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Summary: Inside the Outsiders
Review: The book that I am reviewing is called The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton. On the first page of the book, you, the reader, are introduced to Ponyboy Curtis, a fourteen year old boy with two things on his mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. Pony and his two older brothers, Darry and Soda (Pop) have been taking care of each other every since their parents died. They are all a part of a gang called the Greaser's. The Greaser life is filled with stealing, smoking, drinking, and fighting; however, Pony is not your average greaser. He enjoys movies, reading, writing, and yes, even school! Fellow Greaser's include Two-Bit, Dally and Johnny. Not only do Greaser's deal with the everyday struggles of being poor, but they also experience hatred and discrimination from the rich, upper class kids, better known as the Soc's. The main goal of a Soc is to make a Greaser's life miserable, or so Pony thinks. Like I said before, fights are common in Pony's neck of the woods, but he never imagined that something he was so accustomed to would change his life forever.
This is by far one of the best books I have read in a long time. Its unique story line can appeal to virtually anyone. I rate this book a 5 (being the highest) because of the following things: its characters, description and message.
You always know a book is truly good when you can get inside the main characters' head. When you read this book, you can literally feel Ponyboy's troubles, good times, and frustrations. For example, many times throughout the book you are shown how different Pony really is from the rest of his crowd. He's emotional, complex, and doesn't really have anyone he can connect with, except for Johnny. Johnny is like the poor, little puppy that's been kicked around too much. His parents beat him, and he was in a near death "rumble" against the Soc's. Pony and Johnny can both appreciate the less "macho" and "tough" things in life, such as sunsets.
The Outsiders also has a ton of description. When an author writes a book about the streets, he or she can either tells the whole story, or part of it. S. E. Hinton definitely tells the whole story. We learn how difficult life is for Greaser's. How Darry has to work two jobs to feed his brothers, and how Soda had to drop out to help Darry, and also how sometimes stealing is the only way out sometimes. The constant threat of being "jumped", and the struggle simply to fit in with your friends.
Finally, the reason I fell in love with this book is because of its message. Who would believe that two hoodlums could be heroes, or that two groups who seem so different on the outside really are the same on the inside. This book teaches you about discrimination, society, perseverance, and loyalty, all in 188 pages. Moreover, the biggest lesson this book teaches you is to "stay golden" and to realize that it doesn't matter if you live on the east or west, we all see the same sunset. The Outsiders take you inside their lives, and make you one of their own in this remarkable novel. It gives you a credible view into the lives of those less fortunate, and their constant struggle to come out on top in a world that always wants to push you down.
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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a realistic and dramatic book. The Outsiders is about gangs and their problems toward eachother. There are the Greasers and the soc's. A lot happens with these two gangs. One of the Greasers kills a soc. This leads to a big fight that won't even prove anything. One of the soc told ponyboy,"And tonight...people get hurt in rumbles maybe even killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win, you know that, don't you?"(p.103)"You can't win even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before-at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. so it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing."(p. 103) The fight still went on.
This was a terrific book and easy to read. The characters were funny and sad and just like anybody else. I liked the fact that they were such good friends. They watched out for eachother. The Greasers were Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Dallas, Two-bit, and Steve Randle. The good thing about them was they didn't go around looking for trouble like the soc did. I recommend this book to everyone.It is a good book to read and once youstart youwon't beableto put it down.
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Summary: outsiders the best book u can read
Review: i read this book and i love it. it was the best book that i have read. it really explain how too different group of people live. it explain how u can be from a lower class and this want the same things as the upper class. this is a good book to read.
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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, is about a boy named Ponyboy Curtis. It tells about his life as a Greaser, a group of boys who wear their hair long and put a lot of styling grease in it. Greasers do illegal things, such as robbing stores, and some of them have police records miles long. All Greasers are poor, and are constantly getting physically harassed by Socs, the rich
who live on the other side of town. Members of the Greasers are Sodapop and Darryl Curtis, Ponyboy's brothers, Two-Bit Matthews, who is constantly getting drunk and has a reputation for a tough switchknife, Johnny Cade, the groups pet, Dallas Winston the tough guy who is constantly getting put into jail and getting into serious trouble, and Steve Randle, Sodapop's best friend.
In this book, Ponyboy and Johnny are attacked by Socs, and Ponyboy is nearly drowned to death. Ponyboy and Johnny end up running into the country, where excitement quickly brews in ways you wouldn't expect.
Although I can't relate to any of the characters who carry switch knives, smoke, and bust the ends of bottles, I feel as if I have a relationship with each of the Greasers. I feel as if I know them like a person knows him or herself. Sometimes, I feel the way Ponyboy feels about him and Darry in the beginning, like he would never understand him. However, in my case, it's usually concerning more than one person. I really enjoyed this book, and would highly recommend it for anyone who is not squeamish, and loves adventure, but is over the age of eleven. My favorite part of the book was when Ponyboy was at the movies with Johnny, and
he meets Cherry Valance. I disliked the ending, and think that if any part of the book should be changed, that is it. I didn't like the fact that the author stressed the fact that Ponyboy's entire life was changed by his experience. Although it was a horrific and breathtaking event, I don't think that it was such an important event to constantly remind the readers of.
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Summary: My Review of The Outsiders
Review: The Outsiders is a very interesting book told in first person by Ponyboy Curtis, a gang member of the 'Greasers'. He is fourteen years old and lives with his older brothers Darrel and Sodapop. His best friend and also gang member,Johnny Cade, kills a member of the rival gang (for self-defense) and Ponyboy and Johnny go into hiding with the help of the toughest member of the 'Greasers', Dallas Winston. They're hiding in the country when they see a church burning down. They hear that there are some kids in the church so Ponyboy and Johnny go in to save them. They manage to save all the kids but while Johnny was trying to jump out the window the roof colapsed and hit Johnny on the back leaving him paralized and with a third degree burn. Ponyboy managed to get out safely. Days later Johnny dies. Dallas can't take the pain since Johnny was the only person he's ever loved. He decided to rob a grocery store. He was being chased by the cops when he turns around and pulls out an unloaded gun. The police don't hesitate to shot and leave Dallas dead on the ground. Ponyboy witnesse all this and becomes sick. Weeks passed and he is still depressed but decided he can't stop living because someone else did. He continues school but has bad grades. His English teacher tells him to write a composition on anything he wants. Ponyboy decides to write about his events with Johnny and the whole gang.There is more to this story. You just have to read it and understand it and you'll like it as much as I did (and still do).
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Summary: The Outsiders Review
Review: Boys struggle with real life problems as they navigate difficult teenage years,
May 12, 2004
Reviewer: akdancer, from Wilmette Junior High School, Illinois.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton shows the difficult coming of age events one boy has to face. The Socs were the rich kids, who had it all. They were never satisfied with their lives, and always wanted more. The Greasers from the other side of tracks are stereotypical bad boys. Ponyboy a Greaser lives with his brothers. One day Ponyboy and his friend Johnny decide to talk to the Socs girlfriends. The Socs disapprove and beat them up, just for socializing with the girls. A Soc boy tries drowning Ponyboy, but Johnny grabs him off and kills him. The Greasers know immediately that they must run away in order to escape being caught by the police. Ponyboy and Johnny hide in a church. After a few days, Johnny wants to return home and confess their crime. Before they leave, one of their cigarettes lights the church on fire and a few little children get trapped inside. Johnny and Ponyboy get the kids out in the nick of time to save their lives, but Johnny gets seriously hurt. The town calls them heroes. Johnny is rushed to the hospital on the verge of death. This suspenseful book fills readers with excitement, tragedy, and many emotions. "The Outsiders" was an amazing book, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good cry.
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Summary: This is: Max review with Griffen
Review: This is MAX REVIEW with Griffen I am writing a book review on The Outsiders. This book is exciting, fast-paced, and a very enjoyable read. If you like action and suspense, then this is the book for you.
The book begins in an Oklahoma neighborhood. Ponyboy, a parentless child, is going fine. Him and his gang are staying out of trouble, but still getting the usual gang fight between two groups; the Socs and the Greasers. The Socs are the rich, snobby people who drive around in their expensive cars. Then the Greasers, well, are pretty much the opposite. So anyway, Ponyboy is getting good grades in school, and everything is going great. Well, so he thought.
The trouble begins when Ponyboy and the gang sneak into a drive-in theater. They meet Cherry, and her drunken boyfriends who don't take kindly to strangers picking up their girls, and to make things sound worse, they are part of the Soc gang. Ponyboy and his gang get the drunken boyfriends to buzz off, and they walk the girls' home. The socs were gone for now, but their minds were set on revenge.
After all that, Ponyboy and his friend Johnny are getting sick of things, so they decide to run away. But running away doesn't turn out to be as pleasant as they expected. Leaving the house means vulnerable in fights, and they are the Socs main course. With saying this, you can expect that Ponyboy and Johnny are in a tight situation. So for that, they go to the one man who can help them escape, Dally. Of course, Dally isn't pleased with lending them 50 dollars and a loaded gun, but he agrees. He sends them on their way on a train to a town called windrixville, which is almost the exact opposite of what their town is like. They stay at an old church at the top of a hill where nobody usually goes.
After a few days of hideout and a few days of eating bologna they decide that hideout is not only hurting them, but other people too. An incident with them accidentally setting the church on fire puts not only them, but a group of kids on a picnic's life in danger.
So, what exactly is the fate of the kids in the burning church? Who will dominate the city, Socs or Greasers? Will Ponyboys life go back to normal? All this and more is in the book, The Outsiders, a book about understanding, decisions, and looking out for each other.
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Summary: The Outsiders Review
Review: This book starts out as a Greaser named Ponyboy is walking home from the movies. He's in a gang called the Greasers. The Greasers enemies are the Socs. He's walking along and a gang of Socs surround him. They pin him down and threaten to beat him up. Ponyboy's friends run up and save him. In this book the Greasers have a lot of fights with the Socs. One night Ponyboy and Johnny were sitting watching the stars when some drunk Socs came up. They started drowning Ponyboy and Johnny got scared. He didn't want Ponyboy to die so he took out his six-inch switchblade and killed the Soc name Bob. There are little fights between the gangs throughout the book but there is one big one in particular. It's called the Rumble. Since the Socs are really mad a Greaser killed a good friend of theirs they want revenge. Bob knew a lot of people and he was a good guy. All the Socs and all the Greasers meet and have a big fight. They fight for awhile and the Greasers finally win. I think it's good that they win because the Socs have all the money, clothes, cars, and everything else better than the Greasers. Three people die in this book. Johnny dies from severe burns. Dally dies from being shot by the police. Dally is a Greaser too. This book is really good and I think anyone could read it. It pulls you in and you wonder what's going to happen next. It seems weird that this book was written by a woman because it doesn't seem like it.
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Summary: Gangs change their lives
Review: I submit the following unedited review by my student, Christine Wood. (- Robert L. Shepherd, Nessacus Regional Middle School) "In my opinion "The Outsiders" was as very catchy book. Once you read the first, maybe second chapter, you never want to put the book down, it is so good. It is about a gang of boys called "The Greasers" from the east side of town. They consider each other to be "family". Most of them are poor, and live in apartments. The members of the gang are Darryl (20), Sodapop (16), Ponyboy (14), Two-bit, Johnny (16), Steve (17) and Dally. (Darry, Soda and Pony are all brothers). There is another group of boys called the Socs (Socials), who live on the west side and are rich. They are the main rivals of the Greasers. During the story, many fights occur between the Socs and the Greasers. One night when Johnny and Pony are walking home from the movies, a group of Socs jumps them. Under self defense Johnny kills one of the Socs. From there Johnny and Pony run away to an old abandoned church. They stay there for about a week. When they go out for food, and come back they see the church is on fire. Some kids that were on a school field trip at that time were trapped inside of the church. Johnny and Pony ran into the church and risked their lives to save the children. This is just one of the many ways that some of the gang change their lives thoughout the book. At the end of the story, Johnny writes Pony a letter, and tells Pony to "stay gold". When Johnny says this he also writes, "The way you dig sunsets". I think Johnny means for Pony to keep doing the things he enjoys, such as watching sunsets, reading books. Johnny says, "to stay gold, 'cause like the green grass, everything can't be gold forever. So he wants Pony to stay gold! To see what happens through the rest of the story, look for this book and read it.
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Summary: Impressive work!
Review: I think I've seen this movie so many times that I can't count, and it doesn't hold a candle to the book. I loved reading this book, everything that the movie left out. You read this through the eyes of Ponyboy Curtis, and you learn what it is like to live life on the other side of the tracks, as greasers. You also feel a contempt for the socs, but also somewhat of a self pity for them as well. You read this and you understand his life, along with his brothers, Darrell and Soda-pop. This book also gave a more accurate description of Dallas Winston, and Two-bit than what the movie portrayed. You cherish the way Johnny is viewed in this book by the others in the gang. It is probably easy for people to believe, but my favorite chapter where the rumble occurs. It gives a lot more detail, and you can feel every punch, every kick and every throw delivered in this work of art. The movie was well made, will never exceed the quality of this awesome work. I could read this over and over and never get sick of it! It doesn't get much better when it comes to fiction like this.
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