The Outsiders

A novel written by S.E. Hinton

Presentation by Hana Mohammad
 Who was S.E. Hinton?
• Her name was Susan Eloise Hinton. Hinton was born on the twenty-second of
July in the nineteen-fifties, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

• Since Oklahoma did not have many activities for girls, reading and writing became her
pastimes. She also wanted to become a cattle rancher as a young girl but that ambition was
overcome by her love for writing. Her stories written in the beginning were mostly about
cowboys and gun fighting and horses.

• She joined the University of Tulsa where she got her degree and also met her life partner David Inhofe. She
married him in nineteen-seventy and had a baby boy in August nineteen-eighty-three, named Nicholas David
Inhofe.
 Who was S.E. Hinton?
• Taking inspiration from real life and events that had happened in her life she created a story of two gangs and
their rivalry. The gangs belonged to two different classes of the society; the lower middle class ‘greasers’ and
the upper class ‘Socs’. The story is narrated by her character of ‘Pony boy’. This novel was called ‘The
Outsiders’ and was published in nineteen-sixty-seven, when she was seventeen.

• Eventually, however, Hinton produced a second novel, That Was Then, This Is Now (nineteen-seventy-one), a tale of
two foster brothers, Bryon and Mark, who are drifting apart. One becomes more involved in school, the other moves
deeper into a career of crime. In Rumble Fish (nineteen-seventy-five) young man, in a struggle to acquire a tough
reputation, gradually loses everything meaningful to him. Hinton's next book, Tex (nineteen-seventy-nine), which
follows two brothers left in each other's care by their rambling father, likewise investigates how delinquent youths try
to make it in a cruel world.
 A Summary of The Outsiders
The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the
story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which
he believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy and his two brothers — Darrel (Darry),
who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16 — have recently lost their parents in a car
accident. Pony and Soda are allowed to stay under Darry's guardianship as long as
they all behave themselves. The boys are greasers, a class term that refers to the
young men on the East Side, the poor side of town. The greasers' rivals are the Socs,
short for Socials, who are the "West-side rich kids."
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