: I want to be graded on the Character Development on the reading rubric. My writing piece is about Ponyboy and how he has changed with his actions and emotions throughout the Outsider’s book.

Throughout the magnificent story of “The Outsider’s” there is a 14 year old teenage Greaser that lives with his two older brothers and is part of a group that lives in the East side of town, or the so called poorer side of town. This young boy’s name is Ponyboy Curtis.

Ponyboy is an educated, sleek, green eyed and light brown haired Greaser that can be quiet when wanted, and loud when necessary. You could never see him not around his gang, or group of friends/family. Ponyboy loves his fellow friends and family members, most likely more than any other teenager. But he does have his moments when he just likes to be alone. But doesn’t everybody?

Momentarily Ponyboy was such a great, innocent teenager before all of the deaths and accidents that occurred. He used to always get impressive grades on his tests and homework sheets. He used to also be caring and kind to practically everyone around him, unless you truly did upset him. Ponyboy always had an eye-catching eye where he could notice anyone’s different attitudes or if they ever looked different. Many other changes have occurred over the past few weeks, but Ponyboy is still the same old Ponyboy, just a slight change in character.

At the very moment, Ponyboy has changed after the three deaths; his two friends, and enemy; Johnny, Dally, and Bob. He is still innocent, but he has changed with how he works and does things, and also how he acts. His grades have dropped down to C’s and D’s, unlike before when he used to get A’s and B’s. He is still getting a pretty good grade in math though, because Darry checks his homework papers and corrects them if any of the problems are incorrect. Now he is depressed and under a lot of stress. You can’t blame him though. Most likely anyone that just had their friends die would be upset about it. But now Ponyboy is acting tougher, and isn’t caring as much if he hurts anyone’s feelings.

Therefore through thick and thin through this entire book of The Outsider’s, we have learned people can change, such as Ponyboy. Ponyboy is a dynamic character because he has changed how he acts, and even how he looks. In the ending of the story, a few Socs come up to Ponyboy and threaten to beat him. Ponyboy doesn’t back down though, like everyone expected out of him. He stood his ground and threatened to hurt each and every Soc that bothers him. Normally Ponyboy would have been frightened and possibly called for help. But no, not this time. Now his friends don’t have to worry as much about him. Ponyboy has learned how to handle situations, and he has become tougher throughout what has all happened to him, and others.

Another book that I have read has a character some-what like Ponyboy. This book is “The Nine Lives of Chloe King”. Chloe is a character that hangs out with certain people, and is frightened about almost everything. She only lives with her mother, because her father walked out on her when she turned five years old. Now they have no idea if he is even still alive. Chloe one day has an adventure with her friends, but almost dies, because she fell off a tower. Later on in the book, she learns her path of life and starts to follow it. By the end of the book, she isn’t as frightened as much, and she can stick up for what she believes, without being shy. She has changed in character, such as Ponyboy did.

In the mist of the East-side of town, there is a 14 year old boy named Ponyboy Curtis. He is a Greaser, and lives with his two older brothers in the poorer side of town. In the adventurous book of “The Outsiders” Ponyboy has a hard time with life at first, but in the end he has learned many facts about is friends and family members. Ponyboy is a dynamic character because he has changed throughout the story.

Author’s Note: I was thinking of the interesting book The Outsider’s, and I so happened to just feel like writing a poem. It may not be the best poem in the universe, but I hope it isn’t the worst.

Troublesome between every Soc and Greaser
Hopelessly searching for a way out of the society
Enormous amount of drama between the friends and families

Outstanding ways of defying what happened with Ponyboy’s point of view
Understandable
Terrified for their lives if they ever got jumped
Stupid resolutions with what all happened
Interesting ideas of explaining facts and opinions; which brings readers into the story even more
Dangerous between all of the fights, blades and guns
Enormous amount of problems to deal with in each other’s lives
Rumbling with Socs can be dangerous if they bring any weapons
Stumbling through life without a few of their friends is even more heart breaking that before

Importance of Family and Stereotypes

Author’s Note: I am going to be writing about the importance of family and stereo types.

In the glorious book, The Outsiders by the author of S.E. Hinton, there was a gang, or group of people named the Greasers. These groups of people have jailbirds, stealers, killers, and many other kinds of personalities. But, this group also has scholars, protectiveness, and caring, respectful people in this group. They all care for each other; just they all show it in different ways.

When these Greasers hangout it possibly could come to troubles within themselves. Most Greasers don’t do anything as horrible as killing people, but you never know. Although most Greasers aren’t educated, they can all be street smart, instead of book smart. A few people that are actually book smart are Johnny, who is 16 and normally quiet around everyone, and Ponyboy, who is 14 and loves to read.

Out of the whole gang of Greasers, there are smaller gangs inside of it. One group in particular has mostly brothers or really great friends. These Greasers names are Dally, Two-Bit, Steve, Johnny, Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy. There are three brothers in this gang; Darry, Sodapop and Ponyboy. Even though they are all fantastic friends, they’re more like family.

When the tragedy of Johnny murdering Bob struck, all hecks broke loose after that. Ponyboy and Johnny had to run away so they wouldn’t be put in jail, but then they got hurt from saving children from a church that had caught on fire. When Ponyboy and Johnny became injured, the crew became closer, or more caring.

Then when Johnny and Dally died, they were all disturbed over everything. So yes, even Greasers can feel/have emotions and act just like any other person would. Greasers are just like people, but no one realizes this. Everyone expects the Greasers to be poor, unattractive, greasy, rough/dangerous, and get in a hassle with the cops a lot. No one expects Greasers to be educated, compassionate/gentle, and doesn’t get into trouble many times. People can be what you don’t expect of them, and that’s just how some of the Greaser’s are. It’s their own personalities, no one else’s.

People named the Greasers, was a group or gang that always hung out together. Some groups were jailbirds, or stealers. Other groups were more like family; which I thought they had better personalities that way. In the book “The Outsider” by the author of S.E. Hinton, it discusses the hard core life of being a greaser.

The Outsiders

Authors Note: I am going to discuss what has happened with Dally.

In the streets of the East-side of town, a massive group of people named the “Greasers” all hang out around town. While on the other side of town, the West-side, there is a group of people named the “Socs”. This group of people, are the Greasers enemies, just because they have everything and they don’t. Socs have education, money, cars, clothes, and many other objects that the Greasers can’t afford, or they just can’t have them.

Greasers drink and smoke and do many terrible things. These Greasers do have some trouble makers in the group, but only a few. Most of them have jobs, or go to school, but almost all of them do drink and take drugs. One of the top trouble makers in town is named Dally. He drinks and takes drugs every day. He vandalizes property whenever he is bored or gets mad. Dally does not live in a home, because his family members don’t enjoy him around and he didn’t enjoy living there anymore. Also, he is un-educated and hasn’t gone to school in a few years.

Even though Dally does many of these things almost every single day, he is a good person inside. He cares about his group of friends, more like brothers, and he treats them with respect, most of the time. Yes, he doesn’t truly like all of the people in his gang, but he will protect them know matter what happens.

Johnny and other street goers look up to Dally, because they all think he’s a tough/tuff man. Some of them wish they had the encouragement and skills to law-break and do other things that make up Dally’s reputation. But Dally is one of the best, tough people around the Greasers.

The Greaser’s, a huge group or gang of people that live in the East-side of town, have bad reputations. Greasers can’t afford the same things that the Socs can. The Socs are the enemies of the Greasers and neither of them gets along well.

Best Friends

Author’s Note: This is a compare and contrast paper between the main characters in my book that I am reading.

In the book I am previously reading at the moment, the two main characters Rose Hathaway and Lissa Dragomir, are almost complete opposites, but yet they are best friends. This series concludes that even if you are nothing like someone, you can still become friends with anyone.

Between the years Rose and Lissa have become best friends, even if they are practically almost nothing alike. Rose is a strength and endurance dhampir, who protects everyone she can, and she loves to have fun and go to many parties and fool around with people. Rose also likes fighting and getting into trouble whenever she can. Yet she can also always have time to sit down with anyone and help them, even if she has her own problems to work out. While on the other hand, Lissa loves to help people and she tries to find the best in everyone. She hates fighting and hurting people though, and that’s where the difference between Rose and Lissa comes in.

With these differences of Rose liking to party and likes to fight, and Lissa seeing the goodness in people, they still manage to be best friends. I can observe that they might equal each other out, and that’s how they keep their relationship going. I’ve noticed with myself and my own best friend, we act completely different at times, but other times it seems like we could be sisters. So I can relate to their relationship and how it all worked out.

Then with all of the similarities between the two best friends, I can make out how they can also stick together through the worst possible times. They are both devoted to always helping people, and they can practically read each other’s minds because they know each other too well. Lissa is slowly learning to have more fun and go to more parties, so that’s another item that Rose and Lissa have in common together.

Rose can search out any fight she desires, but she loves to kill and fight Strigoi. She even went on a killing spree while she was in Russia looking for her lover that has turned Strigoi, while Lissa is the quiet and non-hurtful type of girl. Even when Lissa threw a punch at a guardian, it hurt her so much from the pain and from hurting someone.

In this series named the “Vampire Academy”, that I am currently reading, Lissa Dragomir and Rosemarie Hathaway, have many troubles throughout the past two years. They stick together through the best and the worst possible times. The two of them will always be best friends, even if they are almost the exact opposite from one another.