1. As far as I know,
Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darrel and their companions were called “Greasers” by the
rich who lived in the west side of this town. Greaser originated from an
American slang that Greaser was an impolite term for the Mexican in 19th
century, and the slur likely derived from what was considered one of the lowest
occupations that typically held by Mexicans. After the Mexican-American War
ended, people kept using this insulting term to against Italian, Mexican, and
even poor people like Ponyboy and his friends.
2. In my eyes, the
famous book that was Ponyboy’s favorite, “Gone with the wind” was the symbolism
of equality and freedom. Just like the novel’s name that “Gone with the wind”
which illustrated abandon all the worries, and just follow the wind fluttering
to a random place. Since Ponyboy, Sodapop and Darrel faced too many obstacles,
and it would be wonderful for them going with the wind, but they couldn’t. It
seemed like they were doomed to be restricted by poverty and troubles. The book
was their expectation, an impossible expectation.
3. The climax of
this story was that Greasers, including Sodapop and his friends, and Socials
decided to have an ultimate battle for Bob’s death. Fortunately, Sodapop died
eventually. The major conflict of the climax was that Bob’s death, and Sodapop
had enough of hiding in the church, and the resolution was that Greasers still
couldn’t get rid off Socials’ unfair treatment, and they didn’t dare to
struggle again since Sodapop has been the sacrifice for their first try.
4. I think there are
three main themes in this story. The first one is that be honest to yourself
that don’t change for anyone’s judgments, and don’t be ruined by anything bad. The
another them is that friendship and family are so important, and the last one
is that don’t stop struggling because of the possibility of failure.
5. From this novel, I
learnt that everyone should be honest to yourself that I should always know who
I am, and what I am doing. These aren’t stupid questions since a number of
things happen in our daily life would easily influence us, and we would become
lost. I perceived this theory of life from Sodapop that Sodapop left a piece of
paper to Ponyboy in the book, “Gone with the wind” before he went to fight with
Socials. On this small piece of paper, he said, “Stay gold, which means stay
true to who you are, don’t change for anything it’ll ruin who you are. The way
you dig sunsets, Pony, that’s gold.” From Sodapop’s last letter, I can see
Sodapop had already known he would fail in this battle, and the reason he persisted
in going to fight was that he was so eager to fight for his destiny, only once
a lifetime because he wasn’t a coward.
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