The Day Has Come…The Outsiders Project Is Over :(
Hey, by my title I’m guessing that you know what this post is about, but in case you don’t it’s about the ending of my outsider’s project. This book was my favorite book that I ever read; I like this book because it has great meaning of what friends are there for. In this post I’m going to talk about all of the pieces of this book like, the actual reading of the book, watching the movie, and also the final project that we had to do with a school in Los Angeles. It was a long commute but we made it through, I’m also going to right about the problems that we faced doing this project and my opinion of the book it’s self.
Book:
The book in my opinion was the best book ever! I like this book because it has allot to teach a person about life and showing what you take for granted others would take as treasure. Another opinion of this book would be I wish it were longer because I couldn’t put it down 
but that is a good thing. I would recommend this book to everyone it’s a great book for both genders. The author, S.E Hinton wrote this book during a summer when she was young and in school. in the book there are greasers and socs (the social people, rich, spoiled, ect.) but the main group is the greasers, the main characters are Ponyboy, Darry, Dally, Soda pop, Johnny, Two-bit, bob, randy and cherry, bob randy and cherry are socs. Some of the main thoughts in the book are: Heroism, Fear, Death, Friendship, Survival, and in my opinion life.
Those are main thoughts because there’s allot of everything in there, the greasers they save children, they witness murder, they are normal people, they still feel fear, they have a strong bond with all their friends, they have to survive after all of the bad that went on, and it’s all in one life time, Ponyboy id only 14 and he has seen more than many people see in a lifetime. These children all come from bad homes, even the rich spoiled socs. This book shows that “things are bad all over”, that its self is a lesson I will never forget, that quote shows that people may have it bad but you won’t know until you actually know the person and have lives that person’s life, seen something bad happen, that is one of my favorite quotes in the book, Cherry is the one who says the quote. The reason I like this quote is because I find it interesting how she told Ponyboy that he is not the only one with problems, it really got to me and showed me that no matter how good life seems for others there are always problems.
Movie:
In the movie I found that they skipped a lot of parts in it, the movie isn’t very long but they got the important parts in it. One of the good things I found in the movie is that they tried to get the characters as close to the book as possible, like for Johnny, S . E Hinton said that Johnny had black eyes and so did the person who played Johnny in the movie. In the movie they captured the main events perfectly, with all the death and fighting there was in this movie they got the feel of this book right on. The movie didn’t have a big part to play in this project, but we got to watch it as an extra piece of it so that we could visualize what these kids were going through. My favorite part of the movie was when Ponyboy had gotten to the hospital when Soda and Darry walked in, I liked it because Ponyboy always thought that Darry hated him, but when Darry walked through those doors he started crying because he missed Ponyboy so bad, it was really emotional.
The Project:
For the final project Lindsay ( a girl that I have been working with from Los Angeles) and I worked on a voice thread that displayed one major problem that I will say later, you can see the voice thread HERE, this voice thread presentation revolves around one word…fear, fear plays a large part in out society, Fear is something that everyone experiences sometime or other in their lifetime. I picked to do fear because it’s a large topic and there are many fears like spiders, some people are afraid of dogs or clowns, even snakes or bugs, it’s a natural feeling to get scared, everyone does it so why hide it? Well some people try and hide their fears incase the persons friends or peers might make fun of them, but they get scared too. Another reason I picked fear is because it occurs a lot in the book “The Outsiders”.
Working With Lindsay was kind of difficult because we live so far apart, we only were able to talk a couple of times. The first way that we were able to talk to people in la was with a program called moodle which didn’t work at all, then we switched over to meebo.com which is like msn, when that didn’t work we had to download a program called skype which is a really great program, to get it all you have to do is go to skype.com and download it and here’s the best part…its free! So with skype you can talk to people all around the globe and you can type it or you could use audio or you could use video, or all three.
In the end I think that the project turned out pretty well despite the fact that we had audio problems and we had a misunderstanding about the recording of the pictures.
I enjoyed doing this project about “the outsiders” and I’m glad that the work is over…but at the same time I had fun with it and I didn’t want it to end.
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