The Ravine Character Analysis

When he was little his mom died, and his dad remarried to a woman named Thula. Thula did not like joe and she kicked him out when he was only ten years old. “She declared that she would not live under the same roof as joe, that Harry must choose between him and her. She said Joe would have to move out if she were to stay in a godforsaken place. Joe was only ten years old” (Brown 86,87). I never could understand how someone could kick a child out of the house and force them to live on their own when they are ten years old. As Joe grew up the more he needed his family, but his family was not there for him, at least not his biological family. When Joe made the rowing team that's the day that he got a new family, even if he did not know it at the time. So was Joyce, a beautiful girl who loved joe and they were going to get married and start a family of their own. “When joe stopped playing they talked about what it would be like when they were married and had a hoe and maybe kids” (Brown 102). Making the rowing team and meeting and falling in love with Joyce might have been the best thing that has ever happened to Joe. As soon as everything start going good for Joe, Thula gets an infection and dies. Not that it was a good thing that she died, it was very sad, but it brought Joe and his dad back together again. Harry wanted Joe to move back home with him and the kids. “I’m going to build a house where we can all live

had with his dad about Shoeless Joe himself. At the end of the book, they go back to that memory,

Although they are all different ages they all stay friends. They support each other through hard family times, for example; during the novel. Friendship is especially shown when Ponyboy runs away to hide with Johnny, so that Johnny don’t get into trouble with the police after killing a socs. Johnny shows that he cares about Ponyboy, but taking him back home to be with his two brothers. At the end of the novel, friendship is shown by Dally, committing suicide, as he can’t handle to live without Johnny.

Have you ever had a friend who was mean to you and argued with you? Vinny and Joe-Boy are both characters in a story called “The Ravine”. They are best friends who live in Hawaii and go to a ravine to cliff jump and swim. There was a boy who died there two weeks and one day before they arrived. Joe-Boy and Vinny are different in many ways and they are similar in some ways.

At the beginning of Joe and Janie’s relationship, she was very much in love with him. When they started their endeavor to the new town, she was very proud of the man she was looking at. He moved to a new town to start his own business and buy his own land. However, as time progressed, the town began to feel lonely to Janie. She never saw Joe anymore, and when she did, he was trying to control her every move. He became very possessive and mean to her. He wanted her to submit to him, and he wouldn’t stop until he had it. The once loving relationship they had, has now become detached.

Joe-boy and vinny are alike in a lot of ways but not alike in some ways to. Vinny is weak and scared. Joe-Boy is strong.Even though they have many differences, they are both alike Although joe-boy is controlling at the beginning ,vinny finds that standing up to his friend brings him peace.

My best friend, Marcia, and I had met Johnny and Ponyboy minutes ago when their buddy was trying to pick me up. He might have been successful too, if it wasn’t for them. Dally seemed a lot like my boyfriend, Bob, only the greaser version. Just like Bob, he seemed like the type that doesn’t fear anything, a free spirit, yet underneath that, he was thriving for something greater that would finally satisfy him. I could tell he’d been through a lot.

Life can bring unexpected events that individuals might not be prepared to confront. This was the case in the short story “On The Rainy River” written by Tim O’Brien. Young Tim is drafted to the military to fight the American War in Vietnam. He faces the conflict of whether he should or should not go to war after being drafted. The thought of giving up the future he has worked so hard for and instead fight a war “for uncertain reasons” terrifies him. He must make the agonizing decision of whether to pursue his personal desire and in turn be shamed by society or conform, sacrificing his ideals in the process.

Joe had to overcome the fact that he didn’t have the training, the money, or the connections of the other boys. He was forced to forge his own path in life, which he did very successfully. This didn’t mean that Mr. Rantz was fine with his poverty. In fact, Joe was annoyed that he “continued to feel like everybody’s poor cousin. With the weather remaining cool, he still had to wear his ragged sweater to practice almost every day, and the boys still teased him continuously about it” (Brown 91). Joe shows how he wishes he had the life of his crewmates. Joe isn’t a complainer, but he is jealous of the boys clothes. He wishes that he could While Joe is fighting for his spot on the team, he also is fighting for his life-a stark contrast to the other boys on the team.He has to overcome the over abundance of obstacles for a homeless college student-lack of money, constant source of food, and a lack of solid parenting. In Joe’s mind life would be so much easier if he had what the other boys had, and he’s right-it probably would be easier. But Joe overcomes the difference in social class and income level to be a vital member of the rowing

Everyone has a courageous moment in their life, but Johnny has multiple moments where he shows a true act of courage. The first event that shows that Johnny is courageous is when he saved Ponyboy from the Socs. There has been this rivalry between the Socs and the Greasers (the rich and the poor) which has caused a lot of fights. When Johnny’s best friend Ponyboy and him were in the park they were jumped by Bob and his group of Socs. They were drowning Ponyboy in the fountain and Johnny decided to take a courageous action and stab Bob to save Ponyboy. If it was not for Johnny, Ponyboy would be dead. Johnny knew that stabbing Bob would get him in trouble with the police, but he took the chance. “ You really killed him, huh, Johnny ?...

The Johnny gasped and turned white as a ghost then red with rage. While all of the other boys were looking at the Ponyboy who was drowning, Johnny pulled a knife out of his back pocket, I gasped I knew what he was going to do seconds before he did it. “Wait!” I screamed, but the boy didn’t even acknowledge me. I turned around, I couldn’t watch. This reminded me too much of Yaqui beating me up, but this was different, these boys fought unlike we did. The way we fought it wasn’t killing each other or anything like that, but it was almost worse. Being humiliated in front of the whole school. Both Ponyboy and I got hurt though mine was both mentally and physically. The only other thing that I could see that connected our two lives was that we both fought back. Well actually Johnny fought for Ponyboy, but it’s pretty much the same, in the end the bullies both got what they deserved. No, that’s not true, nobody (even Yaqui Delgado) deserves to die. By the time I turned back around the boys were driving away in their car and the boy who had been killed was slumped on the ground not moving. The other boy; Johnny was helping to pull his friend; Ponyboy out of the water

Joe’s understanding of war in Johnny Got His Gun is very similar to Boy’s in the sense that he doesn’t really understand what he would be fighting for in a battle. One example of this is when Joe is at the train station with his family awaiting his send-off to war. During this send off Joe didn’t really question why he was going to war or what he would be doing in war. He went without and hesitation which shows that his

1. Pony boy Curtis- The narrator of the story. Ponyboy’s love for literature and academics make him different from the rest of the gang. He’s also the youngest. Because his parents died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers. His oldest brother accuses him of lacking common sense but, ponyboy is a reliable and observant character.

The power dynamic between Janie and Joe is expressed through the motif of voice. Joe's voice in the novel is a reflection of his power over Janie in their relationship. All of Joe’s power is in his voice; as long as Joe is using his voice, he is the one in control. Additionally, there is a difference between Janie who listens to Joe, while Joe can't stand to even hear what Janie has to say. By the end of the novel, the power dynamic changes between Janie and Joe, and Janie gains some power over the relationship. Because Joe uses his voice as a power over Janie, listening to Janie speak diminishes his voice along with his power. When Janie gets the chance to speak, it kills Joe to have to listen to Janie using his own power against

Ponyboy, Johnny, Sodapop, Darry are all a part of the unruly gang, the Greasers. S.E Hinton is writing these characters as rebellious young men, with a harsh background, who takes their anger and hardship out on gang fighting. These roles play an important part in this book because it shows that even though they nothing physically, they have a heart stronger than gold for each other and others mentally. Hinton use these characters to show prejudice leads to wrong conclusions, violence and oppression because these “poor” young men are getting beat up by the rich Socs who have never felt the feeling of being in poverty. “ You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you’re in a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don’t stick up for them, stick together, make