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Rent The Outsiders
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Format: Paperback, Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: Nov 1997
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues - Adolescence
Retail Price: $14.99
Ages: 12 - 17 Pages: 180
Synopsis
According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for 'social') has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. 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. 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. This classic, written by S. E. Hinton when she was 16 years old, is as profound today as it was when it was first published in 1967.
Reviews
Now this book in the simpelest way to summarize is about a group of social losers and stereotyped by everyone else as hoodlums which you will notice is used to describe the outsiders.There actions are justified by being the way they survive and the ways things are for them.Also it shows how humans feel that there outsiders or feel lonely at one point in there life.Also the ending is somewhat bitter sweet.a box of kleenix is recommended for the faint at heart.also there is personal revolution and twist ending that is quite clever! enjoy and read!