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,

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 are blamed for it, because

mood the setting creates is of the neighborhood, and street life. This

socs and greasers was that the greasers loved Elvis and the socs loved

town-behave and feel within themselves. It is like going "behind the

Development for examples). There is suspense in the book-usually in the

picture.The story happens in the 1950s in the US, it lasts a few days.

to sink a little, and Johnny died." (page 157). Dally's death: "He was

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