The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

Introduction

S. E. Hinton irrevocably changed the course of juvenile publications in America with her first novel. The Outsiders was released when she was seventeen and was her stark response to the fluffy high school stories about proms and dates usual of the 1960s. "Where is reality?"she inquired in an term paper interpreting her motivation in the New York Times Book Review. In other narratives for teens, she could not find "the drive-in communal jungle ... the behind-the-scenes politicking that moves on in large-scale schools, the cruel social system," or the teenagers who lived in those settings. Themes are the basic and often universal concepts discovered in a scholarly work.

Bridging the Gap Between wealthy and Poor

The Outsiders tells the article of two assemblies of teenagers whose acrid rivalry stems from socioeconomic differences. However, Hinton proposes, these dissimilarities in communal class do not inevitably make natural foes of the two groups. The greasers and Socs share some things in common. Cherry Valance, a Soc, and Ponyboy Curtis, a greaser, discuss their shared love of publications, popular melodies, and sunsets, transcending—if only temporarily—the partitions that feed the feud between their respective assemblys. Their agreeable conversation proposes that shared passions can load up in the gap between rich and poor.

Honor Among the Lawless

The idea of honorable activity seems all through the innovative, and it works as an significant component of the greaser behavioral code. Greasers see it as their obligation, Ponyboy states, to stand up for each other in the face of foes and authorities. In particular, we glimpse acts of honorable obligation from Dally Winston, a character who is mainly characterised by his delinquency and need of refinement. Ponyboy informs us that one time, in a show of group solidarity, Dally let himself be apprehended for a misdeed that Two-Bit had committed. Furthermore, when discussing Gone with the breeze, Johnny says that he outlooks Dally as a south polite man, as a man with a repaired individual code of behavior.

The Treacherousness of Male-Female Interactions

As hostile and dangerous as the greaser-Soc rivalry becomes, the young men from each assembly have the solace of knowing how their male associates will react to their male enemies. When Randy and Bob approach Ponyboy and Johnny, everyone involved understands to anticipate a battle of some sort. It is only when the feminine members of the Soc contingent start to proceed friendly toward the greasers that animosities distort and factual problem begins brewing. Even on the greaser side, Sodapop discovers female unreliability when he finds out that his woman companion is with child with another man's child. With these contrive components, Hinton expresses the idea that cross-gender interaction conceives unpredictable results.

Motifs

Motifs are recurring organisations, compares, and scholarly devices that can help to develop and announce the text's foremost themes.

Literature

Literary references occur throughout The Outsiders, helping us understand how the characters in the novel view themselves and those around them. Ponyboy first alludes to a work of literature in Chapter ...