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Compare And Contrast Vinny And Joe-Boy In The Ravine '

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Did the jump off the cliff really kill Butchie? In the story the “The Ravine”,Vinny and Joe-Boy are 15 year old, hawaiian boys. They are best friends. They’re going to the ravine to cliff jump and swim. Two weeks and one day before they arrived to the ravine, a boy died jumping from the precipice. Vinnie and Joe-Boy are different in many ways and are similar in a few ways. Vinny is weak he can not stand up to friends , on page seven, Vinny did not want to go to the ravine, he thought that if he told his friends that his mom wouldn't let him go, they would laugh at him. Vinny thought this made him look “weak”.Vinny is afraid of the dead boys body, he is afraid that he might step on the dead boys body or might touch him when he jumps from the fifty foot precipice. Vinny is freaked out and he is confused about if the dead boy is actually dead. He thinks that the dead boy might have been taken by the stone goddess. He thinks that his mom is going to find out, and then Vinny might get in really big trouble. …show more content…

He Jumped “man style”, everyone jumped but Vinnie because he did not want to tell his friends no. loud and rowdy- when they jump from both cliffs they were screaming. They both are fifteen year old hawaiian boys,and they both jumped off the fifteen foot precipice.Vinnie and Joe-Boy are in many ways similar,yet still very different. Vinny is a weak person and he does not have any strength to tell his friends no. Joe-Boy is a bully to his friend, acts like he’s not scared of anything. Even though Vinny and Joe-boy have many differences, they are both strong and brave at the end of the story. Although Joe-boy is controlling at the beginning of the story, Vinny finds that standing up to his friends is bringing him

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Ponyboy is also faced with conflict after Johnny’s death. For a while, he refuses to accept that Johnny is dead and is so in denial that he believes he’s the one that killed Bob. When Randy visits Ponyboy’s home, he upsets Ponyboy by mentioning that Johnny would’ve been in trouble with the law if he were alive. Ponyboy objects and says, “I had the knife. I killed Bob.”

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In chapter 7 of the novel “The Outsiders” the author begins chapter 7 by introducing pony-boy and three others waiting to hear about dally and Johnny. Reporters then showed up, and so did the police. They began questioning pony boy too quickly that he was muddled up in confusion. Pony-boy felt nervous around the policemen and because of all the questions being asked all at once, pony-boy felt terribly sick. Darry then got the reporters to back off on questioning Pony boy because he wasn’t feeling well, and being bombarded with questions only made things worst.

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Secondly, in one scene Johnny (greaser) kills Bob (Socs) because the Socs were going to drown Ponyboy and beat Johnny, so he took his pocket knife and stabbed him. Just like Romeo

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It’s been shown that Joe is very self-absorbent and only cares about his reputation. His superiority complex is what is ruining him and everything decent thing around him. Joe is constantly mixing around his values and turning them into something horrible. He is so worried about being perceived as a weak man that he puts all of that into making sure Janie is perfect, “But Jody was set on it. Her hair was NOT going to show in the store.

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Johhny and Ponyboy had been smoking inside of the old church they had been livng in. Some of their ashes fell onto the ground and started a fire. Ponyboy and Johnny knew this because Ponyboy said this on page 91 “I bet we started it,’ I said to Johnny. ”We must have dropped a lighted cigarette or something.” But Ponyboy and Johnny heard some screams come from inside the church and a woman proclaimed the it must have been the missing children.

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This is a reflection of who Joe was in the beginning of the book, where he was just another kid with no worries. It is ironic because of who Joe has developed into and what he's been through. However, by the end of the chapter, Joe is portrayed as a child who is dependent on his parents to bring him back home. His young age is an obstacle but it also provides some protection as he would be tried as a juvenile and no one really suspects him. 13-year-old Joe is already making well-advanced decisions that no regular 13-year-old would be making at this age.

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In the story the main character Vinny and his best friend Joe-Boy are two very different personalities with different character traits described by the author of “The Ravine”. Both of the boys are from the same place, are the same age, and have almost the same friends in the story. Both of these two boys, Joe-Boy and Vinny, are complete opposites but at the same place which is the setting of “The Ravine”. Now, if you look at the way Vinny reacts to most of the things that take place in the story, one thing you can notice right off the top is that Vinny is alert about his surroundings. If you pay close attention to when Joe-Boy said that Vinny could have possibly been stepping into a space where the dead bo could have said, because he jumped

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Consequently with all that was going on at that moment, Johnny defended himself and Ponyboy who is one of the Greasers. Furthermore, Ponyboy responds saying, “‘You really killed him, huh, Johnny? ‘Yeah.’ His voice quivered slightly. ‘I had to.

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