Life Differences And Characters In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want.” This quote is from the book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton. In the book, there are two gangs called the Greasers and the Socials. The Greasers are the poor kids on the East side and the Socials are the rich kids on the West. Ponyboy is a member from the Greasers and has two older brothers, Darry and Sodapop. In addition, the Socials keep on beating up the Greasers until something unpredictable happens when someone decides to take things too far. There are many dislikes and likes towards the book, but I say it is just an average book that people can all read to.
Many books have multiple life lessons that people can learn to. One of the life lessons that this book indicates is

Usually, authors write their book in a character’s point of view like how Hinton wrote the book in Ponyboy 's point of view. Also, readers get to know the thoughts and views that Ponyboy thinks of each character in the story. For example, Ponyboy thoughts on Steve Randle was that he knows Steve dislikes him, since he kept on tagging along with Sodapop and them. In my point of view, the parts of the book that I dislike was the part where it did not have any dialogue and mostly narrating. I also disliked how Ponyboy had flashbacks or when the days flashed forwarded. Many readers can daze off and fall asleep while reading and can forget what happened before the flashback or the parts without dialogue. The author should have wrote instead is “in the past” or “the following days” to informed the reader ahead of the flashback or the flashed forward. The author seemed to wanting to rushed to the past or future quickly than going on with the present. However, this book was amazingly unique than other books that I have read. This book itself is Ponyboy 's essay for his English class. Towards the end of the book, it states that Ponyboy started his essay with “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two thing on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home,” In the beginning of the book, the same sentence pops up, so you can inferred that this whole book is the essay

Most of the settings you can visualize in your mind. Hinton stated the place and tried to describe the place to the best of her ability. In addition, the author can make you feel like you are part of the setting and that when you close your eyes, you can imagine the setting. For instance, when Johnny and Ponyboy went into the church and the author describes the church as a small church and it is real old, spooky, and spider webby. In the reader’s mind, they can imagine the church to be really small, almost all broken down, and is filled with tons of spider webs. Throughout the book, there were many different settings that the author