SYMBOLS

SYMBOLISM

• Definition-
• The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities or people or characters

PONYBOY: FLOWERS

• They stand tall through storms, rain, and etc.
• They also have their bad days when they can crumble up

HOW FLOWERS RELATE TO PONYBOY

• He also stand tall for what they believe in
• He also can cry or break down (crumble up)

DARRY:SUPERMAN

• Superman is the hero
• Strong; helpful; carring
• Perfect

HOW SUPERMAN RELATES TO DARRY

• Darry is a caring person
• He tries his hardest to help people
• He is strong; kinda the hero of the story
• People think he should be perfect

TWO-BIT:DAWN

• midnight; dark; not really into sharing
• Rebel, not scared;

HOW DAWN RELATES TO TWO-BIT

• rebel;not scared;dark side;scary
• a closed person(not into sharing)

CHERRY: LEMON

• really sweet; not the trouble kind

HOW LEMONS RELATE TO CHERRY

• She is kind and sweet
• She's not the trouble kind of person
• caring for everyone;

BOB: WEAPONS

• Weapons make everyone scared;nervous when around
• fear, power when using it;

HOW WEAPONS RELATE TO BOB

• Bob is scary;nervous to be around; fear
• Bob feels Powerful when he sees people afraid of him

SOCS: DINNER

• fancy; not sloppy;
• All the same(fancy)

HOW DINNER RELATES TO THE SOCS

• fancy; higher class/ rich
• not sloppy;
• None of them cant get out of line or be different than all Socs

HOW IT RELATES TO STORY OR HELPS READER UNDERSTAND SYMBOLS

• Flowers: brings out their soft side ,and also helps them believe what they want to believe
• superman: it effects Darry beacauae then everyone expects him to be the toughest man
• dawn: the Socs come out(afraid to even go out at night alone)

(CONTINUE)

• Lemon: makes cherry feel too soft to be born in a stuck-up rich family(Socs)
• weapons: they effect Bob because not all the time can weapons save them
• Dinner: it makes them act like all the rest of the Socs stuck up and fancy and be like all the rest of the Socs

THEME OF THE PRESENTATION

• The theme or topic of the presentation is the symbols in the book, "The Outsiders"
• It tells how it effects the charcters or reader
• Helps reader understand what is going on in book or what the charcters are like