Susan Eloise Hinton: How The Outsiders Changed Society

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The Outsiders Changed Society People who have brought out change in America are not just the previous Presidents of the United States or heroes who win wars and many other heroes of society. Teachers, authors, veterans, inventers, and many other people can change America. Throughout the years society as changed since the 1950’s, 1970’s, and to now. The way teenagers are behaving with each other, how the lower and upper classes treat one another. Susan Eloise Hinton’s (S.E. Hinton) book The Outsiders has real experiences from Hinton’s life, and changed how teenagers in a society judged other teenagers based on their background and economic solution. The book The Outsiders was written in a teenager’s perspective (Ponyboy

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