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I woke up in a small cabin. As time passed, I adjusted enough to realize that I was freezing. I felt like I had just walked into a freezer in my summer togs. I walked across the room to check the fire. When I opened the stove, it was colder than a polar bear’s nose. Then I ran my fingers through my hair, wondering what to do, and I felt a blinding blast of pain
There was a huge bump on the back of my head. Or maybe it was. I couldn’t tell. The bump didn’t feel too high, but it extended over the entire back of my head. And it hurt like I had never imagined before.
After I got used to the bump, I decided to look around the cabin. Just like thestove, the room was freezing. There was a counter against one wall and a bed against another. A small table with a bump like the one on my head was between the counter and the bed. I wondered what it was for. Next, I decided to got outside and explore, as I had found winter gear.
Posted by 23031 on 1/5/07; 1:49:18 PM
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Common Themes
on Handling Anger and Resolving Conflict,
See Saw, The Cool Crowd and The Outsiders.
These four stories seem very different, but they all deal with situations that kids can relate to. Some of the situations you hope to not get into –like getting involved in a murder like in The Outsiders- but most situations are everyday stuff.
A few examples of these things are getting mad at friends for small things after a hard day; popular kids not letting you do much talking or trying to get you to change for them; and having a hard time at home, but ending up putting things back together to name a few.
Another common theme between these stories is that they all deal with teenaged kids, and their daily life. See Saw was the one that showed teenagers' life, because it was a play about that. These stories can seem very different, but have the same theme - teenaged life.
Posted by 23031 on 11/27/06; 12:04:25 PM
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The Outsiders by S.E Hinton Nov. 7
I think that S.E Hinton wrote this book to show that people's lives aren’t always what they seem and to portray the hardships of the lives of the Greasers. When I started reading this novel I thought that the Socs were the type of kids that had the perfect lifestyle- a great home life and an even better one at school. Once I had finished it, I realized that no one's life is like that. For example, Bob’s parents didn’t put up any restrictions to what he did, and when he came home drunk, his parents thought that they had done something wrong. This might seem like a great life to you, but I would want someone to say no if no one ever did.
Right away this book showed you that the Greasers had it hard. Johnny was a perfect example: the only time he didn’t look defeated was when he was saving the kids in the burning church, and who made him look defeated? His parents- by always hitting him or not caring where he was. Even through all this, he still loved them. Or Ponyboy, Sodapop and Darry. Their parents died and Darry had to care for his younger brothers, even though he was just over twenty.
This book surprised me, I expected that I wouldn’t enjoy it as much if I had to do questions with it, but I enjoyed it anyway. Thank you, S. E. Hinton.
Posted by 23031 on 11/17/06; 12:02:21 PM
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