The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
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Author: S. E. HintonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-11-01
ISBN: 014038572X
Number of pages: 192
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Puffin
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Book Review: Not Such a "Gold" Book...
Summary: 1 Stars
First off...I'm using my mom's account:D
I'll confess that, when I was in 7th grade, I first read this book for English class and I loved it. I had to read it again in 9th grade, and it was still pretty good. Now, as an 11th grader, I read it a third time. Looking back, I can't see why I even liked it!
As a Tomboyish 7th grader, the violence and smoking was cool for me. Now that I'm older, it seems childish and stupid. Now, I'm thinking of questions I didn't think of in 7th grade like: Why do these guys get so much enjoyment out of beating up each other? Why didn't Ponyboy and Johnny just go to the police and tell them it was self-defense? How did Darry keep custody of his brothers? And too many other questions!
In 7th grade again, there was only one kid in the class that didn't like it. Now, most of the kids in my class don't like it anymore.
I also re-watched the movie and that wasn't as bad as the book, but still pretty close. The movie tried to use beautiful music and lovely backgrounds to try to make us feel bad. After the movie and book ended, I was thinking, "but what did he learn?" What did Ponyboy learn? Not to judge people? Always tell the truth? Respect your brothers? He went through all that just to learn those lessons he already had in the first place? This book was just an endless marry-go-round.
If you want a good and less-violent book about coming of age, I'd recomend Sisterhood of the Travel Pants or Can't Get There from Here.
Sadly, I'd rather read Twilight (another book I didn't really like) a hundred times before I'd read this again.
Summary of The Outsiders
When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever.According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser. This classic, written by S. E. Hinton when she was 16 years old, is as profound today as it was when it was first published in 1967.
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