Archive for November, 2007
Sadly we arrive at the last two chapters of the book, I chose survival for it because they are learning to survive without dally or Johnny, they are learning how to stand strong, they may cry every once and a while but they are learning how to cope with all of this death and agony. Ponyboy had the worst of it because he was only 14 when all of this happened. He saw more the a lot of people today see at that age, he’s been through a lot and then all of this death hits him like a wave of shock and emotion. In these chapters it tells how much pain and sadness that ponyboy darry soda Steve, and two bit are going through with the loss of their friends. It also tells the ponyboy’s marks were dropping and how he got an extra assignment to make up the marks he write an essay about his life, and that’s when he wrote this book.
That’s the end of it all 
November 9th, 2007
I think these chapters are about friendship because they all had each other’s backs during the rumble, I also think it’s about friendship because they all worked together to beat up the socs.
Friendship means a lot in a society, if people today didn’t have friends we would all probably become terrorists, we would have nothing to live for, to people today well most people today their friends are like family, that’s one of the reasons I chose friendship for these chapters. Another reason is that I picked friendship is because when Johnny died in these chapters, everyone was effected a lot, it’s amazing how much emotion a book can reveal about friendship, loyalty, fear, survival, heroism and most of all the bond between friends and family.
November 8th, 2007
I picked fear for these chapters because everyone was scared that Johnny was going to die. Johnny was there pet their little brother, and everyone liked him, so when he got hurt it was I big loss for everyone, people feared the life that they would have without Johnny there, getting scared all the time. Especially dally, Johnny looked up to dally, dally was his role model, with Johnny not there to praise dally, dally would be heartbroken, scared, frightened. Another reason I picked fear is because they were afraid of how this would effect their lives, and how much they would miss him, fear of change, that’s why I picked fear for this chapter.
November 8th, 2007
kate: what is power
Phillip: uh i think power is like something that u get
kate: i think power is a feeling, as in like feeling confident or feeling better then others, feeling love, feeling control…stuff like that..
kate: how does power effect a relationship?
Phillip: uh power can change the way people act with each other. like if a person get a lot of money they tend to get greety and the treat others in a bad way
kate: i think that power could effect a relationship by if people have power then they stary takeing advantaje of things and people untill its all gone, if people are in a relation ship where one of them has power then the other one is probably not going to stay with the other one
kate: what role does power play in a persons decition makeing prosses?
Phillip: i have no idea
kate: i think that the prosses that the role power plays in a human before they make a decition would be they would think, is this going to help me? or how is this going to effect my life? and it also helps people make the rite choice os the better choice because if you have lots of power then if you screw up your decition then you mess up alot of things
Phillip: i think that sometimes they want things done their way
kate: why is haveing power so important to a person?
Phillip: it is important because it is basicly wat runs the world today
Phillip:and it is wat let us live where we r now
kate:i think its authourty and so ou could tell people what to do, and so that you dont get stepped on in the socities today.
and so thats what we talked about on moodle that faithful night…who am i kidding thats what evryone talked about 
November 2nd, 2007
I think these chapters are about heroism because Johnny and ponyboy saved some kids and helped them get out of the burning church.
In these chapters ponyboy and Johnny live in an old abandoned church together for a while because they had to hide out for a while so that the police for killing bob wouldn’t catch them.
When Johnny killed bob it was for self-defense and also Johnny wanted to save ponyboy.
Heroism is when someone does something heroic. Hence the name but heroism is not a word that is very often used.
Some people say that a police man is a hero or a firefighter is a hero but I find the best hero is the one who does it for free, police and firefighters get paid to help, its there job, but what ponyboy dally and Johnny did was heroic in the best kind of way, they did it out of there own good senses.
That’s why I would base these chapters on heroism.
November 1st, 2007
