How Were The Lives Of Young People Throughout The 1960s?

“The Outsiders” identifies the 60’s, illustrating the violence between groups, often involving a group’s social class. For instance, the violent tensions between the Socs and Greasers lead to Bob’s death, Johnny’s death, as well as many injuries throughout both gangs. The book “The Outsiders” is written by S.E. Hinton and is portrayed through the eyes of a high school student in Tulsa, OK where S.E. Hinton grew up. Hinton began writing “The Outsiders” in 1965 at the age of 17 and the book was finally published in 1967 when she was 19. The difference in perspective upon the society and social class creates issues throughout “The Outsiders” and since the Socs and Greasers assume the problems will be solved with violence, they take action.

Hinton passion was to write stories and novels about adults and teens (“Hinton,S.E.”). Her secondary job was working as a consultant on the film adaption of her novels, it involved the casting, script writing,directing and even acting (Chaston). Grady P. Hinton and Lillian P. Hinton are S.E. Hinton parents, she also had a younger sister named Beverly (“Hinton,S.E..”) (“S.E.Hinton”). “She met her future husband David Inhofe, in school” (Chaston). Later on they got married in 1970 and had one kid named Nicholas David (“S.E.Hinton”) (“S(usan)E(loise)Hinton.”). One of her school friends mother read the manuscript and immediately saw commercial possibilities for the book. The women, a writer herself, urged to Hinton to get in touch with her agent in New York (“S.E.Hinton”). When Hinton S.E. was in junior she found out her dad was diagnosed with cancer, a terrible and fatal disease. To help her dad deal with his

Imagine a young boy who has to watch behind his back in case a snotty rich kid was lurking in the streets wanting to beat up on little kids. “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton is full of differences so the reader can understand that people have different views than them. This book is a “call to action” because social class and violence issues are a big part of the world's problems 51 years ago and even today.

The novel titled That was Then, This is Now, by S.E. Hinton, is about two lifelong best friends, Bryon and Mark, who start to drift apart because one of them is maturing while the other one is sticking with his old ways. Throughout the novel, we see that Bryon, the main character and the narrator, is beginning to change because of new people in his life and the realizations he is having about his old ways. As the readers, we learn that in the beginning of the novel, Bryon can be reckless, immature, and rude at times - as in stealing little things from convenient stores and hustling people in pool - but he is also very serious about his grades and staying in school. An example of Bryon being rude and showing that he doesn’t have a very big sensitive side is on page 17, when S. E. Hinton writes, “I’d also lie if I really thought I’d get away with it, especially to girls.

Susan Elosie Hinton otherwise known as S.E Hinton is an american author. Hinton is best known for her young adult novels written about teens in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders. Hinton was born in Tusla, Oklahoma in 1948, she attended Will Roger High School. After high School, Hinton attend the University of Tusla; after writing The Outsiders S.E Hinton became a well known name. She has gone on to write other books since then that have had just as much popularity as The Outsider; three of her books have been turned into flims, those books include The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, and Tex. Hinton wrote The Outsider while she was still in high school,the book was pudlished her freshman year of college. She wrote The Outsiders about two rival gangs

Franklin 1Caitlin FranklinCaldwellEnglish Honors 112/4/17Divided Communities in The OutsidersS.E. Hinton’s realistic novel, The Outsiders, takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1950’s. The main character, Ponyboy Curtis, struggles to see past the divided social classes. All the time, he sees his social class, the Greasers, getting picked on, bullied, and beatup by the higher social class, the Socs. Not only does he see it, but he lives it. While some believe the strongest theme of The Outsiders is family, I argue that the strongest theme is divided communities, supported by Hinton’s use of conflict, characterization and description.From the very beginning, Hinton shows the division of the Socs and Greasers when the Socs threaten and beat up Ponyboy. Hinton describes how “It occurred to me then that they could kill me,” (Hinton 5). This shows how the Socs gang up on the Greasers and how violent the situations get. Another detail that shows conflict is that even though the Greasers get beat up, they fight back. The Greasers VS. Socs fight towards the end of the book really highlights how serious the conflict of division was. After the fight, the

The Outsiders by S. E. Hilton, is about a teenage gang and their life. Most of the story is told from the point of a 14 year old boy, Ponyboy. The book closely describes teenage problems and decisions of

The year is now 1970, and Susan is only 18 years old. The Outsiders was outrageously popular, and the major success enabled Hinton to attend the University of Tulsa, where she would meet her future husband, David Inhofe, and earn a degree in education. She wasn’t going to stop with just one work, the strong will to write always clung to her like a crying child to it’s mother. At one point in her life, she suffered from a condition called writer’s block, that generally has to do with losing the ability to write, or be slow with creativity prohibiting the author to create new works. However, David Inhofe would make Susan write at least two pages a day to get over her writer’s block, or the two would not leave the house that day. After the fact, her next book would be named “This Was Then, This is now”, which would be published in 1971 and also soon get recognized as a classic novel by Susan. The book is about two foster brothers that get torn apart as one gets more engulfed by school and girlfriends, as the other moves deeper into a life of crime and substance abuse. In each book, Hinton shows the real maturity of adolescent males in Tulsa who grow by making crucial judgements, and the true harshness within the students in the lower classes. Another writing Susan created was “Rumble Fish”, in

All throughout high school, Hinton read these books with happy-ever-after endings and non-sense story lines that were not realistic. She wanted to get down to the gritty books and talk about the real struggles young adults face and what it is really like to been a teen. When The Outsiders was first published, Hinton was an unknown writer and so was her novel. No one had ever seen a book written the way it was. "Hinton wrote it because she felt that all the books written for kids her age were not realistic - they just didn't ring true. She had moved beyond the cowboy and horse books in search of god teenage books, and she was very disappointed in what she found," states Wilson (14). In an interview with seventeen magazine Hinton stated that the books that were available to her in her school library did not deal with the real lives of teenagers and she wanted to read novels that showed teenagers outside of the fantasy world because life isn't full of sunshine and rainbows, people have real-life problems that are bigger than deciding on what dress to wear to prom. When she couldn't find any good young adult literature to read, she decided to write on

What messages was the author trying to convey by writing this book? Do you think these messages still apply to teenagers today? What would be different if the novel was written today?

The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton, has a lot of characteristics of young adult literature. The characteristics of young adult literature can be used for the novel to make us understand it in a better way.

The life in this time period was hard, it was a time of transition. Races did not get along at all and lofe was tough for the negros. Everything was separate, whites and colored people could not use the same of anything. For example, bathrooms, or riding on a bus, colored people had to sit in the back or give up their seat. Life was completely different then compared to now. Our world isn't even close to perfect, but it has gotten better. The big debate is with the economy and jobs between the races, our economy is growing stronger everyday and will continue too.

The book Is mainly about Bryon & Mark they are best friends. Mark has lived with Bryon & his mom ever since marks mother and father had a deadly altercation which left them both dead. All together the book talks about them growing up and what they had to grow up in.

Do you think life was better in the 1960s than today? In the1960s there was interesting fashion, the civil rights movement, the vietnam conflict, and there was less technology. First in the 1960s there were no phone. In the text it says” 1960s with new more advanced technology”. This means in the 1960s people can”t text on the cell phones. The text says there are now people who have phones that can research stuff on their cell phone with the internet .

Within both The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, and The Prince of Shadows by Rachel Caine there is a key link in relation to the themes of crime, and the sympathetic portrayal of youths involved. However, there is also a significant contrast in the social contexts of each novel. The Outsiders is set in the USA during the 1960s. Throughout this period, the rise in the US economy led to the eventual ascension in gang culture and recreational drug use, all present within Hinton 's novel. The Prince of Shadows however, is set in the corruption of the renaissance period in Italy. Although written in February of 2014, this early background may have influenced Rachel Caine due to the strict Catholic restrictions on love and sexuality; thus, resulting in