Outsiders Theme 4 Group

Assignment:
First, you will exchange concrete details found in The Outsiders to support your theme through blog posts and comments. Two different concrete details must be sumbitted (one from each group). Secondly, you will exchange personal or general real-world examples illustrating the theme in today's society. Again the ideas must differ. Finally, you will exchange support for and disagreement with Hinton's message.
Theme:
Often life isn't fair.
Participants:
Mary, Steve, Lance, Brooke + Chelsey, Remi, Grant

To reply, click on the # Comments link at the end of blog entry, type your response in the Leave A Comment box, and under Choose Your Identity choose the Name/URL option, and type only your first name in the space provided. Responses are moderated, so expect a delay in the posting of your response.

Comments

Mary Steve Lance Brooke said…
Often life isn’t fair for the Curtis boys, because their parents have died. Darry has to drop out of school and has to take on two jobs to provide for Soda and Ponyboy. Soda also drops out of school because he has no talent and wants to get a job to help provide for the family. Since their parents have died everything has not been the same. Through no fault of their own often life isn’t fair.
October 13, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Remi, Grant, and Chelsey said…
We respectfully disagree that their parents dying is the cause of their life being unfair. However, we agree on how it is unfair that Darry and Sodapop had to drop out of school to take care of their family, and that Darry has to work two jobs. We also think it is unfair that the greasers are judged as being a lower class compared to the Socials, because they are poor. We also think it is unfair that the greasers don't get the chance to have good jobs like the Socials, because they are always looked down upon. They have to strive more than the Socials to be able to survive what they call a cold, cruel world.
October 13, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Mary, Lance, Steve, Brooke said…
Thank you for your response. We appreciate your point of view and agree with your opinion of the socials and the respect they get. Our point was that life is unfair and sometimes parents die. We apologize for the confusion. In the real world another way life isn’t fair, is that people lose their job, can’t provide for their families, and lose their homes. For example, the banks under investigation the people who had worked there are losing their jobs. From no fault of their own, they cannot provide for their families. This real world example, in a way, relates to the Curtis boys. We agree with the theme; often life isn’t fair, on certain occasions. However, we disagree that life isn’t fair for the Curtis boys all the time because at times they do enjoy when they were on their way to the rumble, when Johnny advises Pony to stay gold, and also when soda had his horse , Mickey mouse. Life can be fair, on some occasions, but not all.
October 14, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Remi, Grant, and Chelsey said…
We agree with what you said. Here are some of our ideas of the theme , life isn't fair. Often times, being poor is your fault and some times it is not your fault. A real world example would be the soup kitchen. At the soup kitchen, you help serve food to the unfortinate. Some of these people have lost their jobs, didn't go to school, or were born poor.
October 14, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Remi, G said…
Another real world example, is murder. Like in the book, when Johnny killed Bob. It isn't fair because people shouldn't go off murdering people for their anger. Only God can decide what happens in someone's future based on how they lived their life.
October 14, 2009 at 9:01 AM
Remi, Grant, and Chelsey said…
Another real world example would be murder. Like in the book, when Johnny killed Bob. It isn't fair because people should not go off murdering people to get rid of their anger. Only God can decide what someone's future is, based on how they lived their life.
October 14, 2009 at 9:06 AM
Mary Lance Steve Brooke said…
We respectfully disagree; bob was not murdered out of anger, but out self defense. However we agree that God can decide what happens to someone’s life in the future. We also agree that being poor is often not your fault. As a group, we find that Hinton’s theme “life isn’t fair” is one that takes place in real life. It describes the book well. Overall we agree that life often isn’t fair in the book The Outsiders.
October 15, 2009 at 8:31 AM
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