Seminar Reflection
In our seminar Lacey stated ‘The Greasers and the Soc’s are all the same, they are just biased.’ When I heard this I knew that it was immediately the brutal truth, I agree with that statement because we only read one side of the story. If we were to have read this book, but the point of view was not of a Greaser but a Soc, we would be biased to think that the Greasers are trash and are just wanna-be gangsters. Bu we read the book from a Greasers point of view, therefore we are somewhat biased to ‘hate’ the Soc’s, yet we are appealed to liking the character Cherri Valance who is a Soc.
When we were talking about how social class was a big problem in the book and we took from that and put it into situations that we could relate too. We did this because most of us come from middle class families, where we can look down on the lower class people, and look up to the upper class. We do this because we have been taught that you do not want to be a bottom feeder, you want to be on a level where you are better than most but still striving to be that ultimate person.
I think I did well when we were talking about how the Soc’s were ‘emotionless’ and how only one person came to Ponyboy and apologized to him. They were saying how only one person showed up to apologize and I said that it would be embarrassing to go apologize for something that didn’t go as planned. I don’t think that the Soc’s were not thinking that the two youngest of that particular Greaser ‘gang’, would be able to pull out a switch blade and stab someone, and kill them in front of their eyes. I would probably need to work on getting what I want to say out there in the open, because I had a lot to say about certain subjects, but when I would think of it the conversation would go to another topic.
In S. E. Hinton’s book The Outsiders she wrote, ‘Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s gold. Keep that way; it’s a good way to be.’ This in my opinion is the most beautiful line in the book because the character Johnny had wrote it and had told the nurse to give it to Ponyboy, before he died. To Ponyboy, the fact that Johnny had written something like that to Ponyboy means a lot to him, especially since he passed away.
When we were talking about how social class was a big problem in the book and we took from that and put it into situations that we could relate too. We did this because most of us come from middle class families, where we can look down on the lower class people, and look up to the upper class. We do this because we have been taught that you do not want to be a bottom feeder, you want to be on a level where you are better than most but still striving to be that ultimate person.
I think I did well when we were talking about how the Soc’s were ‘emotionless’ and how only one person came to Ponyboy and apologized to him. They were saying how only one person showed up to apologize and I said that it would be embarrassing to go apologize for something that didn’t go as planned. I don’t think that the Soc’s were not thinking that the two youngest of that particular Greaser ‘gang’, would be able to pull out a switch blade and stab someone, and kill them in front of their eyes. I would probably need to work on getting what I want to say out there in the open, because I had a lot to say about certain subjects, but when I would think of it the conversation would go to another topic.
In S. E. Hinton’s book The Outsiders she wrote, ‘Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s gold. Keep that way; it’s a good way to be.’ This in my opinion is the most beautiful line in the book because the character Johnny had wrote it and had told the nurse to give it to Ponyboy, before he died. To Ponyboy, the fact that Johnny had written something like that to Ponyboy means a lot to him, especially since he passed away.