The Outsiders

Introduction: The Outsiders By: S.E. Hinton. S.E. Hinton has also written the book called Rumble Fish. The Outsiders talks about a group of friends that are in a gang called the greasers and the other book Rumble Fish isn’t about a gang. The overview of the story The Outsiders is that the author wants to give you the idea not to be in a gang because a lot of bad things happen mainly death. The author wants the readers to do good things in the world because once you do a good thing other good things come back to you for example you help a kid from getting bullied you can possibly get a job.

Summary: There is a gang called Greasers and another gang called the Socs. They hate each other and every time they see each other they fight. One day they meet up again and have a big rivalry against each other and the greasers have always lost a fight against the Socs. Well the Greasers have had enough of getting beat up all the time. Now it was their turn to show the Socs which gang was better! Who really won the fight in the end? Did anybody die during the fight? One sunny warm afternoon Ponyboy was taking a walk to the movies. Usually he goes to the movies with his friends in the car but Ponyboy thought nothing bad would happen to him if he just walked by himself. Suddenly Ponyboy here’s the sound of a car coming slowly at him. He walked a little faster hoping the car would go away but no the car kept following him. Then Ponyboy just stopped walking to see if the car would leave and go somewhere else then all of these Socs would come out of the car Ponyboy started to run but he wasn’t fast enough the Socs had caught him and started beating Ponyboy up. Ponyboy screamed for his friends to come and help him. About a minute later his friends came and grabbed the Socs off of Ponyboy and all the Socs drove off. Everyone asked if Ponyboy was okay he said “yeah I’m fine don’t worry about me”. 

Analysis/Review: if you like action books I recommend for you to read this book! It talks about gang violence and what happens in their lives every day it is very interesting! I rate this book five stars. You need to read this book because if you don’t you are missing out on what of the greatest books that were ever written! Read this book now trust me it’s worth it!

Book Review by Kalessa T.