the Outsider and April Morning

Have you ever thought what it would be like to get a visit from about 2,000 british soldiers trying to take your land? Or getting jumped in the middle of the night by people with knifes? Well the people in these books don’t have to think about it because it really happens to them. The Outsiders and April Morning have several things in common.

The biggest similarity in these books are mostly just the fight for the territory and freedom the patriots Adam's dad and the greasers Dallas. The greasers fight so the soc's wont go in there side of the city and stop jumping the greasers and the greasers cant go on there side. The Patriots fight so that the British don’t take there land. The patriots were thinking you sent us over here in the first place we like it here we settled it so you can make us give you taxes.

Another similarity is that characters need to grow up too early. In the book April Morning by Howard fast Adam isn't treated the best by his father and wishes that that would change and towards the end of the book it does. Adam is a 15 year old boy and just wants to be treated like a man by his father. He wants to go to a committee meeting with his father and the rest of the village men, but his father doesn’t think he is enough of a man. Until a man riding on his horse comes to town that’s when it all changes. The man riding the horse told all the towns men that an army of maybe 2,000 men are heading towards their towns. So the militia and all the men that want to fight for their colonies go to their town hall to sign a book so they know that their fighting for their freedom.

Dally is another character who grew up too fast. He thinks about himself and thinks that since he has no family that he can go around being a delinquent. Without a family to support him, he can do whatever he wants and get away with it. He went to jail already. Then he loses a good friend. After he loses his friend he realizes that he needs friends and goes crazy. The cops shoot him and he dies in the end of the book. When Dally loses his good friend he realizes he needs someone to support him and be there for him. When Adam in April morning loses his dad he knows he never really wanted that to happen he loved his father but didn't realize it until he was gone.

Both stories emphasize the line from the Robert Frost poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay." which means nothing you really love and care about ever stays the way you want it to. Dally loses his friend and Adam loses his family, and they both lose their childhood.