Struggling with distance learning? Our Teacher Edition on The Outsiders can help. Themes All Themes. Symbols All Symbols. Theme Wheel. Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. Sunsets and sunrises in The Outsiders represent the beauty and goodness in the world, particularly after Johnny compares the gold in the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" to the gold of the sunrises and sunsets Ponyboy enjoys.
The sunset also stands for the common humanity of all people, regardless of the gang to which they belong—in their first conversation at the drive-in, Cherry and Ponyboy find common ground in their enjoyment of the same sunset from opposite sides of town.
For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:. Chapter 3 Quotes. It seemed funny that the sunset [Cherry] saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren't so different.
We saw the same sunset. Related Symbols: Sunsets and Sunrises. Related Themes: Divided Communities. Page Number and Citation : Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. Chapter 5 Quotes.
In The Outsiders , sunrise and sunset are symbols of unity and connection. For example, when Ponyboy connects with Cherry at the movies on the topic of sunsets, he begins to realize that all humans are linked through the natural world.
When Pony is confused and angry over Cherry's willingness to help the Socials before the rumble and after Bob's death, he uses the topic of the sunrise to diffuse the situation. The sunrise is associated with a much closer connection between Pony and Johnny. The high point of this connection is when they watch the sunrise together from the top of Jay Mountain, and after Ponyboy recites the poem " Nothing Gold Can Stay " by Robert Frost.
More on that in Johnny's "Character Analysis. It seems like they were never there before" 5. Seeing the dawn at this moment is, for Johnny, a truly new dawn, because his eyes open wide to the natural world.
Sadly, he doesn't get to experience life through these new eyes for very long. This is an important moment for Pony, because he's found someone who shares his vision of the natural world.
He tells Johnny, "you ain't like any of the gang. I mean, I couldn't tell [them] about the sunrise and clouds and stuff. I couldn't even remember that poem around them" 5. This helps us understand just how hard it was for Pony to deal with his friend's death. Yet the novel also shows how the two groups depend on their conflict in order to continue to exist.
The greasers, for instance, live by a pledge to "stick together" against the Socs. Without the conflict, the two gangs' individual members might go their own way. The novel's other divided community is Ponyboy's immediate family. Like the conflict between Socs and greasers, the conflict between Darry and Ponyboy is fueled by misperceptions. Just as the Socs and greasers are unable to see past their superficial differences to their deeper similarities, Darry and Ponyboy can't see past their own limited view to understand each other's actions.
Ponyboy misinterprets Darry's desperate desire to deliver Ponyboy from the poverty and strife of their neighborhood as antagonism, while Darry interprets Ponyboy's quest to escape his conflict-ridden existence as irresponsibility and lack of consideration. The ability to see things through another person's perspective, is central to the resolution of both the gang and the family conflict in The Outsiders.
The two gangs' preoccupation with the appearance and class status of their rivals underscores the superficiality of their mutual hostility, which thrives on stereotypes and prejudice.
Certain characters can see past the stereotypes, however. When Cherry befriends Ponyboy at the drive-in and insists that "things are rough all over," she encourages Ponyboy to see Socs as individuals, and he begins to question the conflict between the gangs.
Randy furthers forces Ponyboy to feel compassion for Socs as individual people by sharing details about Bob's troubled life. Joga Riveiro Professional. Why is a sunset beautiful? More atmospheremeansmore molecules to scatter the violet and blue light away fromyoureyes. This is why sunsets are often yellow, orange,andred. Fama Oestreicher Professional. Why is it called dusk? Nautical dusk occurs when the Sun goes 12degreesbelow the horizon in the evening. The term, nauticaltwilight,dates back to the time when sailors used the stars tonavigate theseas.
During this time, most stars can be easily seenwith nakedeyes. Anett Stolterfoht Professional. Why do people watch the sunset? It has been proven that watching the sunriseor sunset gives you a better sense of gratitude for theearth. When you are caught up in the natural beauty of the Earth like a sunset , you rid yourself of any distractions andfeelhigher levels of satisfaction and gratitude for what'shappening infront of you.
Samiha Halford Explainer. What does a sunset mean in the Bible? A Sunset is a Promise of a New Beginning. Inthevery first chapter of Genesis, the Lord establishes an order foranew day, which begins with the new darkness. We know this endingofone day and beginning of another as a sunset. A sunset -- not a sunrise -- is the biblical transitioninto a new day. Cirino Viet Explainer. What does it mean to sunset something? Sunsetting, in a business context, isintentionallyphasing something out or terminating it.
In alegal context,for example, a sunset provision is aspecification thatlegislation will no longer be in effect beyond acertain date orafter a particular event has transpired, unless anextension ismandated. Marcene Curtido Explainer. Why are sunsets better than sunrises? On the other hand,moredust and smog at sunset can have the effect ofscatteringlight across a greater region of the sky, creating alarger drapeof colors, whereas sunrise colors tend to bemore focusedaround the sun.
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