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The Outsiders (Paperback)
by S.E.Hinton
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Great characters and wonderful story about family, heart and friendship. |
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Author: S.E.Hinton
Publisher: Puffin
Pub. in: November, 1997
ISBN: 014038572X
Pages: 192
Measurements: 7.1 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00038
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0140385724
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The Outsiders is a fast paced, well-written book for teenagers looking to heal hurting relationships. In The Outsiders relationships are based on fear and hatred, even between brothers, as evidenced by Darry and Ponyboy.
The Outsiders takes you back into the times of the movies such as "Grease." There are many gangs with the trend of long, oiled, slicked-back hair with much fighting and drugs, the main character Ponyboy Curtis is an orphan living alone in a house with his older brother Sodapop and Darrel. Ponyboy goes through some tough times such as thinking that Darrel hates him and feeling like a loner all the time. Then one day, the gang "Socs" pick on and threatened Ponyboy and merely kill him when a friend named Johnny comes and save Ponyboy by killing one of the Soc members, To avoid trouble, they both run away from home with only a couple of hundred dollars, two heavy coats, and a free ride on a storage train to nowhere, Ponyboy and Johnny fight for survival and try to carry on each other in a deserted church. They show true friendship that doesn't seem to break, even with 5,000 men with double-edged swords.
In The Outsiders, Johnny and Ponyboy would not have survived in the story without their compassion and friendship, as it is said, "Everyone needs a friend." If Ponyboy and Johnny didn't have each other, it would have been impossible to live out in the deserted all alone; one of them would have died of boredomness or loneliness. It was showed in the book, "One morning, I woke up earlier than usual, Johnny and I slept huddled together for warmth." Ponyboy and Johnny even slept next to each other for survival! That shows true friendship: helping each other survive.
The best part in the book was when Dally comes find Johnny and Ponyboy. Even though Dally could have gotten arrested for helping "murders," he still desired to give them a hand with their problems. Dally takes them out for Dairy Queen. The Outsiders is a great book with lots of virtues and morals that are needed in life.
Target readers:
Kids aged up 8
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S.E. Hinton, was and still is, one of the most popular and best known writers of young adult fiction. Her books have been taught in some schools, and banned from others. Her novels changed the way people look at young adult literature.
Susan Eloise Hinton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has always enjoyed reading but wasn't satisfied with the literature that was being written for young adults, which influenced her to write novels like The Outsiders. That book, her first novel, was published in 1967 by Viking.
Once published, The Outsiders gave her a lot of publicity and fame, and also a lot of pressure. S.E. Hinton was becoming known as "The Voice of the Youth" among other titles. This kind of pressure and publicity resulted in a three year long writer's block.
Her boyfriend (and now, her husband),who had gotten sick of her being depressed all the time, eventually broke this block. He made her write two pages a day if she wanted to go anywhere. This eventually led to That Was Then, This Is Now.
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S.E. Hinton's 1967 classic, published when she was a freshman in college, is as appropriate and realistic today as it was then. Fourteen-year-old Ponyboy, his brothers, and his friends are poor outcasts-"greasers." They have little but always stick together. After they're victims of the town's "socs (socials)-kids with lots of money, tough cars, and chips on their shoulders-everyone comes to realize how deep and serious their divide is. Narrator Jim Fyfe presents Ponyboy and his group, along with the socs and their circle, with '60s' language appropriate to each socioeconomic group. No character is all good or all bad, and when the final violent confrontation erupts, listeners are sorrowful but not shocked. This moving story is excellent for all ages and perfect to illustrate both sides of bullying.
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Callie (MSL quote), Portland, USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
This book, which was written in the 1960's, may have well been written today. It describes the many conflicts between gangs, social groups, family violence, and friends. I was made to read this book twice when I was in middle-school, but even so I enjoyed it. Many emotions and thoughts surround the patrogonist, Ponyboy, who describes gang life in the city. The book goes into many depths to develop the personality and emotions of every single character, and even from the view of the main character, you know the intellects of every little character. Every emotion is very sincere and well portrayed and not a detail is left out. You get a good view of human nature, feelings, and life. The story has a very moving plot that deals with family conflicts, murder, robbery, gang fights, friendship, social status, and loss. It does well at alerting the reader of the seriousness of gang warfare. Even though it expresses the many sad parts of life in the city, it gives a message that there can be hope and there is hope for those who have not lost the fight yet. This is an incredible book and definitely worth getting. A must read! |
C. Gilbert (MSL quote), the Netherlands
<2006-12-26 00:00>
I first read The Outsiders19 years ago (the year that the film version was released). Hinton was all the rage to read in my high school and I was seriously attached to Ponyboy and Sodapop and the rest. Like many another teenage girl smitten by Ralph Macchio, I memorized the Robert Frost poem and cried buckets at the end of the book.
It's funny to me to hear recent reviewers discussing the book in terms of its relationship to gangs, because I don't see it as being about rival factions. Instead, I see it more as a meditation on the price of having an inside and an outside to any given social context. At the time the book was written, it was the socs and the greasers. At my high school it was the Jocks and the Beegs. It's about people being judged by their clothes and their family rather than their abilities and their desires.
Hinton's book stands up well to time- I'm a lot more cynical than I was as a child and I couldn't summon tears anymore for the characters, but reading it I could still revisit the concerns that I had at the time and the world that this book represented. A good gift for young teenagers. |
A kid (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, was a very fascinating book about a boy in a group called the Greasers. His parents died in a car crash and he lives with his 2 brothers that take care of him. He gets into mischief with one of his pals, but something happens that isn't for the best. I'll let you read to find out! He is in a gang that is "low class", which fights with the "high class" gang called the Socs. One night it gets a little too rough.
The setting of The Outsiders is not like the world I know at all because it’s based in the late/early 60's in a town with 2 different sides: the Socs and Greasers. S.E. Hinton really makes you feel like you're part of the story because she explains how it's rundown and not a happy place to be. She can make you picture it if you close your eyes. The author really makes you believe the characters are real people because they seem exactly like how these teens would be. I really liked all the characters because they all seem real, but other people might not like Dally and Steve. Dally thinks he's the best and the only thing he truly loves is Johnny. Steve just seems to be mean to anyone who is smaller than him especially Ponyboy.
The themes of this book are always fighting for what you want because Johnny fights to save Ponyboy's life. Also never give up on what you want because Ponyboy finally got what he wanted, for him to know his brother Darry loved him. The genre of this book is mystery and suspense. It might also be considered drama because of what happens.
I loved this book because it was very descriptive and fun to read. I liked learning how life was back then. I think you should read this book because you'll really enjoy it. Every part of the story made sense, like everything happened and you knew why it happened. I really encourage you to read it to have a lot of fun even if you don't like to read like me.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is up for a great book. If you don't like to read, I think you will like this book. I hate to read, but I couldn't put this book down. I'd recommend this book to anyone because it's just a good book and I think anyone would like it. I hope you use my review and maybe read this book because I know you will not be disappointed. |
J. Thompson (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-26 00:00>
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton was written in the 1960's. I enjoyed reading this book because I can relate to the characters in the story. It is about a 14 year-old boy named Ponyboy Curtis who grows-up in a poor, Texas neighborhood. His parents died in a car accident, this left him and his two brothers, Soda-Pop and Darry orphaned. His brothers and his friends, "the Greasers" where now his only family, they were a gang. This gang was made-up of Ponyboy and his brothers and these other characters; Dally, Steve, Two-Bit and Ponyboy's best friend, Johnny. These kids were always together and took care of each other as a family would.
With gangs, there were always rivalries between groups. The "Socs" or socials were rich and didn't like Greasers because they were poor. The Socs were terrible. They drank and smoked too much and when they were drunk they took it out on innocent people. The Greasers could never go out alone because they could get jumped by the Socs. One of the big events in this book is when Johnny, one of the younger Greasers, got jumped and almost killed by nasty group of Socs. Johnny was Ponyboy's best friend and he was almost killed by Bob, the leader of the Socs.
Johnny is one of the most important characters in this book. Johnny's parents were not the greatest. They didn't like him at all. He usually needs to leave his house at night and sleep in a vacant lot. Johnny never leaves his house without a switch-blade because of his run-in with the Socs. One night, Ponyboy and Johnny doze-off in the parking lot of the movie theater. They were supposed to be home by 12:00. Pony knew he would be in trouble with his older brother, Darry for being out too late so, he went home. Ponyboy was now in serious trouble with Darry. Ponyboy and Johnny decided to run away from home. The two boys met up in the park. What they didn't know was that night things were going to change drastically for the two boys.
I recommend this book to every reader that likes a good story. It is a classic book. It was written in the 1960's and still ties in with real life today after all the years, troubled teenagers forming groups and picking fights. When I read it I was amazed by how much this group of friends can do together. Nothing got in their way. Even though there are some sad parts in the story, it just made it more addicting to read. It seemed like I couldn't put the book down after the first couple of pages. The Outsiders was a very enjoyable book and I had a lot of fun reading it. You should too.
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