It’s really a good books my son really interested to read this . Telling me what’s happening about books its like a leaning lesson for the kids. And I love it .
We read The Outsiders in my classroom using school copies, and a bought a few of these to raffle off after we finished reading it! Every student wanted a copy of their own so it made it really special for the kids who won their own copy!
Excellent!
Love it
Wonderful read for middle school students. It teaches to look past the lines that society draws between classes and stereotypes and look for humanity in us all.
Ordered for school…came in great condition for excellent price!
Love it
My daughter is obsessed with these books lately. They are easy to read and usually have a movie to watch after so I'd recommend these.
Nice read.
Excelente lo pedí para la escuela de mi niño
I bought this for my teenage son. I read it when I was his age. I think he will like it and get something out of it.It's about loyalty and friends that are like family. It's about teenagers and gang violence. It's about learning, growing,and going from child to man. It was also written by a 16-year-old kid, and I think he will like that, too.He just started reading it the other day, and he is still reading it. Good sign.It's a classic for a reason. It's timeless. Whether it be the 1960's or today.
I first heard this story on audio book in middle school. I can still hear the reader's voice almost ten years later. The story is gripping, funny, stocking, dramatic, and it leaves a mark on those who read it. The characters are real people with wants and needs, trying to achieve what they want and live their lives. I will always be a reader of this amazing novel. Worth every page and penny.
Absolutely love ❤️
This book is absolutely amazing and changed my perspective on life if you were to buy one book it would be this one it will make you cry it is amazing also I recommend watching the movie as well!!!
It It was a great book and the movie was great also It was a sweet sorrow Very sad very profound You can't help but fall in love with the characters
This book was wonderful it really was amazing it had all the heartache and love a boys needs and the longing to belong! You MUST read!!!
Good price compared to instore. Awesome book, good read and emotional story. Only problem the cover of the book pilled but definitely recommend reading.
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton is a coming-of-age novel that explores the lives of two rival groups of teenagers in the 1960s: the Greasers and the Socs. Through the eyes of Ponyboy Curtis, a member of the Greasers, the book delves into themes of social class, identity, friendship, and the challenges of adolescence. The novel’s raw portrayal of conflict, loss, and growing up resonates with readers, making it a timeless exploration of youth and the complexities of social divisions. Hinton’s writing is straightforward yet powerful, capturing the emotional turmoil of the characters and the tension between the different societal groups. The Outsiders remains a significant work in young adult literature, praised for its relatable characters and themes.
Growing up is difficult. The desire to fit in is pitted against the encouragement to be unique and different. A person’s actions as well as the influence of family, friends, and society helps to form a person’s identity. And, this isn’t all kids need to worry about: they will face and deal with bumps in the road and times where they’re down. Ponyboy in The Outsiders thinks his life is figured out, until one night his world is flipped upside down. S. E. Hinton thoughtfully crafted The Outsiders out of her own experiences. A story written in 1965 is still relevant today and captivates the reader with a youthful, slangy writing style which allows the reader to bond with the characters.The Outsiders, written in 1965 Oklahoma, displays the struggle between two gangs in a town. The narrator, Ponyboy Curtis, his brothers, and friends make up the Greasers. This rag tag group of impoverished guys stick by each other's sides no matter what. They are up against the rich, snooty, Socs. These guys drive around in their expensive cars and jump Greasers to appear cool and intimidate them. In a constant battle between the Socs and Greasers, Ponyboy Curtis discovers there is good and bad in everyone.The story displays a conflict between two gangs who think they are very different: “Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations and have a gang fight once in a while” (3). On the other hand, “[Socs] jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next” (3). It isn’t safe for a Greaser to walk around alone, for the Socs always pull up in their convertible, hop out, and jump them. The Greasers despise the Socs and the Socs despise the Greasers. This is the case for Ponyboy too until he meets Cherry, the toughest Soc’s girlfriend, he realizes that Socs aren’t all that different after all. Cherry and Ponyboy share many similarities, especially their love for sunsets. With the help of Cherry, Ponyboy realizes the greasers, including himself, misjudged the Socs. Yes, they do get drunk and beat up Greasers for no good reason, but they are human and they have lives outside of how well they can fight. Will Ponyboy get everyone else to see the Socs true colors? Can this ever get better? The conflict remains relevant to society fifty years after it was written because there always seems to be this in-group and out-group.Not only is the story relevant to society, but it also maintains a young, slangy tone that allows the reader to connect with the characters. S. E. Hinton commented that “these characters are really kind of universal without losing their individuality.” The story, written when the author was only fifteen years old, is told from Ponyboy’s perspective. Ponyboy is a fourteen year old kid living with his two older brothers, Darry and Sodapop. Sodapop is sixteen and Darry is twenty and has custody of Sodapop and Ponyboy since their parents died in a car crash. Ponyboy’s young and optimistic, so his narration draws the reader in. Initially, Ponyboy feels very self-conscious and vulnerable: “I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman- he looks tough and I don’t” (1) He’s the youngest of the gang and looks up to his older, tougher brothers and friends. Within the first few pages, Ponyboy walks home from the movie theater alone and is stopped by Socs. “Need a haircut, greaser?” they ask him, “How’d you like that haircut to begin just below the chin?”(5) His brothers find him, fight back and save him. In Darry and Sodapop’s eyes Ponyboy is still young and fragile. But, as the story advances Ponyboy fights hard to prove the gang wrong. He grows stronger as he learns to be courageous, defend himself, and later in the process meets death face to face. S.E Hinton said “When I write, an interesting transformation takes place. I go from thinking about my narrator to being him,” and this is also how I felt while reading this. Ponyboy is forced to grow up in order to fit in, and as this happens the reader gets to grow with him and see him both thrive and grieve. With help from family and friends, growing up can be much more manageable and even fun. When reading The Outsiders I could never put the book down. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone looking for an easy read with a timeless story and a powerful message.
I'm looking at The Outsiders through the lens of Catcher in the Rye because Catcher's large footprint overlaps into the Coming of Age genre and so many people are familiar with Salinger's literary classic.The Outsiders is about two groups of feuding teenagers, Greasers and Socses (pronounced "soshes"). Greasers are from the poor side of town, the east side. The Socses are from the upscale west side. The story is narrated in first-person by a Greaser, fourteen year-old Ponyboy, an orphan who lives with two older brothers, Darry and Sodapop. There are three levels of conflict: the grudge between the two feuding factions, inter-family conflict between Ponyboy and twenty year-old Darry, and Ponyboy's inner struggle with self identity--what and who he wants to make of himself.At 180 pages, the book was an easy read despite the unrefined writing style, which I struggled with but readily accepted because the roughness of an untrained authorial voice sounded realistic.I was first drawn to The Outsiders because I kept running across comments about the book in discussions concerning The Catcher in the Rye, a book that I have reread and analyzed extensively with great enthusiasm. I am a great fan of Salinger. I am also writing my own coming of age novel and find it helpful to study other works in the genre. The Outsiders has sold over thirteen million copies to Catcher's sixty-five-plus million. The two books have similarities and differences worth examining.Narrative Voice:Both stories are told in first-person. Holden, though unsympathetic, scattered and seemingly unreliable, is convincing and believable. Ponyboy is sympathetic and scattered but sometimes unconvincing because of the rough writing. In the beginning he kept boring me with long descriptions to set up the characters and situation. And later on he would make repetitive asides, telling instead of showing or letting it evolve naturally. Here's an example from page 3:"We're poorer than the Socs and the middle class. I reckon we're wilder too. Not like the Socs, who jump Greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next. Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations and have a gang fight once in a while. I don't mean I do things like that. Darry would kill me if I got into trouble with the police. Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together." (The passage goes on for most of a page.)I know Holden does the same thing, but his voice clicks from the very first word. Listen to Ponyboy's opening line: "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house I only had two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home." The sentence was expressed in reverse order. It threw me off. It should have read: "When I stepped from the darkness of the movie house out into the bright sunlight... ."Holden's opening line reads: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, ... ." Smooth.It's not fair to compare the writing of a kid with that of a seasoned master, but it illustrates what I'm trying to get across--writing that flows is more digestible and less intrusive.Characters:In both novels, the authenticity of the narrator's voice is the most critical factor. In first-person, the reader is locked inside the narrator's head. But this is where the similarity ends. Holden comes across as privileged, arrogant and whiney, an unsympathetic character, whereas Ponyboy is at the opposite end of the socio-economic scale and quickly earns our sympathy and interest, starting with the fact that, along with his brothers, he's a recent orphan. Also, in the opening pages he get's attacked by a gang and is rescued by his two brothers and four other members of the Greasers' gang, Steve, Two-bit, Dally and Johnny "Jonnycake" Cade. The reader is drawn in by the loyalty of the boys to a member in trouble.Other sympathetic characters include: Cherry, a cheerleader and a Socs leader's girlfiriend; Randy, a Socs who leaves his gang; Mr. Syme, Ponyboy's English teacher; and Marcia, a friend of Cherry's.Hinton spends a distracting amount of time describing her characters' physical appearance. Salinger describes his characters briefly, with laser precision and only when necessary.A major weakness of Outsiders is the ensemble of villains that are flat, not sufficiently rendered to make the reader feel Ponyboy's fear of them. The Socs are pretty much faceless except for Randy, who turns out to be a pretty good guy.A major difference between the two books is that Hinton stays with this core cast of characters for the duration of the novel, whereas Salinger takes Holden through a series of mini-dramas...
