The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
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Book Reviews of The Outsiders
Book Review: The Outsiders
Summary: 5 Stars
Have you ever wanted to be in a gang? Well don't join a gang because one day, you might be dead! You never know when someone might shoot you. The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is a good book about gangs. It made me realize that being in a gang is not fun and that you can die really quickly. When I was eight years old I used to read lots of books from S.E. Hinton, but when I read The Outsiders, it changed my life.
This book is about a boy named Ponyboy. Ponyboy is in a gang called the Greasers. They also have their rival gang, the Socs. The Greasers don't like the Soc and the Socs don't like the Greasers. The Soc are a gang of rich people and they can have whatever they want. Socs are also always provoking the Greasers so they can fight. The Socs and the Greasers fight each other very often, which is the part I don't like. When gangs fight, it means that they have lots of differences between each other, like the Socs and the Greasers. Ponyboy lives with his brothers, who love Ponyboy and if anything happened to him they would go crazy. Ponyboy has a friend named Johnny, who is Ponyboy's best friend because they are in the same gang. Johnny's parents don't care if Johnny comes home, so he just hangs out with Ponyboy until he wants to go home. Ponyboy is about 15 or 16 years old and he is always getting into trouble. Ponyboy and his brothers know how to get out of trouble, but there is one day when someone takes things too far.
The genre of this book is realistic fiction, and its level is 4.9. The Outsiders has about 180 pages. While I was reading the book, I was thinking to myself, I wonder what would happen if all of the gangs got together for a big fight, what would happen to them? Would they die? I really liked The Outsiders because it taught me how dangerous some gangs can be. I learned a lot of things from this book. For example, I learned not to do or say anything that might make a gang want to jump you. Another thing I learned is that you should not try to join a gang if you can't take what they will do to you. If I had not read this book, I would not have known how much pain they go through when they are in gangs.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is or wants to be in a gang because when you read this book, you will not want to be in a gang anymore. I would also recommend this book to anyone who likes violence because there is a lot of violence in this book will really make you think what they are going through.
Book Review: The Outsiders
Summary: 5 Stars
The OutsidersBy: Hinton, S. E.
Reviewed By: S. Chang
Period: 5
This book is about the lives of gangs and the change in many peoples lives after a murder. Ponyboy is a greaser, a gang member. His parents died so he lives with his bothers, Soda, a drop-out, and Darry, who grew up too fast to take care of the family. The greasers are enemies with the Socs, another gang made up with rich kids. Ponyboy and Johnny, a buddy of Ponyboy, run into some Socs and get in a fight. They nearly get killed by the Socs. In self-defense, Johnny kills a Soc, Bob. Ponyboy and Johnny run away from the police to a church. There, they save some lives and lose some.
I like this book because it let me see things in 2 point-of-views and it helped me realize a life is very, very valuable and can change many people¡¯s lives forever. I also learned that losing one life can lead to many more losses. When I was half way through reading this book, I thought all Socs as ¡°bad¡±. But I relize that that isn¡¯t true. If another book was based on the same story, but it was a Soc¡¯s point of view, I would have thought of all greasers as ¡°bad¡±. But when I got to a certain point of the book, there was a part when Bob¡¯s friend, Randy was telling Ponyboy his feelings, I really felt sorry for him and changed my opinion on the Socs. Especially when the book tells me randy¡¯s expression by saying, ¡°Randy tried to grin, but I could tell he was close to tears.¡±
When Johnny and Ponyboy is at the church hiding, they save some lives. To save lives, they get injured and it leads to a person¡¯s death. Because a person died, Dally gets so sad he wants to suicide and he purposely threathen the police and got shot by the police. This was weird thing to happen because Dally was a very cold, tough, manly, and ¡°bad¡±. I guess that¡¯s why it touched me more when Ponyboy said, ¡°he ran out like the devil was after him. He¡¯s gonna blow up. He couldn¡¯t take it.¡±
My favorite part of the book is when Jjohnny, Ponyboy, and Dally saved the little kids from the church. It would¡¯ve taken a lot of courage to do that because they could die saving those kids, and most of all, they didn¡¯t even know they kids and they risked their lives for them. I thought that all gang members were bad, but I guess there¡¯s a goodness in everyone.
Book Review: The Outsiders
Summary: 5 Stars
Hoods to HeroesThe Outsiders by S.E. Hinton was extravagantly written and greatly composed. A reader's first impression of the book is it's going to be stupid and boring, but have a little patience with it because it is very enjoyable. There is a little surprise at the end of the story that the reader will find enjoyable.
Ponyboy Curtis, a kid who lives on the East side of town where all the poor families live, who are generally called "Greasers", walks out of a movie theater. And on his way he finds he is being followed, a few moments later he was jumped by the West side rich kids called "Socs". After being rescued by his two brothers, Sodapop, yes "Sodapop" is his real name, and Darry, and his friends: Johnny, Steve, Dally and Two-bit Mathews, yes that is his real name to. Ponyboy considered himself to have been lucky enough to only get a slash across the cheek, compared to his best friend Johnny who had been severely mugged four months earlier.
Soon after words Ponyboy, Johnny, and Darry, a friend of theirs, went and broke into a drive-in movie theater even though they could have easily paid for the 25 cent entrance fee. There they meet two Socs: Cherry, and Marcia, and Two-bit Mathews, another friend. After taking the girls up to their neighborhood and leaving Two-bit Mathews, Ponyboy and Johnny went to the "lot" and lie down to look at the stars. A few hours later they started to head on home only to realize a group of Socs trailing them in a car. They drunkenly got out of their car and chased Ponyboy and Johnny down for giving "their" girls a ride. When they were caught they started drowning Ponyboy, when all of a sudden Johnny comes and kills a Soc named Bob.
Now on the run from the law, Ponyboy and Johnny head to Blue Jay Mountain, which was suggested by Dally as a hiding spot. There they spend the next five days surviving on bologna sandwiches and pride taking disguise. When Dally comes to check on them he learns that they have decided to turn themselves in. On their way back they noticed a group of people around their hideout and they stop and they stop and see a fire. After a swift rescue of the kids that were trapped inside and nearly getting killed, Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally were swiftly led to the hospital where a horrible event happens that changes everyone's life.
This seemingly fictional, but amazing true story will keep everyone who reads this, hopefully, on the edge of his or her seat.
Book Review: The Outsiders: Task & Evaluation
Summary: 3 Stars
"The Outsiders"
Wow! Reading the book and later watching the movie... Oh my God it was awesome. The book written by S. E. Hinton was a piece of art anyone would like to read, as well as the movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola. This last week I just watch the movie of the outsiders, and I really think it was awesome. The actors from the movie acted really well, they were `tuff,' as the S.E. Hinton described them in the book. Each character acted in his/her own way, as the book described them. I loved the way Dally, Johnny and Ponyboy acted, they were very in with their personalities. I think Francis Ford Coppola, chose the correct people to act in his movie. The setting and plot of the movie really matched with the book. I imagined the scenes just as S.E. Hinton described them; but some things I think that didn't match a lot were Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy's home. It was different as I thought it was. I thought their house would be smaller, and more humble. Things went OK with the characters personalities, but I though they could match better. For example, I imagined Two-Bit `tuff' and so different as he really is.
The book and the movie matched a lot; just for little details it didn't. At the beginning and at the end of the movie, we can see that Ponyboy is writing an essay; for the other part, this happens just at the end. When Darry is angry with Ponyboy, in the book Darry slaps him, but in the movie Darry pushes Ponyboy. In the movie Ponyboy becomes blond because they needed to change their way of looking for the cops not to find them. In the book it says that Ponyboy sleeps while they were in the train, while in the movie he didn't. Also, when Johnny and Ponyboy are going to the church, Ponyboy asks a man that were is the church located; in the movie he doesn't. Another thing was when Dally wanted to rob the store. In the Movie he goes to a normal store with magazines and other stuff; while in the book he goes to a grocery store.
I think that the book is better. This is because characters were really well described and the book gave you a much clear idea of how things are in the world of Greasers vs. Socs. I give this movie a rating of 3, I thought things were going to be better and that the movie would be better described. This activity helped me a lot to have a clear idea of how both things were.
*Carolina Cantú Rosales
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Summary: 4 Stars
"The Outsiders" is a book for all ages. It tells the life of Ponyboy Curtis, who is a Greaser,and focuses on the conflict shared between the Socs and the Greasers, two neighbourhood gangs. The Socs are very rich, and the Greasers are mostly hoods - apart from Ponyboy, his best friend Johnny, and Pony's two elder brothers, Darry and Sodapop. Pony's parents were killed in a car-crash when he was young. Darry,20, got a job so Soda and Pony wouldn't go into a boy's home. Soda and Pony have always got along well, but Darry is always shouting at Pony, telling him to use his head. One night, Darry hits him, so Pony runs away with Johnny. 5 Socs gang up on the two life-long friends, and almost kill Ponyboy. Johnny accidently ends up killing Bob, the leader of the gang, and boyfreind to a girl Soc called Cherry Valence. Dallas Winston tells them to hide out in an abandoned church in Windrixville, but it catches fire. Johnny, Pony and Dally manage to get some school kids out of the fire, but Jonhhy is hit by a falling beam and ends up with a broken back. The greasers try to avenge Johnny's near-death by having a rumble with the Socs. Johnny dies in hospital, his last words being "Stay gold Pony, stay Gold...". Dally then manages to get himself killed by the cops under a streetlight, and everyone is grieving the death of two good friends. The only happy point in the story is the fact that Darry and Pony start to get along fine. Whenever they have a fight now, Soda agets really broken up, so they stop. This book isn't one bit depressing, it's really good fun.I thouroughly enjoyed this book, and became a typical soppy girl when Johnny and Dally died. My class also saw it on video, and all the girls cried their eyes out! I hope you enjoy yourselves like us!!!!!!! SE Hinton really went into the depth and feeling of the events in this book, and managed to include so much description that you could connect with the characters. I'd buy the video as well, that really brings it to life. It really opens your eyes to how bad things really are in most parts of the world. It also contains humor, which will keep you going the the sad times! Good reading all over!
At the end of term, we had to write the whole book from Johnny's point of view, instead of Pony's. I enjoyed the depth of the feeling in the book so much, that I ended up getting an A*! Thanks SE Hinton!!!!!