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Summary: A great book
Review: This book was great.It got my attention from the very begining and kept me hooked until the end. It shows that even if your tough the most important thing is friendship.
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Summary: Amazing and rich in content
Review: The Outsiders is one of my all-time favorite books. I first read it 5 years ago, and I have re-read it so many times since then. I just got finished reading it again, and I felt the urge to go out and tell the world. It is a book that no one should miss.The story is about Ponyboy Curtis, who lives with his two brothers, Darry and Sodapop, because his parents died. This little family is also part of a gang, with people that are classified as greasers. They are poor and are not liked by the public. On the other side of town, are the rich kids, the Socs. These two groups war against each other all the time, jump each other. It is a rough life. One day, a Soc goes too far, and Ponyboy and another member of his gang, Johnny, find themselves in a world of trouble. From here the book takes flight in a fast-paced and convincing style. Ponyboy conquers all that he goes up against, in one way or another. I recommend this book to any reader, no matter how old you are!
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Summary: The Outsiders - A Timeless Read
Review: Even though S.E. Hinton's young adult novel, The Outsiders, was first published 35 years ago, it is timeless. Just like Romeo and Juliet, or West Side Story, it is a story of rivaling groups and the emotional and physical scars that the rivalry plays on the individuals of both sides. There is no love story, but the relationships among three recently orphaned brothers and their gang of greaser friends tells of deep attachments, love and hate.
The story is told by fourteen year old Ponyboy who is the youngest of the Curtis boys. He reveals his opinions, insights and feelings towards the people and events going on around him. Throughout the story Ponyboy's sensitivity to the complexities of peoples thoughts, motivations, and actions, including his own, increases dramatically. As Ponyboy develops an understanding of his world, so does the reader develop an understanding of how a teenage mind works and grows.
Hinton's greasers and socs (socialites) represent the cliques that forever seem to reign in middle and high schools. For this reason most readers will find it easy to relate to one or more of the characters. If the reader is an adult, like me, Ponyboy's revelations will shed some light on who some of those other kids in school were, and why they did what they did. For the teen reading the book for the first time,Ponyboy offers insights that might make the road they're travelling easier to understand now.
If you have a teen in your home, don't show them the movie. Give them this book to read. They are sure to appreciate the gift.
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Summary: Blast from the Past
Review: I first read _The Outsiders_ 19 years ago (the year that the film version was released). Hinton was all the rage to read in my high school and I was seriously attached to Ponyboy and Sodapop and the rest. Like many another teenage girl smitten by Ralph Macchio, I memorized the Robert Frost poem and cried buckets at the end of the book. It's funny to me to hear recent reviewers discussing the book in terms of its relationship to gangs, because I don't see it as being about rival factions. Instead, I see it more as a meditation on the price of having an inside and an outside to any given social context. At the time the book was written, it was the socs and the greasers. At my high school it was the Jocks and the Beegs. It's about people being judged by their clothes and their family rather than their abilities and their desires. Hinton's book stands up well to time-- I'm a lot more cynical than I was as a child and I couldn't summon tears anymore for the characters, but reading it I could still revisit the concerns that I had at the time and the world that this book represented. A good gift for young teenagers.
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Summary: Inside the Outsiders
Review: The Outsiders was a really good book. Although it was a bit violent, it really taught you about gangs and why you should stay away from them. Also, it showed you the troulbe you could get in if you were in a fight. It not only is a good book, but tghe Outsiders can really teacj you some good lessons about life, such as things like classism isn't important and that some people have things happen to them that they didn't even deserve.
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Summary: Just an opinion!!!
Review: After reading the "Outsiders", I found it to be one of the most powerful books I've read in a while! As S. E. Hentons books are usually described. The theme of the story is about being on the outside of society, which is amazingly apropriate for today's adolescents! This is a must read for teen's faceing the same problem!
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Summary: the outsideer
Review: this book was such a good book it was intesting i really injojed
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Summary: THE OUTSIDERS
Review: According to The Outsiders there were two kinds of people, Socs and greasers. The Socs are considered high-class and had cars, whereas the greasers were low-class and had no cars. It wasn't just money separating them but their different set of values. The greasers were more emotional and to the Socs nothing was real to them. So the only thing that was between the two was feelings. All of the characters were different in their own way, but came from the same social background. This book really brings out the negative effects of the social classes. As you read on, this book presents violence, girls, and even murder. Out of all, my favorite character is Dallas.
I could relate to Darry, Ponyboy's older brother. Everyday I am hard and strict with my younger brothers as well. On weekdays everyone has to do their homework together and can't do anything else, until done. So we can't come home and go straight to the television. We can maybe get something to eat, but after that, get our work done. Since I am the oldest, I have it worst because if I don't get the job done and set an example, everything will fall apart, and it will be my fault. My little brothers answers to me, and I have to answer to my father. So basically everyone has a job to do and has someone to answer to.
I enjoyed the story because it's about young teens, like myself. The best part of the book is the rumble. All guys from different gangs fighting to represent themselves and to show they will stick up for each other as well as themselves. The part that wasn't interesting was when Johnny and Pony were at the church for the first time. No action occurred, so I wasn't pleased. In any case, I wouldn't change anything about the book because everything went together like a puzzle.
I recommend this book to everyone especially young teens. It's a good story about gangs, unity, and especially fighting. I think it can teach a lot of kids to enjoy reading. Even though it is a great book written by a woman, I think guys would be more interested, but I think everyone should read it.
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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: Ponyboy Curtis lives his life day-to-day one step at a time. He lives in the poor part of the city and cannot afford to spend much time thinking and planning for the future. His brothers were forced to drop out of high school following their parents' deaths. The brothers now have to work to support themselves and Ponyboy. Ponyboy has to be on the lookout for the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up "greasers" like him. One night, Ponyboy and his friend Johnny are jumped by Socs and have to fight to defend themselves. The leader of the group of Socs ends up dead, forcing Ponyboy and Johnny to run away to the country. One problem leads to the next for Ponyboy. He now has to change his physical appearance and loose his most valued possession, his famed hair. The two friends keep a low profile to avoid being found out and turned into the authorities.
After returning from a local diner, Ponyboy and Johnny find their place of refuge in flames. To make matters worse, there are children trapped inside the burning building. Ponyboy and Johnny rush inside to save the kids. They succeed in their rescue efforts, but they themselves are burnt and badly injured. The ever-grateful parents of the children take them to the hospital. Ponyboy and Johnny are forgiven for their crime, since it was committed in self-defense, and pronounced heroes.
Ponyboy is my favorite character from the book. He struggles the most and is also the most objective viewer. I can relate to Ponyboy. He wants to be different from the people that surround him, and he tries to use his head to solve problems. I have also tried to use my head when faced with difficult situations. It is not easy to avoid physical force, but there is a greater satisfaction when thinking is used as a solution to a problem.
I like this book very much. It has an excellent plot with great characters. My favorite part of the book is when Ponyboy recalls his first mass. I thought it was funny when he described his friend Two-Bit's actions. This was also Two-Bit's first mass and he didn't know how to react. Two-Bit always tried to get the last laugh or have the last say in things. The way he acted was very funny.
I highly recommend this book to everyone. A person between the ages of 14 and maybe 60 will be able to get the most out of the story. People who like the culture of the 1950's and early 60's will really enjoy the book since it was written recalling that period in U.S. history.
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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: ... THE OUTSIDERS
The outsiders is a really good book. " Ponyboy, Ponyboy are you okay, " Johnny said as he was running over to him. This is the change of their whole lives.
Friends are always there for you. When Johnny killed the soc at the park. Dally gave him money to live on until Dally got up to where they were staying. It reminds me when I was getting made fun of . My friend was there right by my side. I am always there for my brother when he gets made fun of just because he is fat, but I tell him that they are just doing that just to make you made. My sister always told me that if someone is hurting may be someone died in their family that you should always be a friend to them no matter what. You always have some one there for you at all times. When Johnny would come home at night when his dad and mom would hit him. They would always yell at him and so Ponyboy and the gang was there for him. It reminds me of when I am always sick. My mom would always be there for me. She would be right by my side. She would always give me my medicine and make my eat my food so I could get better. It also reminds me when my sister is sick I am always there for her. The Outsiders is really a good book. I enjoyed reading the=e book in class. Johnny was an abused child. His mom and dad would always hit, yell at him when they were drunk. I really fill bad about kids that get abused because their parents would be drunk or they will not do what the parents because it is something bad and they don't want to do whatever it is. Johnny wouldn't come home for that night because they would still be drunk. Just like when Johnny was in the hospital and he didn't want to see his mother at all. He told the nurse that he didn't want to see his mother because of what had happened the night before.
The book is a very sad ending because after the rumble. Ponyboy and Dally went to the hospital to check on Johnny to see if he was okay. They were there for little bit when Johnny died. Dally ran out of the hospital. He want to the gas station and he robbed it. He ran to the park and the police shot him three times in the back. Ponyboy wrote the story about what had happened at the end. ...
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