An item that is pinned in my heart...

     

           
           An item that is close to my heart is my picture and picture frame of my kitten Koroline, my mom gave it to me on my 12th birthday, which was a few weeks after Koroline had died. Between me and my 2 other siblings I was the most affected of her passing. We had buried her in our backyard and had made a cross out of rocks we had found around our yard. The picture frame is on my nightstand right next to my bed, the picture has me and Koroline laying on my chest as I held her. And the picture frame is a cat covered with flowers. We didn’t exactly adopt Koroline, we found her. My older sister Alexia heard little meows on the side of our house, she was yelling at all of us to get a car board box to keep the feral kitten in. She was hiding in the bushes all alone and we had taken her in our family history pet were only, well Cats. Even though she has passed she will forever be in my heart. This picture tells me and reminds me that the best things happen unexpectedly and that life is short for everyone so we should embrace it by the time we still have and even though that our loved ones pass away they will always be with us just by something small or big we have to remind us of them. 😸💓

The Outsiders: Book/Movie Comparison

              There were many similarities and differences in the The Outsiders novel and the Movie such as the similarities, Ponyboy, Dally, and Johnny do end up meeting Cherry and Marcia at the Drive In theater, but a difference is that in the beginning of the novel Ponyboy tells the reader that he comes out of the movie theater and walks around town heading home before he gets jumped by Socs, but in the movie it first starts off with Dally waiting for Ponyboy and Johnny on the sidewalk and they start walking around town and end up in a drive in theater, another difference from the novel and movie is that in the beginning of the novel the characters are described by Pony and how all 7 belong to the group, but in the movie only a Dally, Johnny, and Pony are met in the beginning of the movie, but the characters are not described like they were in the novel, another difference in the movie is that The Socs are from South and The Greasers are from the North, but in the novel The Socs are from the West and The Greasers are from the East. A similarity from the movie and the novel after Johnny, Pony, Cherry, Marcia, and Two-bit leave the drive in theater, The Socs drive up to them to pick up Marcia and Cherry since they had found out they were walking with greasers, and both in the novel and the movie Cherry mentions that she doesn't want to see Dally anymore cause if she did she would probably fall in love with him.
       Some similarities is that in the Novel and the Movie Ponyboy had fallen asleep in the lot with Johnny when he gets home from a accidentally falling asleep in the lot Darry pushes him and he runs away, but the difference is that Darry hits Ponyboy across the face in the novel, another similarity is that after pony runs away he meets up with Johnny to run away with him too, and they end up walking to the playground where they are then approached the Socs that had picked up Marcia and Cherry when they were walking to get home, The Socs do end up putting Pony in the fountain and try drowning him, but then Johnny stabs Bob and the rest of the Socs run off and Bob ends up dying, after Pony and Johnny had killed Bob they seek help from Dally, which Dally gives them money and a gun and tell them to get onto a train and to hide out in an abandon church in , Johnny and Pony end up staying day for almost a week, they end up cutting their hair and Pony dyes his own, and Dally comes to check up and takes them to Dairy Queen where they talk about Cherry since she volunteered to be a spy for The Greasers and defend Johnny and Pony in court for Bob’s death, when they get back to the church from eating at Dairy Queen they find out the church is in fire and they try to save the children that are stuck in there, Johnny is badly hurt and Dally only has a burn on his arm and Pony didn't get hurt, Darry and Soda come to see Pony and take him home, the next day Two-bit and Steve come see Pony and they show him the newspaper, Everyone else goes to work while Two-bit and Pony go see Dally and Johnny, but a difference is that in the book when Two-bit and Pony see Johnny is that they see his mother and they tell her to stay away from Johnny, since she doesn't really care for him at home, but in the movie they don't show Johnny's mother.
      At the rumble, in the novel Darry is the first to get hit from his old buddy Paul Holden which only Soda and Pony knew, but in the Movie Pony gets hit first and it seems Pony’s gang knew. A similarity is that after the rumble is over Pony and Dally drive to go see Johnny, Johnny tells Pony to stay gold, Johnny then dies, and Dally is heartbroken and leaves the hospital and robs a store then the cops are after him, he asks for help for the gang, but it's too late to save him since the cops shot Dally down and Dally dies. The differences is that after Pony had left the hospital in the novel he gets a ride from a stranger and finds out he bleeding from his head, but in the Movie Ponyboy doesn't get a ride he goes straight home. Another difference is that in the novel after Dally dies Ponyboy faints and is recovering in bed, but in the movie it goes from Dally dying to a Ponyboy finding the note that Johnny had left him in the book Gone With The Wind and it ends there. Another difference is that in the novel Ponyboy talks about the hearing and about the argument between him and Darry because he wasn't doing his homework so he could get a better grade in English since he was failing, to Soda running out of the house about the unopened letter that was sent back to him that was supposed to go to Sandy, then Soda told Darry and Pony that he's always having to choose sides when they’re fighting, and they all promise to him not to fight anymore, but in the movie it goes to the scene Johnny had left the letter for Ponyboy, then the movie ends there. The Outsiders novel and movie both have many similarities and differences between the
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Short Story ‘Funeral’ and ‘The Outsiders’ Connections

                    I chose the short story ‘Funeral’  written by Ralph Fletcher and I found that the novel ‘The Outsiders’ written by S.E. Hinton has a common theme to ‘Funeral’ Theme is that nothing goes as plan and everything is rough all over, but it’s important to stay gold and to stay strong for the things that hold us down and to always get back up again  . A quote that I have found in ‘Funeral’ connects to ‘The Outsiders’,
”What’s going on?” I asked
“We’re having a funeral,” Andy replied with a solemn face.
“For who?”
“You,” Steve explained.
“A funeral!” I laughed. “Hey, I’m moving. I’m not dead!”
“You’ll be dead to us,” Larry pointed out.”
To me this quote means that Ralph’s friends are having a funeral for it to be a way to say goodbye, since they’re not going to see him again, this connects to the Outsiders because Ponyboy knows that he won’t see Johnny or Dally or Bob ever again so he decides to finish the book Gone With The Wind for Johnny and write a theme for his English class about what had happened when he lost 2 of his friends and for other people to know they’re side of the story of the The Outsiders AKA The Greasers.

Another quote that I have found in ‘Funeral’,
”We entered Ale’s woods on a path I’d run down thousands of times. I knew every rock and mushroom and pine tree by heart.”
This connects to The Outsiders because In the beginning of the book Ponyboy describes each group member from the Greasers, Ponyboy describes their personalities by heart which shows that they’re more than just friends, they’re family, they’re brothers.
Another quote that I thought that connected to ‘The Greasers’,
” I would,” Steve said. “Ralph Fletcher was a good friend. Last year I had to do summer school. He came by every day to walk me home.”
“He was a good friend,” Larry agreed. “About a month ago, John Berkowitz tried to beat me up, and Ralph told John, ‘You’ll have to be me up first.’ So, John Berkowitz punched him instead. He was a brave friend. Stupid, but brave!”
Everyone laughed, including me
“He was a good friend,” Andy began, then stopped. I lay on the pine needles, eyes shut, smelling the mix of piney smell and the good, rotting earth underneath. I waited for Andy to continue, but he didn’t say anything. Then he whispered: “ He was the brother I never had.”
“He was a member of the Four Stooges,” Larry said in a husky whisper.
Then they all said together: “We’ll never forget him.”
My eyes started to water. I tilted my head so they wouldn’t notice, and stayed quiet. Nobody spoke. I thought of all I’d done with these guys.
Staying up late listening to the radio while the DJ counted down the top ten. Blowing off M-80s in Mr. Oxeners cornfield. Eating raw sweet corn. Going to the Marshfield Fair every summer. Arguing about which girl in our class was cuter-Lisa Kennedy, Pam Coyne, or Beth Byers. Fishing for crappies and sunfish. Trading baseball cards, card tricks, dirty jokes, scars, stories,snacks, swears.”
This quote connects to The Outsiders since Ponyboy would remember what Dally had done good in life and the note Johnny had left Pony after he had died, Johnny wanted Pony to tell Dally that there’s still good in the world even when Dally thought there wasn’t and which is the reason he was the coldest meanest one from the group, this quote also connects to Ponyboy thinking about what it would be like without Johnny and Dally and how the gang needed both of them and how it was when they were in the gang.

Another quote from ‘Funeral’,
”For a long time moment it stayed quiet. Finally I opened my eyes. They were gone.
Usually I hated when my friends ditched me,but this time it felt different. In a strange way I was glad they were gone. For a while I just laid there, looking up at the trees.”
I say this quote connects to The Outsiders since Ponyboy would always try to reject the memories he had when, why, and how Johnny and Dally died, but then he sees the book and decides that he wants to read it and he finds the note that Johnny had left him he starts to accept that Johnny and Dally are dead he knew it even when he was denying the truth.

Another quote I found that connected to the ‘The Outsiders’,
”I knew I’d never forget that place. Then I stood up and stepped into my new life, whatever that might be.”
To me this quote connects to the Outsiders since everything was different now that Johnny and Dally were gone, and it has always been different for The Curtis brothers since they had lost their mother and father in an accident and also Dally was the toughest, coldest, bitter and meanest of the group, Johnny was the pet of the group, he was the reason who would make everyone get along and they needed them in their gang, and now that Darry has custody of Pony, and Pony And Darry had promised Soda not to fight anymore, they wouldn’t forget everything that had happened, but now they’re starting a new life.

To me I found so many connections between the short story ‘Funeral’ written by Ralph Fletcher and the novel ‘The Outsiders’ written by S.E. Hinton. I personally loved the book, it was very detailed and it sometimes left you with a cliffhanger in each chapter which I love when that happens because it makes you have ideas and thoughts for what the next chapter is going to be about, I also like the characters and what their personalities and identities are and how it was told by first person's point of view which was told by Ponyboy. I would like to re-read the novel again someday in the future because it’s such a great book for adolescents, I would rate it 5 out of 5 (5 being the best) I also liked the short story ‘Funeral’ written by Ralph Fletcher, for me it's a heartwarming short story, and it talks about a group of boys having a “funeral” for their friend (Ralph) who is moving away, the reason they would call it a funeral is because it’s a way for Ralph’s friends to say goodbye and because “Ralph would be dead to them”, but later in the short story there’s a heartwarming quote that Andy (Ralph’s close friend) says to say their goodbyes to Ralph. It may be a weird way to say goodbye to your best friend who is moving away, but for the group of  friends it’s easier to express their true feelings for their Best friend Ralph which is the heartwarming part of the short story, I would recommend other people to read ‘Funeral’ and ‘The Outsiders’. If I could rate both of the story’s, my rating would be 5 out of 5 (5 being the best).

Quarter 1 = ..........

     (If you don’t know what “Quarter 1” means = the ending of the first half of the semester, 4 quarters in a school year)

       Quarter 1 has been pretty well for me I’ve gotten Really Good grades in all of my classes, I enjoy being in my classes with my new classmates everyday! Though there are some things I would like to improve on for next quarter... Such as some of my grades (Yeah I know I said I got really good grades on all of my classes, but there’s always that one or two classes I’m getting OK grades in) I would like to improve on getting GOOD grades on the first submission of my work because when I get a OK grade it’s usually a 2, but when I try to change my grade THEN I would get a 3 or 4. Outside of the classrooms (OR SCHOOL) I had joined clubs and there are some I am interested in joining, such as Cross country (which is this running team) which I had already joined and the season just ended, I HAD A BLAST while running with friends and new students in the team, I’ve been in Cross Country for all 3 years of middle school and I will truly miss it when I got to Highschool, other clubs I’d like to join is Art club, Me to We club, and Battle of the books. I’ve already been in Art club last year and it was fun and I can’t wait to join this year (My final year 😥) and I had also joined Me to We last year and I can’t wait to see what new ideas we will have this year! And finally battle of the books have always been interesting to me even the club name had attracted me also! (Because the word BOOK was in it 😏) and there’s also TRIVIA which is Awesome since I love playing it. So even though I had a good 1st quater theres still 3 MORE!!! And I’ll just have to wait and see what they’ll be like!
                     

3 Quotes that are pinned to my heart...

   


    “A day without laughter is a day wasted” - Charlie Chaplin

I look up to this quote because people shouldn’t live life depressed, sad, grumpy, etc. they should live it with happiness and to the fullest and a way to make people smile or to feel happy or joy is to make them laugh so a day without laughter is a day wasted and I think it’s true.

   "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take yours eyes off the goal." - Henry Ford

I also look up to this quote, but I also think everyone should look up to this quote too because everyone has a goal that they want to accomplish and I do too and one of them is for me to become a Veterinarian and we usually struggle on the path towards that goal. It maybe hard but we should never give up and we should go threw the obstacle because after we go through each and every one we become more stronger and we achieve our goal, which is why I really like this quote.

"Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the heart and cools the sting"  - William Arthur Ward

This quote should be on everyone’s wall as a poster to remind them everyday because I found this quote more of a life lesson for everyone we’ve all made mistakes in our life and we should always say sorry for the mistake we made, since forgiveness heals the one who had gotten hurt.