... if you don't have a knife in certain situations. For example, Rusty was in a fight and it was going to be fought with knives. Nobody in his group had one, so Rusty lost. Then he met the Motorcycle Boy and everything was back to normal until the big fight. Rusty got hit, stabbed, and ... knocked out. Usually the Motorcycle Boy would help him out, but instead he wasn't there, nowhere to be seen. Rusty was put in the hospital. The ... main conflict in the story is Rusty James, and his fighting all of the time. It isn't good for him or his reputation. Rusty usually wins ... is fighting, Rus...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Then they hide out in an old church, but the church burns down. While trying to save the kids Johnny is injured really bad and dies a few days later. Dally, Johnny's best friend is grief-stricken about it and robs a store. He evens threatens the police with an unarmed gun. In doing this he is also killed. Now Pony has lost two friends. Pony is now ... depressed and begins to fail in school. Dropping from a really high academic position. (Hinton pg 154) CLIMAX: The climax of this novel would definitely have to be when Pony read the letter that Johnny wrote him before his death. He told hi...

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• Grade Level: High School

... lots of sad emotions and lots of anger but not very much love and caring like one gets from a mother and a father. When Johnny dies and then when Dally dies, you see how hard it is for three boys to express their loss and feelings about death. The Outsiders show sad emotions from the very beginning when Soda Pop, Pony Boy and ... of hope for the future to do better or to get a different life. When Dally went and robbed the convenient store, and then gets shot by the police there is a lot of sadness but life seems to move on. It is not the end of the world like it would be if I lost my b...

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Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton is about a couple of kids that were growing up around the 1970's. Rusty-James was the younger brother of the gang leader, Motorcycle Boy. Rusty had to take care of him self a lot because his brother was never around a whole lot anymore. He always tried to act extra tough so people would think he was a lot like his brother and not mess with him ... Wilcox's girlfriend. This wasn't a very good idea considering the fact that him and biff already didn't get along. So, since Biff knew that Motorcycle Boy was going to be out of town he thought he would pay Rusty a visit....

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• Grade Level: High School

... our professors that we will really understand our profession only by getting in schools and actually teaching. This is certainly true. Our role now as we prepare for that day is to begin to understand the abundance of issues that certainly are pivotal in the realm of education. Poverty in our schools is such a large controversial issue that really is ignored by a ... in the classroom."" (Farmer-Hinton 2002) People think this stopped happening a long time ago, but the problem is still there. When we show these students "love through high expectations and rigorous demands,"" students then ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... our professors that we will really understand our profession only by getting in schools and actually teaching. This is certainly true. Our role now as we prepare for that day is to begin to understand the abundance of issues that certainly are pivotal in the realm of education. Poverty in our schools is such a large controversial issue that really is ignored by a ... in the classroom."" (Farmer-Hinton 2002) People think this stopped happening a long time ago, but the problem is still there. When we show these students "love through high expectations and rigorous demands,"" students then ...

• Word Count: 1862
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate