It’s 1:35pm I’m rushing to get to my next class. Time is ticking we are 1/4 way through the quarter and I still can’t figure out how to open the classroom door or the secret identity of my ELA teacher. (I’m being sarcastic ). Is she an alien from outerspace? Or is she spongebob that lives in a pineapple under the sea? No! She is a HUMAN, not spongebob.. Or is she? Oh we will never know!
Anyway I am way off topic... I’m kind of used to 8th grade but I have my classes schedule memorized which is a good thing. I feel like quarter one wasn’t my best and in quarter 2 I am definitely trying even more to just get 3’s and 4’s and kick the butt’s out of those 1’s and 2’s! This quarter I got about 7 2’s which is terrible! I asked my teachers if they could help me through quarter 2 to try to get to my goal. I asked them to correct me if I’m wrong. To tell me if I participate enough or what I still need to achieve. If I want to get to a nice high school I need to work harder. I do not want to end up in Morton the most horrible high school ever. They don’t even have air conditioning! To get into Fenwick you need to pass a really long test about 2-3 hours and in between you get 1 hour to take a break and eat. They mostly look at the test more than your report card but at the end they do end up looking at it.
Monday, November 6, 2017
Connections to the Outsiders
I read “Healing Brick a City” In the article “Healing Brick City” it states “I looked up at the board, and ‘Don Moses’ [was] written on the board in the trauma room. I’m like, ‘Wow, I know that name,” and right below was written the word ‘deceased.’ So, I’m sitting in there, looking at the board and thinking, ‘What are the chances that this is the Don Moses that I know?’ And unfortunately, I sprinted down to the surgical ICU3 and his body was taken away, but his family was there. It was the Don Moses that I knew from childhood.” The connection to the Outsiders is that one of Pony boys beloved friend dies (Johnny) in the hospital. This also happened to Sampson Davis. When he was working he saw his close friend on the board which means he died and was at the hospital.
The next connection I saw was “Snake and I was a part of a team that committed an armed robbery when I was 17 1/2. And I often say 17 1/2 because had I been 18, my story would have been written differently. But it was that life experience that changed me around. I was sentenced to two years’ probation.” The outsiders are based on almost Greasers. Greasers are kind of like a gang which they fight and rob just like what Sampson Davis did when he was younger. Dally was in prison for stealing, stealing, and drinking somewhat like Sampson and his friend Don Moses which he was sentenced two years probation.
Then the passage states again “When you look at mental illness, in the inner city community particularly, it’s taboo. It’s almost like, ‘I can’t say to another person that I’m depressed, because it destroys, especially as a man talking to another man, it destroys the ‘man code,’ if you will.” This connects to the Outsiders because when Johnny was in the Hospital almost dying Ponyboy gets so depressed and sick because he is scared Johnny is going to die. After Johnny dies Ponyboy is even more depressed because Johnny was his closest friend and now he doesn’t have the courage to do things but he still fights in the big rumble. The movie is somewhat similar and different to the book.
The next connection I saw was “Snake and I was a part of a team that committed an armed robbery when I was 17 1/2. And I often say 17 1/2 because had I been 18, my story would have been written differently. But it was that life experience that changed me around. I was sentenced to two years’ probation.” The outsiders are based on almost Greasers. Greasers are kind of like a gang which they fight and rob just like what Sampson Davis did when he was younger. Dally was in prison for stealing, stealing, and drinking somewhat like Sampson and his friend Don Moses which he was sentenced two years probation.
Then the passage states again “When you look at mental illness, in the inner city community particularly, it’s taboo. It’s almost like, ‘I can’t say to another person that I’m depressed, because it destroys, especially as a man talking to another man, it destroys the ‘man code,’ if you will.” This connects to the Outsiders because when Johnny was in the Hospital almost dying Ponyboy gets so depressed and sick because he is scared Johnny is going to die. After Johnny dies Ponyboy is even more depressed because Johnny was his closest friend and now he doesn’t have the courage to do things but he still fights in the big rumble. The movie is somewhat similar and different to the book.
Battle of the Books and Movies
The outsiders book and the movie both have similarities and differences. One of the similarities between the book and the movie is one of the scenes in the movie was when Cherry and the boys were walking then the car pulls up. Cherry says that she doesn't want to fights and that she hates fighting. Next, in another scene Both Johnny and Ponyboy fall asleep in the park. Then Johnny and Ponyboy run away from Dally because Dally hit Ponyboy. These are the similarities between the book and the movie.
The differences between the book and the movie is that the movie was shortened up and the setting was a faster plot than the book. The movie was a shortened version since the regular movie is like three hours but the one we saw was one hour. The next difference is when they don’t show when Johnny got beat up in the beginning In the movie but they did show it in the book. These are the differences between the book and the movie.
I personally think that the movie is better than the book but then at the same I feel like they both are amazing. I myself like movies because you could actually see the characters and how they act and look like. These are the similarities and differences between the book and the movie.
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