The Outsiders

 

The Outsiders

By S.E. Hinton

For a lot of us, The Outsiders was the first required reading book that we actually liked, and not just because it also introduced us to a movie adaptation that was actually good. First published in 1967, The Outsiders resonates with kids of all generations because the drama that comes with growing up and struggling to fit in is timeless—even if we didn’t have awesome nicknames like Ponyboy and Sodapop.

About :

The Outsiders is a novel of coming of age by S.E.Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was fifteen when she began writing the novel but did most of the work when she was sixteen and was a high school student. Hinton was 18 years old when the book was published. The book details the struggle between two rival gangs divided according to their social and economic status: the working-class "grease" and the upper-class "sous". The story is told from a first-person perspective by teenage protagonist Ponyboy Curtis.

The book is set in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965, but this is not explicitly mentioned in the book.

An adapted movie was made in 1983, and a short-lived TV series appeared in 1990, with the film discontinued. Christopher Sergel wrote an adaptation on stage that was published in 1990.

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