Introduction
S.E. Hinton is one of the best known authors who writes young adult novels. Her stories are set in her hometown, Oklahoma and the book, The Outsiders is also set in Oklahoma. This book is the most popular, well known one of all the books she has written and Hinton’s life experiences are reflected in it. The author, S.E. Hinton started writing this book when she was fifteen. At that time, her school in Oklahoma had social divisions in which people do not hang out with people other than their friends in the same group or the same social class. The situation in the book I read, The Outsiders is similar to what was happening in Hinton’s school.
The book’s theme is basically on social class differences between teenager groups and …show more content…
The Socs likes to pick on a Greaser and beat them up. In the beginning of the story, Ponyboy Curtis, the narrator of this book gets beaten up by some Socs who came out of a nice car. Straight off from the start, the author is showing us the relationship of the two classes. Ponyboy is one of the members of a Greaser gang. The gang includes Pony’s two older brothers, Darry and Sodapop Curtis, Johnny, the gang’s “pet”, Dally, the toughest, Two-Bit, the joker, and Steve, Sodapop’s best friend. The Curtis brothers are orphans and Johnny has abusive parents. This harsh status the gang holds also shows the unfairness of class divisions but this leads to showing the gang’s love and strength as well. One day, when Johnny and Ponyboy go to see a movie, they befriend with a Soc girl, Cherry. Though when Cherry’s Soc boyfriend, Bob finds out, he and his fellow Socs attack them. Johnny accidentally kills Bob in order to save Ponyboy. After the killing, the two boys run away to a mountain and hide. On the way home, they see a fire come up from a church. Both of them run to save some kids left in the church. Pony was fine but Johnny gets burned badly. From this part of the book, Ponyboy suffers from the conflict inside him about how he made it out unharmed but Johnny, who is the gang’s “pet”, did not. This is a big event in the overall story and a key point where it makes the reader think about how Greasers go through so much in their adolescence and cannot spend normal, peaceful
S.E. Hinton is one of the best known authors who writes young adult novels. Her stories are set in her hometown, Oklahoma and the book, The Outsiders is also set in Oklahoma. This book is the most popular, well known one of all the books she has written and Hinton’s life experiences are reflected in it. The author, S.E. Hinton started writing this book when she was fifteen. At that time, her school in Oklahoma had social divisions in which people do not hang out with people other than their friends in the same group or the same social class. The situation in the book I read, The Outsiders is similar to what was happening in Hinton’s school.
The book’s theme is basically on social class differences between teenager groups and …show more content…
The Socs likes to pick on a Greaser and beat them up. In the beginning of the story, Ponyboy Curtis, the narrator of this book gets beaten up by some Socs who came out of a nice car. Straight off from the start, the author is showing us the relationship of the two classes. Ponyboy is one of the members of a Greaser gang. The gang includes Pony’s two older brothers, Darry and Sodapop Curtis, Johnny, the gang’s “pet”, Dally, the toughest, Two-Bit, the joker, and Steve, Sodapop’s best friend. The Curtis brothers are orphans and Johnny has abusive parents. This harsh status the gang holds also shows the unfairness of class divisions but this leads to showing the gang’s love and strength as well. One day, when Johnny and Ponyboy go to see a movie, they befriend with a Soc girl, Cherry. Though when Cherry’s Soc boyfriend, Bob finds out, he and his fellow Socs attack them. Johnny accidentally kills Bob in order to save Ponyboy. After the killing, the two boys run away to a mountain and hide. On the way home, they see a fire come up from a church. Both of them run to save some kids left in the church. Pony was fine but Johnny gets burned badly. From this part of the book, Ponyboy suffers from the conflict inside him about how he made it out unharmed but Johnny, who is the gang’s “pet”, did not. This is a big event in the overall story and a key point where it makes the reader think about how Greasers go through so much in their adolescence and cannot spend normal, peaceful