The Outsiders

Reader reviewed by M.L

S.E Hinton's "The Outsiders" should be a classic. Its about a gang called the "greasers", who live on the bad part of town. If you weren't a greaser you were a "soc," they lived on the good side of town. The book takes place in the 60's when gang members would jump people and have rumbles. But what the book is really about is growing up. Ponyboy curtis lives with his two brothers because his parents died before. He is best friends with Johnny. The book has different characters with different characteristics. Dally is titled as the bad one and when a couple gang members get in some big trouble he's there to help. Dally, Pony and Johnny have been through the most. As you read this book you'll feel sypathy for Ponboy because he's growing up. Robert Frost's poem "Nothing can stay gold" is what the books about.