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Summary: WONDERFUL
Review: Fast paced action and clever dialogue keep you on the edge of your seat with S. E. Hinton's, THE OUTSIDERS. I was truly intrigued by the reality Hinton created in this book. I was extremely fascinated with the clver situations Hinton proposed. I couldn't put the book down! This book does a fabulous job of relating people of different social classes by making you understand and feel for what life is like for the other people and gaining respect for them. Hinton's keen imagination and excellent choice of words really set this book up to be a best-seller! I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to experience an excellent, enjoyable, and realistic read.
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Summary: Looking for an action-packed book?
Review: The Outsiders was one of the best books I've ever read! This story was was about friendship and belonging. It was filled with action and excitement.
Ponyboy Curtis is a fourteen year old boy who belongs to the Greasers, a tough, long-haired gang, who live in the bad side of town. The Socs are rivals of the Greasers, they live in the rich side of town. There is a lot of violence between the two gangs.
Ponyboy and his best friend, Johnny Cade, get into a fight with a couple of Socs. Johnny regretfully kills a Soc. What will Johnny and Ponyboy do!?
The characters came alive as I read this touching story. This book was made into a great movie.
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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: The Outsiders
By Bryan Boor
I chose The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton because I have heard a lot of good things about it and the storyline was appealing to me. It is about the rival of two gangs through the eyes of a young teenager named Ponyboy. He has two brothers, Darry, who is always working and is always serious, and Sodapop, the ever-loved handsome brother who works at a gas station. Soda is a fun-going, loving brother who wouldn't ever do anything to hurt Ponyboy. While Darry is always yelling at Ponyboy and once he even hit him. He does not have any parents because they died so it is just Ponyboy and his brothers. He lives in a hard knock town with two rivalry gangs, the Greasers and the Socialists, or Socs. The Greasers and the poor, raggedy-looking gang. Ponyboy is in the Greasers. The Socs are just the opposite. They are rich and high class and they drive Mustangs and Corvairs while most of the greasers don't even own a car.
Many things happen to Ponyboy throughout the book. His best friend in the gang is Johnny. They have known each other for a long time and in the book they go through a very big event. I will not tell you what but they are a run for their lives and only Dally, the rugged hardcore gang member who always got into trouble, was there to help them. Dally was the one who told them to run and he was the only one who know where they were. If I was on the run for my life I would cry every time I thought about what I had done and not being able to tell my brothers would eat me up inside.
There are many other events and details that occur during this book. I thought it was very good and I am looking forward to reading the sequel, That was Then, This is Now. I have always liked plots with action and suspense and the part with the gangs was great too. I am waiting for more books like this one to come in my path so I won't stop reading.
I am really thirteen but this was the only way it worked.
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Summary: I loved this book from the moment I was told the title
Review: The minute you gaze into the eyes of the guys on the cover of The Outsiders, you know you're going to love this book. S.E. Hinton may have been only 16 when she wrote this, but she knew how to write and that's all that matters. Her use of slang in both dialog and in the way Ponyboy tells the story, pull you into it and make you feel like a greaser (a member of a gang of poor teens) yourself. Her book is full of suspense and drama, and each chapter leaves you hanging and makes you want to keep on reading nonstop. I was really sad when the book ended.The Outsiders is about Ponyboy, 14 years old, whose parents died and lives with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop. He lives in a poor neighborhood and he and his brothers are part of a gang called the greasers. The book centers around the rivalry between the greasers and a gang of rich kids from the other side of town who are called the Socs. Hinton gives every character their own special personality, and she makes you feel like you are there in the book. There isn't any word that can describe just how good this book is, and I recommend this book of "friendship and belonging" to everyone.
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Summary: THE GREATEST BOOK EVER!
Review: I first read The Outsiders in my eigth grade English class and fell in love with it. We watched the movie in class and saw a local play of it. They were all very good but the best of course was the book. It hits home to teens and shows us that people do understand groups and cliqes. And it showes us to stay gold. That is very important. The is extremely entertaining and relates to us in many ways. Any person who is thinking about buying The Outsiders Do it!!! It is well worth your money!
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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: The book The Outsiders should not be underestimated by how it looks. This book is really easy to get into and I've found it to be very interesting. This on going plot has scenes about action, a little bit of romance and a lot of sentimental family values.
S.E Hinton describes the characters so perfectly so that you can get an exact picture in your mind. Thought the main plot of this book happens over a short period of time, it is so detailed and full of adventure
The narrator of this book is the main character Pony Boy Curtis. He gets comments on his name because it sounds more like a nickname. Ponyboy is a 14 year old boy who lives with his two older brothers Darry and Sodapop Curtis. The eldest of the two was Darry. He looked over his younger brothers since he was stronger and the wisest. The second eldest was Sodapop. He kind of looked out for mainly Ponyboy too and usually stayed on his side when he and Darry got into arguments. Sodapop was a high school dropout because he had to help Darry with the bills because their parents got into a car accident a while back so Soda works long hours in a auto body shop. The Greasers (Which they call themselves) had a family outside of their own like Johnny and Two Bitt. The greasers got their name because they usually wore a lot of hair gel and they live on the east side of town which the poorer side.
The Soc's, which are the total opposite of the greasers, live on the west side of town. They are mainly upper class rich kids that cause a lot of destruction and like to get into fight with the Greasers throughout the book.
Don't equate the cover of the book with the quality because the book reads much better than the cover looks. This book really proves that you can't judge a book by its cover.
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Summary: good book
Review: hi,
um yea
this book is not very good, b/c it is boring b/c i dont like it and b/c i dont like to read. and also it is just boring and not a good book. so you people that like this book keep reading it but please shut up bout it. haha. thanks for reading this. goodbye *~Melissa~* oh yea
dont forget,
i have selective hearing. ( not really but the boss at work thinks so b/c she is annoying and does not know what she is talking about.)
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Summary: A look into a violent world
Review: The Outsiders is a look into a world of gangs and violence though the true meaning of the book is about heros and friends that stick together through everything. I recommend this book to someone who likes to read about action and suspense. Throughout the book there are many fights between two gangs which makes the book exciting. One fault with the book is the many characters who seem to have similar names. This makes the book far to confusing. Altogether though, the book shows you how to be a true hero and how to keep friendships even through hard times.
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Summary: the Outsiders
Review: This book could be one of the better books that I have read in my career as a reader. If you like stories of heros and hardships than you will love this book. This book tells an epic story of some kids living in the hood, and their troubles with life. They are constantly put down, and disregarded as inferior because of their name, GREASERS. Get to know these kids and you'll love this book.
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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: Have you ever noticed that there are always those loved, perfect people, and yet there has to be those so called disguisting things that for some odd reason have to exsist, well, that is who S. E. Hinton likes to consider the "outsiders." As these group of people face some hard times throughout the past everything seems to go down hill once again. It's a hard life being a teen, but whoever really thought it to be this difficult just to survive. This book is filled with sorrow yet the perfect setting to help you with life. If you'd like to get the key point on how to "stay gold," then don't hessitate, read this book.
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