The Outsiders

Reader reviewed by Dede

14 year old Ponyboy and his brothers, Darry and Sodapop, are living together after the death of their parents. Darry is the oldest so becomes the parental figure and gives up his football dreams to get a job to keep them all together. Along with their friends, Johnny and Dally mostly, they are a band that the high class "Socs" call "Greasers." This book takes a look at the different classes of people in a town and how there assumptions of eachother can be mistaken. Johnny and Ponyboy are the main players in this book. The Socs go around beating up the Greasers, particularly if they can catch one of them alone. There are rumbles that are just a part of the life for the Greasers. When the Socs get upset at Johnny and Pony for talking to their girls, they catch them alone one night and start physically fighting. Johnny shoots one of the Socs and kills him, so Johnny and Ponyboy go on the run. What follows is a story of who people are regardless of what people choose to label them. This story is very touching and an inside look into people, what makes them tick, and their love for eachother.

Reader reviewed by JustCallMe MRS.JOHNNY CADE

My class just finished reading this book and it is amamzing!!!! The Outsiders is a book about a gang called the greasers who are revals with the SOCS! In this book you will meet the main charcter Ponyboy Curtis!!! This is one awesome book filled with problems, adventures, fun, and much more!!!! ANYONE WHO WOULDN"T READ THIS BOOK IS CRAZY!!!!!! =)

Reader reviewed by Denisa

To make a long story short, this is a book that will have you on the edge through each and every chapter, every paragraph, every SENTENCE. The author is very detailed and descriptive . The ending is also quite suprizing and unexpected. Differnt from the traditional books they make you read in school. This is definately a book I would reccomend everyone reads at one point in their life. Be it for class, assignment, or just fun read. It's an excellent and easy read. Very well written.

Reader reviewed by Kaitlyn

A book that most girls would not even think about reading. But, I feel in love with it. A story that is all to real and true. It's about friends who are more like family that live on the wrong side of the tracks.

There's Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Dallas, Johnny, and there other friends make up the "Greasers" a gang that is in constant battle with the "Socs", another gang. When Johnny kills a Soc, Ponyboy and Johnny have to hide. But, when Johnny dies, Dallas decides to fight.

This book made me cry three times in a 78 page span, a feat that hasn't happened before. A book that girls should read even though it seems to be for guys.

Reader reviewed by Bradley

The Outsiders is undoubtedly one of the most well written books I have ever read. It is about Ponyboy, a young gangster in an American town over forty years ago. He struggles against himself and the Socs, who are the rich kids on the other side of town. I think that this book is suitable for nearly all ages and has a message for everyone.

Ponyboys problems begin one night when he and Johnny are caught by a group of Socs. Johnny is driven to murder for the sake of Ponyboy who is being drowned. To where can Ponyboy escape so that he can hide himself from the horror?

The theme of the book is basically friendship which S.E. Hinton portrays beautifully through her numerous characters. Whether it is Two-Bits carefree attitude or Dallass bitter, hateful grin you can imagine their personalities shining through people that you meet in you everyday life. The story is so realistic and the information is so thorough that you begin to doubt that it is a work of fiction.

I thank S.E. Hinton for this fabulous masterpiece which I find playing on my mind nearly every day. If you havent read this book, get it quickly so that you can applaud the author alongside everyone else.

Reader reviewed by Kyle planck

OMG! So many people can relate to this book! It has a great story which accurately portrays the gang violence of the 60s.

The Outsiders takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There are two specific gangs: the Greasers and the Socs. Ponyboy Curtis is introduced as the protagonist when he is jumped at the beginning of the story.

Soon, Pony's friend Johnny does a horrible thing, and the decide to run away. But tragedy strikes, and things heat up between the gangs.

What will happen? You'll have to read it to find out.

Reader reviewed by big-brain

First of all, AAAAWWWWEEEESSSSOOOOMMMMEEEE (AWESOME). This book is about a boy named Ponyboy, his brother Sodapop, and his other brother Darry.Yes, that's right, their names are Ponyboy and Sodapop.Those aren't nicknames, they are there real names. STRANGE MUCH? Anyway, Ponyboy is walking home from the movie house alone and gets jumped by a gang of soc's. Oh, by the way, this book is about two groups of people that call themselves soc's, and the greasers. Pony boy is a greaser. Okay, back to the jumping. Before the soc's can do that much damage, Ponyboy's gang shows up and drive away the soc's. Then aafter a short while, Dally, Two-bit, Ponyboy, and Johnny sneak into the drive-in movie. Dally starts showing off his terrible vocabulary in front of two girls and Johnny stops him. Dally leaves and the two girls Cherry and Marcia ask Johnny and Ponyboy to stay and protect them, which they do. Two-bit offers to walk the girl home, and so Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-bit end up walking them home. Later on in the book, Darry ends up hitting Ponyboy who runs away with Johnny to the park. When they get to the park, Cherry and marcia's boyfriends show up with their friends and jump Johnny and Ponyboy. One of them attempts to drown Ponyboy in the fountain but Johnny stabs Bob, Cherry's boyfriend and scare away the other soc's. Bob dies and Johnny and Ponyboy run away with the help of Dally. Dally helps them run away by giving them fifty dollars and a gun. They run away to Jay Mountain and end up saving five little kids from a burning church, which Johnny and Ponyboy had been staying in. Johnny gets severely injured and Dally hurts his arm. The rest of the book I will leave to you to read. ENJOY!

Reader reviewed by abscae

This was just to be simply put: amazing. I didn't read it for it's thematics, but more for fun, because we read it in the 7th grade, but I can still remember so much because it has stayed with me for so long. And the book truly made me question how I treat people and if I treat them appropriately or ostracize them.

Best of all, this book will make you think, and that's what I love about a good book.

Read it, you will gain so many memories and experiences from Pony Boy and the gang that will never leave you.

Reader reviewed by Jazmine

The Outsiders was about the fourteen year old boy who's name is ponyboy, that lives in the poor side of town and becuase he lives there he is considered a hood becuase they are dirty, and poor. Those kinds of people are called the greasers becuase they like greasy, long hair. The people that live on the rich side of the town and tease and jump the greasers, they are called the socs, short for socials.

His parents died so now his eldest brother Darry, is like a father and is always working. The second older brother is Soda and he works at a garage. Ponyboy's best friend is Johnny who's parents hate him and are always getting drunk so he usually sleeps over at his house.

The story get going when Johnny and Ponyboy are jumped by socs and in defense Johnny pulls a knife out and kills one of the socs and the rest run away. So they go and hide out far away from there. Then a building catches on fire with some kids in it, so Johnny and Ponyboy both go in and save them, but Johnny get hurt real bad and has to go to the hospital. So they're on the paper and everything. All in all, Ponyboy learns that all people are the same and have feelings and hurts like the rest of them.

Reader reviewed by kyi

the best book ever i have read alot of books def. the best u have to read it!!!! also see the movie really hott guys play the characters like ponyboy is played by c thomas howell soda is played by rob lowe and dally is played by matt dillon oh and guess what steve is played by tom cruse also darry is played by pactrick sawzee really hott guys read the book frist then see the movie!!