Category Archives: (Not) Fitting In

Further Reading Post – Group B

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Angelica Rossi

In A Lesson Before Dying, there are a few mentions of how Grant would like the children to find a pine tree so that they can properly celebrate Christmas. I believe that the pine tree is a symbol of the unfulfilling search … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 1, 2015 by ASHLEY RAGOONANAN

4/1/2015 Not Fitting in Group Maryann, Thomas, Ashley, Irina Argument building The argument that seems to be intertwined across all of our papers is the issue of social acceptance. Individually, we explored this topic through different themes in the given … Continue reading →

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The Duff

Posted on March 19, 2015 by ACurseen

(A while ago Angelica shared this link to info about the CBS movie, The Duff.  It seems like a light mainstream teen movie that might be a good pop cultural of some of the ideas and themes we’ve been talking … Continue reading →

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1930s Film History

Posted on March 15, 2015 by ACurseen

For a nice timeline, check out this site: http://www.filmsite.org/30sintro.html (pic below from http://www.filmsite.org/tarz.html)

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Women in the Depression Era

Posted on March 15, 2015 by ACurseen

Check Out this Site:  http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/great-depression/essays/women-and-great-depression   (Image by Dorthea Lange [1930s Female Documentary Photographer] from her Migrant Farm Worker series.  Check out the Site: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/dor12-113.htm) Migrant workers particularly their children seen as “problems” in the nation. Women take on new … Continue reading →

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1967 was just the beginning of the Black Power Movement

Posted on March 15, 2015 by ACurseen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxS3cNyKo00 So one of the things that is hard for me about The Outsiders is the curious absence of Native Americans and Black people, when in the 1960s, there were serious movements by both of these groups of people who … Continue reading →

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Outsider Quotes-Race

Posted on March 10, 2015 by h.lee6

“Maybe the two different worlds we live in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.”-Chapter 3 page 35 “Well I won’t. But I gotta do something. It seems like there’s gotta be someplace without greasers or Socs, with just … Continue reading →

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Quotes

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Irina Groushevaia

“Quite a few kids turned to look at us — you didn’t see a kid grease and a Socy cheerleader together often.” speak platinum edition, chapter 1, page 30 “Being careful to not wake Johnny up, I went to sit … Continue reading →

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Authors

Posted on March 9, 2015 by ACurseen

Maryann, Nicole G., Thomas R., Irina, Ashley

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