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    The Outsiders

    by S.E. Hinton

    A book about growing up and how


    complicated it can be to be on the
    “outside”
    The Socs The Greasers
    Wealthy Didn’t have much money
    Fancy clothes Jeans and worn clothes
    Jocks and Cheerleaders Parents weren’t around
    Popular kids at school Didn’t make great grades
    Spoiled Got into fights
    “I never noticed “You’re a nice kid, Ponyboy.”
    clouds and -Cherry “I was wishing I looked
    colors and stuff like Paul Newman-he
    until you kept looks tough and I don’t-
    reminding me but I guess my own looks
    about them.”
    aren’t so bad.”
    -Johnny

    “I used to “We’re poorer than the


    make A’s in Socs and the middle
    English.” class. I reckon we’re
    wilder, too.”
    “I’ve always “I lie to myself all
    been kind of the time. But I “And nobody in our gang
    absent never believe digs movies and books
    minded.” me.” the way I do.”
    Sodapop
    Darrell (Darry)
    •Older Brother of Ponyboy •Middle brother
    •Jock in HS and smart •Dropped out of school
    •Trying to be a parent to •Works on cars
    Sodapop and Ponyboy •Best friend is Two-Bit
    •Happy-go-lucky
    Johnny
    •Smallest of the Greasers
    •Parents hit him
    •Sleeps in the park sometimes
    •Ponyboy’s best friend

    Dallas Winston (Dally) Cherry


    •Older friend of •A Soc
    Ponyboy and Johnny •Falls for Dally
    •Tough guy •Helps out the Greasers
    •HS dropout •Becomes friends with
    •Helps the boys out Ponyboy
    Drive In

    The Park

    The Church
    1) Man vs. Man (physical) – Ponyboy and the other boys fight
    against the Socs with fists and knives, but they have guns and
    the most might

    2) Man vs. Circumstances (classical) – Ponyboy struggles with


    the fact that he wasn’t born with money and priviledge

    3) Man vs. Society (social) – Ponyboy and the Greasers struggle


    against the wealth and the elevated social position of the Socs

    4) Man vs. Himself/Herself (psychological) - Ponyboy struggles


    with the trouble he feels he has caused and whether to turn
    himself in or not
    It doesn’t feel good to be on the ‘outside’

    Life Isn’t Fair

    Family relationships
    change and evolve

    Nothing Gold Can


    Stay
    Nothing Gold Can Stay

    Nature’s first green is gold,


    Her hardest hue to hold.
    Her early leaf’s a flower,
    But only so an hour.

    As leaf subsides to leaf,


    So Eden sank to grief.
    So dawn goes down today,
    Nothing gold can stay.
    Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

    That was Then, This is


    Now by S.E. Hinton
    Romeo and Juliet by
    William Shakespeare
    Written by Hinton as a 16 Hinton criticized for her
    year old, so sometimes overly macho male
    themes are oversimplistic. characters and her rather
    The world is black or white, flat and stereotypical
    Greaser or Soc, nothing in female characters.
    between.

    Very accessible to
    young readers. It was
    essentially the first
    young adult novel that
    gave a realistic look at
    what it was like to be
    a teenager.

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