E. Hinton I will discuss character and plot development, as

well as the setting, the author's style and my opinions

about the book. In this part of the analysis I will give

some information about the subjects of the book, and about

The author wrote the story when she was just 16 years old,

in the 1950s. The book was successful, and it was sold, and

still being sold, in many copies as a young adults novel.

There was a movie made about it, and today there are still

many schools that use this book in junior high and high

schools for English classes. There were plays made about the

book too. The Outsiders is about a gang. They live in a city

in Oklahoma. Ponyboy Curtis, a 14 year old greaser, tells

the story. Other characters include Sodapop and Darry,

Ponyboy's brothers, Johnny, Dallas, and Two-Bit, that were

also gang members and Ponyboy's friends. This story deals

with two forms of social classes: the socs, the rich kids,

and the greasers, the poor kids. The socs go around looking

for trouble and greasers to beat up, and then the greasers

almost-red hair and greenish-gray eyes. I wish they were

makes it more believable and reasonable.

When the socs talk to greasers, the reader can feel their

with a look of grim triumph on his face. He was dead before

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