The Outsiders

The Outsiders is a teen novel written by S. E. Hinton who was known for her teen novels. She wrote the book she was 18 and the book was first published in 1967. The Outsiders details most typical teenage issues and problems that most lads and lass experience in their adolescence. The novels diction are almost simple and easy to understand so are the sentences thus you will be able to read it without any difficulty.

The setting of the story is in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. The Outsiders is nearly centered on a 14-year-old boy named Ponyboy Curtis who is the main character and also the narrator in the story.

The main plot summary goes around that teenage living in a society in which he believe he is an outsider. He is a part of a gang called greasers. One day he gets to know a pretty girl from a rival gang and walk her home ending up having problems with her boyfriend and thereby with the rival gang. Another day he meets up with that gang and a fight, which culminated with a rival gangster being killed, begins. The boy finds himself in a courtroom in a trial for the murder.

S.E. Hinton in The Outsiders discusses a number of actual important themes and issues that most encounter nowadays. The novel holds many valuable lessons about loyalty, friendship, brotherhood and cruelty. When you grow older you become aware of the world’s cruelty, or so the boy, who was killed, said right before he died.