Current Events > Anyone read S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders?

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The 8th graders at our school used to read it (not sure if they still do, given we're doing distance learning).

I'm reading it and it's actually really sweet and filled with tender moments. I just got to the end of the third chapter, when Johnny and Ponyboy (what kinda name...) run away. If something happens to Johnny I'm gonna cry. The author seems to be foreshadowing it quite a bit...

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i would estimate 30-40% of us posters have read the outsiders because they had to, yes

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yes, and we saw the movie too

I don't know why Middle and HS forced us to read so many depressing-as-hell books

The Outsiders
A Separate Peace
Where the Red Fern Grows
To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
even The Green Mile (although that one was fun, too)

just about the only one we didn't have to read was The Grapes of Wrath

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parabola_master posted...

it's actually really sweet and filled with tender moments.
Ponyboy (what kinda name...)

yeah, the funny thing about The Outsiders is even though it's about a group of teenage boys, you can tell it was written by a woman

not that there's anything wrong with that, but they don't talk to each other the way you'd expect teen boys would
"Stay gold, Ponyboy"

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Loved that book. The movie is pretty good too

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I never read The Outsiders but I had to read and do a report on another one of her novels called That was Then, This is Now.

It takes place in the same world as The Outsiders and is quite similar.
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JinGiReiChiShin posted...

yeah, the funny thing about The Outsiders is even though it's about a group of teenage boys, you can tell it was written by a woman

not that there's anything wrong with that, but they don't talk to each other the way you'd expect teen boys would
"Stay gold, Ponyboy"

Oh for sure. I immediately figured it out in the first chapter, when Ponyboy keeps describing just how handsome his brothers are, lol. It honestly came out as slightly homoerotic (theres also a scene where one of the brothers is massaging his other brother).

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and then the movie goes and casts Rob Lowe...

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Yup, we watched the book and read the movie in school. I love it! I remember being offended by my teacher proudly claiming that the author wrote it as a middle aged adult and I was all like "No way she wrote it when she was a teenager fool!"

"NeEd A hAiRcUt GrEaSeR?"

Just got to the part where Pony and Johnny leave on a train after Johnny kills a Soc. I dont see a good ending for Johnny at all

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