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felt would be familiar to her contemporaries. Ms Hinton’s The Outsiders was loosely based on a gang-oriented life- style of her fellow high school classmates. In reviewing the book, a critic for the New York Times commented: “Can sincerity overcome cliches? In this book by a now Seventeen-year-old author, it almost does the trick. By almost any standard, Miss Hinton’s performance is impressive….”(CB 104). A Saturday Review critic expressed a similar view, noting that The Outsider is “written with distinctive style by a teen-ager who is sensitive, honest and observant….”(CB 104). Summary The Outsiders, an enthralling tale by S.E. Hinton, is an excellent story about the hardships and triumphs experienced by the Greasers and the Socs, two rival gangs. This novel suggests the stories’ content because the Greasers are a gang of social outcasts and misfits. This novel’s theme is very specific; people, no matter what their social background, strive for the same goals and experience the same disappointments. This novel shows this theme throughout a detailed story line. The fictional novel is set in the moderate-sized city of Tulsa, Oklahoma in the late 1960s. Ponyboy, the main character, lives with his brothers as a greaser. One day Ponyboy and Johnny, Ponyboy’s best friend, get jumped by a group of Socs. The Socs start to drown Ponyboy in a fountain. Johnny, realizing they might kill Ponyboy, retaliates and kills Bob, one of the Socs with his switchblade. Johnny and Ponyboy run to a fellow Greaser, Dally, who is always in trouble with the law. Dally helps them by giving them some money, a gun, and a place to hide. They hide in a church outside of town for a week until Dally says it’s okay to come out. They go out to eat and when they get back to the church they find it burning. When they see that there are kids inside and their cigarettes could have started the fire, they run inside to save the kids. Johnny and Dally are hurt in the fire and taken to the hospital. They are hailed as heroes in the local paper. Dally breaks out of the hospital to fight in a rumble against the Socs. While the Greasers bea

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