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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: The Outsiders The Viking Press,180pp, $6.99
S.E. HINTON ISBN 0-14-038572The Outsiders, written by S.E Hinton is based on a hood`s life at the age of fourteen. This story will bring you the adventures and dangers that the greasers (Ponyboy, Johny,Two-bit, Sodapop, Darry, and Dally)face. The Socs (the upperclass kids at the other side of town) drive through the greasers part of town looking for people to beat up. One day Ponyboy and Johny are minding their own business when 3 Socs jump out of a Mustang and try to jump Ponyboy and Johny and things get out of hand. The adventures that Ponyboy and the rest of the greasers face are incredible as they go through hard times in years that are supposed to be the best times of there lives. This is and incredible story that everyone should read. I liked this book because it was written very well and it pertains to real life situations.
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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: "I killed him," he said slowly. "I killed that boy."
"You really killed him, huh Johnny?"
"Yeah." His voice quavered slightly. "I had to. They were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you. Wow, if that didn't make you want to read this book then this might.
The Outsiders is a book about two gangs, the Greasers and the Socs. It is also about a few boys' friendship between each other. In the beginning you feel like you could take on any Soc in the business, but later in the book you come to realize that those stuck up Socs are not the group to get stuck in the mix of. Before the book ends some of our characters may come to a fiery end. The Outsiders is a great blend of real-life activity and realistic fiction. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes realistic fiction. -Stephen Brandow
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Review: I think this book was the best book I have read about teens and gangs.This is a good lecture were teens can read and think more about geting involved with gangs.It teachs you more about why teens get involve in gangs because they need love and they go and get it with his gang members.This story is about gangs and the love they have for each other they soppport every member of their gang on everything they do everybody follows along.
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Summary: ~GREAT BOOK PPL!!!~ U SHOOD READ IT!!!
Review: I DON'T ENJOY READING BUT THIS BOOK WAS AN EXCEPTION. WHEN I STARTED READING IT I JUST COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN. IT TOOK ME 2 HOURS TO FINISH THE WHOLE BOOK. THE BOOK IS ABOUT 2 GANGS. ONE GANG IS NAMED THE GREASERS AND THE OTHER THE SOCS(SHORT FOR SOCIALS). THE 2 GANGS GET IN TOO A LOT OF FIGHTS AND THEY ARE LIKE SWORNE ENEMIES. I AIN'T GONA SAY NO MORE SO YOU'RE GONA HAVE TO READ THE BOOK IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TOO THE GANGS AND IF THEY BECOME FRIENDS OR IF THEY STAY AS ENEMIES FOREVER.
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Summary: Stay Gold
Review: I first read the Outsiders when I was in the sixth grade. Back then I hated to read and thought books were stupid and pointless like many kids do. That all changed when I read The Outsiders.
I never thought that I was actually going to like the book. The kid's name was Ponyboy for god's sake, but I did, and I have loved it ever sense.
So don't be afraid, pick up this book. I have never read anything that has hit me so hard and has changed the way that I view people. I still read the book every so often becuase it was just such a great acheivment for it's time period, not to mention it was written in a way that I understood and could relate to.
The charaters in this book made me feel that I knew them personaly. I wouldn't be so suprised to see one of them at the mall sometime or at McDonald's; they became that real.
As I said before, don't overlook this classic tale of friendship and belonging becuase of the time period or the seemingly strage names. It still relates to kids today. Trust me, if a book has been around for almost 40 years, has won numerous awards and had a movie based after it, it's going to be a good read. So, take the chace, read this book and maybe you will enjoy it as much as I did.
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Summary: ~~~Excellent~~~
Review: This review is going to be comparing Book to Movie The Outsiders, the book and the movie are about gangs and clichés. In The Outsiders your either a Soc or a Greaser. A Soc is a rich kid, Socs have fancy cars and nice homes. While Greasers have live in poor environments, beat up cars and don't make much money. The story about The Outsiders is mainly about Ponyboy and the previous events before a great big rumble that takes place between the Socs and the Greasers. The book and the movie both have the same plot, but some of the events are left out or have been changed.
Some points in the movie were shot very accurate to the book. Like the Robert Sheldon murder (or you could call it when they whacked off poor Bob) That part was almost exactly like I imagined it in the book. The actor that played Dally performed him very well. Dally was the same cocky, tough, young, handsome and reckless greaser that was described in the book. When Dally was running across the lot away from the police, I thought that Coppola did that part beautifully. Again it was as though I was reading the book. Same exact pictures, it was so close to what I imagined it was scary.
There are some things in the movie that I thought were different in the book. Like they left out Ponyboy being jumped in the beginning, the court hearing, Ponyboy and Johnny jumping off the train, they changed the part where Randy and Ponyboy talk and they also left out the teacher giving Ponyboy the school report. There was one more thing that really bothered me, all of the Greasers and Soc's looked like they were in their mid/ late twenties. I mean the book described everyone as high school aged kids and early twenties.
I thought that movie and the book were both well done, and of course the book is better than the movie. The movie could be edited so that it is more like the book, only by adding in parts. I would also change some of the actors so they don't look like old people I mean god. It would be better if they were young kids, and looked like young reckless kids. Other than that the movie was a good version of the story.
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Summary: The Outsider's a heart warming story
Review: This story is about a kid named Ponyboy.When the socs jump him and his friend Johnny Pony is about to be killed when Johnny saves his life.But he had to kill the soc that was drowning him after PonyBoy wakes up Johnny tells him what happend they go to Dally a fellow greaser and ask his help he gives them a hinding place up in windexville then after a week Dally comes to check up on them and takes them out to eat it all seemed fine till they got back and saw that the church was on fire.pony anjohnny jump in to save the kids and after all the kids are out Dally pulls out Pony and Jumps in to save Johnny now waiting at the hospital to hear what happened to his friends Ponys brothers come to take him home now with the rumble Dally out of the hospital what will the outcome be
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Review: The book I read was the "Outsiders," by S.E. Hinton. This story takes place in a small city where there are gangs. One gang is labeled "Socs," and they are basically the punks of the city who live with their parents. They are more on the wealthy side. The other gang, the Greasers, are more of the poor, less fortunate, and tough kids who grease their hair back. The narrator "Ponyboy," lives with two other guys named Darry and Sodapop. Ponyboy's parents died in an automobile accident and now he is allowed to live with the two people he calls his brothers. He can only live with them if he stays out of trouble and keeps his grades up in school. The Socs go around and beat the lives out of the Greasers until they are unconscious or their faces are rearranged. One day all of that turns around thanks to Ponyboy and his best Johnny. They are on the run when Johnny did something not even he thought he would do. When they hop a train and reach their destination they realize what happened and it wasn't their fault and they turn around to go to the police after two days. On the way back they save kids from a burning building and their doing of a good deed pays off. I really enjoyed this book a lot. It taught me really good lessons in life. It also goes to show that if you get into trouble how to take the best path away from it. The last thing it shows to me is that your best friends can end up saving your life one day; and always hang on to what you have. I highly recommend this book preferably to male teens for better understanding. The reason why is because it has to do with fighting and more to do with male issues that females might not enjoy. This is an awesome book so read it.
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Summary: A sad book, but realistic and harsh
Review: This is a serious book that takes a hard look at class differences and cliques, poverty and a lack of choices. It's very sad and moving.
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Summary: A Young Adult Classic!
Review: I was in high school about the time "The Outsiders" was first published, back in the late 1960s, but I didn't read it back then. Actually, I just got done listening to the masterfully told unabridged recording (on CD) by actor Jim Fyfe. There's a good reason that "The Outsiders" is still being read by teens today: it's a classic tale of gang rivalries that pits the kids from the "wrong side of town" against the rich kids. At times I was reminded of Romeo and Juliet, but set in the mid-60s. In a way, this story could be viewed as "historical fiction," although it wasn't "historical" when it was written. Today's teens can catch a glimpse of teen life (presumably in Oklahoma), before the days of cable TV, computers, DVDs and video games. Although I grew up in the urban Pacific Northwest, we were well acquainted with the terms "greasers" and "soc" (pronounced "soach") which tended to divide teens into various groups. As I listened to "The Outsiders," I was continually amazed that this book was written by a teen. The story is well-paced, the characters have depth, the subplots are interesting, the action is realistic, the dialogue is believable and the moral is admirable. I recommend this book to teens, as well as former teens. It's a true young adult classic.
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