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The Outsiders Persuasive Speech Essay

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Persuasive Speech Final "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." Oscar Wilde. Violence, murder, sexual assault, robberies, suicide and the recent news of school shootings; all these gruesome acts you and your children must have all heard of before. So let me question you as parents, why then do you believe ‘The Outsiders’ is an inappropriate novel for the school curriculum? Today I’ll be discussing reasons of why the novel, The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton, shouldn’t be banned and should remain in the curriculum. With the main reasons being that it’s a story which students can easily comprehend, its still relevant for teenagers to this day and that it has strong, relatable themes. Firstly, Hinton displays relatable themes of Society and class - groups divided by their wealth, status and friendships. In the novel, ‘The Outsiders’, the characters are compartmentalized and put into two groups, the Socs who are defined as high-end and popular and the greasers who are shown to be the opposite. The Greasers and the Socs are socially influenced and conditioned by their backgrounds and environment not to like one another. Todays, adolescents are able to relate strongly to this theme as many face the need for a social group, clique, or gang; to try …show more content…

To understand is to: perceive the intended meaning of (words language, or a speaker). In this novel Hinton makes it easier for the students to read, by using literary devices and colloquial text/colloquialism. Using literary devices such as similies, "He's got eyes that are like 2 pieces of blue-green ice."(page 6) and hyperboles; "Dally handed me a shirt about sixty-million sizes too big."(page 61) the readers are able to quickly and clearly visualize these phrases into images. Not only this but the usage of 1960’s colloquialism; informal words, phrases and slang in the piece of writing used, contributes to help students apprehend to the

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