If you walk into any bookstore or search online, you will find many books that interest you. For example, books that involve crime, tragedy, and love. One book that is a great example of these topics is “The Outsiders,” by Susan Eloise Hinton. The book portrays the lives of two rival groups of teenagers who fight for respect and dignity. In this book report, I will discuss where the story takes place, the characters, and the plot of the story. The story takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which happens to be the author S.E. Hinton’s home town is. During the story, the boys visited several locations. They visit the drive-in movie theater where the Greasers meet two Soc girls. A church where the boys hid from the police because of a murder, and …show more content…
When he was little, his parents were killed in an auto wreck, leaving him and his brother alone with nobody to care for them and a lonely house. Luckily, Ponyboy and his brothers meet Two-Bit Matthews, Johnny, and Steve Randel, who would later form a group known as the Greasers. The Greasers were a group of boys with long slicked back hair, hence the name Greaser. These boys agreed to stay together no matter what happened to them. They would steal things, drive fast cars, and have the occasional gang fight with another group known as the Socs. The Socs were a group of high-class people in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They would jump Greasers, wreck houses, and throw beer blasts for fun. Overall, this group was not much different from their rival group the Greasers, but both groups will cause a large conflict later in the …show more content…
Now it was just Ponyboy, Soda, Darry, and Steve who left. Steve and Soda tried to tell Ponyboy there was nothing they could do, and the only thing they did was to continue with their lives. The next day, Ponyboy was recovering from his injuries and sickness from the past few days. He was told that he would have to appear in court, but Cherry Valance, the Soc girl they meet at the drive-in movie theater, convinced the judge to ask him very few questions due to his current life conditions. A week later, Ponyboy finally felt better about going back to school. During his first day back at school, he was told by his English teacher that he could bring his grade up to pass by writing a paper on what he wanted. It took Ponyboy a long time to think about what he wanted, but when he realized he wanted to write his book report on Johnny’s life from his perspective. He knew that Johnny’s life should be told to everyone, starting with his English teacher. Then S.E. Hinton ends the story with the first words of the
most famous young adult novels ever written. That is exactly what Susan Eloise Hinton did. S.E. Hinton was born on July 22, 1948. As a sophomore in high school, Hinton wrote The Outsiders and had it published before she graduated. S.E. Hinton grew up among two feuding groups (the greasers and the soc’s) that sparked the idea for her most famous novel, The Outsiders, which she wrote in high school after her friend was jumped. S.E. Hinton has always enjoyed reading and writing but was never happy with
Susan Eloise Hinton was born on the 22nd of July of 1950 in the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her parents were Grady P. Hinton and Lillian Hinton. The town of Oklahoma did not have a lot of fun activities for a young girl, so reading and writing became Susan’s hobbies and pastimes. Susan was a very shy girl, who had dreams of becoming a cattle rancher, because of her love of cows. Her dreams of becoming a cattle rancher soon vanished because her love of writing grew stronger. Her first stories started
S.E. Hinton’s real name is Susan Eloise Hinton. It was suggested that she use her initials, S.E., because during her time, it was almost impossible for a woman to write such outstanding books. Her books were about hardships during the 1960’s and 1970’s. “Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.” Hinton’s writing was greatly
What is it like to be judged based on what other people think and say about you, but not by who you really are? If you can imagine what it’s like, you certainly know how the characters in The Outsiders, by Susan Eloise Hinton feel. Her book tells us a story about two gangs, different social classes, and enemies living in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 1960s. The city is divided into two parts; Greasers live in the East side and Socs live in the West side of Tulsa. Greasers and Socs don’t get along and
The title of the book is “The Outsiders” which was published on April 24, 1967, by Susan Eloise Hinton an American writer, at the age of 19, best known for her young adult novels set in Oklahoma. The Outsiders became a commercial success and won numerous awards. In 1967, it was named one of the best teen books by the New York Herald Tribune and was also a Chicago Tribune Book World Spring Book Festival Honour Book. The novel’s gritty, realist portrayal of teenage life was striking, as was the fact
Hinton’s ‘The Outsiders’ and Derek Landy’s ‘The Skulduggery Pleasant series’ portrayed as outsiders? The Outsiders is a famous, modern classic novel written by Susan Eloise Hinton or S.E. Hinton. This timeless novel was written in 1967 which has made the novel appropriate to its time. An outsider is a person who does not belong to a particular group, set or party. In every text there is always at least one outsider, in this case Ponyboy Curtis and The Greasers are all considered outsiders in S.E. Hinton’s
The Outsiders is about a gang of boys from the wrong side of the tracks who are very misjudged. There is always going to be conflict anywhere someone looks, especially when it is gang related. When someone thinks of gangs, they automatically think of the tough, rough looking guys, but do not judge a book by its cover because it just might be the nice looking, well presented guys that are starting the most trouble. We learn about the relationship that Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dallas have with each other
In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there are many ideas worth being talked about and explained, but the ones that really stand out are identity and choices. There are multiple ways in which the author exemplifies this idea in the text, for example, sometimes the choices you make in the past can affect you in the future, like when ponyboy chooses to walk home alone even when he knows it’s dangerous. Secondly, not only do the choices you make effect your identity, but often your identity will
“outcasts.” The Outsiders, a great novel about outcasts, uses a group of people, the greasers, as the outcasts of the story. The Waterboy, an unpopular 1998 movie about a boy who stutters, shows the extent the outcast will go just to try to fit in. Finally, the song, “Don’t Laugh At Me”, by Mark Wills, describes the feelings of an outcast. These three examples of the outcast archetype, describe the feelings of an outcast trying to live in modern society. The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, a wonderful,
what will always be by my side and I feel that they deserve the most credit for forming the person who to care, to love, and to fight. The novels The Outsiders and The lost boy, the short story The Left Foot and the poem On Children, all are in the situation of individuals forming their identity while growing up in different families. In The Outsiders, the main character grows up without parents so his family becomes only his two brothers; in the novel The Lost Boy an extremely abused boy finds his