"The Outsiders" Reflection

           In the book, "The Outsiders", Ponyboy Curtis is a significant character in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton because, he is in the book a lot (Being the main character) and is the most interesting character out of all of the Greasers because he is different from them emotionally and physically. He's a dreamer and very smart. Ponyboy has light-brown,with almost red greased up hair and greenish-gray eyes but now has bleached, slicked back hair. Ponyboy Curtis belongs to a lower-class  group in Oklahoma who call themselves “greasers” because of their greasy long hair. Walking home from a movie, Ponyboy's attacked by a group of Socs, the greasers rivals, who are upper-class youths from the West Side of town. The Socs, short for Socials, gang up on Ponyboy and threaten to slot his throat. A group of greasers comes and chases the bullies away, saving Ponyboy. Ponyboy's rescuers include his brother Sodapop, a charming, handsome high-school dropout, and Darry, Ponyboy’s oldest brother. The rest of the greasers who come to Ponyboy’s rescue are Johnny, a sensitive sixteen-year-old, Dally, a hardened street hood with a long criminal record, Steve, Sodapop’s best friend, and Two-Bit, the oldest and funniest group member. Ponyboy talks slang sometimes, like how everyone spoke with ease, but still talks proper English. He says, “ain't,” a lot. What motivates Ponyboy is to be able to see the sunsets almost everyday and be able to complete his present to future goals. What Ponyboy says often about other characters, who are Darry, Sodapop, Dally, and two-Bi, is that, “Dally reminds me of one of the gallant Southern  gentlemen from the civil war.” “Sodapop, Darry, and Two-Bit remind me more of heroes than Dally does.” When Ponyboy physically prefers that if he was to fight somebody in a rumble, it will be in self-defense since he is more modern and less wild than his friends/brothers, “The Greasers”. Ponyboy enjoys going to the movies and watching action and he's also gentle but tries to be brave as good as he can. In the book, Ponyboy believes that Darry thinks that he lacks common sense even though he is really smart at school compared to the rest of the greasers. But sometimes he doesn't think when making choices or doing actions. Doing this, sometimes, he could get in trouble and face problems he could normally avoid. The reason why Darry expects so much from Ponyboy is because he doesn't want his brother to turn out to be a dropout like Sodapop is. He believes that with his goals and smarts, he can be totally different from the others and actually have a future to look forward to. At the middle to the end of the book, Ponyboy changes because he struggles in his mind and he tries to pressure himself into thinking that he killed Bob, "The Socs,". The struggle Ponyboy deals with in reality is that, he tries to hind from the police along with Johnnycake. What I like most about Ponyboy Curtis is that he has so many people to go to even though he is a little bit more positivly better than his friends/brothers. I also like that how Ponyboy cares about his family and the gang so much that he'd do anything to make things right or to clear up a situation.

           A poem I think that really describes Ponyboy's background and story from in the book is, "What Are You Afraid Of" by Jon Jorgenson. I think this poem describes his background and story of his life because it talks/asks what are you afraid of throughout time when you realize you have so many supporters, hope, and overcomed adversities throughout life. Basically saying what room does fear have when you have all what you need to fix a problem in your life. In the book he Ponyboy used to be afraid about getting into trouble with the Socs, and having problems from two of his friends death because of a previous mureder which caused them in the end. But I think when Ponyboy realizes just of who he is, who he is around, and what he has been through at such a young age he can use to help him over come adversities throughout his life.

Thinking About My Blogging

       Blogging for me can be a challenge sometimes, and when i mean challenging I mean that depending on what I wait about, I have trouble actually figuring out what I'm going to say. Sometimes I worry to much in thinking that what I just said doesn't make since at all, or doesn't even match up to the assigned topic. Other times it's really easy because either I really like the topic or I already have an what I'm going to write. Blogging can be fun in many different ways. It can be fun by posting something you might enjoy and want to talk about, being ale to comment and pages and posts you want the write to recognize. When I blogged about how I want my future to be in 10 years, I liked how I already believe I can make this happen for my future but I also understand that some things I want to happen in the future are just dreams. Blogging can also help with reality depending on the topic. Like if you were going through a situation where you are having problems with family, you can find a post on how to deal with the problem and it my help. Blogging can be a. Good resource in your own way of thinking.

My Best Trip Ever

          I don't have the greatest trip in my life because I haven't completed life yet, I'm not done. But so far the best trip I have been on is going camping in Lake Gineva, Wisconsin over the summer last year and this year. Last year it was my first time camping ever. It was a little scary because it would be with total strangers for the beginning, sharing a cabin, and being around nature I'm not used to. But the camp I went to was called Holiday Home Camp. I was put into the second to least year of being there and the last group to be there for the summer. During that week, I befriended so many people from all over the Midwest of America and even out the country. In fact, those people I meet was around all the time in that one week that they eventually felt like family I've known for years. Meaning that when it was the last day I cried my eyes out because I didn't have any idea that If i was going to see the people who were part my of family again. We did so many things like swimming in the lake, camp-fire outing, nature walks, archery, etc. All the things you can think of doing at a camp is what we did. This year I went again and it was my last year since I was in the oldest cabin. They had some of the same people I've seen last year and some new faces I befriended and made apart of my family just like in the past. They had the same activities except for photography which I obviously joined because I'm in love with taking pictures. This year I cried even harder since it was my last year, but I can always sign up to become a junior counselor next year which I will be doing. I loved this trip so much that I might recommend become a senior counselor for the summer when I'm older. This trip had been so exciting for me and I'm so excited to do again soon. This was my favorite trip I've ever taken so far in my life.

Summer Reading Book blog post: Paper Towns By:John Green

Blog 1: Introduction

       The book that I reading this call, "Paper Towns", by John Green. Paper Towns is about a boy, Quintin "Q" Jacobsen spending time with a mysterious girl, Margo Roth Speiglemen, since he moved to the same neighborhood as her, Jefferson Park, when they were both 9.  Growing up, Margo would  ask you to go with her to do adventures together and he would except. Now they're both 17 about to graduate. They both go on the last adventure together, prancing and so much more. To the people that call themselves Margo's friends and reveal their secrets. 

         But Q didn't know that at the very night, it would be the last time having fun and seeing her. The next morning he finds out that Marco is missing. He tries to find her by using the clues she left behind for him and only him to understand. As to find her, the more he finds the true side of her he never knew. 

Blog 2: Focus, Analyze, and Explain How Do they feel?

          On page 26 Chapter 2 is says, " So like I said, I need a car. Also I need you to drive it, because I have to do 11 things tonight, and at least five of them involve a getaway man."  When I let my Psion focus, she became nothing but eyes, floating in the ether. And then I looked  back on her, and I could see the outline of her face, the paint still wet against her skin. Her cheekbones triangulating into her chin, her pitch – black lips barely turn to a smile. "Any felonies?" I asked. "Hmm," Said Margo "Remind me if breaking and entering is a felony." "No," I answered firmly. "No it's not a felony or no you won't help?" "No I won't help. Can't you enlist some of your underlings to drive you around?"  Lacy and/or Becca were always doing her bidding. "They're apart of the problem, actually," Margo said. "What's the problem?" I asked  "There are eleven problems," she said somewhat impatiently. "No felonies" I said "Iswear to God you will not be asked to commit a felony." This detail is important because it shows how Q acts. he is very cautious of certain things like this because he I very different from other people in Jefferson Park. He doesn't like putting  his future at risk if there is something that can. He also thinks that no matter what, he has to be the grown up in his world.

Focus in Blog 2: Conflict: Are they internal or external?

             Clinton is usually an internal because since his only basic known friends are Ben and Rader (Marcus), they do a lot of things together. Q isn't very social, but still is social around his friends, but not to other people. On Page 91-92' it states, "He didn't interrupt me once – – Ben was a good friend in the not – interrupting way me once-- but when I finished, he immediately asked me the most pressing question in his mind. "Wait, so about Jason Worthington, how small are we talking?" "Shrinkage may have played a role, since he was under significant anxiety, but have you ever seen a pencil?" I asked him, and been nodded. "Well, have you ever seen a pencil eraser?" He nodded again. "Well, have you ever seen the little shavings of rubber left on the paper after you erase something?" More nodding. "I'd say three shavings long and one shaving wick." I said. Ben ad taken a lot of crap from guys like Jason Worthington and Chuck Parson, so I figured he was entitled to enjoy ita little.But he didn't even laugh.  He was just shaking his head slowly, awestruck. "God, she is such badass." "I know." "She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jim Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else graus up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome." "Yeah," I said. I rarely tried of talking about Margo Roth Spiegleman but I was rarely this tired. I leaned back against the cracked vinyl heardest and fell immediately asleep. When I woke up  a Wendy's hamburger was sitting in my lap with a note. 'Had to go to class, bro. See you after band'"

Focus in Blog 3: Theme

               The theme of the story is that people change all the time. You shouldn't judge on how person is be in the past. That is the theme because all throughout the book Q would've been thinking of how Margo was when she was little because that's how he would think she is now. On page 173, it states, "Who is Margo Roth Spiegleman?" Like a metaphor rendered incomprehensible by its ubiquity, there was room in what she had left me for endless imaginings, for an infinite set of Marrgo's." On page 284-285 it states," She's screaming back, louder than I thought possible. "You're not even pissed at me, Q! You're pissed at this idea of me you keep inside your brain from when we were little."