... that does not define them as bad people. Johnny from The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (a young adult fictional novel) is a 16 year old boy who comes from a broken home and is abused. Johnny finds himself living in the midst of a local gang rivalry between the Socials and the Greasers. S.E. Hinton's use of imagery, flashbacks, metaphors, ... a crowd of strangers. It has also turned him into a little dark puppy, meaning that he has become someone that would do anything for the ones he loves and would do anything to protect them from someone who could potentially hurt them like Johnny's parents...

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... ! d next door, or the top real estate agent who calls himself "The King". There were so many different conflicts and alterations between the characters that made this movie so interesting to the viewers. American Beauty was a movie that shows us how our American society portrays the all American family to have the perfect relationships with one another. Little do the outsiders know about what really goes ... on inside the walls of the perfect household, and how they act towards each ... other. American Beauty is about the masks we wear in our society. Each character seems to wear there ...

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