I think that Jesus’ crucifixion is a sign that Jesus really cared about us. Even though He didn’t want to, Jesus still sacrificed himself in a very nasty way so that we could live forever. The last 7 words that Jesus said are very important. They are some of the biggest things Jesus taught people while He was on earth, and for him to say them again while He was dying on a cross means it was important.
I saw God this weekend at my basketball games because we played as a team even though we don’t know each other real well. I am on a team with HC girls that I don’t know very well. At the first couple practices I didn’t really talk to anyone and nobody talked to me. It’s been 3 practices and now I am friends with almost all the girls.
Angelina VanderBeek
Mrs. Roskamp
LA, 8C
26 October 2015
My book is The Outsiders and the author is S.E Hinton. This book is a story about a group of boys who are called greasers. Greasers are poorer people who usually don’t do well in school. There is a “war” between greasers and socs. Socs are the richer people who aren’t very nice to the greasers. The socs and greasers are always mean to each other. If there is a greaser walking by themselves then a car full of socs could come by and jump that soc. That is what happened to Johnny and Ponyboy, two of the main characters of this book. The main theme of this book is to “Stay Gold.” This means staying young and innocent. The thing I learned from this book is that we can’t judge people for how rich or poor they are, and we should “Stay Gold”.
“Stay Gold” is a theme that is shown in many parts of the book. The first time the theme is told is when Johnny and Ponyboy are at the church. They go out and see how pretty the sunset is. Then Ponyboy starts quoting the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” The theme comes from that poem and the poem is even written in the book. While Johnny and Pony were out looking at the sunset it was a really comforting time for those two characters.
Another time where the theme is shown is when Johnny is dying. While Johnny is in the hospital he is very sick and keeps getting worse and worse. On the night after the rumble, Ponyboy and Dallas go to tell Johnny that the greasers won. While they were in Johnny’s room he dies. His last words were to Ponyboy and all he said was, “stay gold, Ponyboy.” Those words were really meaningful to Pony because Johnny became one of his best friends while they were at the church together. For Johnny to say those words to him right before he dies is really important to Pony.
The theme, stay gold, means staying young and innocent. In the book this was a very unique theme because where the book takes place it is very hard to be both young and innocent. By staying young and innocent people see the world in a different way and I think that is what the book was trying to get at. If we look at the world and what is going on in it with a good perspective, then we can really change the way other people look at the world. For example, in the book, after Johnny dies, Ponyboy finds a note in a book from Johnny. The note says that Johnny wants Ponyboy to show Dally a sunset, because it is a beautiful thing and then Dally would see that there is still good left in this nasty world. It was too late for Dally to see a sunset because he was already dead. So Ponyboy tries to tell the rest of the people, who are willing to listen, about staying gold by writing an essay for his English teacher.
The thing I learned from this book is that we can’t judge people for how rich or poor they are, and we should “Stay Gold”. I really liked reading this book. It was very interesting and there were a lot of changes in the book that I would never see coming. There were also a lot of good lessons to be learned from this book.