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Summary: my review
Review: i think this is the best book i have ever read. i think that ponyboy reminds me of myself, by the way he feels about the world. i got trapped in the book and read it in one night. i cant beleive that SE Hinton wrote it when she was 16! she portrayed the emotion out of each character very well, and she puts a distinct picture of them in your head. she is very descriptive in the wole book. my favorite part is when johnny kills the soc and they go and hope a train to an abbandoned church.
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Summary: Depending upon your age, this might help you.
Review: "Spark Notes The Outsiders" was not helpful in the sense of explaining symbolism and it only gave brief summary's of each chapter. Helpful for younger readers, but somewhat useless for older readers. As always, you should read the Spark Notes AFTER you have read "The Outsiders." Ages 10 to 13 - I recommend; ages 13 and up - I do not recommend.
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Summary: We all see the same sunset, no matter who we are.
Review: "The Outsiders" is simply moving. While reading this, I starting thinking about whether I judge people based on their outward appearance and status. Once I finished reading, I came to the conclusion everyone judges people, sadly. "The Outsiders" really gets you thinking about life. What makes this book all the more special, is that it was written by a teenager, who was experiencing frustration. A must read for teenagers, and even adults. I recommend.
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Summary: Even good the second time around
Review: I read The Outsiders in junior high school back in the late 70's, and still like it; I finished it again, just today. I could sorta tell that S.E. Hinton is a female given some of the observations the main character, Ponyboy, made of people in his life during the story. It's a cool 'guy' story, but at the same time is rivited with human emotion across the spectrum, manifesting itself in the usual places, life's circumstances and human relationships, usually betraying an inner suffering. It's a bummer that orphaned adolescents raise themselves on chocolate cake, cigarettes, beer, and pepsi, but by the end of the story, the main characters have shown promising growth through life's circumstances that the reader is left with a certain optomistic outlook that there could be something in the future for them. A good story...I recommend it.
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Summary: The Reviewing
Review: This book had all the right descriptions and used humor and put excitement in the book. I've read the other Outsiders but I liked this book better because it had more excitment,it just drags you in and you don't want to put it down. This is probably the best book he has ever writen but there are some parts that don't belong in here,they will drag it on for about 3 pages.
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Summary: the book rocks
Review: I think the book the outsiders is a really realistic book and it is like real live. But now it is preps and everyday people I am a everyday kid. The book has alot of fight an action. Ponyboy is a 14 year old kid that lives in a greaser neiborhood.His brother Sodapop and Darry . Darry is like the father of the house hold. I think that the rumble was well though out part of the book. But the part when Dally dies I though was not as well though out.
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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: My opinion of The Outsiders was very good. I loved the book. I wanted to read and read it see what was going to happen next. There was alot of interesting scenes in the story that i liked. Like when Ponyboy and Johnny saved the kids, or when they all fought the socs. That helped me realize that fighting isn't the right thing to do and that no one is really better than you, even if they have money and you dont. It can help alot of boys and girls realize that fighting and making fun of each other doesn't solve anything but someone getting hurt. People should get to know each other before they say things about them. Like Ponyboy and Randy did. I am sure they talked about each other but they finally made peace with each other. I am very pleased with the book I dont think i could ever get sick of it.
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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: The Outsiders is a book that can relate to anyone. Ponyboy portrays any regular Joe, and the Greasers can relate to any kind of gang or group of friends that care about each other. This is why the book is very famous and is accepted by an all around public. Specially the scenes where Ponyboy is loyal to his gang and also when he feels insecure about his ideals and thoughts we have all been through something like this. Another thing everyone can relate to would be the fact of the groups. Likes the socs and the greasers. This is why I highly recommend this book, because you will feel connected to the story.
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Summary: decent book,
Review: S.E Hinton's The Outsiders deals with the societal differences between the upper-class "soc's" and lower-class "greasers," and the experiences that lead a boy to realize the superficial nature of these differences. Ponyboy Curtis, a greaser, is a high school student in a city where gangs are formed based on the part of town the gang members call home. Simply put, the socs have more than the greasers do, more money, more privilege, and therefore more status in the community. When a violent encounter erupts with Ponyboy and his best friend Johnny versus several drunken socs it exposes them to the series of wild events, Ponyboy experiences first-hand the uselessness of fighting and dying for an illogical division in class. Although there is one violent scene, the story really deals with how the people he meets in his young path towards emerging manhood affect Ponyboy's relationships and perceptions. His experiences with his brothers, his greaser friends, and even a few socs are all affected by his relationships with each other, and he comes to believe that if differences exist, they are only in the unwillingness each group has to changes established, habitual behavior.
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Summary: I'm feeling inside the Outsiders HOLLA!
Review: I will focus on the content and context of the book The Outsiders by S.E.Hinton. I'll say this is a pretty outrageous decent independent reading book. I believe it's a book that if I was introduced to earlier in my school
years or life, I would have been more interested in the book because I've already been through most of this stuff. I would definitely recommend this book to some younger readers.
The author gives good complete detail of events that take place in the neighborhood. For example the details she gives on the gangs, violence, people and kinds of situations that's inside the neighborhood. I believe that someone younger will have more interest than I did. I had slight interest in the book. Someone younger might learn more, because its plot and themes might come up in the actual life we live today in different environments. Some of the things they've been through had actually been situations in neighborhoods that I've resided or been in. For example, people get killed in my neighborhood and the person that killed them skip town so that they won't get caught.
So therefore I believe that it's a very interesting book. I also believe that if I would have found out about this author when I was 13,14,or15 I would have been more interested In THE OUTSIDERS.
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