S.E. Hinton

S.E. Hinton is know to be as the voice of the youth because she is known to connect to younger people and what they're going through and she makes connections with them. The kind of pressure that was put on her because of that title put her into depression and resulted into a 3 year writers block. Her husband had gotten sick of her being depressed all the time and eventually broke the block. Eventually it led her to write That Was Then, This Is Now. That Was Then, This Is Now, is also known to be even more well then the Outsiders.

The author usually writes about young adults. Her genre is usually something to do with teenagers or kids so it would be Realistic Young Adult Fiction. Her characters are usually teenagers or kids. Her setting is usually somewhere outside. Her plot is usually something with people not getting along. Her theme is usually always get along with other people.

When S.E. wrote the Outsiders, she wrote it about her high school. It relates to her school because they had these groups between rich and poor and that's what it was all about and she decided to call them the greasers and the socs. The socs  were the rich people and drank and partied. The greasers were poor and they smoked instead of drank.

S.E. Hinton was born in Tulsa,OK. She still lives there today. She was born July 22, 1948. She went to Will Rogers high school and she was a junior in high school when she wrote the book. She wrote these books.

S. E. Hinton has received awards and honors for many of her books, but the ones for The Outsiders include: Best teenage books list for the New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Tribune Book World Spring Book Festival Honor Book, Media and Methods Maxi Award, American Library Association Best Young Adults Books, Massachusetts

Chapter 1-5 vocab

1.  intrigued: 1, very interested; fascinated

Sentence: ­­­­Occasionally, when supplies were delivered by cargo planes to the landing field across the river, the children rode their bicycles to the riverbank and watched, intrigued, the unloading and then the takeoff directed to the west, always away from the community

Context Clues Proof: He describes what fascinated him and said that other were to.

2.  ironic: 2, contrast between tone/meaning

Sentence: there was an ironic tone to that final message, as if the speaker found it amusing; and Jonas had smiled a little, thought he knew what a grim statement it had been.­­­­

Context Clues Proof: Amusing and grim

3. palpable: 3, able to be felt

Sentence: ­­­­He remembered that moment of palpable, stomach-sinking terror when the aircraft had streaked above.

  Context Clues Proof: stomach-sinking terror.

4.  distraught: 4, mentally upset

Sentence: I guess I got distraught, watching them.  

Context Clues Proof: The fish were at a hatchery and he felt sorry for them.  

5.  apprehensive: 4, fearful about the future

Sentence: ­­­­Apprehensive, Jonas decided.

Context Clues Proof:He shuddered with nervousness.

6.  defiant: 5, resisting or challenging

 Sentence: ­­­­she held up a clenched fist and the rest of the family smiled at her small defiant gesture.

Context Clues Proof:the word defiant and she held up a clenched fist

7.  enhance: 12, improve by adding to

Sentence: It might enhance his nurturing if I could call him by a name.  

Context Clues Proof: He was small and under grown but Father thought calling him by a name could help.

8.  chastise: 20, punish

Sentence: ­­­­He didn’t like it that she had mentioned his eyes.

Context Clues Proof: Only a few people had eyes like this and he was sensitive about it.

9. nondescript: 24, with no outstanding features

Sentence: ­­­­The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic.

Context Clues Proof: But it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape.

10. serene: 29, calm and peaceful

Sentence: ­­­­It was a serene and slow-paced place, unlike the busy centers of manufacture and distribution where the daily work of the community occurred

Chapter 8

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I think that Jonas's capacity of being top student and being very intelligent and having integrity and having that honor being given by the elders.

I would rather be selected what Jonas has because he seems more important to the community now that he will the receiver of memory

Chapter 9
I think that Jonas and Asher will not be friends anymore because is basically required to be alone and he can't really do a lot of things that he could d  before he was the receiver

Because has never lied and he thought that everybody hadn't lied but he is starting to think that people have and he thinks that it is a very bad thing to lie.

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Harry, Ron, and Hermione had went to see Xenophilius love-good to find out what a certain symbol meant. Mr. Lovegood had told them it was the the sign of the deathly hallows, and together they make the master of death. Hermione had read the tales of the 3 brothers and how they got the deathly hallows to begin with. The first Brother got a wand that would beat any other wand in the world. The 2nd brother got a stone that would bring back the dead. The final brother got an invisibility cloak. This reminded me when I did some chores for my mom and she gave me McDonalds in return for what I did.

Harry had used Voldemort's name and death eaters had surrounded him, Ron and Hermione. The 3 were searched and the death eaters thought they found different people other than Harry, Ron and Hermione. When the death eaters had found a newspaper in the tent they thought it was Hermione because of the picture that was in it. The death eaters brought Harry, Ron and Hermione to the Malfoy manner where they will summon the dark lord to kill harry and his friends. This reminds of how I had to go to place where I didn't want to go and my parents forced me to go with them.

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The Giver

Chapter 1

• What do you imagine it means when someone is “released”?

- They are sent off into the wilderness to die and never return to the community

• What are some clues that Jonas’s community is different from

the one in which you live?

-We don’t have to apologize in front of a classroom and make it seem like a speech. We have animals and the book doesn't

Chapter 2

• How would you feel not to have your own individual birthday?

-I wouldn't like it, because I want my own day instead of having to share with everyone.

• If you were attending the Ceremony of Twelve with Jonas, what Assignment do you think the Elders would select for you?

bike-smith because I like working with cars and there’s no cars in this world so bikes are the next best thing.

-Pilot in training, because I love airplanes and want to be a pilot.

Chapter 3

*What did Jonas notice about the eyes of Gabriel?  What significance could this mean for Jonas?

-He noticed that his eyes were pale, and since he was a different baby, and Jonas’s sister said that it’s eyes were just like his, so maybe he was different as a baby too.  He also mentioned that all of the other people in the community had dark eyes.

• How would you feel to be watched all the time, the way Jonas is?

-I would be creeped out, and I wouldn’t want to be in the community if they were watching me all of the time.

• Do you think it says something about Jonas that he sees the

apple change?  Explain.

Yes because he talks about with Asher and Asher notices the same thing about the apple.

Chapter 4

• Jonas’s community has a lot of rules.  Explain some of the rules and what you think the purpose for them are.

Your not allowed to have a bike under the age of 8

You have to change who you are at certain ages and wear different outfits at certain ages

-You are not allowed to brag because people who brag may think of themselves as better that all of the other, and could be seen as a threat.

Do you think the rules are a good thing or a bad thing? Why?

-I think that the rules are a bad thing because people can’t be themselves.

What do you think these rules with have to do with the rest of the book?

-I think that Jonas will start to break more and more rules, and eventually he will be released from the community.

Chapter 5

• Why was Jonas embarrassed about telling his dream?

Because he had stirring dreams that showed that he had a crush on Fiona

18• How important is sameness in Jonas’s community? How

important is it in your community?

It doesn't really matter in our community because people are different in many ways and it would be hard to get them to become similar to everyone

In Jonas’s community it starts out the same for every child they have numbers and the numbers give you names and the rules determine who you are and if your misbehaving you are released into the wild.

Chapter 6

What do you think of how families in Jonas’s community are

formed?

I think that the families should be able to have their own children and as many as they want.

Chapter 7

How would you feel if you were in Jonas’s shoes and the Chief Elder skipped right over you when she was making Assignments?

I would be offended and I would probably feel left out.