The Outsiders: An Analysis
...Class: 9s
Introduction
In this book analysis, about the book "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton I will
discuss character and plot development, as well as the setting, the author's
style and my opinions about the book. In this part of the analysis I will give
some information about the subjects of the book, and about the author.
The author wrote the story when she was just 16 years old, in the 1950s. The
book was successful, and it was sold, and still being sold, in many copies as a
young adults novel. There was a movie made about it, and today there are still
many schools that use this book in junior high and high schools for English
classes. There were plays made about the book too.
The Outsiders is about a gang. They live in a city in Oklahoma. Ponyboy Curtis,
a 14 year old greaser, tells the story. Other characters include Sodapop and
Darry, Ponyboy's brothers, Johnny, Dallas, and Two-Bit, that were also gang
members and Ponyboy's friends. This story deals with two forms of social
classes: the socs, the rich kids, and the greasers, the poor kids. The socs go
around looking for trouble and greasers to beat up, and then the greasers are
blamed for it, because they are poor and cannot affect the authorities.
I hope you would enjoy and learn something about the book from reading this
analysis.
Plot Development
The plot development in the book, "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton, was easy to
follow. In this part of the book analysis I will give some more details about
the plot development.
There were no hooks or hurdles in the beginning of the book, the first sentence
starts right away with the plotwithout any forewords. This is the beginning of
the first sentence: "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the
darkness of the movie house..." (page 9). As you can see, it goes straight to
the point without any prologues or any kind of introduction.
The...
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