Outsiders

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Outsiders

In this book analysis, about the book “The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton I will
discuss character and plot development, as well as the setting, the author’s
style and my opinions about the book. In this part of the analysis I will give
some information about the subjects of the book, and about the author. The
author wrote the story when she was just 16 years old, in the 1950s. The book
was successful, and it was sold, and still being sold, in many copies as a young
adults novel. There was a movie made about it, and today there are still many
schools that use this book in junior high and high schools for English classes.
There were plays made about the book too. The Outsiders is about a gang. They
live in a city in Oklahoma. Ponyboy Curtis, a 14 year old greaser, tells the
story. Other characters include Sodapop and Darry, Ponyboy's brothers, Johnny,
Dallas, and Two- Bit, that were also gang members and Ponyboy's friends. This
story deals with two forms of social classes: the socs, the rich kids, and the
greasers, the poor kids. The socs go around looking for trouble and greasers to
beat up, and then the greasers are blamed for it, because they are poor and
cannot affect the authorities. I hope you would enjoy and learn something about
the book from reading this analysis. Plot Development The plot development in
the book, “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, was easy to follow. In this part
of the book analysis I will give some more details about the plot development.
There were no hooks or hurdles in the beginning of the book, the first sentence
starts right away with the plot—without any forewords. This is the beginning
of the first sentence: “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the
darkness of the movie house...” (page 9). As you can see, it goes straight to
the point without any prologues or any kind of introduction. The plot
development in the middle of the story was sensible and easy to understand. It
was clear and simple, and the events have occurred in a reasonable order. The
ending of the story was a bit expected. I anticipated the death of Johnny
because a broken neck usually means death. The death of Dally was not as
predictable as Johnny’s death because it was said that: “He was tougher than
the rest of us—tougher, colder, meaner.” (page 19). I did not think that
such a tough person would get himself killed because of a death of a friend,
although it was said a short time before the death of Dally that: “Johnny was
the only thin...

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