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- Disbelief proved a powerful weapon for The Outsider because he utilized the lack of acknowledgment of supernatural forces to commit his crimes. He also depended on the shock from cognitive dissonance, using it to force people to do his will; this was evident in Jack working for him out of insane fear.
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Disbelief proved a powerful weapon for The Outsider because he utilized the lack of acknowledgment of supernatural forces to commit his crimes. He also depended on the shock from cognitive dissonance, using it to force people to do his will; this was evident in Jack working for him out of insane fear.
The Outsider used the lack of belief as his greatest weapon because he knew that people would never consider the possibility of a supernatural entity that could transform into others and commit a gruesome crime.
Feb 16, 2012 · The Outsider (1942) (previously translated from the French, L’Étranger, as The Stranger) is Albert Camus’s most widely known work, and expounds his early understanding of Absurdism, as well as a variety of other philosophical concepts.
In his 1958 study, Dunning pointed out that one of the major weaknesses of the young adult novels of that era was the authors' unrealistic depiction of adults and their relationships with ...
Superficially, the novel is a story of rich versus poor with Ponyboy and his friends positioned as the protagonists and the Socs as the antagonists. However, on closer inspection, the major conflict of the story is not necessarily that of the greasers versus the Socs.
In The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton tells the story of 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis and his struggle with right and wrong in a society in which he is an outsider. As Ponyboy, his brothers, and the lower-class gang of "greasers" battle the "Socs," the rich kids, Hinton touches on social issues that were just gaining notice during the 1960s and that are ...
There are two rules during a rumble: whoever leaves first loses and you cannot use any type of weapon or “prop”. A Soc throws Pony to the ground, and Darry immediately says, “Pony, you all right?”