Essays on The Outsiders

The Outsiders “Psychology is the endlessly fascinating science of the human mind and behavior” (Gillespie 1). Psychological criticism is used to enhance the knowledge of literature by analyzing the behaviors and motives of dynamic characters throughout several theories. Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is one...

S.E. Hinton’s seminal first novel, The Outsiders, is widely credited as the birth of contemporary teenage fiction. While J.D. Salinger is often seen as the first writer to truly capture the modern teenage mindset sixteen years earlier (albeit in a work aimed towards adult readers)...

Today, the social structure and class turns highly fragmented based on the socioeconomic background of people. For instance, people who live in high-end suburbs in America cities are found upper-classes and those who live in cities with crumbling infrastructure and low-achieving schools could be classified...

Every American is familiar with the concept of the American Dream. It is the social myth at the very core of the nation’s identity. Unlike other countries, the United States is not rooted in a shared ancestry, history, or language. Instead, Americans find their unity...

Without parents-or good ones at least- where would you be today? In a gang, in jail, or even dead? That is the lifestyle that too many children and young adults face and it is no different in The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, where good parents...

I believe that, in the book “Ponyboy”, the Socs, socialites or social rich kids from the west, are more of a disgrace and menace to society than the “greasers”, the poorer students from the east. The Socs’ idea of fun is throwing big parties, including...

Ponyboy Curtis, a fourteen-year old narrator, and orphan, lives with his older brothers Sodapop and Darry, after their parents passed away in a tragic automobile accident. Since their passing, Sodapop and Ponyboy are allowed to stay under Darry’s guardianship as long as they behave themselves....

The Outsiders is a coming-of-age film released in 1983 in which Francis Ford Coppola based on the S.E. Hinton book of 1967. The hero that I am focusing on today is Dallas Winston. Dallas came from New York and seems to have no family other...

“They grew up on the outside of society. They weren’t looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.” this is written on the movie poster of the Outsider film. In S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders a fiction book, three brothers, Dally, Sodapop and Ponyboy struggle...

Introduction Throughout the novel “The Outsiders” author S.E. Hinton gives many examples of how conflict doesn’t solve problems. Her novel is one of engagement, entertainment, but also gives really good messages. One of these is that conflict doesn’t solve problems. She shows that people do...

What is a hero? Some people say heroes are people that rescue people from monsters or supervillains, or a person with super-strength or speed. But heroes can be anybody. For example, Johnny from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, or Ponyboy. There are anti-heroes such as Bob....

A hero is someone who has admirable characteristics such as selflessness, the capacity to care and courage. Johnny depicts these attributes throughout the novel, “The Outsiders”. This story is set at Oklahoma in the 1960’s. Johnny Cade proves the statement, “heroes are not born, they...

S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders, was published in 1967 by Viking Press. A novel depicted as coming-of-age themed, Hinton started writing the novel at age 15 and had published it by the age of 18. The author, Susan Eloise Hinton was born in Oklahoma. A place...

The novel “The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton, was written in 1967 and focused on the ongoing and adverse impacts of conflict through a variety of literary techniques. Conflict first appears in the novel between two rival gangs from opposite sides of town as they foolishly...

Young adult literature has enthralled readers since its emergence as a genre in 1967. Through her novel The Outsiders, Hinton discovered and defined YA literature by creating a timeless story that has captured the adolescent world by the honesty and skill she uses to recreate...

Dallas Winston is the most compelling character in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton because of his strong character, his bravery, and his relationship with his friend. Violence suppressed in the protected walls of a house, murder carried out in the middle of the night,...

Room is a traumatic novel, of one young woman who aspires to keep her only child safe from the captor that imprisoned them both in a small shed for seven years. Donoghue’s writing is capable to place the reader within the terrifying experiences witnessed by...