1. Why was The Outsiders banned from public schools after it was published?               The outsiders is a book written by S.E Hinton. The outsiders was banned for a couple of reasons.The outsiders was banned from schools because of its profanity. Another reason it was banned was because of its teenage violence. The schools recently released i(ask.com)

2. Why did SE Hinton write The Outsiders?       S.E Hinton wrote The Outsiders For plenty of reasons.One of the reasons SE Hinton wrote The Outsiders is because her hero was a greaser and an outsider. Another reason is because no other authors wrote about the real concerns and emotions of teenagers in a published book.(About SE Hinton.com)

3. SE Hinton has written many books.  How does she go about writing them?  Explain her style.        How people go about writing books is different with all authors. Here is how SE Hinton does it.”The "idea" for a story, more often that not, is something discovered by the reader while the writer continues to try to explain to herself where it came from”(Hinton)!(about SE Hinton.com)

4. Who is SE Hinton anyways?  Tell about her life.    Some people don’t know Se Hinton or Susan Eloise Hinton is. Susan was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She wrote and published her first book the outsiders in 1967 when she was only 17.Some people know her for that or for some of her other novels like Rumble Fish(1975) or Tex(1979). That is her life and some of her greatest accomplishments.

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Describe a subplot and explain how it related to the bigger plot in the story.  Remember to highlight your statement, proper nouns or numbers, and conclusion.

                Ther is a subplot in the book Ghost Dog Secrets. There is a boy named Rusty and he found a dog tied to a tree. He feeds it and cares for it and even named it Ra. Thats only the life out of school but in school they are having a donation collection for puppy mill dogs. The two stories are similar but now the same.Rusty's life in school is careful but his life out of school is dangerous. That is the subplot in my IRB "Ghost Dog Secrets."

Ghost Dog Secrets pg.18 Peg Kehret Blog 10

Do you relate to the main character in your book?  How is he or she like or not like you?  Compare and contrast the main character's life with yours


     The charcter in my book is and isn't like me. sometime i relate the main character in my IRB which isRusty to myself. Rusty likes to take care of animals and so do i. I have for dogs and he wants a dog to. All though Rusty is a boy and he is younger than me his persinality relates to mine. He has to go to that same  house to take care of a dog he doesnt own but i go to my house and take care of four dogs that are mine.