The Outsidersby S.E. Hinton
reviewed by Margaret Gervais
The Outsiders is a novel that takes place in a matter of 14 days. The Outsiders is about a 14 year-old young greaser, a young man of the east side, named Ponyboy Curtis. His life starts off with both of his parent’s dead and his two older brothers trying to keep a steady family going. They live on the poor side of town and their rivals the socs or the socials that are the rich kids. Pony is the main character of this book and he is a very thoughtful child. He loves to go to the movies and be on his own, although that’s not always a good thing. The socs brawl with Pony and he gets a little freaked. This is what we hear for the rest of the book into great detail. The rivalries of these two groups need no prevention. The senseless violent goes on and we see greasers getting deeper long lasting injuries. Pony deals with the traumatizing matter and deals with some frustration. He is important to a lot of lives in the town that he lives in and it hurt many peoples’ lives when he got badly injured for the last time. Pony is like a mirror of the author S.E Hinton. I think that it was hard for the author to write for all the older brothers who are tough, hard and not as caring for their younger siblings. Without Dally, Pony’s eldest brother I think Pony wouldn’t get as hurt mentally and physically.
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