The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton: Book Analysis

The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is an enjoyable, intriguing book, that displays many different types conflicts. The Outsiders is a book written in the perspective of the greasers, a dirty, heartfelt, gang that lives in a poor, worn-down part of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The main character of the book is a boy named Ponyboy. Ponyboy lives alongside his two older brothers, Darry, and Sodapop. The greasers have a rivalry with the Socs, the rich kids, with a hard, cold heart, who live on the “nice” side of town.

The first event that I think is the most important in The Outsiders is Ponyboy’s parent dies. Ponyboy’s parents died in a automobile accident before the story took place. When Ponyboy’s parents have died Ponyboy lives with his two brother Sodapop Curtis, and Darry Curtis. Ponyboy and his two brothers have to learn an important part in life of surviving without a parent. The three greasers have to learn to feed, clothe, and take care of themselves without a parent.

Fighting in a vacant lot, a church on fire, heroes saving kids and a stabbing in the park keeps you wanting to know the full story. The Outsiders is a story about how the Greasers get in fights with the Socs.The three brothers are in the Greaser gang. These three kids come together as a family. Although the book said ponyboy's parents died in a accident in the movie they died in a train crash.Johnny parents were both in the movie and book because the book said how bad they were and the movie show them fighting.Although in the book it had the horse that belongs to sodapop it’s name is mickey.Cherry Valance didn’t like dally in the movie or the book.Johnny and ponyboy are different because one has different hairdo then the other.Darry and ponyboy

S.E Hinton’s book, The Outsiders was a very good book about this group of people called the Greasers who go up against the higher class of society, called the Soc’s. However there was a movie that came out in March 25, 1983. There were some similarities and differences and that is what we are going to talk about today. Both the movie and the book are both similar and yet they are different. Lets see some similarities and differences.

Do you know what an Outsider is? If so, have you ever felt like one? There’s this Novel that was written by S.E Hinton called “The Outsiders”. The Outsiders are split up upon two groups; Socs and the Greasers. The story was published in the 1960s when Hinton was only seventeen years old. Wow!!!

S.C Hinton’s story The Outsiders takes place in a town divided by class. The Greasers and the Socs have been on a social war. When the Socs ganged up on Ponyboy and Johnny they had to run away. They go far from their whole life. Tragic events take place and Johnny dies in the hospital. While others believe the main theme of The Outsiders is separation of society I believe that it is love conquers all to provide evidence there will be three points dialog, symbolism and characters.Dialog can give you the meaning of any story. In The Outsiders it gives hints. Dialog contributes to the theme because you can feel the emotion. Dally himself had dialog like this, “’ Dry off and wait here. At least Johnny’s got his jeans and jacket. You ought to run away in a sweat shirt, and a wet one at that.

What would you do if your parents died in a car wreck, and you had to choose where to go, your brother’s house or into a boys’ or girls’ home? In the dramatic story of “The Outsiders,” by S. E. Hinton, Ponyboy has to choose beside these decisions. The issue is he wants to stay with Darry and Sodapop, his older brothers, but if he gets caught by the cops, he’ll get sent to a boys’ home. Some readers believe he should go to the boys’ home, where he will be treated with more respect. Ponyboy Curtis, should stay in a boys’ home for these reasons.

Many authors use literary devices in their writing. Literary devices are elements used to bring interest to the reader and draw them into the story. S.E. Hinton uses a specific literary device quite often, which is foreshadowing. Although there was effort put into her foreshadowing, it wasn’t effective overall. In The Outsiders, Hinton uses foreshadowing to indirectly give the reader clues that Johnny may kill someone in the near future.

Nowadays, even though our society is less stereotypical, people are still classified into groups based on wealth or others, this could create conflict between groups. In the book, The Outsiders, written by S.E Hinton, the Socs are a high class based on people’s wealth, and the Greasers are a lower class because this group has a very low level in money. The characters should not be classified and placed into specific social groups because different classes can lead to conflict between people, cause depression and anger. There are three main points to support this argument. Firstly, Dally decides to kill himself because of his fearful struggles on the social groups and the death of Johnny. Secondly, Randy has no more force to fight with the Greasers because Johnny killed his best buddy, Bob. Thirdly, the Socs and Greasers are dissimilar social groups with different classes, this may result in battles between each other. First of all, Dally will be discussed about the conflicts he suffered.

The novel The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, gave a realistic depiction of teenage slum life and showed common themes such as loyalty and friendship; in addition, the mindset of Ponyboy was affected severely by the letter Johnny had left him before his death. First of all, Johnny’s letter made Ponyboy’s mindset become sentimental. Ponyboy stated that “I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows” (Hinton 187). This shows how Ponyboy’s mindset was changed because the letter made him think of more people like Johnny; this made Ponyboy more sympathetic about life. Moreover, Ponyboy’s mindset became more reminiscent due to Johnny’s letter. Ponyboy had rememberance

How many people do you think get jumped daily? Too many. The novel The outsiders S.E Hinton is about many gang violence situations. A few could have been walked away from, consequences could be death of friends. S.E Hinton’s theme “things all rough all over” is evident in the struggles the greasers and Socs face. Greasers gave the greater struggle because they live in poverty and they have a bad reputation of being hoodlums.

Paragraph 1 The Outsiders was put into the genre fiction because the story is made up. It was however based off S.E Hinton’s high school years, but it is not a complete replica because the story does not include S.E. Hinton herself. The story has a lot of realistic details but since it’s not real or have any real info in it has to be fiction. The story also does not have any other elements that would make it fall into different genres. Paragraph 2

In S.E Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders, there were many types of ideas that is worth admitting such as decision-making. S.E Hinton included numerous options to illustrate the proposal of this novel. For instance, it can decide the fate of your life such as the process of Johnny passing away. In addition to that, it can also lead to a situation that can turn into a conflict such as the correlation between Bob and Johnny. These characters tend to argue for things that can be solve, but assembles it to be disastrous. S.E Hinton is portraying that teens in the 50’s are greedy than the ones nowadays.

The novel, The Outsiders was written by S. E. Hinton, it was first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel, but did most of the work when she was 16 and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published. The book follows two rival groups, the Greasers and the Socs, who are divided by their socioeconomic status. The story is told in first-person narrative by protagonist Ponyboy Curtis. One of the main, eye catching characters is Ponyboy. Ponyboy is a 14 year old boy. He is humble, confused and lacking common sense.

Some of the problem in the story are the tension between the gangs, tension between brothers, growing up in a gang, smoking and drinking. The life style of these kids is not a good way to grow up because it is very rough. Pony boy’s parents dying when he was younger.