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The Outsiders is a book about a boy named Ponyboy Curtis. Pony’s parents are dead and Pony is in a gang called the greasers who live on the poor side of town. Like every gang there is another rival gang. That gang is called the socials or socs for short. Pony and his best friend Johnny are closer then ever. But when one day when Pony comes home late for sleeping in the lot Darry, Pony’s older brother hit’s him and Ponyboy tries to run away.
Pony grabs Johnny and while there running the two gets jumped by a couple of socs. While fending them off Johnny goes too far and that’s when the plot really thickens. Now Pony and Johnny now have to make the hardest decision of there life.
S.E. Hinton describes the characters with great detail and personality. The personality’s of the characters range from the thoughtful and down to earth Ponyboy to the mean and hardened Dallas Winston. Hinton describes the characters in such a way that you feel like you have known them your whole life. I feel like it was a good idea to add people with completely different personalities because it tells that there are troubles in the gang and that everyone is different. Hinton uses these characters to draw the reader closer to the book and develop cliffhangers.
I recommend this book because it shows a lot of feeling and when you read it it’s amazing to think that a 15 year old wrote it as a language arts report. I recommend this book to kids between the ages of 11 to 15. I say eleven because the book can be hard to understand if you haven’t been in a situation where you’re afraid what might happen if you tell the truth or have to turn yourself in for something you did wrong.
I think the book is more of a preteen book in the sense where it is kind of violent and there are a lot of fights. But over all I loved this book and I would encourage readers to read other S.E. Hinton books because she is an amazing author and describes everything with so much detail.
