Your Memories

Authors note: This is my themes piece for Language Arts.

Is change always a bad thing?
In the book, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton change is a big part in the story.  Three people in this story are affected by change and are forced to change the way their lives are lived.

In The Outsiders, Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy are affected greatly by the death of their parents.  Darry, the oldest of brothers is changed because he was going to go to college with a football scholarship ,but he couldn’t after the death of his parents because he had to take the roll of being a guardian for his younger brothers.  Sodapop is affected because he dropped out of highschool to get a job.  Ponyboy, the youngest of the brothers, stays in school because both of his brothers force him to because they don’t want Ponyboy to be like them.

In this book, change is a huge part because everyone and mostly everything changes.  The way the three boys and the rest of their gang change their feelings about the Socs and the Socs even change their feelings for the Greasers and the way they are going to treat them from now on.  The Socs and Greasers aren’t going to fight anymore and will be nice to each other instead of wanting to fight them.

A lot of people can relate to change.  It can be good change or bad change.  In The Outsiders there were examples of both good and bad change.  When Ponyboy and Johnny killed Bob, they had to change the way they were living.  Instead of living in a nice home with good food, they had to live in an abandon church with almost no food.  Another change is when the Socs and the Greasers agreed not to fight anymore so now neither of the gangs have to worry about getting jumped out of nowhere.  These are both examples of good and bad changes from The Outsiders.

When a big change happens, good or bad, it can affect your life in ways that are memorable.  Whether you change good or bad, will direct your memories for the rest of your life.