12.12.2007

Big Questions to Help You Review

Post your answers to three of the five BIG QUESTIONS from the sheet in class.

18 comments:

Student from 8LA said...

Internal Conflict:
All of the characters in The Outsiders face internal conflicts, but Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally show the most. Johnny deals with this well because even though he struggles with many problems and abusive parents, he still is kind-of happy with his life when he's around the gang. Ponyboy and Johnny find resolution in the end. Johnny realizes that fighting doesn't do anyone any good, and Ponyboy learns to accept things like Johnny and Dally's death.

-Whitney, Angelica, Cathy

Student from 8LA said...

Nothing Gold Can Stay
the lesson is that nothing is good for ever. every thing has its time.
and that has it's passing time. the person in this story who struggles with is pony because when johnny dies pony he struggles

Student from 8LA said...

the lesson is that nothing good can stay and your only gold as a child. they struggle with it how they start to change during all of the conflict in the book.

They think that darry could be a soc if it wasnt for them.They trust cherry because they have to trust her that johnny was innocent and they trust pony because he's a member of their own gang.Dally because he doesnt trust anyone.johnny because he saves the kids.Bobs lacks honor for jumping johnny.

It plays a big role because of the rumble because its about them fighting.

Student from 8LA said...

Internal Conflict:
We think Ponyboy suffers most internal conflict, quoted from page 50, Darry pushed Pony and to have that act done upon you, it must've been really hard on Ponyboy to feel like he belonged there, afterwards, he and Johnny fled to Winndrixville.
Contrasting Characters:
We think that the most contrasting pair of characters would be Dally and Darry. Dally is upbeat and knows what to do when the cops are coming, he can play it cool... well, cool like a smart-aleck. As opposed to Darry, who is serious and knows how to get things done, like work-wise.
Violence:
Yes, it does play an imortant role in the story. Ther are a lot of conflicts in The Outsiders. The rivalry between Soc.s and Greasers are intense, yet, most of the characters think that fighting won't resolve a thing.

Student from 8LA said...

Internal Conflict:
We think Ponyboy suffers most internal conflict, quoted from page 50, Darry pushed Pony and to have that act done upon you, it must've been really hard on Ponyboy to feel like he belonged there, afterwards, he and Johnny fled to Winndrixville.
Contrasting Characters:
We think that the most contrasting pair of characters would be Dally and Darry. Dally is upbeat and knows what to do when the cops are coming, he can play it cool... well, cool like a smart-aleck. As opposed to Darry, who is serious and knows how to get things done, like work-wise.
Violence:
Yes, it does play an imortant role in the story. Ther are a lot of conflicts in The Outsiders. The rivalry between Soc.s and Greasers are intense, yet, most of the characters think that fighting won't resolve a thing.
-Tasha D., Steven, Joseph

Student from 8LA said...

Violence: Greasers Vs. Socs. People are always fighting. To see who's better. Cause they want to solve something.That violence doesn't solve anything.
contrasting characters: rich and poor
the socs have like everything and the greasers don't have that much greasers are just trying to live life and the socs are drinking and messing up the greasers life's ponyboy and cherry bob and darry
Internal conflict: Bob,ponyboy,Dally, Ponyboy deals with it well.Ponyboy and Cherry finds resolution.

Student from 8LA said...

Violence: Greasers Vs. Socs. People are always fighting. To see who's better. Cause they want to solve something.That violence doesn't solve anything.
contrasting characters: rich and poor
the socs have like everything and the greasers don't have that much greasers are just trying to live life and the socs are drinking and messing up the greasers life's ponyboy and cherry bob and darry
Internal conflict: Bob,ponyboy,Dally, Ponyboy deals with it well.Ponyboy and Cherry finds resolution.
Nicole,Richard

Student from 8LA said...

Internal Conflict: Pony, Dally, Darry, and Johnny all have internal conflict. Pony, Darry, and Johnny deals with it well. Pony and Darry find resolution but Johnny dies in the end.
Contrasting charctures: Johnny and Pony are similar because they are both quiet. Dally and Soda are very different because soda is caring and understanding but Dally is tough and tells people to deal with it.
Nothing Gold Can stay: Nothing can live forever. Everything has a time to go no matter haw beautiful or great you are.
Trust and Honor: The greasers trust all the other greasers and the socs trust all the other socs. Pony and Soda share trust because they promise to always be there for eachother. Dally dosen't really understand trust because he was always left out on the street. Johnny has honor when he always follows Dally.
Kelsey, Dylan, Tim

Student from 8LA said...

violence: Because they use a lot of violence in the story because they are always fighting and the rumble was a big part in the story and that is all about violence. violence isn't something good to do. no one can benifit from violence.
nothing gold can stay: They are saying that nothing good in life is going to last forever. The characters struggle with it in the book when Ponyboy and Cherry get close and then cherry says you know that if i don't talk to you in school or anything don't be affended by it.

megan, stephanie, and mauri.

Student from 8LA said...

violence:
There is alot of violence in this book, it plays an important part in this book, like the Rumble, and also Bobs death. The story would be alot different if it didnt have it in it.

Student from 8LA said...

-Internal Confclict: Many charactors in The Outsiders have internal conflict. One of the many charactors from The Outsiders is Ponyboy. We thik that Ponyboy deals with internal conflict well.

-Violince: Violince plays a huge role in this story because there is nonstop violince between the socs and greasers. Violince doesnt solve anything.

-Andrew LaMere
-Jason Segura Dominguez
-Aaron Prescott

Student from 8LA said...

Nothing Gold Can Stay:
The lesson of , " Nothing Gold Can Stay," is that not all the beautiful things in the world can stay forever. The characters struggle with it when they loose Johnny because, Johnny was everyone's little brother.

Trust and Honor:
The two people who share the most trust are, PonyBoy and Johnny because, they have been through a lot together for example, Bob's death and the church fire. While they were on the run they knew the only people they could count on were eachother. The characters that don't understand it's importance are, Darry and PonyBoy. It is them for various reasons one is, they don't have faith in eachother. Johnny had honor because, he had gone through a lot and still stuck in there, he believes that he can do anything. Cherry lacks it because she betrated the soc's to help the greasers.

Violence:
It plays an important role in the story because there is a lot of violence between the socs and the greasers. They don't like eachother so that's how the big rumble came up. Because it's been going on for a long time. That violence doesn't solve much.

SAMANTHA OLSON , AMANDA CINO , SARIA ABDELFATAH =)

Student from 8LA said...

Internal Conflict:
Some of the characters are Dally and Ponyboy. We think Ponyboy deals with it better because, when Johnny died even though he was Pony's best friend, he learned to deal with it and thats just the way things are now. When Johnny died Dally couldent handle it, so he robed a store and had the cops shot him, that not the right way to handle it.

-Trista, Brittany, Jackie

Student from 8LA said...

Internal Conflict:
Dally faces internal conflicts a lot in this book. He deals with it by breaking the laws. His conflicts with this do not get resolved. Ponyboy and Johnny also face internal conflicts. Sometimes they deal with theirs well and sometimes they don't. Most of their conflicts do get resolved.

Sarah Swenson
Marshall Santiago
Halimo A

Student from 8LA said...

Internal Conflict: Cherry, Pony and Dally all have internal conflict. Cherry and Pony deals with it well. They learn to live with what they decide, but Dally couldn't live with what was happening. (Johnny's death) He couldn't deal with the grief so he ended up having the cops kill him. Pony finds resolution when he excepts that he's a greaser and that he believes that Darry really does love him.

Nothing gold can stay: The lesson behind this poem is that nothing good can stay forever and you should cherish what youy have because you don't know when it'll be taken away from you. Dally lost Johnny and Pony lost his mom, both of those people were gold.

-Cynthia, Jenna, Blake

Student from 8LA said...

Violence:
It plays a role in the story because the Socs and Greasers are always fighting. They fight brcause the Socs are rich and think they are better then the poor Greasers. The lesson they learned was violence dosn't solve anthting it just hurts people.
Trust and Honor:
Johnny and Ponyboy show alot of trust and honor. Johnny and Ponboy both had alot of honor tword eachother. I don't think that Johnny's parents really know the importence of trust and honor. They don't really have eather. They are diffenitly lacking it tward Johnny.

~ Rebecca ~Shawnee ~Michael~

Student from 8LA said...

Internal conflict:
Cherry is one of many characters who shows internal conflict an example would be that shes a socs but she also wants to help the greasers.
Dally is an example of someone who coundn't handle the conflict inside him. So when Johnny died it set him over the edge, and he had the cops take his life for him.

-Dallas, Jack, and Nate P.

Student from 8LA said...

Violence: violence can't solve anything. at the end of the rumble greaser were still greasers and socs were still socs.it plays a big part in the story because there is a rivalry betwen the socs and the greaser so it cause alot of conflict in the story.