‘Advice from a Penwoman.’ Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Jeffrey W. He bases it around the events that have happened and decides he wants it to spread the message that there is good and the world and it is possible to “stay good”.
After recovering Ponyboy begins to write his English essay. Out of anger he robs a store and when the police find him, he is shot. The boys fight and afterwards Dally takes Pony to see Johnny in the hospital. Meanwhile, there is to be a rumble between the “Socs” and the “Greasers”. When the boys visit Johnny in the hospital they realize he is dying. Ponyboy and Johnny rescue the kids, but Johnny is extremely injured and taken to the hospital. When they come back they see that that the church is up in flames and there are some kids inside. One day Dallas stops by the church and takes the boys out for lunch. They move into an abandoned church and must now fend for themselves. Ponyboy and Johnny run away with the help of Dallas. When Johnny accidentally kills one of them, trouble strikes. After the movie, Johnny and Ponyboy get into a quarrel with a group of drunk “Soc” boys. Ponyboy and Johnny go to the movies with some of their friends, including a boy named Dallas Winston. Once, Ponyboy’s best friend Johnny Cade was brutally injured in a fight with a “Soc”. The “Socs” and the “Greasers” are not big fans of each other. The kids on the other side of town are wealthy and social. Ponyboy lives in the poorer side of town and is part of a group known as the “Greasers”.
This novel is told from the perspective of 14 year old Ponyboy Curtis. “The Outsiders” really started her career and it has helped her grow. One of her biggest achievements was winning the Margaret Edwards Young Adult Author Achievement Ward in 1988 from the American Library Association. Hinton is best known for her choice of characters, “Her characters are frequently larger than life, almost mythic, and are social outcasts” (Chaston). She still writes to this day and has remained in Tulsa. Writing kept Hinton busy, but when she wasn’t writing she was tending to her son, Nicholas David. Over the next ten years, she published a new novel every four years. He encouraged her to write her second novel. Here she earned a B.S in Education in 1970 and met her husband, David Inhofe. Since the book was such a success, Hinton was able to go to the University of Tulsa. The novel won several awards and was critically acclaimed. “The Outsiders” was then published in 1967. During her graduation ceremony, Hinton received a contract offering publication. The mother loved the book and referred her to an agent named Marilyn Marlow of the Curtis Brown Agency. After all of this she let her friend’s mother read it. This novel was worked on for a year and a half and had four rewrites. She also wanted to write this story to create a different world where there were no adult figures to rule over the kids. In fact, she believed that Ponyboy reflected her the most. She began writing this story at just sixteen years old and got the inspiration for her characters from real events that happened in her high school years. Hinton wrote two novels and finally came up with the idea to make “The Outsiders”. When I couldn’t find any, I decided to write one myself.” (Hinton and Ehrichs) She then created her own story about teens that was more realistic and exciting. In an interview Hinton said, “I’d wanted to read books that showed teen-angers outside the life of ‘Mary Jane went to the prom’. However, when she was a teen she couldn’t find any books that she was interested in. Hinton was born in 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With that said, this coming of age novel truly shows the value of friendship, the trials and tribulations of finding yourself, and the conflicts between social classes. The readers learn from all the challenges they face living on their own. They are forced to leave their town and run away. These two groups do not get along well and when a fight begins, Ponyboy and Johnny get in a lot of trouble with the Socs. On the other side of town are the Socials or “Socs”. Ponyboy lives in the poor neighborhood of their town with his two brothers. It follows the troubles of him and his best friend Johnny Cade.
It is told from the view of a young boy named Ponyboy Curtis. This novel has affected the readers greatly. Hinton wrote this story for many reasons and has won many awards for it. “The Outsiders” is a novel written by S.E.
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