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Summary: Turbulent life of poverty can be won over.
Review: Pony was thown into a life of poverty and inner city termoil when his parents died. When his friend protects his
life by killing a member of a gang of rich kids he heads off
to protect his friend. He later finds himself imbroiled in saving a bunch of kids from a fire and struggling through another loss. Will Pony get cold like Darell or keep his innocent outlook on life?
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Summary: Great Young-adult Fiction
Review: this book will send great messages to your kid's minds.
Excellent book
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Summary: Good book that illustrates the hardships of life in a gang.
Review: This book was full of action and made you want to read it until the end. It showed how life is not always fun; there are hard times. The ending was especially clever
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: A tale of violence and blood-shed in gangs. Very realistic. Wonderfully written.
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Summary: An excellent book about the hardships of gangs in the 60's
Review: This Book was a great book. My book club read this great book.
I thought it had a wonderful plot and ending
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Summary: AWESOME!!
Review: Hey guys I'm 15 & am going to be a Soph. in high school. I had to read this book for school in 8th grade. It was the best novel I was ever forced to read for school (and only the second book I liked at all!!) The first I liked was The Giver so get that too!! hehe..but The Outsiders is truly an incredible story! It's sad, but it is such a good novel! Don't wait 'til you're forced to read it for school, get it now!! You won't regret it, promise!
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Summary: Hopefully, this will help you.
Review: "The Outsiders" is a book for all ages. It tells the life of Ponyboy Curtis, who is a Greaser,and focuses on the conflict shared between the Socs and the Greasers, two neighbourhood gangs. The Socs are very rich, and the Greasers are mostly hoods - apart from Ponyboy, his best friend Johnny, and Pony's two elder brothers, Darry and Sodapop. Pony's parents were killed in a car-crash when he was young. Darry,20, got a job so Soda and Pony wouldn't go into a boy's home. Soda and Pony have always got along well, but Darry is always shouting at Pony, telling him to use his head. One night, Darry hits him, so Pony runs away with Johnny. 5 Socs gang up on the two life-long friends, and almost kill Ponyboy. Johnny accidently ends up killing Bob, the leader of the gang, and boyfreind to a girl Soc called Cherry Valence. Dallas Winston tells them to hide out in an abandoned church in Windrixville, but it catches fire. Johnny, Pony and Dally manage to get some school kids out of the fire, but Jonhhy is hit by a falling beam and ends up with a broken back. The greasers try to avenge Johnny's near-death by having a rumble with the Socs. Johnny dies in hospital, his last words being "Stay gold Pony, stay Gold...". Dally then manages to get himself killed by the cops under a streetlight, and everyone is grieving the death of two good friends. The only happy point in the story is the fact that Darry and Pony start to get along fine. Whenever they have a fight now, Soda agets really broken up, so they stop. This book isn't one bit depressing, it's really good fun.
I thouroughly enjoyed this book, and became a typical soppy girl when Johnny and Dally died. My class also saw it on video, and all the girls cried their eyes out! I hope you enjoy yourselves like us!!!!!!! SE Hinton really went into the depth and feeling of the events in this book, and managed to include so much description that you could connect with the characters. I'd buy the video as well, that really brings it to life. It really opens your eyes to how bad things really are in most parts of the world. It also contains humor, which will keep you going the the sad times! Good reading all over!
At the end of term, we had to write the whole book from Johnny's point of view, instead of Pony's. I enjoyed the depth of the feeling in the book so much, that I ended up getting an A*! Thanks SE Hinton!!!!!
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Summary: The Outsiders - A review
Review: This book is very good. i have read it in 2 days, and you can read it very good. it is not bad.keep cool, Heiko Rabus
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Summary: Prejudice
Review: I really liked S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders because of the unique way the book was written. Instead of the "conventional" writing style, Ms. Hinton wrote the book like she is Ponyboy Michael Curtis, "Greaser." This book was very interesting, it had many unexpected twists and turns. The Outsiders is a very believable book, and in many ways there are real "outsiders" today.The Outsiders dealt with prejudice, and as you are reading this book you begin to understand what life is like for other groups and how they act towards each other. It's sad because no matter what or who is in the group, they are all classified as "bad," "good," "smart," etc. It made me realize that I too judge and group people too easily, we all do. I would recommend this book to anyone (over the age of 11 or so) who wants to read an awesome novel about life, family relationships, friendships, social groups and prejudice. A Student at Secrist Middle School, 3rd period Language Arts
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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: I can't believe it was written by a sixteen year old! What a perceptive mind. This book is beautiful and eloquent and subtle. It tells the story of Ponyboy and his buddies, greasers from the wrong side of the tracks.
Each character is very human and real, with faults and emotions. Very true to life, if you haven't read this, I suggest that you do, right now!
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