The social context that is represented in “The Outsiders”, is relevant to its time, as the author, Susan Eloise Hinton, herself faced social degradation in her high school class.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The novel is about the clashes between the lesser privileged section of the community and the higher orders of the community. The clashes are about the superiority of each section of society and the rules that govern the same.
It is also about friendships made and broken for the fear of being hurt or being let down, about love and fear between the two classes, and finally about how at the end of all, it does not make sense to maintain so much of enemy as each person differs in their circumstances.
The author is young and a female faced similar clashes in her times at the time of writing her book. She was also asked to change her name to be gender-neutral to appeal more to the crowd.
These pointer show and reflect the relevance of the marginalized groups of the contextual times.
Loss of individualism. If everyone is the same, everything is the same day after day in a cubicle with no windows or distinct decor differing from one room to the next, there is no individuality
In his Book XI of Confessions, <em>Augustine made it clear that Plotinus had inspired him</em>.
The more we read Agustine’s Confessions book, the more we can perceive how the way in which he write and exposure a problem was inspired by Plotinus. In addition, the way Augustine saw God and Creation is very similar to Plotinus’s way
