The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton wrote several novel's mostly about young teenagers and the hardships in her book. One that stood out more then the others was the one that everyone knows her by.

The Outsiders was a book that S.E Hinton that brought to fame. The book was published when she was only 17 years if age. The novel is about a troubled teen with a gang of friends know as the "greasers" who are the low-life's i guess you could say, who are on an ongoing fight with the upper class Soc's. Ponyboy Curtis is the narrator and main character of the book. He and his two older brothers live alone with there other gang members coming in and out. Johnny a member if the gang who is close to Ponyboy end up getting jumped by a group ofSoc's and Johnny ends killing one of them and that being the climax of the story. The story ends up being a very sensitive and heart felled novel.

The Outsiders is novel full of inspiration and hardship for a young teen and it lets you know that things maybe bad but happen for a reason."Stay Golden Ponyboy!".

Sources:

Enrichs, Lisa. "Advice from a Penwomen."Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol.111 1999. Literature Resource Center-Gale Group. Web. 12. Aug. 1990. .

Harris, June. "Contemporary Popular Writers."Literature Resource Center. Literature Resource Center-Gale Group. Web. 2007

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