i had seen the movie before, so i knew it was about pretty boys fighting, but there is a lot more at work here, subtextually. Maybe this is just what happens when a teen girl writes this kind of material, tomboy or not.
who knew that boys in leather could have a queer connotation?Īnd putting on tight t-shirts that show off every muscle before they go to meet the other boys? and making sure to fix their hair? no, that's just what it says. It just seems to be queer behavior for a gang of juvenile delinquents. Not that there is anything wrong with that. maybe they cry and snuggle together in bed at night and hold each other through hard times. maybe they do gymnastics before what they call "skin fighting" with the local rival boys. maybe that is a place where street toughs call their little brothers "honey" and "baby" and enjoy sunsets and stars and reading margaret mitchell aloud to one another and who recite robert frost in quiet moments. See, i don't know from oklahoma in the sixties. Oklahoma is also the name of a popular musical.ĭraw your own conclusions, or continue reading. The outsiders is a book about a group of youthful greasers living in oklahoma, and about their struggles to exist in a society that seems designed to dismiss them. This book will make you think and feel and it will continue to do so even after you finished reading the last page. If you haven’t read “The Outsiders” yet, you definitely should give it a try! It’s a great book which teaches an important lesson and I can recommend it to everyone. The ending made me sad, because there’s only one way this could have ended and it was exactly the way I expected it to be. “Hate begets hate violence begets violence toughness begets a greater toughness.”Īnd I think this quote describes the book more than just well. XD I mean alone the fact that Ponyboy and Soda were sleeping together in a bed! Their brotherly relationship was so nice to read! Those brothers cared about each other and their friends and they would have done almost everything in order to help them! _< I swear the moment I read about the interactions and relationships between those boys I was already hooked! It felt like reading “The Raven Boys” all over again just a couple of years earlier, with other troubles and with a smaller book size. He’s just got more worries than somebody his age ought to.” “Listen, kiddo, when Darry hollers at you … he doesn’t mean nothin’. Well, my school system obviously failed but that definitely didn’t stop me from reading “The Outsiders” and I’m very glad about it. So this was my first time reading “The Outsiders” and I really don’t get why our teachers never forced us to read THIS book at school! I’m convinced my teenage me wouldn’t only have approved but also would have enjoyed it immensely and I’m kinda sad I had to discover this book so late. But all the wrong sights, not the sights you want to see.” Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. ”Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. The records are for the 1988 cover (this record), the 1995 cover, and the 2008 cover which is also the current in-print cover. Librarian note: This record is for one of the three editions published with different covers and with ISBN 2-X / 978-0-14-038572-4. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers-until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider.
The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy.