Critical literacy.

We are learning about critical literacy. This is taking apart the text and finding what the hidden meanings it has . How it makes you feel and what it tries to portray. 

Outsiders book : How does this text construct a version of reality?

The Outsides introduces us to a first person perspective. We are reading from a character and what is going on in the mind of the main character. The things that the characters are thinking is different  from when they are acting (movie) . It has used the idea that the outsides are tough on the outside but soft on the inside. The author S.E Hinton bases on the idea of gang war from 1965. S.E Hinton grounds the character and has negative and positive actions that makes the text seems real. 

Outsiders (Movie) : How are children, teenagers , young adults, and adults constructed in the text?

The children are helpless and naive. Which in the teenagers are violent and loud (Both soc's and greasers) 

The young adults are the same as violent but still look after the younger people. The older adults are not really there now apart from the nurses , cops and parents of the kids stuck in the fire .